June 16, 2014 A Smartphone Keyboard App That Anticipates What You Want to Type by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT SwiftKey’s app for Android, which the London start-up made available free last week, is used on almost 250 million handsets. Now…
June 16, 2014 Looking at Link Between Violent Video Games and Lack of Empathy by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON As video games become more realistic, new studies have found a connection between extensive exposure and muted responses to actual suffering….
June 15, 2014 The Future of E3 as Video Games Go Digital by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD It’s unclear what the role of events like E3 will be as more and more of the games business shifts to…
June 15, 2014 Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own by MATT RICHTEL and BRIAN X. CHEN By MATT RICHTEL and BRIAN X. CHEN While the company’s enthusiasts impatiently await new wizardry, the new chief executive is trying to make the…
June 14, 2014 PF Chang’s Swipes Cards Manually in U.S. After Breach by REUTERS By REUTERS P.F. Chang’s China Bistro said it has begun manually swiping payment cards at all U.S. restaurants in the wake of a data…
June 14, 2014 Why That Phone Charger Took Two Years to Arrive by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM What can go wrong in turning a bold idea into a business? A start-up company’s creative team counts the speed bumps….
June 14, 2014 At E3, Virtual Reality Goggles Don’t Fit Into Reality by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Virtual reality headsets were the hot topic at the 2014 E3 gaming conference. But seeing groups of people wearing black goggles…
June 14, 2014 World Cup Is Huge on Twitter … in Japan by HIROKO TABUCHI and VINDU GOEL By HIROKO TABUCHI and VINDU GOEL The Japanese are among the world’s most active social media users. They are also posting more on Twitter…
June 13, 2014 Tableau Software Helping Data Become More Visual by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY When data stops being slowly written into rows and columns and starts moving quickly online from sensors, Internet browsers and smartphones,…
June 13, 2014 The Privacy Paradox, a Challenge for Business by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR A new global survey of consumers found that businesses — more than hackers or government — are seen as a threat…