December 17, 2015 Facebook and Uber Follow Asian Rivals in Plan to Enhance Messenger App by MIKE ISAAC and VINDU GOEL By MIKE ISAAC and VINDU GOEL For Facebook, the collaboration represents a step in the development of an all-purpose communications app, while Uber stands…
December 17, 2015 Women Who Play Games Shun ‘Gamer’ Label by MIKE McPHATE By MIKE McPHATE About half of both sexes play the games, but men more readily adopt the identity, a Pew survey found. Published: December…
December 17, 2015 California D.M.V. Stops Short of Fully Embracing Driverless Cars by CONOR DOUGHERTY By CONOR DOUGHERTY Draft regulations would require licensed drivers, who would be responsible for traffic violations, to operate the cars, as well as safety…
December 17, 2015 Favorite tweets .@mark_wahlberg got a bite at @NardelliGrinder in Southington after filming at @espn https://t.co/0dh17oZFzg http://pic.twitter.com/YqGcVw3yDJ — FOX 61 (@FOX61News) December 17, 2015 from http://twitter.com/FOX61News Via…
December 16, 2015 In a Self-Serve World, Start-Ups Find Value in Human Helpers by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO A new breed of companies are trying to put human agents back at the center of how we make decisions. Published:…
December 16, 2015 Lamar Odom Leads Google’s Top Searches in 2015 by JONAH BROMWICH By JONAH BROMWICH The lists emphasized that Americans who went online were often interested in something scandalous. Published: December 16, 2015 at 07:00PM from…
December 16, 2015 Slack Aims to Become a Control Panel for Your Job by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Slack is unveiling an app store and an $80 million fund to invest in apps, as the group messaging start-up tries…
December 16, 2015 Qualcomm Concludes a Split Would Be Detrimental by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY The chip maker has released the results of a monthslong review that it undertook to evaluate whether it should divide into…
December 16, 2015 How to Download a Batch of Photos on Flickr by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER It’s possible to download photos in batches from a Flickr account’s Camera Roll page, instead of one by one. Published:…
December 16, 2015 Man Arrested in VTech Breach of Children’s Data by NICOLE PERLROTH By NICOLE PERLROTH Police in Great Britain made a rare arrest in the hack of VTech, a Hong Kong electronic toymaker. The breach, which…