Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 is now available to pre-order in both the 13.5-inch and 15-inch sizes. The laptop with a detachable screen was something of a surprise when it was announced last month, complete with gaming-grade graphics and – finally – a USB-C port. Both feature Intel … | Continue reading
China this week announced an AI-powered unmanned police station will open in one of its capitol cities, proving once again that no other country quite embraces artificial intelligence like it does. The station appears to be designed with driver and vehicle related matters in mind … | Continue reading
The Intel Management Engine (IME) is a component of virtually every Intel CPU released after 2008. Think of it as a CPU on top of a CPU; it does tasks separate from the main operating system while the computer is in use. Intel argues that it can be used to do remote administratio … | Continue reading
Voice client Discord today launched a new feature which will allow users to jump into their friends games with one button. The new feature, called “Rich Presence,” is a developer kit that allows game developers to integrate more closely with Discord. Players can now participate i … | Continue reading
For those who can admit to murdering at least one plant in their lifetime, things might finally become a whole lot easier than that excruciating once-a-week watering duty you once had… Scientists have now invented small sensors that can alert us when our houseplants plants are th … | Continue reading
Google quietly released a beta of Files Go, a file management app, to the Play Store a couple of days ago. Then it almost immediately removed it from the store, meaning interested users would have to find the APK from a mirror site. Well, now it’s back again, and this time it app … | Continue reading
The appeal of financial trading Those who have a particularly good financial compass, a memory for business trends, or a knack for putting together cause-and-effect relationships can build wealth by exchanging value on the financial markets. In fact, a person could have numerous … | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch always seemed like the perfect console to pull double duty as a portable video player, but so far there’s been a conspicuous lack of any streaming service. That’s finally starting to change: Hulu today announced it’ll be the first streaming app for the Switch … | Continue reading
Truecaller, the caller ID and call-blocking app, has gained popularity worldwide since its initial release during 2009. The Swedish owned company behind the service, True Software Scandinavia AB, reports that it now has over three billion telephone numbers in its database and ove … | Continue reading
Crypto-funds are opening investment possibilities in the cryptocurrency landscape for a wider audience. Will they bring on the risks as well? | Continue reading
Do you have a great idea for a business? Are you thinking long and hard about taking action, but unsure of what to do next? Are you concerned that you will never turn your idea into a full-blown business? Anyone can come up with an idea for a business, but it takes a lot of work … | Continue reading
More and more companies are investing in self-driving technology and for a lot of people, this can be a great piece of news. The focus here is rather simple: people want to have fast and reliable driverless cars that will help them stay away from accidents. But as you know, right … | Continue reading
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In 1993 PC maker IBM posted the then-biggest loss in America’s history, $8 billion. By 2013 they became the no. 1 seller of enterprise server solutions in the world. Nintendo Koppai was founded in 1889 as a playing card company, in 1985, when NES console was released, it launched … | Continue reading
Consulting heavyweight Deloitte claims that over 26,000 new blockchain-based projects were launched on GitHub in 2016. GitHub is a development platform that houses codes for more than 86,000 blockchain programs, including large projects such as Bitcoin. In its report, titled Evol … | Continue reading
It’s been a mixed week for self-driving vehicles, after an autonomous bus in Los Vegas collided with a truck just two hours after it hit the streets. The vehicle didn’t crash due to a software error. Rather, it was rear-ended by a human-driven truck. Fortunately the damage wasn’t … | Continue reading
Of the many tasks required to keep a business running smoothly, few can be more time-consuming — and potentially problematic — than filling out, filing and auditing expense reports. These and other auditing tasks are essential for keeping your finances in the black, but tracking … | Continue reading
Xiaomi made a huge splash in the smartphone market last year when it launched the bezel-less Mi Mix, way ahead of rivals like Samsung and Apple. Sadly, it wasn’t as widely distributed as competing flagships and didn’t even make it to India, arguably the second largest market for … | Continue reading
In a fortuitous turn of events, leading Bitcoin entrepreneurs and influencers have reached an agreement to hold off the highly controversial Segwit2X hard fork software update due to lack of consensus within the cryptocurrency community. The suspension was announced yesterday in … | Continue reading
“If you’ve ever heard of ‘hello world’ as the simplest program you can possibly write in any language, I like to write the ‘hello world’ but with farts for any new technology.” And thus, iOS developer Hung Truong created the first Face ID-powered fart app for Apple’s flagship ann … | Continue reading
Tired of that odd notch on your new iPhone X already? Apple couldn’t seem to find a way around it, as it had to fit multiple hardware components to enable its Face ID security system. Thankfully, there’s a fix – for the home and lock screens, at least. A free iOS app called Notch … | Continue reading
There’s plenty of debate going on about whether Twitter’s decision to double its character limit from 140 to 280 is a good thing. Until we come to a consensus, you can clear your feed of those rambling tweets with a handy little browser extension. It’s called 140, and it’s made b … | Continue reading
It’s been a year since we first heard murmurs about Apple working on a Google Glass-like AR wearable; Bloomberg now reports that the company might be ready to show off the tech by 2019, and ship its own AR glasses by 2020. Apple is believed to have been working on AR projects for … | Continue reading
While much of the discussion around blockchain has surrounded bitcoin and its ups and downs, corporations and businesses are quickly waking up to the possibility of using blockchain to secure and improve large volumes of transactions as well. By removing the need for trusted thir … | Continue reading
I’ve tried plenty of portable projectors over the years, and while they’re fun to mess with occasionally, few have captured the a balance of portability, features and quality to make me want to use them frequently. Anker’s Nebula Mars, a $600 projector about the the size of a lun … | Continue reading
There’s a chance Samsung users won’t be getting a fingerprint reader on the next Galaxy device, though you may get one sometime in the next few years. As S8 users know, the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone can be a source of irritation. It was one of the cons in my col … | Continue reading
These days, simply publishing an advertisement or blog post is not enough to get you any sort of valuable exposure. The internet’s deluge of promotional material has created an ocean vast enough that what you post can get swept away before anybody ever notices it existed. Fortuna … | Continue reading
Google is rolling out new security features for Chrome which will make it harder for third-party ads to subvert pop-up blockers or disguise links within a site. On its Chromium blog, Google admits to getting lots of user feedback saying that sites will randomly redirect to other … | Continue reading
Instagram now lets users post Stories that are older than 24-hours. Now we’ll all be able to bring up old memories straight to our Stories. The magic of Instagram Stories has always been that you can post portions of your day — as long they were captured in the last 24-hours. Now … | Continue reading
Sonos recently made its first real foray into the world of voice assistants with its new Sonos One, powered initially by Amazon’s Alexa. I’ve been testing one in my home for several weeks, and while it’s clear this is the best-sounding speaker with Alexa built-in right now, it’s … | Continue reading
As a parent with children decades apart in age, it’s become obvious the very nature of raising children has fundamentally changed in the last 10 years thanks to technology. Instead of two parents, my youngest child has four: mom, dad, Alexa, and Google Assistant. The first of my … | Continue reading
Over the past few months, Twitter has been quietly experimenting with a service that lets users promote itself for a flat fee of $99 per month, called Twitter Promote Mode. If you’re a brand new to Twitter, or an aspiring influencer (gag), this will let help you build an audience … | Continue reading
Niantic, the makers of the unbelievably popular Pokémon GO, is working on its next game: “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.” That sound you hear is a million childhood memories firing in minds across the globe. TechCrunch reports that the game is being made in partnership with Warner … | Continue reading
Each year, greenhouses use a monstrous 18,000,000 kWh of electricity just to grow our food. To put that in perspective, that’s equivalent to the amount of carbon emitted from driving around the world 391 times. Thankfully, researchers have developed new electricity-generating gre … | Continue reading
The upcoming Segwit2X hard fork has certainly become a hot topic in the Bitcoin and larger cryptocurrency community over the last few weeks, splitting hardcore crypto-enthusiasts in two opposing camps – those in favor of 2X and those against it. But despite numerous heated debate … | Continue reading
In many ways the wave of ICOs (Initial Currency Offerings) looks a lot like the heady days of stock IPOs in the late ‘90s. The potential return was so enticing that euphoria overtook common sense in many ways. Pets.com was a perfect example of an IPO that was highly hyped—and ult … | Continue reading
Verizon, at some point, quietly removed the option for Samsung Galaxy Note 8 users to find the perfect wine pairings using a Bixby image recognition and search feature. Apparently destroying the internet isn’t good enough for Verizon, now it seems to be removing cool features fro … | Continue reading
With a big enough database, it’s possible to determine highly specific actionable and profitable patterns in people’s shopping habits. a store recognizing that some women frequently purchase cotton swabs alongside their nail polish, for instance, might place these items closer to … | Continue reading
There’s no guarantee your fact or idea will get that kind of traction online, but the training from packages like the Silicon Valley Social Media Marketing Course & Certification ($29, an over 90 percent saving from TNW Deals) will help you position your message to reach its best … | Continue reading
Since the dawn of the internet, cyber con artists have been on the constant lookout for the next hapless victim group. For a time, the taxpayer community fell prey to phone scammers pretending to be the IRS and demanding payments of back taxes that are not really owed. Scammers t … | Continue reading
One the biggest security news stories of 2017 was of a ransomware variant targeting improperly secured MongoDB instances. Here it is in a nutshell: some users of MongoDB accidentally left their databases exposed to the internet without any authentication. Predictably, some online … | Continue reading
When you’re looking for inspiration on how to grow your startup into a company that could change the world, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and Executive Chairman of Alphabet, seems like a pretty good person to ask. In early October, Schmidt visited TQ, a tech hub in Amsterdam … | Continue reading
Amazon is today releasing its much anticipated indoor security camera. The company’s Cloud Cam is a fancy little Alexa-connected gadget that does so much more than just watch for prowlers. I tried it out for a week and the biggest problem I had was realizing I needed one in almos … | Continue reading
While Bitcoin peaks, gold is looking decidedly peaky as crypto Google search trends outnumber the precious metal for the first time. As Bloomberg reports, the search term “buy Bitcoin” is now more frequent than “buy gold,” adding insult to injury for gold after an ounce began to … | Continue reading
In an absolutely horrendous technical blunder, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were frozen yesterday after an ordinary user accidentally exploited a vulnerability in popular Ether wallet, Parity. The glitch has left thousands of users using multisignature wallet … | Continue reading
Have you ever searched online for how to remove the built-in Stock market app from a new phone? Although, this is a perfect example of how the old way of doing things is no longer relevant in a digital world, what does the future of financial and business news look like? With man … | Continue reading
A great web design is so much more than just delivering content and making it look good. When visitors come to your site, they produce a set of feelings about your website and your organization. The type of feelings they produce – positive or negative – are entirely in your hands … | Continue reading
Logitech informed owners of its Harmony Link – a hub to connect your home entertainment devices and control them from your phone or tablet – that it’s shutting off the gadget’s cloud service, so you’ll no longer be able to play movies, music or TV shows with a connected Android o … | Continue reading