Apple has acquired artificial intelligence for mobile phone’s startup Perceptio. According to Bloomberg Business, Perceptio specialized in deep learning and relied on pattern-based processing to analyze and categorize input on smartphones. Founders Nicolas Pinto and Zak Stone have backgrounds in the artificial intelligence field at Harvard and previously researched AI dedicated to building image-recognition systems that ...

Shares in managed cloud hosting company Rackspace, Inc. surged Monday on further rumors that the company will be announcing a partnership with Amazon.com, Inc. later this week. Exactly what the deal involves is still subject to speculation, but it is believed at the very least that Rackspace will offer enterprise customers the ability move their hosting ...

Bitcoin services company Coinplug, Inc. has raised $5 million Series B in a round led by SBI Investment. Founded in 2013 and based in South Korea, Coinplug offers a variety of Bitcoin services including fiat money to Bitcoin exchange, a Bitcoin wallet service, a Bitcoin prepaid card, two-way ATMs and merchant payment processing. The company ...

Want to take your new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus for a swim? Unfortunately the bad news is that you’d still kill the phone, but it does appear Apple’s latest smartphones are more water resistant than previous models, at least according to one report. The folks over at iFixit have pulled apart the new iPhone’s ...

Developers looking at bringing their apps to the Apple TV received a boost over the weekend with news that Apple would be providing an API with access to the device’s new universal search feature. Previously it was unknown whether the new feature, which allows users to search for movies or other content across the device ...

Messaging service Snapchat, Inc. is set to launch a new service that will introduce advertising sponsored stickers in the company’s latest attempt to make money from their popular, yet profit free app. According to the traditional “people familiar with the matter” quoted by The Financial Times, the new service, to be called “sponsored lenses,” will ...

Google’s Android team will be feeling under the weather this week with another major security flaw being discovered on the operating system. The gaping security hole is dubbed “Stagefright 2.0,” the successor to the original Stagefright vulnerability discovered back in August, and affects more than one billion Android devices, pretty much every single Android powered ...

Would the lyrics of the Beyonce’s Single Ladies change to “if you love it put a smart ring on it?” That’s actually now a valid question given Apple’s next big one more thing moment could be something many would not have expected: a smart, internet-enabled ring. The tech giant has filed a patent with the ...

Male-focused publishing company Thrillist Media Network has raised $54 million in a split round that see’s the company spin off its Jackthreads, Inc. e-commerce store into a separate entity. It’s unknown how the round was split, however, leading the round for Jackthreads was Oakshot Investment Partners with SBNY (previously Softbank Capital) participating; the part of ...

Apple’s reputation of providing platforms that are impervious, or close thereto, to malicious attacks has taken another slight battering with an exploit found in its OS X operating system that allows for the installation of malicious code. The newly discovered exploit takes advantage of a flaw in OS X’s “Gatekeeper” feature, which verifies that software being ...