Google+ to shut down early after second major security incident
After another data leak, its second such leak in a year, Google today announced it was shutting down its beleaguered social media platform, Google+. API access will shut down even sooner, within the next 90 days. The newest vulnerability affected 52.5 million users, according to Google. Profile information, including names, email addresses, age, and occupation […]
Intel Announces Faster Processor Patched for Meltdown and Spectre
Intel just announced their new Sunny Cove Architecture that comes with a lot of new bells and whistles. The Intel processor line-up has been based off the Skylake architecture since 2015, so the new architecture is a fresh breath for the world’s largest chip maker. They’ve been in the limelight this year with hardware vulnerabilities […]
NVIDIA Sets Six Records in AI Performance
NVIDIA has set six AI performance records with today’s release of the industry’s first broad set of AI benchmarks. Backed by Google, Intel, Baidu, NVIDIA and dozens more technology leaders, the new MLPerf benchmark suite measures a wide range of deep learning workloads. Aiming to serve as the industry’s first objective AI benchmark suite, it […]
Samsung’s lightweight Notebook 9 Pen is aimed at creators
Last year at CES 2018, Samsung unveiled the Note 9 Pen, a lightweight 13.3-inch convertible aimed at artists and anyone else who needed decent power with as little weight as possible. The model is back again in a big way, with an all-new design and features that should fix what we didn’t like about it […]
The likelihood of a bitcoin bounce is diminishing, says analyst
Altcoins slip further, drags crypto market value to $108 billion Bitcoin prices are moving lower on Thursday, inching closer to a fresh 15-month low. A single bitcoin BTCUSD, -1.75% was last changing hands at $3,398.79, down 2.2% since Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the Kraken exchange and less than 5% from the Dec. […]
The tide may be turning for these two telecom stocks
Wall Street is weighing in on telecoms this week. Morgan Stanley downgraded Verizon shares to equal weight on a valuation call on Wednesday. This comes a day after Citigroup analysts upgraded AT&T to a buy. The stock market has picked a different winner this year. While AT&T has tumbled 22 percent in 2018, Verizon has […]
U.S. stock futures point to modest gains as trade concerns dominate
Jobless claims fall U.S. stock-index futures are pointing to a flat start for Wall Street on Thursday, as investors continue to digest headlines surrounding the potential for a U.S.-China trade deal. How are the benchmarks trading? Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YMZ8, +0.27% rose 46 points, or 0.1%, to 24,609, while S&P 500 index futures […]
Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: VZ, MNK, AEO, MAR, NVDA & more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Verizon was downgraded to “equal-weight” from “overweight” at Morgan Stanley, which notes Verizon’s year-to-date outperformance compared to both the S&P 500 and rival AT&T. Morgan Stanley feels the stock is now fairly valued and that good news is already priced in. Mallinckrodt – The Food and […]
Major Toyota Lexus recalls
Toyota is recalling about 70,000 Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles in North America to replace air bag inflators that could explode and hurl shrapnel at drivers and passengers. The recall covers the 2003 to 2005 Corolla, the 2002 to 2005 Sequoia, the 2003 to 2005 Tundra and the 2002 to 2005 Lexus SC. Takata uses […]
Space tourism taking flight
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is gearing up to finally send its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space. If successful, it would be a major step toward the long-delayed dream of commercial space tourism. The next test flight could come as early as Thursday with two pilots taking Virgin Space Ship Unity high above […]