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Google Pixel 2 To Give Premium Features At Affordable Price Tag

The Google Assistant is artificial intelligence based software that learns and adapts its responses with your usage. Users just need to long-press the home ...

NBCUniversal Announces Huge $500 Million Investment in Snap IPO

Lynton bought 293,340 shares of Snap's Series C preferred stock in January 2014, paying about $3.41 a share for a total price of almost $1 million. It's the...

White House misled reporters on Trump 'immigration compromise' to get good coverage

This time the country heard positive solutions, even when Trump mentioned nagging problems, such as violent crime in our cities. White House aide Stephen Mi...

In search of a gender-neutral bathroom? Yelp can help

Customers or business owners can update the site's information and eventually people will be able to search the website for businesses with gender-neutral bathr...

Uber uses a dubiously legal technology called 'Greyball' to avoid the law

And now, it's not just city officials Uber has been trying to evade. Once officials are tagged, anytime they try to call an Uber , they're fed a fake versi...

New Agency to Support Victims of Crimes by Illegal Immigrants

Advocates for immigrants say that the arrests of immigrants happening across the country, including two separate arrests of young people who were previously...

The funniest moments from George W. Bush's media book tour

The only thing about Saturday Night Live that appeared to bother the previous leader of the United States is the fact that creator Lorne Michaels said a speec...

Snap shares rise 44 percent on first trading day

A California high school has made millions of dollars from the initial public offering of shares in Snap Inc., the company behind the Snapchat photo messagi...

Apple Could Be Brewing an iPad Surprise in 2017

With Apple remaining mum on the alleged iPad Pro models this year, fans are left with nothing but rumors and predictions coming from various sources. While the ...

Land Rover officially lifts the veil on the Velar

Although the press release studiously avoids mentioning the "J" word, one glace at the Velar's specifications make it clear it shares a platform with the Jagu...

NASA gives Mars orbiter a boost to miss moon Phobos

NASA made a decision to apply to burn to force maneuvers a week ahead of the potential collision on March 6. Though the correction was small, it was enough fo...

Amazon plans to start shipping packages to Moon

He said he wants to encourage NASA towards developing "incentives in the private sector to demonstrate a commercial lunar cargo delivery service" by 2020, ess...

The Argus Reiterates Buy Rating for Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT)

Inc. raised its stake in Applied Materials by 8.1% in the third quarter. Applied Materials, Inc . Semiconductor Equipment & Materials has a PEG of 1.45 along...

California High School Makes Millions from $15000 Snapchat Investment

A California high school has made millions of dollars from the initial public offering of shares in Snap Inc ., the company behind Snapchat. Other investors ...

Revenue Estimates Analysis: Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF)

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. now owns 20,000 shares of the company's stock valued at $560,000 after buying an additional 100 shares during the last quarter. Earn...

NASA offers free software online in new catalog

The software have been released as part of its software catalog - an initiative it started back in April 2014 and has continued since then. The software have be...

Nokia 3310 won't be available in the United States (at least, at first)

Meanwhile, awareness of Nokia rose to nearly two-thirds (60%) for consumers who had previously owned a 3310. When asked whether the Nokia 3310 would be coming...

World Anti-Doping Agency Welcomes Putin's Admission Of Doping Abuses

The results of this research, conducted by Canadian Richard McClain, were issued in two parts and, based on statements by an informer, referred to the existen...

Google Assistant coming to the iPhone? Exec teases Apple iOS support

This morning Google revealed that it was finally time to bring Google Assistant to more Android devices. Replacing Screen search (previously Now on Tap), ...

California High School Makes $24 Million From Snap IPO

It established an investment fund in the 1990s which was invited to take a stake in the company during an early investment round. "Snap has a chance to look a...

Snap Inc shares top $27 after NBCUniversal pledges $500mln investment

It's apparently the only allocation made to a new strategic investor, and makes NBCUniversal the only American media company with a stake (though others are fre...

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review

The game looks so good in its 2D iteration, that many people have said they would play a game like that now, suggesting it could be worth Nintendo consideri...

Jeff Sessions Is a Disgrace to the Justice Department

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions had two conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign season a year ago, contact li...

Seth Meyers to the Media After Trump's Speech: 'Do You Have Amnesia?'

The "Late Night" host then rolled similar reactions from members of the press immediately following previous sober Trump speeches. "I bet there are some Muslims...

Paytm's online marketplace grabs $200mn from Alibaba and SAIF Partners

Alibaba Singapore E-Commerce Private Limited will invest $177 million in the unit while remaining amount will come from SAIF, an early investor in One 97, accor...

Young, shirtless Canadian PM Justin Trudeau steals hearts on social media

Trudeau said he was under no illusions about the challenge his candidates face in Calgary in the campaign running up to the April 3 byelections. However, Trud...

Snapchat Is Now Worth Around $30 Billion After Successful NYSE Debut

Snap's valuation could be as high as $24 billion, the largest for a US-based tech company since Facebook went public. Spiegel's stake in the company he co-fou...

Big leap for Snap as messaging app debuts on Wall Street

Such a device would presumably enable users to take aerial photos and videos, and then share that content via the Snapchat app. The parent company, Snap, report...

Nintendo Switch earns incomplete but 'Zelda' a worthy launch title

If they move too much just sit still for a bit. Get close enough and the A button prompt will change to "Mount". Press it and you'll grab onto the horse and hop...

Boeing is planning 1500 voluntary job cuts

Boeing Co has accepted 1,880 voluntary layoffs from its union machinists and engineers in the Seattle area, the unions said on Thursday, part of the jet maker's...

Products of Chinese companies arouse great interest at Mobile World Congress

The revamped version of the handset will be sold under license by Finnish start-up HMD Global , which was also behind some of Nokia's Android smartphones. It...

Sessions Had 2 Conversations With Russian Ambassador During 2016 Campaign, DOJ Says

Mr Trump has accused officials in former Democratic President Barack Obama's administration of trying to discredit him. "In retrospect I should have slowed do...

Canada's economy outperforms on consumer spending, housing

The biggest contribution to the fourth-quarter increase in real gross domestic product came from household spending, which also climbed 2.6 per cent, the agency...

Snap Applies Lock-up to IPO Shares

Shares of the parent company of photo-sharing app, Snapchat, jumped 41% to almost $24, when the initial public offering opened trading on Thursday morning, givi...

Android Wear 2.0 Update Details Emerge

The original Huawei Watch was launched back in 2015 with no update being forthcoming previous year however the company has now decided that it is time to re-ent...