From PC World: Facing fierce competition from Amazon.com, eBay has sold its Indian operation to local retailer Flipkart, while joining Tencent and Microsoft in investing US$1.4 billion in the Indian company.
In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay will make a $500 million cash investment...
From InfoWorld: Google has begun using a machine learning approach to learn from user interactions with mobile devices.
Currently under testing in the Gboard on Android keyboard, Federated Learning lets smartphones collaboratively pick up a shared prediction model while keeping training data on the...
From PC World: The U.S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that's even worse than the tech industry as a whole.
The department has found "systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce," Labor Department...
I was recently watching a Netflix documentary called 'A Faster Horse', which gave an insider's look at one of America's most well-known cars, the Ford Mustang. The documentary follows the chief engineer of the 2015 Ford Mustang as him and his team talk about the challenges and successes of redesigning the Mustang. As you may or may not know, before the first Mustang was released, there was an automobile marque launched by Ford in hopes to compete...
As you may have known, my colleague Jonathan Kwan recently got a new cellphone plan, which launched him into the 2017 era of having an adequate amount of data. Moving from his paltry 200MB to a reasonable amount of 2GB has allowed him to do a few things. For one, he no longer freaks out about running out of data or asks others to search up things for him on the go. Secondly, as of April 3rd, he has Snapchat. I have had this application for quite...
From PC World: It looks like we can’t jokingly call the Pascal GPU-based Titan X the “Titan XP” anymore, because Nvidia just rolled out a new version of its flagship graphics card that’s officially dubbed “Titan Xp.” And this thing is a monster.
The original $1,200 Pascal-based Titan X shattered...
From CNET: Huawei has scored a victory over rival Samsung in its home market of China.
A Chinese court has ordered the South Korean giant to pay Huawei 80 million yuan (around $11.6 million) for patent violations, reports ZDNet. Both companies have been notified of the court's decision.
In a...
From PC World: AMD's new Ryzen Balanced power plan is offering an answer for early performance woes with its new CPU. The power profile tweaks how Windows 10 handles power states of the individual CPU cores and can bump performance from 3 percent all the way to 21 percent in many popular games, AMD...
From CNET: Samsung's ready to claw its way back from the Galaxy Note 7 disaster.
The company on Thursday estimated its operating profit for the first quarter should jump nearly 50 percent from the same period a year ago, while its revenue should be about flat but better than analysts expected...
From CNET: Last year Sony gave us the PlayStation 4 Pro, a more powerful version of the PS4 that allows you to play certain games at higher resolutions. Microsoft has the Xbox One S, its souped up Xbox One. But Project Scorpio -- coming in the fourth quarter of 2017 -- is supposed to take things to...
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