From CNET: Sick of having to sit through 30 seconds of boring ads before your YouTube video plays? We have good news for you.
Google will scrap the unskippable 30-second advertisements that sometimes play before YouTube videos, BBC reports. The bad news? It'll only happen next year.
Shorter ad...
As time progresses, sometimes I wonder how far we have come. For me personally, I still remember when I was still in high school, wondering what I should study in university just like it was yesterday. As I entered university for my degree in Electrical Engineering, I remember joking with my former colleague Devin Chollak on going into graduate studies after -- knowing full well the impossibility of that idea. Now that I am sitting in my office...
From PC World: PC prices are going up due to a shortage of a number of components, and the situation isn’t expected to change in the coming quarters.
A shortage of DRAM, SSDs, batteries, and LCDs have conspired to drive up PC prices, Gianfranco Lanci, corporate president and chief operating officer...
From PC World: Intel has made a name for itself in PCs and servers but is now dabbling in a new product category with its first-ever quadcopter now on sale.
The chipmaker's US$1,099 Aero Ready to Fly Drone comes fully assembled, with an integrated flight controller. It also comes with a remote...
From CNET : Samsung had a lifetime's worth of battery woes in 2016. Seeking to ensure it doesn't endure a repeat crisis in 2017 the company is looking to a variety of battery manufacturers to provide parts for the much-anticipated Galaxy S8.
The company is adding a familiar name to the current...
From PC World: AT&T capped off this week’s carrier showdown by releasing its own unlimited data plan following announcements from Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint.
Prior to this announcement AT&T, only offered unlimited data plans to its DirecTV and U-verse subscribers. Before you get too excited...
From CNET: India is currently the world's fastest growing mobile market, and Apple wants in.
The company is set to start manufacturing its lower-cost iPhone SE in the country in the coming months, said Reuters on Friday.
Apple will use a contract manufacturer in the city of Bengaluru, which is...
From CNET: Twitter recently introduced a new weapon to combat trolls on its network: the timeout.
Last week, the social network rolled out a new feature that tries to detect abusive behavior from user accounts, as first reported by BuzzFeed. When abuse is suspected, Twitter reduces the number of...
From CNET: After showing signs of emerging from last year's funk with Fiber 2.0, Google announced a new CEO to lead the Fiber unit, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Google's parent company Alphabet tapped broadband veteran Gregory McCray to take over the Access unit -- Alphabet's team...
From The Verge: Google’s Home digital assistant has been compared to Amazon’s Alexa a lot over the last few months, and now it’s getting the ability to order things through voice commands, just like Alexa can.
Of course, Home is still a Google product, so instead of buying things through Amazon...
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