A man walks in front of the Facebook logo at the new Facebook Innovation Hub during a preview media tour in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2016. Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch/Files Facebook's "Like" button violates German and European privacy laws in a case brought by a consumer group against an online sho...
The Boeing logo is seen at their headquarters in Chicago, April 24, 2013. Reuters/Jim Young Aircraft lessor Air Transport Services Group Inc said it would lease 20 Boeing 767 freighter planes to Amazon.com Inc as the online retailer looks to operate its own air cargo network. As part of the deal, Am...
Google's AlphaGo computer program on Wednesday won the first of five matches against one of the world's top players of a complex board game, Go, marking a dramatic advance for the field of artificial intelligence (AI). South Korean professional player Lee Sedol, the holder of 18 international titles...
A man dressed as a character from Clash of Clans mobile game uses at an ATM at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, New York, October 8, 2015. Reuters/Andrew Kelly Finnish mobile games maker Supercell reported on Wednesday a rise in sales and core profit last year, due to the continuing success of h...
Pedestrians walk across a bridge as cars travel along a main road on a hazy day in central Beijing August 12, 2011. Reuters/David Gray The southern city of Shenzhen became the first in China to issue electronic IDs to 200,000 vehicles as part of a pilot project that could eventually allow the real-t...
Depositors at some of the largest U.S. banks are finally going to get the chance to do something quick and simple: send money to another person's account instantaneously by mobile phone. The idea has been in the works for at least five years, and in the meantime, Silicon Valley has made incursions i...
Guests and employees chat under a ZTE company logo in front of the venue of the company's 15th anniversary celebration in Beijing April 18, 2013. Reuters/Barry Huang Little-known San Jose optical-parts maker Oclaro became the face of a U.S. ban on Tuesday as its shares led telecom-components makers ...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 1, 2015. Reuters/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said its board of directors would hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the planned sale of its medical equipment unit and announce the outcome swiftly if a de...
A man tries out a Samsung Electronics mobile phone at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, January 6, 2016. Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday said it will launch a phone upgrade program in South Korea this week that will allow subscribers to switch to a new pr...
The ZTE company logo is seen as a guest delivers a speech during the company's 15th anniversary celebration in Beijing April 18, 2013. Reuters/Barry Huang Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp said on Wednesday its suppliers must seek licences to provide materials, in line with newly i...
DirecTV satellite dishes are seen on an apartment roof in Los Angeles, California in this file photo taken May 18, 2014. Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn/Files DirecTV, the satellite TV provider owned by No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier AT&T Inc (T.N), said all channels have been restored after experiencing l...
The logo of Toshiba Corp is seen behind trees at its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan October 1, 2015. Reuters/Toru Hanai Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said its board of directors would hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the planned sale of its medical equipment unit and announce the outcome swiftly if a de...
DirecTV satellite dishes are seen on an apartment roof in Los Angeles, California in this file photo taken May 18, 2014. Reuters/Jonathan Alcorn/Files DirecTV, the satellite TV provider owned by No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier AT&T Inc (T.N), said multiple national channels were experiencing loss of...
(Reuters) - Silicon Valley’s hoodie-wearing tech entrepreneurs are the poster kids of innovation. But the innovators who are really changing the world are more likely to wear labcoats and hold government-related jobs in Grenoble, Munich or Tokyo. That's the conclusion of Reuters’ Top 25 ...
A man walks past a Canon logo in Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2015. Reuters/Toru Hanai Canon Inc is front-runner to buy the healthcare business of Toshiba Corp with a bid of over 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion), Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported. Toshiba, a laptops-to-nuclear conglomerate seeking cash t...
Chris Urmson, Director of the Self Driving Cars Project at Google, gets out of a prototype self-driving car during a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Moutain View, California September 29, 2015. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage The director of the Google self-driving car project an...
(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc has agreed to pay $13 million to compensate consumers affected by a massive 2014 data breach in which payment card or other personal data was stolen from more than 50 million people.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Pentagon and Air Force officials will meet on Tuesday with Raytheon Chief Executive Tom Kennedy for another "deep dive review" of the company's long-delayed ground control system for next generation GPS satellites, U.S. defense officials said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will circulate Tuesday a final proposal seeking approval for a $9.25 monthly subsidy for low-income Americans to get broadband Internet access, three officials briefed on the plan said.
A bionic fingertip has given an amputee the sensation of rough or smooth textures via electrodes implanted into nerves in his upper arm.
