Apple Inc. has cut hundreds of positions in its car project and is now only pursuing self-driving technology that can be applied to other cars, according to a new report Monday. Bloomberg quotes sources as saying that hundreds of members of the car team, which originally comprised around 1,000 people, have been reassigned or let go ...

A new variant of the Acecard trojan malware for Android has been discovered that asks gullible Android users to pose for selfies with their ID cards. The trojan itself was first discovered in February and asked answers that can be used to break into bank accounts, such as “mothers maiden name,” along with credit card ...

The world’s first commercial drone delivery service has begun, but it’s probably the last place you’d think it would be: the landlocked African country of Rwanda. In a partnership between San Francisco-based drone startup Zipline Inc. and the Government of Rwanda, with the support of the UPS Foundation and vaccine fund Gavi, drones operating from ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has responded to allegations that it discriminates against Asians in its hiring process by claiming the methodology used by the U.S. Department of Labor is incorrect, among other things. The company was accused in September of systematically rejecting Asian applicants in the resume screening and telephone interview phases ...

Twitter Inc. is expanding its every growing stable of live, primarily sports coverage with two new initiatives, its first foray outside of the United States and a livestream of the forthcoming U.S. Presidential election-night coverage. On the sports side, Twitter has signed a deal with the Victoria Racing Club to live stream the Melbourne Cup, ...

Online game company Evony LLC has been hacked as the records of over 33 million customers were exposed online. Hacking source site LeakedSource made the discovery, finding account records for 33,407,472 users of Evony’s main game. They are believed to have been obtained in June, along with the records for an additional 938,000 members of ...

Verizon Communications Inc.’s takeover of Yahoo Inc. may be in jeopardy, with a lawyer for the company confirming Thursday that the Yahoo hack may have put the $4.83 billion deal at risk. Verizon’s General Counsel Craig Silliman is said to have told reporters at a Verizon event in Washington, DC on Thursday that the data breach ...

Transparency is important in the event of being hacked, and although some companies (like Yahoo) fail miserably when the worst occurs, others now understand how important it is to communicate with their customers in a time of crisis. Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain.info is one such company, with the firm having its domain name server hijacked earlier ...

Software as a service optimization platform provider Zylo Inc. has raised $3.3 million in seed funding from investors including High Alpha Capital, GGV Capital, SV Angel Don Brown, Peter McCormick and Mark Hill. Founded in 2015, Zylo offers a SaaS optimization platform that promises to transform how companies manage and optimize the vast and accelerating ...

No longer interested in sitting in the background in the drone business, Intel Corp. has revealed its first company-branded drone. Called the Falcon 8+, the commercial drone weighs only six pounds and, according to Recode, it flies faster than most hobby drones on the market with a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour. The drone incorporates ...