Planit Rejuvenates Dr. Brandt Skincare

Dr. Brandt Skincare is undergoing a makeover for the first time since the brand’s namesake founder committed suicide in 2015. Developed with agency Planit, the relaunch is designed to honor that founder–Frederic Brandt–while establishing a brand that can live beyond him and engage new consumers.

ZCorum Enhances WiFi Management Capabilities in TruVizion

ZCorum, a leading provider of managed broadband services and diagnostics, announced that they have added three additional WiFi management features in their TruVizion diagnostics application. TruVizion is a comprehensive diagnostics tool for broadband providers that helps them troubleshoot issues within their broadband network, including customer premises equipment .

9 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today

As long as the sun keeps rising and setting each day, we’ll keep pointing you to the best paid iPhone and iPad apps that go on sale for free. Today’s list has nine fresh premium apps that are all free downloads right now, but these sales could end anytime so be sure to grab them while you can.

Five Google Lunar XPrize Teams Confirm They’re Set For the Moon

The Google Lunar XPrize teams are still soldiering on and, with the deadline now less than 12 months away, the XPrize Foundation has confirmed that five of those teams have signed launch contracts that that will allow them to launch to the moon by the end of the year. From a report on CNET: The GLXP is a $30 million purse of prizes open to independent teams from around the globe, with the overall goal of fostering the development of commercial space exploration.

REVIEW: PURE’s ‘The (Curious Case of the) Watson…

Feeling blue? Take heart: Artificial intelligence could some day serve to manage our oh-so-human feelings – and wrest that weighty responsibility from our own, frequently fumbling human hands. Thanks to the ever-exacting use of algorithms and vast clouds of data to mine, looking no further than your own laptop or smart phone for a heart-to-heart could be elementary, dear Watson.

French internet censorship rose sharply in 2016

French authorities ordered the blockage or removal of more than 2,700 websites in 2016, Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said Tuesday, a spike in censorship that some critics in the tech industry fear will do little to snuff out extremist content online. Le Roux told a cybersecurity conference in the northern French city of Lille that his government has requested blocks for 834 websites and that 1,929 more be pulled from search engines’ results as part of the fight against “child pornographic and terrorist content.”

Nova LifeStyle Launches Blockchain-Based Site to Enhance E-Commerce Strategy

Nova LifeStyle, Inc. , a U.S. based fast-growing, innovative designer, manufacturer and distributor of modern LifeStyle furniture, today announced the Company has launched an e-commerce market site called “Nova Mart,” www.nova-mart.com , an online transactional platform for merchants from all over the world to display and offer their products and services based on Blockchain technology. As previously announced, Nova is in the process of completing the acquisition of the customer base of an established, highly profitable e-commerce website www.weilai178.com , which currently serves more than 2 million customers in Asia and elsewhere.

Chinese Phonemakers Rout Indian Brands on Their Own Turf

Chinese smartphone brands led by Vivo have muscled out local rivals in India with increasingly stylish yet affordable devices, challenging Chinese labels occupied four of the top five spots in 2016’s final quarter, shoving aside Micromax and Intex, according to a Counterpoint Research report released Tuesday. Samsung held onto top spot but saw its share of nationwide sales slide to 24 percent from 29 percent in the same quarter a year ago.

Alibaba Raises Forecast as Chinese Consumers Continue to Spend

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. raised its full-year sales forecast after quarterly results beat estimates, as Chinese spending stays strong and the company wrings revenue from fledgling areas such as cloud computing, entertainment and search. China’s biggest e-commerce company increased its projection for fiscal 2017 revenue growth to 53 percent, from 48 percent previously. That may help assuage investors concerned that a deceleration in the world’s second-largest economy is curtailing Alibaba’s main online commerce business.

Dixons backs Apple punters to swallow big price hikes

Apple fans are prepared to swallow Brexit-fuelled price hikes of up to 25%, the boss of Dixons Carphone said today, as he celebrated growth in Christmas sales for the fifth year in a row. Apple and rivals Microsoft and Dell said prices for some goods would rise this year due to the pound’s plunge in value following the EU referendum.

6 tips to protect your home network

With the number of internet-enabled devices in the home proliferating, but no IT administrators in sight, you may be at a loss as to how to protect your network and endpoints. The rise of malware targeting unsecured IoT endpoints, like the Mirai strain used as part of October’s DDoS attack on Dyn , mean it’s more important than ever to make security a priority.

Wake Your Echo in True ‘Star Trek’ Style

Echo device owners can now activate the digital assistant by saying “Computer” – a reference to the Starship Enterprise’s voice-activated controls. Add new dimensions to your Captain Picard cosplay by visiting the Alexa app settings and selecting Wake Word ; use the drop-down menu to choose your preference.

Microsoft Asserts Clients’ Rights in Fbi E-Mail Searches Fight

Microsoft Corp.’s effort to halt the FBI’s so-called sneak-and-peek searches of e-mails may ride on whether it’s allowed to defend its customers’ constitutional rights. The judge who will decide whether the case can go ahead told the company’s lawyers to be ready in court Monday to address earlier rulings that undercut their arguments.

Photo Shows $20M That Feds Found Hidden in Mattress

A new image released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Monday shows $20 million in cash that authorities found stashed in a box spring in a Massachusetts apartment. Photo of $20M seized in box spring following arrest of Brazilian national in scheme to launder proceeds of TelexFree https://t.co/ulmFXtI9mr pic.twitter.com/0MTHxjaVZL The money is believed to be linked to a $1 billion pyramid scheme involving TelexFree, a Massachusetts-headquartered company that claimed to provide Internet phone services.

FiFish is an underwater drone

Drones are dime a dozen in the market these days, and there is one common denominator that binds all of them together – all of these drones would take to the skies, regardless of the kind of form factor in which they arrive in. Well, perhaps things in the drone market are going to change in time to come, especially when you take into consideration the effort by Qiyuan Technology’s FiFish.

French Internet Censorship Rose Sharply in 2016

France’s interior minister says authorities have blocked or ordered search engines to de-list hundreds of websites in 2016, a significant increase over 2015. Bruno Le Roux told a cybersecurity conference in the French city of Lille that his government has requested the blockage of 834 websites and de-listing of 1,929 others as part of the fight against “child pornographic and terrorist content.”