Stolen Uber accounts are worth more than stolen credit cards
Stolen credit cards are great and all, but the real money-makers on the dark web these days are stolen accounts for services like PayPal and Uber. According to Trend Micro, stolen...
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Uber is ready for a full-scale launch of its food-delivery service
Uber's experimental food-delivery service is finally ready for a full-scale launch in the United States, and that should make GrubHub extremely worried. Known as UberEATS, the new service will be expanding to ten major...
AT&T’s CEO claims corporations have no say in the encryption debate
When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go...
Foxconn has reportedly offered to acquire Sharp for $5.31 billion
To say that Sharp isn't doing too well would be a massive understatement. The electronics maker had to receive a ¥225 billion ($1.91 billion) bailout from the Japanese government in order...
General Motors has launched its own car-sharing service
General Motors has made its interest in the ride-sharing market abundantly clear, and if its $500 million investment into Lyft, or its acquisition of Sidecar's assets weren't enough to convince you of that, then...
Mozilla’s former CEO is launching a game-changing new web browser
After a controversy surrounding his past donations caused Brendan Eich to resign from his position as the CEO of Mozilla back in 2014, he decided to launch a new startup that aims...
Spotify’s social features are getting a boost with two new acquisitions
Hot on the heels of Deezer's announcement that it has raised $109 million in new funding, Spotify announced that it has acquired two startups: Cord Project and Soundwave. Terms of the deal...
Nielsen now factors social media shares into television ratings
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it's expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means is that the company will now...
Galaxy S7 rumors being confirmed by more rumors
The sordid cycle of rumors preceding launches of hot new tech devices has gotten to the point that we're now using rumors to confirm or deny other rumors. It's confusing,...
Baidu could be ready to sell self-driving cars in just three years
Chinese companies are just as interested in autonomous vehicle technology as their American counterparts, and as the Google of China, it's only natural that Baidu be the company leading the charge for...
Nanoparticles could be used to kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs, have become a serious problem in recent years, and many experts believe that the problem will grow to near-catastrophic levels in the decades to come if...
Netflix is about to become a little more expensive for some users
Netflix's stock price surged increased by 7% on Tuesday after the company announced that it added more subscribers last quarter than it expected to, and raked in $1.823 billion in revenue....
Elon Musk believes SpaceX will have a 70% success rate this year
SpaceX's recent failed rocket landing must have a bit sobering for Elon Musk, because his predication for how successful the company will be at landing rockets this year was surprisingly reasonable, in...
These were the most commonly used passwords of 2015
It baffles my mind that most people in developed nations have tons of experience with the Internet at this point, and yet many of them still don't take online security...
Xiaomi wants to get into the entertainment business
It looks like Xiaomi's ambitions aren't limited to the consumer electronics market, as the company is joining forces with Chinese media group Huayi Brothers Star to form a joint film production venture....
Patreon has raised $30 million to help expand its patronage platform
Kickstarter is largely responsible for creating the crowd-funding scene as we know it today, but Patreon's work in this area may actually be the most noteworthy. Rather than having tons of people pool...
Twitter’s former CEO has founded a new personal fitness startup
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Tuesday that he's taking on two new jobs, the most notable of which is the founder of a new personal fitness startup, while the other...
General Motors has absorbed one of Uber’s fallen competitors
Remember a few weeks back when Sidecar announced that it'll no longer be competing with the likes of Lyft and Uber, and will be exiting the ride-sharing market? Well, most...
South Korea wants Seoul to be the Silicon Valley of Asia
Although some would say that Singapore is the Silicon Valley of Asia, there are many who would argue that Beijing or Seoul are more deserving of the title. Seoul in particular is...
Huawei’s first laptop might be a dual-booting hybrid device
Having already become the world's third-largest smartphone maker, several reports have indicated that Huawei will be joining fellow Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in releasing its first laptop this year. However,...