From PC World: One of the clever features of Google’s Project Fi is the ability of your phone to automatically connect to open Wi-Fi networks. This can help you save some data usage and possibly give you better download speeds if you’re in an area with shaky cellular service. Google maintains a list...
From CNET: YouTube updated its design for TVs, aiming to make it easier to watch when you're sitting back on a couch with a remote in your hand.
The new looks adds carousels based on 12 categories that people like to browse -- news, gaming, sports, beauty, travel, tech and so on. The redesign also...
From PC World: Researchers want to give a 25-core open-source processor called Piton some serious bite.
The developers of the chip at Princeton University have in mind a 200,000-core computer crammed with 8,000 64-bit Piton chips.
It won’t happen anytime soon, but that’s one possible usage...
From CNET: Microsoft Office, OneDrive and Skype are wending their way to Lenovo's Android smartphones.
Microsoft and Lenovo announced on Monday a deal in which Lenovo will preload Microsoft's three productivity applications onto certain Lenovo devices powered by Android. Microsoft Office typically...
From InfoWorld: With the 1.0 release of its gRPC protocol, Google aims to provide a next-generation standard for server-to-server communications in an age of cloud microservices.
Originally unveiled early last year, gRPC was conceived as a transport framework for handling both public- and private...
As you may have read in my FSP Hydro G 850W article, I was in the market for a car. I ended up buying a 2015 Chevrolet Cruze. It was kind of funny since I thought I would never buy a domestic car, and here I was purchasing from the same manufacturer as all the other cars I had driven. After many daily routes with this car, I can honestly say it is not terrible. On paper, it has average numbers across the board, and in practice, it is pretty much...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft yesterday released 64-bit versions of its Office 2016 applications for the Mac, following a series of previews offered testers since April.
The five apps -- Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word -- will be updated to 64-bit for all customers, including those with an...
From CNET: TP-Link, maker of routers and networking equipment, announced a brand redesign today. Why? Because the company wants to be thought of as a home lifestyle brand, according to a conversation CNET had with TP-Link's president and chairman Jeffrey Chao.
TP-Link has been making routers and...
From PC World: Samsung Electronics continues to place its bets on the Tizen operating system for smartphones, with the launch Tuesday in India of a 4G enabled smartphone priced at 4,590 rupees (US$68).
The company’s Tizen phones have not very successful in the country, and the new device is not...
From CNET: Four months after Comcast announced its intention to acquire animation studio DreamWorks Animation, NBCUniversal, a division of cable company Comcast, has announced the closure of the $3.8 billion deal.
DreamWorks Animation, which produced such films as "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda,"...
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