Bluetooth technology is going to get a major upgrade in 2016

One of the most widely used technologies on the planet is getting a major upgrade in the coming year. On Wednesday, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced several enhancements to the technology that would increase its functionality with the Internet of Things (IoT) in 2016.

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French police report shootout and explosion in Paris

Police officials in France say there has been an explosion in a bar near a Paris stadium and a shootout in a Paris restaurant.

BFM television says there were several dead in the restaurant shooting in the 10th arrondissement of the capital. Two police officials confirmed the shooting but had no information about casualties.

Financial crisis best-seller 'The Big Short' gets Hollywood makeover

Michael Lewis' "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" comes to cinema screens next month in a Hollywood adaptation of the best-selling book about the 2007 financial crisis.


"The Big Short" film, which stars Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Brad Pitt, is based on the true story of four people who foresaw the credit and housing crisis.