Despite a failed strategy to sell camera sunglasses, Snap Inc. is taking a shot it with two new versions of its Spectacles glasses. The new glasses announced today, oddly named Nico and Veronica, are black-on-black with polarized lenses, which Snap claimed “effortlessly combine form and function to create our most fashionable hands-free camera.” Based on Spectacles Version 2.0 launched ...

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it’s finally adding call recording to its Skype video and audio calling service, but in a twist, not yet in the Windows 10 version. The new feature comes as Microsoft desperately tries to win back fans after arguably destroying most of its goodwill by trying to turn Skype into Snapchat. The call recording feature, ...

Google LLC has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its all-conquering Chrome web browser by launching a new version that has support for phone notches, among other things. The original version of Google Chrome launched on Sept. 2, 2008, at a time Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer browser dominated the market while the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox held ...

A man in Vancouver, Washington, has been indicted for allegedly being the mastermind behind the Satori botnet, the one reported to be running rampant across “internet of things” devices from 2016 through this year. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 20, was indicted last week in an Alaskan federal court on two charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ...

Bitcoin spinoff Bitcoin Gold is in a spot of bother after leading U.S. exchange Bittrex Inc. announced that it would delist the cryptocurrency starting Sept. 14 following a May attack on the Bitcoin Gold blockchain. Cryptocurrencies come and go on a regular basis and barely make headlines, but Bitcoin Gold’s current drama is a different ...

Google LLC today released a new artificial intelligence tool that aims to assist organizations in identifying and removing online child sexual abuse material. The Content Safety API is a toolkit that uses deep neural networks for image processing to identify the material quickly while minimizing the need for human inspections. That’s a cumbersome process that often involves ...

Questions are being raised about the security of Google LLC’s recently launched Titan Security Key because it’s manufactured in China. The key, which offers phishing-resistant two-factor authentication login capability into secure sites, went on sale Thursday. Differentiating itself from 2fa keys such as RSA Security LLC’s SecurID fobs that generate a challenge number for a login, the Titan ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa everywhere strategy is paying off. The company said Saturday that its smart assistant now works with more than 20,000 different devices. Daniel Rausch, vice president of Amazon’s Smart Home group, revealed the number to an audience at the IFA tech show in Berlin Saturday along with a number of other insights into just ...

Richard Liu, the chief executive officer of JD.com, China’s second-largest e-commerce firm after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., was arrested by police in Minneapolis Friday on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released. The details of the alleged conduct have not been disclosed but police have confirmed that Liu (left) was arrested Friday evening, then ...

Despite being knocked back on its application to offer electric scooters in San Francisco, Uber Technologies Inc. has committed itself to engineer its own scooter to compete in the burgeoning e-scooter market. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency issued two permits for e-scooter companies Thursday, bringing back scooters to the streets of a city which is ...