Lumosity agreed to pay $2 million to settle FTC charges it deceived consumers about the cognitive benefits of its game app.
The maker of brain game app Lumosity has agreed to pay $2 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged it deceived consumers about the product’s brain-training benefits.
Fitbit revealed a $200 wearable device, called the Blaze, at CES in Las Vegas.
Fitbit announced a new device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today—a new wearable called the Blaze that looks a lot like a smartwatch—and Wall Street doesn’t appear to like Fitbit’s apparent move toward Apple Watch territory.
Snapchat is launching an API that will let advertisers buy more and better mobile ads, Digiday reports.
Snapchat is working on an application-programmer interface that would let brands buy more targeted and sophisticated ads on the popular mobile messaging platform, according to a Digiday report.
The cable giant says it is looking into claims that the jamming system’s wireless signals disconnect intrusion sensors from hub.
Cable providers want to do more than just service the dumb pipe that shuttles information and content to and from your home. One way of expanding their reach is to provide online home automation and home security systems, as cable giant Comcast does with its wireless Xfinity Home offering. But that system is apparently easy to undermine, reports cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which claims that it had difficulty reaching Comcast to alert it to the vulnerability. Comcast says it is looking into the claims, adding that Rapid7 didn’t make much of an effort to alert it to the purported vulnerability.
Twitter is reportedly considering an enormous expansion of its character limit. Users expressed their dismay, 140 characters at a time.
Twitter is tinkering with its most iconic feature. The 140-character limit that’s practically synonymous with the service is getting retooled, according to a report in Re/Code. But rather than boosting the per-tweet limit to 200 or even 500 characters, Twitter is reportedly going all out and extending the limit to 10,000.
Previously, there was some confusion on the issue.
The Obama administration made it abundantly clear on Tuesday that those with serious mental illness should be reported to the FBI’s database for background checks and prohibited from buying a gun.
The new look is less about channels—and more about sports, movies, and shows.
CES may stand for “Consumer Electronics Show,” but the most intriguing launch at last year’s event wasn’t a piece of consumer electronics. Instead, it was Sling TV—a streaming service from Dish that looks a lot like cable TV, except that it starts at $20 a month, lets you add bundles of additional channels in $5 increments, and is available on smartphones, tablets, Roku, Xbox, and other devices rather than wedded to a particular TV.
A great idea in theory, but challenging in practice.
We routinely use apps to retrieve a lost iPad. Why not apply that same technology to help law enforcement locate stolen guns?
Samsung’s Family Hub Refrigerator has a 21.5-inch touch screen and reminds its owners to order groceries.
At the consumer tech industry’s yearly shindig in Las Vegas, the Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung rolled out a bunch of new gear, but the most interesting new device announced was a smart refrigerator that lets users shop for groceries from the kitchen.
A new variant of the startup’s technology could help speed truly cable-free gadgets to market.
We’re getting closer to a future without wires. During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, wireless charging company Energous unveiled a new version of its WattUp wire-free charging technology, with a miniature transmitter that can be used to charge everything from your mobile phone to your fitness tracker wirelessly from wherever you are.
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