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WhatsApp passed a significant milestone today: the mobile messaging service owned by Facebook now has 1 billion users. That’s good news for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who spearheaded the jaw-dropping $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp two years ago on the promise it could grow to become one of the world’s most-used communication platforms.    Complete article: WhatsApp has […]

Apple is voluntarily recalling certain types of AC power adapters for Macs and iPads sold outside of the US, due to the risk of the adapters breaking and causing an electric shock. Complete article: Apple issues AC adapter recall  

DeepMind, the taciturn artificial intelligence arm of the search engine,made a big announcement: Its program has defeated a champion human Go player. It’s a big deal because the complex board game, developed in China millennia ago, is considered the quintessential unsolved problem for machine intelligence. Complete article: Google races to beat unbeatable game

This week the folks at Samsung have decided to take Apple to task on Apple Pay vs Samsung Pay in an video spot with comedian Hannibal Buress. In the spot, you’ll see the comedian take his Samsung Galaxy S6 to Katz’s Deli – a place in NYC you may have visited yourself before if you’re […]

Google is paying Apple a fee to keep its search bar on the iPhone. Apple received $1 billion from its rival in 2014, according to a transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp.’s copyright lawsuit against Google. The search engine giant has an agreement with Apple that gives the iPhone maker a percentage of the revenue […]

Hoerbiger is a Swiss supplier of hydraulic systems for things like trunk lids and lift gates, and had a partnership with Tesla from February 2014 to May 2015 when the deal was terminated. Though the relationship never entered the production phase, the development products that Hoerbiger designed failed to meet Tesla’s expectations. Complete article: Tesla is […]

Starting this Friday, January 22 to be exact, Apple and Hermès will be selling the luxurious fruits of their joint labpor on their respective online stores. Complete article: Apple Watch Hermès edition online available

WhatsApp has been free for the first year and 99 cents for additional years. It will stop charging subscription fees immediately but it will likely be a few weeks before the payments infrastructure is completely out of all versions of the app. And, in case you were wondering, you won’t be able to get back […]

Stocks around the world are getting slammed on Thursday and so is the world’s biggest company.  Shares of Apple were down as much as 2.7% in pre-market trade on Thursday to trade below $98 a share. On Wednesday shares of the iPhone maker fell below $100 for the first time since August. Complete article: Apple shares getting […]

CEO – Elon Musk has a favorite riddle he likes to ask applicants at some point during the interview. Find the riddle and the answer here: Job intereview with Elon Musk – Tesla

Cybercriminals circulating malware have set their sights on WhatsApp users, researchers have discovered. The malware is being distributed in emails, which look as if they have been sent from an official WhatsApp account. Criminals hope to trick WhatsApp users into opening the email – and downloading the attached virus. Complete article: WhatsApp – do not open this […]

Apple has just released the first beta of iOS 9.3 to its public beta testers and developers. The company regularly releases beta versions of its operating systems, but this update is unique because Apple has put together several pages extensively detailing its new features, something we normally don’t get until we see the release notes posted […]