Microsoft has confirmed the fact of collection of audio recordings of the process of user communication with the voice assistant Cortana and Skype Translator, reports Reuters. According to a company representative, Microsoft employees and contractors subsequently study the data obtained in order to...

French eyewear giant Optic 2000 presented, during the CES 2019 edition, its flagship product: smart glasses. With a drastically different approach from Google’s failed Glass project, Optic 2000 is designing products which cover all the traditional parameters of classic glasses and launches the new...

Sony introduces wearable air conditioner smaller than a mobile phone. Now you will be able to wear your air conditioner! Yes, you heard it right. Sony has built a new wearable AC, which could be worn with clothes. The said portable air conditioner is named Reon Pocket. It is smaller as well as...

Databases of medical institutions, insurance companies, telecom operators or entertainment services that do not contain a person’s first and last name are no longer personal data from the point of view of the law, and therefore can be freely sold or transferred to third parties. Scientists say that...

The US Congress commenced hearings on the growing market influence of leading high-tech companies, namely, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. The companies had to respond to claims of market dominance, obstructing competition, and careless handling of user data. Despite objections of the firms,...

According to the chief executive officer of Nestle, the world's largest producer of food products, the veggie "meat" will turn from an exotic alternative into a "significant megatrend." In an interview with the MarketWatch, Mark Schneider said that his company is developing a large range of...

Huawei has announced Huawei Developer Conference 2019. During the event, the manufacturer may present its own mobile operating system, which should be a possible replacement for Android. The conference will be divided into three parts: speeches of developers, technical forum and Codelabs. The main...

Last week, a group of British scientists in the field of quantum computing moved to Silicon Valley to establish a startup called PsiQ. The company is invested from Playground venture firm created by Android founder Andy Rubin, who sold the last two projects to Amazon. This is not the first time...

In late 2018, the server of the Russian internet search company Yandex was broken into by hackers employed by Western intelligence agencies with the aim of injecting a rare type of malware that was capable of spying on user accounts, reported news agency Reuters citing information from four sources...