The use of tech to expedite claims has become even more important as the govt has mandated to settle insurance claims within two months of filing. from technology - Technology News | Latest Technology & Startups Industry Information and Updates: ET Tech : ETtech.com http://bit.ly/2I9N1YP ...
Late Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported, based on it anonymous sources, that the Department of Justice is preparing an antitrust probe of Google. The company has faced several similar investigations from EU officials, as well as investigations... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2WgK02v ...
Paul Allen's space company, Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, is reportedly closing down its operations. According to Reuters, the company is shutting up shop, but it's also exploring the possibility of selling its assets and intellectual property. A... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Z4poYv ...
China isn't taking kindly to the Trump administration's de facto Huawei ban. The country has revealed that it's creating an "unreliable entities list" of foreign companies, organizations and people that it believes interfere with Chinese businesses.... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2ELmrnT ...
One year ago, Lyft launched its self-driving ride service in Las Vegas. Today, the company announced its 30-vehicle fleet has made 55,000 trips. That makes it the largest commercial program of its kind in the US. Unsurprisingly, Lyft says it's thrill... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2EKFb78 ...
Facebook is investing heavily in a massive solar farm in Texas as it rumbles towards its goal of running entirely on renewable energy by the end of next year. Renewables company Longroad Energy has started building the Prospero Solar project in Andre... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Xhm5N2 ...
A collection of classic BioWare roleplaying games will be arriving on consoles later this year. Physical and digital copies of Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate ll and Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment will all arri... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2WhugfC ...
Spotify appears to be working on a "Social Listening" feature that will let multiple users control a playlist from separate devices. They'll also be able to listen to the same songs in real-time. The company hasn't announced the added capability yet,... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2KhpHLh ...
A momentous thing is happening in New York City today: They're finally fixing the subway! Just kidding, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) is rolling out contactless payments for select stations and bus lines. (Because that will address overcro... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2JOHOJ0 ...
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Today, Emtek pulls the plug on BlackBerry Messenger. The company announced last month that it would shut down the consumer service, which has been steadily losing users and failing to attract new ones. As a consolation for diehard fans, BlackBerry op... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2QGwKhS ...
British Columbia has just passed the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act (ZEVA) into law, and it could transform the Canadian province's roads in the coming years. Under the new rules, 10 percent of all light-duty cars and trucks sold in BC by 2025 must be em... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2MmayuN ...
Our week in Taiwan is coming to a close, and as Team Engadget bids goodbye to the dumplings and beef noodles, it's time to look back on all the news we saw this week. As always, ASUS was the star of the show in its home turf, and this year was... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Wg69OJ ...
I'm mesmerized by the way liquid nitrogen vapor flows across the motherboard. There's something oddly therapeutic about extreme overclocking, especially when the cold air gently touches my skin, making even the tiniest bumps in clock speed the... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2KeOG1L ...
We're barely a week away from the start of E3 2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles California! This year's event may be missing one of its stalwarts now that Sony has announced that it will not have a presence but there will be news aplent... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2KcErek ...
Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. June is almost here, and with it comes Apple's WWDC event. We're preparing for the show to start on Monday, but first we'll find the big winners from Computex and take a look at the future of Call of Duty. from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2EJ637g ...
After developing an AI system that can beat Go and chess, Google-owned DeepMind started tackling a different class of games: multiplayer ones, which usually require teamwork. In a paper published by Science, a group of DeepMind researchers have detai... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2HMqli2 ...
When AMD launched its third-gen Zen 2-based Ryzen processors, it also introduced the next generation PCIe 4.0 controllers. Now, Gigabyte has launched one of the first PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs that shows the incredible speed potential of the new tech. The A... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2XitPOD ...
Google is banning online ordering and delivering of marijuana via apps downloaded from its Play Store, according to the latest update to its policy guidelines. from mobile - Technology News | Latest Technology & Startups Industry Information and Updates: ET Tech : ETtech.com http://bit.ly/2Wy543P ...
This investment comes as Alibaba aims to gain a foothold in India's growing short video apps segment, currently led by Bytedance's TikTok from mobile - Technology News | Latest Technology & Startups Industry Information and Updates: ET Tech : ETtech.com http://bit.ly/2Kf6j1n ...
The current federal government might not be keen on privacy rules for internet providers, but Maine certainly is. The state's Senate has passed a bill that requires consent before ISPs can sell or offer access to their customers' private data, paral... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2KgRN9E ...
Tesla is finally accepting Model 3 orders from buyers in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Ireland and Macau. It's been a long wait for some of those locations: In Australia, for instance, reservations opened as far back as three years ago wh... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2HLkLwy ...
If helping to create a competitor is a necessary condition to get the Sprint/T-Mobile deal done, then perhaps Amazon can help. A report from Reuters suggests the retailer is interested in buying Boost Mobile from the combo, particularly because it wo... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2QCqsiZ ...
Chai added that Uber noticed less aggressive pricing by its competitors - meaning they're not competing as hard to offer the lowest price - and that trend has continued into the second quarter. from mobile - Technology News | Latest Technology & Startups Industry Information and Updates: ET Tech : ETtech.com http://bit.ly/2Xfh0F3 ...
Paytm competes with the likes of PayU and Razorpay in the payment gateway business. PayU, which is owned by Naspers, is one of the largest payment processors in the country from mobile - Technology News | Latest Technology & Startups Industry Information and Updates: ET Tech : ETtech.com http://bit.ly/2KfmGLx ...
Netflix has bought global rights to The Power of the Dog, a feature film directed by Jane Campion (The Piano, The Portrait of a Lady) and starring Elisabeth Moss and Benedict Cumberbatch. The streaming giant plans to release the film in 2021, both on... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2VYBOiF ...
The highly anticipated Beyond Good and Evil 2 won't be making an appearance at E3 this year, but fans will get more information about the game's status before the major gaming conference. Ubisoft announced today that it will be holding a livestream t... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2JL1ldn ...
Researchers have spent years trying to teach robots how to grip different objects without crushing or dropping them. They could be one step closer, thanks to this low-cost, sensor-packed glove. In a paper published in Nature, a team of MIT scientists... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Kf39uC ...
VR/AR startup Leap Motion has been sold to a rival business named UltraHaptics, according to the Wall Street Journal. The price for the company was reportedly around $30 million -- it was said to be valued at ten times as much in 2013. from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2WhniHB ...
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Scientists hope to perfect a new blood test that can detect the early signs of eight different types of cancer. Thrive Earlier Detection, a company founded by three Johns Hopkins cancer researchers, has raised $110 million from investors in order to... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2KaNxbu ...
Make that three big US carriers that have hopped aboard the 5G bandwagon -- Sprint has launched its 5G service in parts of Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Kansas City. You'll need to wait until May 31st to buy the LG V50 ThinQ or HTC 5G Hub... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2HKbzZk ...
Back in October when we reviewed it, Samsung's Galaxy Book 2 was the first device available featuring a Snapdragon 850 CPU. The 2-in-1 performed admirably for editor Cherlynn Low, completing tasks faster than the ASUS NovaGo's Snapdragon 835 could, w... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2QBGrOl ...
First unveiled at CES 2019, Nreal's Light mixed reality glasses are almost ready for their commercial debut. According to the Chinese startup behind the glasses, they'll cost $499 and a limited quantity will ship to customers sometime this year. They... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Wfvybg ...
Next week, thousands of people will flock to San Jose, nestle into their seats at the Convention Center, and listen to Apple unspool its vision for the future of software. They'll get their first concrete look at iOS 13 and what it means for thei... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2EJ3IZU ...
The next Call of Duty game is called Modern Warfare. Yes, just like the 2007 game. Yes, it's kind of confusing. Now that's out of the way -- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is scheduled to hit Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on October 25th, complete wi... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2YXJ2Ff ...
Jaws, not Saw. That's one of the guiding mantras for the developers building Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year's installment of the legendary first-person-shooter franchise. Modern Warfare comes out on October 25th and it's at once an homage t... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2HL7DHO ...
The 50th anniversary of the human race's first trip to the moon is fast approaching, and Lego is marking the milestone with a NASA Apollo 11 lunar lander set. It'll be available June 1st for $100. from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2XfAKbn ...
Gogo plans to launch in-flight 5G on business and commercial flights in 2021. According to an announcement made today, the 5G will be available in the contiguous US and Canada. "We expect to launch Gogo 5G at the same time as the terrestrial telecomm... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2WspR9d ...
If you haven't quite come to terms with Game of Thrones ending, you might be pleased to learn there's a VR title based on the series arriving this week called Beyond The Wall. You'll join the Night's Watch and defend The Wall against an army of the d... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2EK4m9B ...
Google is trying to take some of the guesswork out of trying a new restaurant. The company is trotting out an update to Google Maps that uses machine learning to highlight the popular dishes at an eatery. Tap on a place and it'll show the most popu... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2EIswSa ...
Netflix is raising prices in the United Kingdom for the first time since 2017, according to The Guardian. The streaming service will bump up monthly fees for subscribers by as much as 20 percent. The cost of the company's HD streaming plan will incre... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Wxf5hS ...
Contrary to what you might think and hear, apps and screens aren't the best tools for kids to learn STEM concepts, even coding. Why? Innovation, pattern recognition, exploration, experimentation and creation underlie STEM principles. Kids need to man... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2MhHd4B ...
Netflix has finally offered Dark Crystal fans a deeper look at its prequel series beyond some still images. The gorgeous first trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance arrived Thursday, and the show seems to faithfully recreate Thra while buil... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2YW7tDa ...
Ecobee is reportedly working on a new SmartThermostat and SmartSensors. The items haven't been announced yet, but they're listed on the Lowe's website. The specific product pages have been removed, but Zatz Not Funny managed to spot the details befor... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2HMlKwC ...
For a long time, the PC industry was stagnating. Computer makers had grown comfortable with iterative annual updates to their devices, relying on yearly processor advancements to push consumers to buy new laptops. But recently, things changed. PC mak... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2EIB3nM ...
Keyboards are infuriating, right? With their long, thin layouts require you to move your hands left and right in order to hit specific keys. If it's a sentiment you agree with, then Chassepot / Royal Kludge's new hardware will be perfect for you. The... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/30Qksbn ...
Ten years ago the original Ghostbusters: The Video Game debuted. Now, the game is being remastered for PS4, and according to the trailer released today, it should be available sometime this year. from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2XeSFyX ...
You can thank AMD and Intel for the influx of news out of Computex over the past week. Both chip companies announced some major new products: Intel showed off its 10-nanometer 10th-gen laptop chips, and AMD gave us details on its third generation Ryz... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2KeWmRQ ...
It looks like you'll soon be able to beat up your friends in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate from an entirely different perspective. It seems the hit Switch fighting game is getting a virtual reality mode via the Nintendo Labo Toy-Con VR Goggles. from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2YYTtbL ...
Giphy is moving past just GIFs and getting into the business of everything animated. Starting today, the company is rolling out two new formats: Giphy Emoji and Giphy Text. The new features expand upon the company's huge reservoir of GIFs by adding n... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2MeKxxj ...
The Lockport City School District in New York will start testing a facial and object recognition system called "Aegis" on June 3rd. According to BuzzFeed News, that will make it the first in the US to pilot a facial recognition surveillance system on... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2YTr9aP ...
As a result, the growth of GMV in absolute numbers also dramatically fell with only an 8.5% rise to $6.4 billion in the first three months of the year. Last year, GMV grew 28% to $5.9 billion. from mobile - Technology News | Latest Technology & Startups Industry Information and Updates: ET Tech : ETtech.com http://bit.ly/30U4DAd ...
Google announced Manifest V3 earlier this year -- a proposed change to Chrome's extension system that would essentially stop ad-blockers from working effectively. Despite the significant backlash Google faced in the aftermath of this decision, it's n... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2I7eFWm ...
PC players, rejoice: Microsoft is bringing its previously-Xbox exclusive subscription service, Xbox Game Pass, to Windows 10. The company is promising "a curated library" with more than 100 titles from various third-party developers including Bethesd... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2Wc7uGg ...
It's not unusual for leaks for spoil surprises to smartphone makers gearing up for a launch. What's less common is seeing a completely unannounced device pop up on Amazon and actually make its way to a customer. Oops. As at least one widely viewed h... from Engadget RSS Feed https://engt.co/2WfHae4 ...
