Alphabet plans analytics platform to help cities solve traffic problems
Sidewalks Labs, a unit of Google parent-company Alphabet, is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation to build a…
Windows 10's pushy upgrade tactics pay off with share growth
Microsoft’s recent campaign to force-feed the Windows 10 upgrade to older PCs appears to have been successful, generating a short…
Safari, Chrome and Flash Player hacked at Pwn2Own, some of them twice
Security researchers exploited previously unknown vulnerabilities in Apple Safari, Google Chrome and Flash Player to compromise the latest versions of…
All cars will have automatic braking in six years
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced…
IDG Contributor Network: Peeple is a terrible app, but not for the reason you think
There used to be an app that showed creepy dolls staring at you. Another one had something to do with…
10 hard-core coding tips for faster Python
By and large, people use Python because it’s convenient and programmer-friendly, not because it’s fast. The plethora of third-party libraries…
Sales of wearables to jump, as Android starts to catch up to Apple
Makers of wearable computing devices will ship 110 million products in 2016, a big increase from 2015, with Android Wear…
How I use Android: Google Keep product manager Mario Anima
Google Keep is a great tool for managing all sorts of notes and lists — especially if simplicity, universal access,…
Keylogger hijacks key business email accounts
A new email-based attack campaign is targeting key employees from companies in the U.S., Middle East and Asia with the…
For Slack users, the Lookerbot tool brings data to your conversation
In much of the enterprise-software world today, data is data and chat is chat, and rarely the twain shall meet.…