Apple Looks to Drones to Upgrade Maps
By eMarketer. Apple has been cleared to fly drones, which it will use to improve its map product. The effort reflects not only tough competition…
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Sony to release six smartphone games to accelerate mobile drive
By Makiko Yamazaki for Reuters. Japan’s Sony Corp (6758.T) will release as many as six smartphone games in the next financial year, hoping that its own…
Donald Trump Summons Tech Leaders to a Round-Table Meeting through Thiel
By DAVID STREITFELD for The New York Times. SAN FRANCISCO — During the long presidential campaign, the most resolutely anti-Trump part of the country was the…
Windows 10 Creators Update Targeted At Businesses: Focus On Security, Analytics And More
By Chris Loterina for Tech Times. Microsoft has revealed the list of improvements to be featured in the upcoming Creators Update. The bulk of the changes…
Qualcomm Unveils Chip to Attack Intel Server Stronghold
By DON CLARK for the Wall Street Journal. SAN JOSE, Calif.— Qualcomm Inc. unveiled a chip it plans to sell for server systems, attacking Intel Corp.’s…
Galaxy S8 To Feature Harman Stereo Speakers
By Vikas Shukla for Value Walk. Samsung recently acquired Harman International for $8 billion. Though Harman focuses primarily on connected car systems, its expertise in audio…
Pebble cancels Pebble Time 2 and Core as acquisition by Fitbit approaches: report
By Chris Welch for The Verge. Fitbit is very close to announcing its plan to purchase Pebble, according to a new report from Bloomberg, which describes…
SoftBank Japanese Mogul Pledges $50B U.S. Investment
By JOSH BOAK and TALI ARBEL for US News and World Report. WASHINGTON (AP) — After meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday, Japanese tech billionaire…
Review: Comparing Google Wifi to other mesh networking heavyweights
By JIM SALTER for ARS Technica. Here at Ars, we’ve been rocking some high-tech Wi-Fi setups for a while—in particular, Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson and I are fond…
America to Trump: Stop Tweeting; President-Elect Heads to Military Town, as Does Actual President
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS for The New York Times. ■ Hello, Fayetteville: President-elect Donald J. Trump will be in North Carolina,…
Supreme Court Considers Race, Politics And Redistricting In 2 Cases
By NINA TOTENBERG for the National Public Radio. The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear over the past quarter century that racial gerrymandering is an unconstitutional no-no,…
Ghana’s ‘Obama Mahama’ Faces Election Test
By JOE PARKINSON for the Wall Street Journal. TAMALE, Ghana—Four years ago, on the back of a growing economy and a slick U.S.-style political campaign, Ghanaians…
Donald Trump’s Tariffs Proposal Faces Pushback From Republicans
By Sam Frizell for Time Magazine. In a major early hurdle to Donald Trump’s trade agenda, Republicans indicated on Monday they are not ready to support his…
Supreme Court Justice Removes Brazil’s Senate Leader Amid Graft Case
By SIMON ROMERO for The New York Times. RIO DE JANEIRO — A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday night removed the powerful head of the…
Trump could bring a different kind of diversity to the Supreme Court
By Ariane de Vogue Supreme Court Reporter for CNN. (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is making one thing clear about the Supreme Court: He wants to do more…
Taiwan’s President: Phone Call With Trump ‘Doesn’t Mean A Policy Shift’
By WILLIAM DOBSON for National Public Radio. The revelation of a phone call between President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen last Friday startled leaders and…
Obama makes a push for transparency before handing over executive power to Trump
By W.J. Hennigan for the Los Angeles Times. President Obama is making a push for transparency in his last days in office before handing off the vast counter-terrorism apparatus he…
Detroit defense stifles normally prolific Saints, 28-13
By the Associated Press for USA Today. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Detroit safety Glover Quinrecognized a deep route by Brandin Cooks just in time to…
Bud Selig, John Schuerholz elected to Hall of Fame by Today’s Game Era Committee
By Jayson Stark for ESPN.com. Bud Selig spent 22 years as the commissioner of baseball. John Schuerholz built World Series champions in Atlanta and Kansas City….
Matsuyama drawing attention for Tiger-like winning streak
By Jason Sobel for ESPN.com. NASSAU, Bahamas — Comparisons to legends are rarely fair, and comparisons to a legend that dominated this week’s news cycle and…