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Reading Time: 4 minutesFacebook (FB) made waves in the cryptocurrency space on Tuesday when reports surfaced that it is exploring blockchain with a new team run by one of its most visible executives.   With blockchain, a shareable electronic ledger that serves as an immutable record of users’ transactions — financial or otherwise — Facebook…

Reading Time: 4 minutesBitcoin mining computer servers are seen in Bitminer Factory in Florence, Italy, April 6, 2018. (Image: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi) More NEW ORLEANS — Cryptocurrency exchanges and apps aren’t just among the most valuable targets for hackers, they also remain among the most vulnerable. That’s the warning Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer at the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve already had a glimpse at what Uber’s proposed air taxi might look like, More We’ve already had a glimpse at what Uber’s proposed air taxi might look like, now following the second day at Elevate Summit (Uber’s „flying taxi“ conference), we’re closer to understanding how the whole service might work –…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve already had a glimpse at what Uber’s proposed air taxi might look like, More We’ve already had a glimpse at what Uber’s proposed air taxi might look like, now following the second day at Elevate Summit (Uber’s „flying taxi“ conference), we’re closer to understanding how the whole service might work –…

Reading Time: 2 minutesApple has reportedly started enforcing an App Store rule regarding location data more stringently. According 9to5mac, the tech giant has already removed a number of apps from the Store that share users‘ location to third parties without their explicit consent. In the letter it sent to the affected developers, Apple told them…

Reading Time: 2 minutesApple has reportedly started enforcing an App Store rule regarding location data more stringently. According 9to5mac, the tech giant has already removed a number of apps from the Store that share users‘ location to third parties without their explicit consent. In the letter it sent to the affected developers, Apple told them…

Reading Time: 3 minutesDave Burke, vice president of engineering, Android, speaks onstage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on Tuesday. Source: REUTERS/Stephen Lam More When Google’s Android P rolls out this August, the operating system update will showcase the company’s major advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with features…

Reading Time: 5 minutesGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai unveils updates to Google Assistant. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) More Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is determined to take the smart assistant crown from Amazon’s Alexa and Echo, and to do that it rolled out a number of new features for its own Google Assistant on Tuesday at its I/O…

Reading Time: 4 minutesGoogle Photos already makes it easy for users to correct their photos with built-in editing tools and clever, A.I.-powered features for automatically creating collages, animations, movies, stylized photos, and more. Now the company is making it even easier to fix photos with a new version of the Google Photos app that will…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft (MSFT) gave the world a glimpse into what it’s been working on for the past year and its vision for the future during its annual Build Developers Conference in Seattle on Monday. And while the company might be known for its Windows operating system, it’s telling that the first day of…

Reading Time: 3 minutesStay with Yahoo Finance for comprehensive coverage of Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. During Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK-A, BRK-B) annual shareholders meeting on Saturday, CEO Warren Buffett warned that there’s about a 2% risk of a $400 billion disaster occurring as a result of a cyber attack of other issue. “This is uncharted territory and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s May 4, which means “Star Wars” fans around the world are celebrating Star Wars Day. And to honor the occasion, Lenovo and Disney (DIS) are making your lightsaber battling dreams come true with a new update for their “Star Wars Jedi Challenges” augmented reality system. To be clear, “Jedi Challenges” has…

Reading Time: 6 minutesKiss your free time goodbye. More Cutting-edge consoles like Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox One, Sony’s (SNE) PS4 and Nintendo’s (NTDOY) Switch might score more headlines and pump out flashier games, but when it comes to sheer size, no gaming platform on the planet can compete with that smartphone in your pocket. With an…

Reading Time: 6 minutesCutting-edge consoles like Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox One, Sony’s (SNE) PS4 and Nintendo’s (NTDOY) Switch might score more headlines and pump out flashier games, but when it comes to sheer size, no gaming platform on the planet can compete with that smartphone in your pocket. With an astonishing 6 billion mobile devices expected…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe FTC is about to get a major makeover. More As of Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission once again has five commissioners, ending a year of neglect that reduced the government agency most directly involved with protecting our privacy is down to just two commissioners and, since Friday, only one. Those four incoming leaders…

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe government wants to add a back door key for smartphone encryption, but doing so could be disastrous. More The encryption that secures your phone doesn’t come with a backup key. That may make you nervous if you’re prone to forgetting your passcodes — but it makes many law-enforcement and national-security types…

Reading Time: 8 minutesMicrosoft (MSFT) has never been so great with Windows naming. Over the decades, it’s waffled between using version numbers (Windows 3, 7, 8, 10), year numbers (Windows 95, 98, 2000), and lofty nouns (Vista, Millennium, Creators). Now there’s a new version, which might as well be called the No Brain Cells Left…

Reading Time: 4 minutesMerry Gangemi, who has been an Amazon Prime user since 2014, plans to drop her membership because Amazon is raising the annual membership fee to $119 from $99. “I feel like I’m paying more for the same or less,” the retiree in Vermont told Yahoo Finance. Gangemi buys books and watches TV…

Reading Time: 3 minutesFacebook (FB) held its annual F8 Developers Conference on Tuesday and announced a slew of updates to its main Facebook app, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Those updates include: a dating app, Oculus’s standalone VR headset, the ability to clear your information from websites that use Facebook data and security updates. ‘This has…