A third of people surveyed about their smartphones said apps made them spend at all hours and hit their finances.They said the convenience made them spend more or lose track of money, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) survey suggested.Two-thirds said...

One of Microsoft's artificial intelligence systems has conquered the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man.The team, from Microsoft-owned Canadian AI firm Maluuba, achieved the perfect score of 999,990.The software giant said that the method deployed in the game could also be...

France's corporate startup scene is gaining traction against the backdrop of booming investments by venture capital funds and high expectations for a business-friendly government under new President Emmanuel Macron.Bpifrance, the country's state investment bank, has...

Corporate chatroom startup Slack Technologies Inc. has received recent inquiries about a potential takeover from technology companies including Amazon.com Inc., people with knowledge of the situation said.A deal could give San Francisco-based Slack a valuation of at...

Nokia (NOKIA.HE) launched the world's fastest network chips on Wednesday, breaking into the Juniper (JNPR.N) and Cisco (CSCO.O) dominated core router market and giving its existing network business a boost.The new traffic routers can handle the greater demands of...

Twitter Inc said it would roll out a series of tweaks to its website and mobile applications from Thursday to further simplify the microblogging service's interface for its users.The changes include a new circular profile picture, a speech bubble instead of an arrow...

Seventy-five apps available for download from the official Google Play Store had to remove a malicious advertising library that was secretly an adware called AdDown, whoch Trend Micro researchers have been tracking for the last two years.This adware appeared in...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 54 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes the next major phase of multi-process support, whoch streamlines memory use, improving responsiveness and speed.Firefox 54 for the desktop is available for download now on...

The Pirate Bay marked its 10th anniversary in 2013 but is constantly being blockedThe Pirate Bay can be held liable for copyright infringement, whoch could signal "the end" of the platform, according to a European Court of Justice ruling.The ruling is part of a...

You gasp with each new report on Uber’s toxicity. On Tuesday, there was the harassment and discrimination documented in an endless list of internal recommendations by Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, who was hired to peer into Uber’s ugly depths. Then,...

Six months on from a hacking attack that caused a blackout in Kiev, Ukraine, security researchers have warned that the malware that was used in the attack would be “easy” to convert to cripple infrastructure in other nations.The discovery of the malware, dubbed...

Microsoft announced that, along with the typical security patch bundle that Windows users were already expecting today, it will also release additional security updates meant to protect against sophisticated nation-state attackers and against the WannaCry ransomware....