From ComputerWorld: Facebook is expected to announce chatbots, among other things, at its annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco this week, in pursuit of its continuing goal of luring back younger users.
Chatbots are programs that largely use artificial intelligence to simulate...
Whenever I go to university, I park my car at a location about eight minutes' walk away from the engineering building. Now, eight minutes of walking is not too far away, but if you ask me what the best way to get from the engineering building to my car is, I would have to say it is to take the bus. Why? Because if I take the bus, I am statistically going to be faster most of the time, or at least tie the normal walking pace at worst. Although it...
If you ask me which consumer electronics product has one the fastest market growth rate in recent years, my answer would be the drone. According to an article from the website Dronelife, DJI sold 416,000 units in 2014, while in 2015, the number became almost one million. This is an impressive 100% growth! All of a sudden, we see drones all over the place -- big box retail stores, random places in the sky, the news, and for the enthusiast among us...
From PC World: Apple's Mac Pro is aging fast, especially with screaming fast Windows desktops being announced in recent weeks.
Introduced in 2013, the Mac Pro was a top-of-the-line desktop at that time. It looked exquisite in its sleek cylindrical design, and it sported new features like...
From CNET: Uber agreed Thursday to pay as much as $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the county of Los Angeles and the county of San Francisco that accused the ride-hailing company of misleading consumers about safety.
Uber also agreed to a host of changes to its marketing and operations to...
From ComputerWorld: Users of Outlook for iOS and Android now have new ways to get important reminders and events into their calendars, thanks to integrations that Microsoft unveiled Thursday.
The new Calendar Apps feature allows users to add reminders and events from Wunderlist, Evernote and...
From ComputerWorld: Google and Rackspace are designing a server based on IBM's upcoming Power9 processor, a sure sign that Intel is no longer the only game in town for cloud service providers.
The companies announced plans for the system, which they call Zaius, at IBM's OpenPower Summit in Silicon...
From InfoWorld: One of the major announcements from Microsoft's Build developer conference last week was that the company was bringing the popular Bash command line interface to Windows 10 with a new Linux subsystem. Now, developers can give it a shot with a new beta build of the operating system...
From PC World: Samsung Electronics’ flagship Galaxy S7 smartphones and sales of its mid-range devices in emerging markets have likely helped the company boost its operating profit in the first quarter.
The South Korean company forecast Thursday that its operating profit for the quarter was likely...
From CNET: Reddit, the social forum for topics that range from adorable pets to niche hobbies (like collecting cast iron), released official apps for iOS and Android today.
Fans of the service, including myself, have long relied on Alien Blue, a solid Reddit app built by a fan of the site for...
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