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Google is launching smartphones and digital devices that can recognize people and things. This seems to be the direction of the search giant when it teamed up with the technology company Movidius.
From a 12-year low recorded this month, oil prices again started climbing up hitting $34 a barrel Thursday on a three-week bounce, probably triggered by the action of major oil producers agreeing to cut their oil production.
It is somewhat of an oxymoron: with so many people trying to find work, why is it so hard to get a good employee?
Facebook made an impression at Wall Street when it revealed its current revenue report on Wednesday. The company’s earnings report sent its shares up by over 8 percent after several hours.
Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, launched the iPad about six years ago, amidst much fanfare. The device was the biggest thing then. But recent news paints a bleak future for the iPad. Its sales have been continuously plummeting.
Samsung is set to unveil its Galaxy S7 in just a few months but important leaks about its specs are already starting to get to the press.
The leader of the forced occupation of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon was arrested after the FBI confronted members of the armed group. In the skirmish, one protestor was shot dead, authorities said.
When Oprah Winfrey appeared in a new commercial saying that she lost 26 pounds in Weight Watchers, company shares of WW started soaring almost immediately. It seems that Oprah’s loss is Weight Watchers’ gain.
Japan has invented a new gadget that will ease the stress in the legs of people who are forced to stand for long hours. It is the ‘Wearable Chair’ and its main targets are surgeons, doctors, retail store assistants, hospitality workers and those who have to stand nearly all day to do their work.
Angry iPhone users are reporting bugs inside their Safari browser yesterday. The Verge reports that the search browser crashes when iPhone users were doing their search from the address bar for both the OS X and iOS operated devices.
The use of nanowire in the production of solar cells will one day make it cheaper and ubiquitous. Recently, scientists were able to discover a method by which nanowires can be made out of perovskite.
Apple’s News app may soon enable iPhone owners to have the ability to access paid news articles. A report from Reuters stated that Apple Inc. plans to make paid-subscription content available on its news app for those with mobiles operating on iOS 9.
Google has been very instrumental in influencing the world to go digital. But in its recent launching of Doodle, it opted to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the mechanical TV.
With their success in the big screen, the creators of Marvel’s Avengers are now turning their eyes to a new-challenge. According to The Hollywood Reporter, LEGO recently announced the re-creation of this popular movie franchise into a new video game titled ‘LEGO Marvel’s Avengers.’
The FBI recently prevented a mass shooting that is intended to ‘terrify the world.’ A 23-year old man planned to murder 30 people at a Milwaukee Masonic temple but the authorities were able to thwart him.
Dow Jones, the owner of Wall Street Journal, in the person of its chief executive Will Lewis, has recently issued a warning to its rival newspapers. He said newspapers should not “run like headless chickens” just to make deals with tech firms like Google and Facebook.
Spreading rumors is not good, no matter where it is done. But there’s a constructive kind of rumor that you can engage in at the office that will produce positive results. A close circuit like the office is the place where these types of rumors are best practiced.
Following the current adverse publicities concerning their lack of diversity, officials of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences revealed changes in its board of governors Saturday. The announcement of the changes came immediately when the AMPAS said they planned to make alterations in their membership policies.
Increasing supply of oil in the world market is causing a glut of oil, adversely affecting the financial markets Friday. The situation pushed the stock prices further down suffering the worst weekly loss they had in about two and a half years.
