Nederlandse banken gaan mobiele betaalmethode Payconiq invoeren

Zes Nederlandse banken gaan deze zomer betaalmethode Payconiq invoeren. Dat is een app waarmee gebruikers onderlinge betalingen kunnen verrichten en af kunnen rekenen bij winkels en webshops. In België ondersteunen vier banken het platform al.

Vroegtijdige tabletversie van Prison Architect komt uit in Nederland

Gevangenissimulatiegame Prison Architect komt naar tablets. De game wordt gratis, maar spelers kunnen in de app aankopen doen. Voorlopig kunnen alleen bezitters van een Android-tablet of iPad in Nederland aan de slag met een early access-versie van …

AWS v Oracle: Mark Hurd schooled on how to run a public cloud that people actually use

Amazon VP takes Big Red's co-CEO to task over server boast Amazon's AWS infrastructure boss has slapped down Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd after the latter boasted that Big Red needs fewer data centers because its systems are, apparently, twice as good.…

Ambient light sensors can steal data, says security researcher

Not-so-bright API means web pages can use a W3C idea to pop your phone or laptop Security researcher Lukasz Olejnik says it's possible to slurp sensitive data with the ambient light sensors installed in many smartphones and laptops.…

SPY-tunes scandal: Bloke sues Bose after headphones app squeals on his playlist

Oh no, don't let data slurpers know we love Coldplay A chap in Chicago is suing headphone maker Bose after discovering how much personal information its app was phoning home to base – this slurped data includes songs listened to, for how long, and w…

AWS v Oracle: Mark Hurd schooled on how to run a public cloud that people actually use

Amazon VP takes Big Red's co-CEO to task over server boast Amazon's AWS infrastructure boss has slapped down Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd after the latter boasted that Big Red needs fewer data centers because its systems are, apparently, twice as good.…

You can now shout ‘hey Cortana’ to wake up the Surface Studio

Sony presenteert professionele A9-systeemcamera met stacked cmos-sensor

Sony heeft zijn A9-systeemcamera aangekondigd. Het toestel is voorzien van een nieuwe stacked cmos-sensor van het fullframeformaat met 24,2 megapixels. Dankzij geïntegreerd dram op de chip is een opnamesnelheid van 20fps bij volledige resolutie moge…

Gerucht: Google zet adblocker in Chrome

Google wil een adblocker in Chrome inbouwen en standaard aanzetten. Dat schrijft de Amerikaanse zakenkrant The Wall Street Journal. De adblocker moet 'irritante' advertenties blokkeren en acceptabel materiaal toelaten, al overweegt Google nog waar d…

Opportunity rover gets bored of spot it's explored since 2014

NASA moving to 'Perseverance Valley' where we can see Martian erosion in action The thirteen year-old Opportunity rover is moving on from the region of Mars it's been exploring since 2014.…

Accept for a second that robot surgeons exist. Who will check they're up to the job – and how?

Let us level with you... Medical robots should be split into different categories of autonomy, just as driverless cars are, a group of academics proposed today in Science Robotics.…

Mastercard’s new credit card has a built-in fingerprint scanner

Amazon’s Alexa voice tech is now available to build chatbots

Google Chrome 58.0.3029.81

Google heeft versie 58 van zijn webbrowser Chrome uitgebracht. Google Chrome is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en macOS. Er zijn ook versies voor Android en iOS, maar die volgen een iets ander releaseschema. Sinds versie 50 is de ondersteuning voor…

Apple vows to use only recycled materials, but Greenpeace says iPhones should also last longer

 Apple has set a lofty goal for itself: use only renewable materials in its products to protect the environment and avoid “blood minerals.” In its 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report, released today ahead of Earth Day, the company said it is “c…

Samsung’s Surface competitor, the Galaxy Book, starts at $629.99

Computer games to become medal sport at Asian Games

Olympic Council of Asia will award gold medals for fragging in 2022, helped by Alibaba Gold medals will be awarded to players of computer games at the 2022 Asian Games.…

HTC’s squeezable U phone is apparently coming May 16th

Riverbed slurps Xirrus to take SD-WAN all the way to WiFi

Because internet things should probably talk on secure virtual networks, not punter-grade WiFi Riverbed has acquired Xirrus for an undisclosed sum and will now try to build a software-defined WAN that stretches all the way to WiFi access points.…

Riverbed slurps Xirrus to take SD-WAN all the way to WiFi

Because internet things should probably talk on secure virtual networks, not punter-grade WiFi Riverbed has acquired Xirrus for an undisclosed sum and will now try to build a software-defined WAN that stretches all the way to WiFi access points.…

Zuckerberg's absolutely mental: Brain sensors that read YOUR MIND at 100 words a minute

Billionaire dreamer to see your thoughts 'by 2019' F8 2017  Facebook sees such promise in virtual reality that it has taken to celebrating products and services that don't exist outside laboratory settings, like brain interfaces, augmented reality g…