Volkswagen has reportedly been asked by the United States' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to manufacture electric cars in the U.S. after using onboard software to cheat on emissions tests. Last September the German automaker admitted that it had used rigged onboard software to make diesel engines run cleaner during lab tests.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke at Samsung's Galaxy S7 keynote at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) on February 21, Sunday to discuss how wearing a VR headset can be a social experience. Zuckerberg explained how devices including the newly-announced Samsung Gear 360 can be used to share VR videos of his daughter's first life experiences, with his parents.
Google limits right-side ads of desktop search results to product listing ads
Nintendo World was the company's flagship store in New York City that was closed last month, redesigned, and reopened as Nintendo NY. The new store is not only a place to buy Nintendo gear and other official products but is intended to represent the world's largest video game company.
Facebook will launch ads in Messenger during the second quarter of 2016 based on a leaked document. The document was sent to some of the social network's biggest advertisers. Online businesses will have the ability to send ad messages to people who had started a chat thread with the company via the instant messaging service.
Smartwatch sales were higher than luxury Swiss watches for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2015, with Apple and Samsung selling 80 percent of smartwatches during the holiday season. Smart watch sales were about 200,000 units higher than the luxury timepieces produced and shipped from Switzerland.
Apple Inc. is now offering a new program called Trade Up With Installments, allowing customers to stop using old iPhone and upgrade to a new one.
Apple has released an iOS update to fix iPhones disabled by Error 53 that resulted from a damaged or replaced Touch ID sensor in the smartphones' home button. It usually resulted from unauthorized third-party repairs. The tech giant's updated iOS version is now available on the iTunes store and will restore bricked handsets shut down by error code 53.
Cybersecurity expert and United States presidential candidate John McAfee has offered to decrypt a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for free. The developer of the world's first commercial anti-virus software would hack the mobile device gratis to avoid the need for Apple to place a back door on its smartphone.
Aston Martin is teaming up with the consumer electronics company LeEco to develop the luxury car brand's first electric vehicle (EV). The RapidE electric car (e-car) will be modeled after the British automaker's Rapide S model and will be followed by other e-cars. Aston Martin is most famous for producing James Bond's cars in Agent 007 movies, while LeEco financially backs the California startup Faraday Future that is developing EVs and self-driving cars.
