Apple is planning to launch its first original TV show that will be an unscripted series about mobile apps and app developers. A member of the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas and TV executives with past ties to NBC, Netflix, and National Geographic will be involved in the project.
Amazon Echo could have a rival smart speaker in the future developed by Alphabet's Nest that has reportedly been experiencing some tough times. A report has surfaced that includes a list of future Google and Nest products that would include a voice-recognition Wi-Fi speaker that competes with Echo. This Internet of Things (IoT) device is described as Apple's digital assistant Siri in a box.
Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) has announced it is forming a new company named ForwardWorks that will develop smartphone games for iOS and Android platforms. The mobile games will feature PlayStation characters and intellectual property (IP). These new video games add to the Japanese conglomerate's gaming product line that includes the PS4 console and PlayStation VR headset whose Launch Bundle is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy.
Apple might not have to face the FBI in federal court over a locked iPhone 5c owned by California shooter Syed Farook involved in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, if an Israeli company's hacking method can break the device's encryption. Cellebrite is a private security company in Israel that specializes in collecting and transferring data from mobile phones and is reportedly helping the federal bureau unlock the encrypted handset.
The slowdown in IT service market doesn't seem to have hit major public Cloud providers' plans on capital investments. Since a good presence in the cloud arena requires more data-centres around the world, with significant importance to geographical locations, public cloud servers need a strong and consistent investment over a good period of time.
Apple has just unveiled its app development platform named CareKit that will be available in April. This open-source toolkit helps developers create mobile apps for health treatment tracking and remotely sharing medical data with physicians. The tech giant's first CareKit app tracks health changes of Parkinson's disease patients and allows them to communicate with their medical doctors.
Facebook is developing a new tool that will help to detect fake profiles on social media. The goal is to fight online harassment on the world's largest social network by sending an alert if someone is impersonating the real Facebook account holder. Impersonation Checkpoint will search for fake profiles with someone's name and photo by asking them to identify if it is a fake account or someone with the same name.
Google Cardboard headsets are being offered by Pornhub to promote its new virtual reality (VR) channel. The adult entertainment site is offering 10,000 free VR devices to enjoy skin flicks in the site's new section. Pornhub is teaming up with adult movie-maker BaDoinkVR and claims it is the first website to offer 360-degree XXX films.
Nintendo is allegedly ending production of the Wii U gaming console by the end of 2016. A Twitter post that translated a Nikkei report from Japanese into English shared the company has also stopped making certain Wii U accessories.
Federal prosecutors filed court documents on March 21, Monday claiming that the FBI has discovered a method to unlock the iPhone 5c of a shooter involved in the San Bernardino terrorist attack last December. This new development happened less than 24 hours before the federal bureau and tech giant were to face each other in a federal court. The feds requested that the judge drop the hearing's date and delay the court order for Apple to hack its own smartphone after the FBI changed the mobile device's Apple ID password.
