Technology

Apple was set on Friday to have its worst week on the inventory market given that 2013, as worriesfestered about a slowdown in iPhone sales and after influential shareholder Carl Icahn found out he offeredhis entire stake. stocks of Apple, a mainstay of many Wall road portfolios and the most important aspect of the S&P [...]

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said Thursday he had offered his complete stake in Apple Inc (AAPL.O), mentioning the danger of China’s influence on the inventory. Icahn, in an interview with cable tv community CNBC, additionally said he became “still very careful” on the U.S. inventory market and there could be a “day of reckoning” [...]

The excellent court on Thursday accepted a rule exchange that might allow U.S. judges issue searchwarrants for get entry to to computers placed in any jurisdiction notwithstanding competition from civil liberties businesses who say it’ll greatly increase the FBI’s hacking authority. U.S. leader Justice John Roberts transmitted the guidelines to Congress, that allows you to [...]

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Thursday suggested earnings and sales that blew past analysts’expectations, sending its stocks hovering in after-hours buying and selling and demonstrating thedeveloping marketplace energy of its center retail enterprise and new cloud offerings department. The consequences draw a sharp assessment to the disappointing fourth zone Amazon mentioned in January, which renewed issues [...]

A flurry of proceedings from Uber drivers about an surprisingly excessive variety of canceled bookingsbecame the spark that ignited a bitter legal combat with Ola, Uber’s rival for dominance of India’s $12 billion taxi market, consistent with court docket documents and a source with direct expertise of Uber’s case. A seven-member internal crew become set [...]

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON – Apple Inc said the U.S. government had failed to show a continued need for its help accessing a locked iPhone in a New York drug case after a third party came forward with a solution to crack a different phone belonging to one of the shooters in December’s San Bernardino killings. The technology [...]

TOKYO – Electronics giant Sony Corp on Sunday said production at its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, southern Japan, remained suspended as it assessed damage from a powerful earthquake. Operations at its image sensor plants in Nagasaki and Oita, also on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, fully resumed, the company said. The Kumamoto plant has [...]

Melbourne – Australia Post has successfully field-trialled the use of drones to deliver small packages, clearing the way for test deliveries to customer homes later this year. The state-owned corporation said the drones will be used for the delivery of online shopping parcels and time-sensitive items such as medication. “We will put this innovative technology through [...]

Australian scientists say they have developed the world’s first WHO-approved “gluten-free” barley, a breakthrough for global beer manufacturers which have had to use alternatives to barley such as rice and sorghum to brew gluten-free beer. Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) said on Friday it had sold 70 tonnes of the new Kebari [...]

The Zaatari camp in northern Jordan opened in 2012 as a temporary refuge of tents for Syrians fleeing the civil war. Today, this camp alone is home to nearly 80,000 people. The tiny kingdom with a population of 8 million struggles to cope with its 2 million migrants. Zaatari camp, Jordan (dpa) – Mohammed Ramadan, 30, [...]

If you’re the kind of person who really likes chatting with the mail carrier, Dispatch won’t be your favorite startup. That’s because the four-person South San Francisco company is working on technology that could replace postal workers, Instacart couriers, UPS and FedEx drivers, or anyone else who gets paid to bring you stuff. Instead, you [...]

Dennis Fong knows firsthand that having the inside track on how to play a game makes the difference between winning and losing. Fong, 39, started playing video games when he was a teenager and got so good he was named the world’s first official professional gamer by the Guinness Book of World Records after racking [...]