"Meet us in the hotel lobby, and make sure you have a valid driver's license and closed toe shoes on." As I read the email during CES earlier this year, a wave of thoughts rushed into my head. "What requires closed toe shoes and a driver's license? A bar? Go-karting?" The morning of the press meet, I rode the public bus to the hotel lobby in anticipation. It took me a while to find where everyone else was, but once I recognized a few faces, I...
"I am an expert in Korean culture," I explained to my friend. "I watched one Korean drama, I eat at the Korean BBQ House at the university food court, I own a Samsung TV, and I even have some Korean friends!" My friend looked at me, laughed, and said, "Jonathan, that is not how it works." Now, obviously I was joking, and other than the fact I just admitted I watched a Korean drama (Descendants of the Sun is really good, by the way) -- albeit with...
I have always been fascinated by the history of something, or the lore in a fantasy story. I thought a bit about the history of the keyboard, and how they became popularized to be used as much as they are today. Typing instruments have been around since the early 19th century, which were known as the early typewriters. However, they were not used by many people, and instead only used to produce legible and uniform business documents. At this time...
From CNET: Apple's services are functioning as normal, after an outage that saw the App Store, Game Centre and plenty of iCloud features knocked for six.
Apple's status page says that all its services are running as normal after the glitches that appear to have taken hold across the globe...
From CNET: Billionaire Warren Buffett, UK outlet The Daily Mail and US telco AT&T have all been said to have expressed interest in buying Yahoo, or at least parts of it, which for months has been looking for a new suitor.
Now, we can add Twitter to that list, according to the New York Post...
From PC World: Considering how many wearables Samsung has unleashed in the last two years, you almost have to applaud the company’s patience in releasing a follow-up to its original Gear Fit activity tracker, a somewhat flawed device that received middling reviews. But here we are. On the surface...
From InfoWorld: Oracle plans to sue whistleblower Svetlana Blackburn for malicious prosecution, the company said Thursday.
On Wednesday, Blackburn -- a senior finance manager in Oracle's cloud business -- said in a lawsuit she was terminated from her job for refusing to go along with cloud...
From InfoWorld: The upgrade cycle for PCs has slowed down drastically, now extending to nearly six years, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said on Wednesday.
"[The] replacement cycle for the PC has extended," Krzanich said. "Four years was the average, now it has moved to about five to six years."
Intel...
From PC World: Say what you will about Microsoft’s Windows 10 forced-upgrade scheme. As far as gamers on Valve’s Steam service are concerned, Windows 10 is the most popular OS.
On Wednesday afternoon, Steam released its Hardware and Software Survey for May. According to the survey, 41.48 percent of...
From CNET: During its keynote at Computex 2016, Microsoft went over many of the new features coming in the Windows Anniversary Update, as well as announcing the Windows Holographic shared platform for AR and VR and the company's strategy for what it's calling "mixed reality".
But before the focus...
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