A new palm-sized robot is vying to become a favorite toy, equipped with a cheeky personality and hopes for a possible future entertainment franchise. Cozmo, a palm-sized microbot armed with sensors, motors and visual capabilities and controlled using a smartphone, is the latest product from San Fran...
An Autonomous trucking start-up Otto vehicle is shown during an announcing event in Concord, California, U.S. on August 4, 2016. Reuters/Alexandria Sage Self-driving trucking start-up Otto is poised to put its software in the hands of long-haul truckers by the end of this year for testing, its co-fo...
A man uses his iPhone before a preview event at the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016. Reuters/Andrew Kelly Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens...
Attendees walk by the FireEye booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. August 3, 2016. Reuters/David Becker Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc said it planned to layoff 300 to 400 of its 3,400 workers as it announced quarterly sales on Thursday that missed its...
The Zynga logo is pictured at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California April 23, 2014. Reuters/Robert Galbraith/File Photo "FarmVille" creator Zynga Inc (ZNGA.O) reported higher-than-expected bookings in the second quarter, driven by higher demand for its slot games and social games s...
A promotion for the computer game ''Grand Theft Auto Five'' is show in a Game Stop gaming story in Encinitas, California September 17, 2013. Reuters/Mike Blake Videogame publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc reported a 13 percent rise in revenue, helped by strong sales of its "Grand Theft Auto...
Nearly 2,000 people in Germany have applied for the government's electric car discount scheme, introduced on July 1, and a third of them are buyers of BMW (BMWG.DE) models, a government agency said on Thursday. The scheme, similar to those established in other European countries to spur electric car...
People visit the booth of Alibaba Group during an exhibition in Beijing, China, September 22, 2015. Reuters/Stringer A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed part of a lawsuit filed last year by Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and other luxury brands accusing Alibaba Group Holding Ltd of promoting the sale of c...
A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Facebook Inc's News Feed will show fewer "clickbait" headlines over the next few weeks, the company announ...
A woman rides on the back of a motorbike, part of the Go-Jek ride-hailing service, on a busy street in central Jakarta, Indonesia December 18, 2015. Indonesia's president publicly rebuked one of his cabinet ministers on Friday for a clampdown on ride-hailing services such as... Reuters/Garry Lotulun...
The Apple logo hangs from the front of the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016. Reuters/Andrew Kelly Apple Inc (AAPL.O) deserved the hundreds of millions of dollars in damages Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) paid for infringing patented designs of the iPhon...
People stand near a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 advertisement at a mall in Jakarta, Indonesia, February 22, 2016. Reuters/Beawiharta South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd expects sales for its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone to exceed those of the previous version launched last year, the head of...
A Bitcoin (virtual currency) paper wallet with QR codes and a coin are seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, May 27, 2015. Reuters/Benoit Tessier/File Photo Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange Bitfinex said late on Wednesday that after a security breac...
LAUNCESTON, Australia, The future of communications may be 5G, where mobile networks push bandwidth-heavy video to phones and pull data from self-driving cars, but some firms see an alternative: farm irrigation equipment, donation boxes and oysters, connected by a technology called LoRa. ...
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square and CEO of Twitter, uses his phone to live cast during an event outside of the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the IPO of Square Inc., in New York November 19, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Square Inc, the mobile payments company co-founded and run by Twitter Inc Chief ...
Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) reported a steeper than expected quarterly loss on Wednesday on higher spending at its vehicle and battery factories, even as the company said it planned to accelerate store openings around the world. The 13th straight quarterly loss for the Silicon Valley electric carmaker...
Store employees stand in front of a screen displaying iPhones during a preview event at the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016. Reuters/Andrew Kelly Apple Inc on Wednesday reported improvements in gender and ethnic diversity in June as the U.S. technology company...
A man uses a mobile phone in front of an advertisement board bearing the image of Pokemon Go at an electronic shop in Tokyo, Japan, July 27, 2016. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon A New Jersey man has a message for the millions of players obsessed with the mobile game Pokemon Go: "Get off my lawn!" Jeffrey Ma...
Hulu has beefed up its customer service staff and is hiring executives from outside and within the online video business to slow subscriber defections ahead of the introduction of its live TV service, a top official of the streaming company said. "As we think about that offering of live TV, (viewers...
The Apple logo hangs from the front of the new Apple Store Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., July 28, 2016. Reuters/Andrew Kelly - RTSK4LQ Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) $1 billion investment in car-hailing app Didi Chuxing in May helped accelerate Uber's decision to agree a halt to a costly two-year ...
Shopping carts are seen outside a new Wal-Mart Express store in Chicago July 26, 2011. Reuters/John Gress/Files Wal-Mart Stores Inc is in talks to buy online retailer Jet.com, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. It was not clear how much Wal-Mart wo...
A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Facebook Inc is to let small businesses in emerging markets sell to customers for free directly through th...
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit in this July, 1969 file photo. Photo courtesy of NASA/Handout via Reuters A Florida-based company won U.S. government permiss...
A company logo on BOSCH building is pictured at the company's new research and advance development centre Campus Renningen during a guided media tour in Renningen, Germany, September 30, 2015. Reuters/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo - RTSJ1IS Auto parts supplier Robert Bosch [ROBG.UL] has launched an elec...
An attendant holds a bitcoin sign during the opening of Hong Kong's first bitcoin retail store February 28, 2014. Reuters/Bobby Yip/File Photo Nearly 120,000 bitcoin has been stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, an executive from the bourse said on Wednesday. Zane Tackett, Direct...
Down a side street bracketed by massage parlors and cheap hotels in this city on the banks of the Yangtze river, a humanoid food service robot trundles around the corner of a table in a cafe, red eyes flashing in tune with synthesized classical music. The Wuhu Hands On Café's waiter, named "H...
A lock icon, signifying an encrypted Internet connection, is seen on an Internet Explorer browser in a photo illustration in Paris April 15, 2014. Reuters/Mal Langsdon The FBI did not tell the Democratic National Committee that U.S officials suspected it was the target of a Russian government-backed...
The creator of mobile gaming phenomenon Pokemon Go is exploring more sponsorships by companies that want to attract character-hunting players to their businesses, the chief executive of developer Niantic Labs said on Tuesday. Niantic is talking with several companies interested in partnerships simil...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick speaks to students during an interaction at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in Mumbai, India, January 19, 2016. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui Taiwan's Investment Commission said on Wednesday it is set to order Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] to exit the domestic ma...
A propulsion system problem has left a U.S. military communications satellite short of its intended orbit, leaving a key communications network over the Middle East, Africa and Asia without a spare, officials said on Tuesday. The satellite, known as MUOS-5, is the second spacecraft built by Lockheed...
