Withings has had a tumultuous couple of years. The company was bought by Nokia only to be re-acquired by its original owner Éric Carreel last May. While it sells smart scales, thermometers, and other health electronics, the French company has an uphill battle ahead of it in the wearable space thanks to an oversaturated market. But…
(Reuters) - Australian insurer Suncorp Group Ltd (SUN.AX) on Thursday said it has received more than 2,600 bushfire-related claims since September with a total estimated cost of between A$315 million to A$345 million ($216.37 million to $236.98 million). Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian SchmollingerOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption President Trump is facing two counts of impeachment President Donald Trump's legal team, representing him at his impeachment trial, has demanded that he is immediately acquitted by the Senate. In a brief submitted on Monday, they called the impeachment "a dangerous perversion" of the constitution.Meanwhile House impeachment managers submitted their…
WATCHING YOU — Passwords, bitcoin addresses and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. Dan Goodin - Jun 27, 2020 4:52 pm UTC In March, researchers uncovered a troubling privacy grab by more than four dozen iOS apps including TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media and video-sharing phenomenon that has taken the Internet by…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJoe Biden: Will it be third time lucky in 2020? Former US Vice-President Joe Biden has declared a presidential bid, putting an end to months of speculation. In a video announcement, Mr Biden argued that the "core values of the nation... our very democracy, everything that has…
Snot bubble — A spoiler-free ode to the surprise comic-film romp of the year. Sam Machkovech - Feb 7, 2020 1:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Margot Robbie, seen here sporting a shirt that will help you remember her character's name through the course of the film. Oh, and she's also smiling while explaining how she…
Over the past three weeks, a trio of critical zeroday vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins has exposed 160,000 websites to attacks that allow criminal hackers to redirect unwitting visitors to malicious destinations. A self-proclaimed security provider who publicly disclosed the flaws before patches were available played a key role in the debacle, although delays by plugin…
Enlarge / Headquarters of ride-sharing technology company Uber in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco on October 13, 2017. Lyft and Uber drivers around the world are striking on Wednesday to protest low pay, arbitrary terminations, and other concerns. The protest comes just before Uber's debut as a publicly traded stock on…
Enlarge / A Verizon logo at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 on February 26, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Verizon has avoided paying local taxes on telecom equipment in many New Jersey municipalities over the past decade, but a proposed state law would force the company to pay back taxes for all the payments it didn't…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump’s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico. After failing to strike a budget deal on Friday, congressional leaders and the White House pledged to keep talking through…
