A story was told of an engineer, a doctor, and a pastor who went golfing one morning. As they were waiting for a particularly slow group of golfers ahead of them, the engineer began to complain. "What is with these guys?" he began. "We must have been waiting for half an hour!" The doctor, sharing a similar impatience, responded, "I do not know, but I have never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor, being the more patient one of the three, approached...
I recently arrived back in Calgary from a nice long vacation. As usual, after I arrived, I went straight to the baggage carousel. The Calgary airport offers a neat little ETA timer for when your luggage will arrive. Unfortunately, the timer was still a bit high when I reached the carousel. Fortunately, I was not too bothered about it, since I still had to wait for my ride to arrive. After waiting a couple of minutes, I received a phone call from...
In my opinion, reviewers are great at building the connection between the companies that offer the products and the customers who want to buy them. For customers, by reading or watching the reviews, purchasing confidence may be increased or decreased, depending on the outcome of the review. As for manufacturers, they can improve their products according to the feedback from reviewers before the customers start to complain, while getting some...
From PC Mag: Google on Thursday announced that its Web browser will soon block autoplay videos that have sound. The new policy is slated to go into effect this January as part of Chrome 64.
"Starting in Chrome 64, autoplay will be allowed when either the media won't play sound, or the user has...
From CNET: These fake apps were free, but they ended up costing millions of people using Android.
Researchers from Check Point, a security company, said Thursday that they discovered 50 apps hiding malware on the Google Play Store. The malware was downloaded between 1 million and 4.2 million times...
From The Verge: A headphone jack might not have been essential enough to be part of the Essential Phone itself, but the company has confirmed it’s working on a module that includes one. “We are actively developing a high end audio accessory to support a 3.5mm jack,” the Essential team said during a...
From PC Mag: Yesterday, we got to watch the latest Nintendo Direct presentation and no one really knew what to expect. Nintendo's hardware focus right now is on the Switch$299.99 at Amazon and we've already had the 2DS XL launch earlier this year, so surely this Direct would be all about software...
From The Verge: The Essential Phone’s reviews might be turning out more mixed than Andy Rubin and his team would’ve wanted, but now it’s time for consumers around the US to see the Android smartphone up close. Sprint has announced that beginning tomorrow, September 14th, the Essential Phone will be...
From CNET: The season for phone announcements is upon us, and Google is jumping in.
A page from Google teases "Thinking about changing phones?" with a blank space and a date set for October 4. It's exactly one year from when the company announced its first flagship phone, the Pixel and the Pixel XL...
From The Verge: Microsoft has been gradually tweaking its Windows 10 privacy controls this year. The software giant addressed some initial concerns in the Windows 10 Creators Update with simplified data collection levels, and eventually revealed what data Windows 10 really collects in April...
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