I do not know about you, but I consider eyeglasses a fashion accessory. As such, I have four pairs with an identical prescription; not just because I wear different glasses in different occasions, but also because if I do not claim it on my insurance, I do not get the money anyway. In no particular order, my first pair are black, rectangular with strong curves, thick-rimmed acetate frames made by Ray-Ban. My second are gunmetal, rectangular with...
The other night, I was playing a board game called Flux with my girlfriend and some church friends. The board game is quite interesting, as it is actually has no set rules. Each game is different, as the cards you play change the rules of the game. This means even the goal of the game can change throughout. To start the game off, there is a basic rule card. As the game continues, you draw cards and play them. There are goals, new rules, keepers...
From CNET: Hold back the Horde, because Bungie's PC version of its upcoming massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Destiny 2 will exclusively run on Blizzard's Battle.net gaming service.
Alongside Blizzard's own World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Starcraft II, Diablo III, Overwatch and Heroes of the...
From InfoWorld: Google’s Java-centric Android mobile development platform is adding the Kotlin language as an officially supported development language, and will include it in the Android Studio 3.0 IDE. Its developers had previously promoted Kotlin for Android development.
The revelation was made...
From PC World: Just days ago, AMD promised that Ryzen-powered laptops will hit the streets in the third quarter—sometime in July through September. But it looks like we won’t need to wait quite that long to get our first glimpse of a Ryzen notebook, going by an intriguing new teaser video on Asus’s...
From CNET: The battle between the Google Home and the Amazon Echo keeps getting better and better. Yesterday, a year after Google first announced the Home and the Google Assistant, the search giant might have just shown the road map to put the Home ahead for good.
To this point, the Google Home...
From PC World: Facebook must pay a €110 million (US$123 million) for misleading the European Commission during an investigation of its takeover of WhatsApp.
The fine is for telling the Commission it would not be possible to reliably match Facebook and WhatsApp accounts for the same user --...
From InfoWorld: Google has made another leap forward in the realm of machine learning hardware. The tech giant has begun deploying the second version of its Tensor Processing Unit, a specialized chip meant to accelerate machine learning applications, company CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday...
From PC World: Surprise! Nvidia very quietly announced an affordable new graphics card late Tuesday for e-sports and HTPC enthusiasts, dubbed the GeForce GT 1030.
The new GeForce card notably lacks the “X” in GTX, going instead with the more mundane GT—a name we haven’t seen since the 700 series...
From CNET: Qualcomm filed a breach of contract complaint against Apple's manufacturers on Wednesday, nearly one month after the iPhone maker stopped paying for the chip company's patent royalties.
Apple's manufacturers, like Foxconn, used to pay Qualcomm for the intellectual property rights to make...
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