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Learning a new language isn’t easy, but what if you could do it while watching your favorite Korean drama? Viki thinks it’s a winning combination. The video streaming service released this week a new Learn Mode designed to help viewers build language skills by enabling them to interact with subtitles of videos in foreign languages. …

Apple is reportedly working on an initiative that may one day make diabetics’ frequent and painful finger pricking a thing of the past. The tech giant has a team of biomedical engineers working on sensors that will allow diabetics to monitor their blood sugar levels noninvasively, CNBC reported Wednesday. Diabetes is said to be one of the fastest growing diseases …

Now playing: Watch this: Belated Bixby: Virtual assistant not ready for Galaxy… 1:40 Don’t expect to start talking to Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant when you boot up your new Galaxy S8 later this month. The key feature was expected to debut on the new flagship handset, but the electronics giant is now saying Bixby won’t be operational on the US …

Huawei has scored a victory over rival Samsung in its home market of China. A Chinese court has ordered the South Korean giant to pay Huawei 80 million yuan (around $11.6 million) for patent violations, reports ZDNet. Both companies have been notified of the court’s decision. In a string of claims filed in California and Shenzhen, China, Huawei alleged that …

Samsung’s ready to claw its way back from the Galaxy Note 7 disaster. The company on Thursday estimated its operating profit for the first quarter should jump nearly 50 percent from the same period a year ago, while its revenue should be about flat but better than analysts expected. See also Samsung’s chips make up for Galaxy Note 7 financial …

Sprint is getting more aggressive in its pricing on unlimited data as it feels the heat from traditional competitors as well as new ones, like Comcast. Sprint, nation’s fourth largest wireless carrier, launched on Thursday new pricing for its Unlimited Freedom plan. It basically extends the savings it was offering as a promotion to new customers until at least June …

If you have a Pebble smartwatch, you’ve probably been worrying about how long your timepiece will keep working after Fitbit‘s acquisition. To address those concerns, Pebble has issued an update for the iOS and Android versions of the app that ends smartwatches’ dependency on Pebble’s cloud services. That means when Fitbit eventually shuts down Pebble’s servers, the devices will continue …

It’s game on for Amazon. The internet retail giant has reached a deal with the National Football League to stream 10 “Thursday Night Football” games during the coming season, an Amazon representative said Tuesday. The one-year pact is reported at about $50 million. Amazon was in a bidding war for the NFL streaming rights with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — …

The babysitter of six-month-old Brandon Alex was frantically trying to reach 911. But that night in March, more than 400 calls flooded the 911 center in Dallas. Two attempts went by without connecting with an operator. Once the babysitter got through to an operator, she was on hold for 31 minutes, Brandon’s mother, Bridget, told a local CBS station in …

Qualcomm has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission that accuses the wireless chip maker of maintaining its market dominance through anticompetitive behavior. The company’s motion, filed Monday in the US District Court in San Jose, California, contends that the FTC’s complaint fails to support claims of antitrust violations or competitive harm. “The …