From The Verge: We’ve heard rumors about receiving and sending text messages on the Chromebook before, but that function has now been discovered in the developer preview for Android 8.1, as spotted by ArsTechnica and 9to5Google.
Called SMS Connect, the feature allows users to send and receive text...
From CNET: Samsung may make the world's most popular phones but it's losing ground to Xiaomi in India.
The Chinese phone maker just needs another two percent of the market to claim the title of bestselling phone brand in the country, according to a new report published by Counterpoint Research on...
When I was little, my parents told me to take piano lessons. As my mom was more than competent to teach me piano, I did not really have to go far to find someone outside. To be honest, I really struggled with it. I had issues with rhythm, coordinating my two hands, and reading music quickly. At first, my parents told me I would have to go to the sixth grade in piano. Then they reduced it to grade three. By the time I quit, I had yet to take a...
The other day in one of my classes, the professor was telling us some stories. He just finished one of them, which he did not experience firsthand, but heard of it from a friend. The next story was the same. As he started to tell it, the back door of the classroom burst open. "Lies! Lies!" someone yelled as they entered into the classroom dressed quite strangely. The stranger was carrying a book and some rocks, and judging by the shock on my...
From PC Mag: iPhone X availability is constrained but not as bad as it could have been after months of rumors that stock would be severely limited. Apple stores in the US, UK, China, Japan and elsewhere show five to six weeks for delivery, while the Apple Store in Hong Kong simply says “no supply...
From PC Mag: The popularity of the Nintendo Switch is due in no small part to the fact a new Zelda game was offered as a launch title. It also helped that it was a very good Zelda game offering tens of hours of enjoyment while we waited for more games to launch. But there's more to come.
When...
From CNET: If you're thinking of buying Google's new Pixel 2 XL smartphone, the tech giant wants you to know you won't get burned by possible display burn-in issues.
Google, reacting to reports that some Pixel 2 XL phones are suffering from screen burn-in, said Thursday it would double the length...
From The Verge: Over the last year, one of the more interesting stories has been AMD’s resurgence to relevance as a viable alternative to Intel. AMD’s new Ryzen chips have managed to at least offer a credible challenge to Intel’s dominance in almost every facet of the desktop PC world, from high-end...
From PC World: The rumors were true. Nvidia’s announced the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti on Thursday, a new graphics card designed to snuggle into the spot between the $350 GTX 1070 and $500 GTX 1080 in the GeForce lineup—and one likely released just to claim the performance crown back from AMD’s $400 Radeon...
From CNET: This summer, Intel delivered what it says is a "once-in-a-decade" performance upgrade to its line of mobile processors that power Apple's MacBook Air and iMac, Microsoft's Surface Pro, and hundreds of other popular devices. The new chips, the first wave of eighth-gen Core CPUs, and...
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