From CNET: Even as big retail chains like Target reported weak second-quarter earnings, Best Buy swooped in Tuesday with surprisingly strong numbers.
Its 0.8 percent growth for comparable sales, while modest, exceeded expectations, and online sales growth reached 23.7 percent compared to 17 percent...
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...
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