From CNET: Facebook has been packing in new features recently, and it looks like WhatsApp is following suit.
The Facebook-owned app is working on launching a person-to-person payment service soon in India, reports The Ken, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
As the publication points out...
From InfoWorld: For more than 30 years, Intel has made a name with its CPUs, which rule the PC and server markets. Chip advances have helped Intel make devices smaller, faster, and more power-efficient.
Computing is now spreading into cars, robots, drones, smart devices, and a wide range of other...
From PC World: As part of the April security update, Pixel and Nexus phone users are getting a surprise. Google is rolling out the 7.1.2 Nougat update as part of the bundle, and while most people won’t notice much of a chance, Pixel C users are in store for a big change.
While it was long thought...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft is adding new capabilities to one of its cheapest enterprise plans for Office 365, in a push to capture a group of users traditionally underserved by the productivity suite.
New to the Office 365 Enterprise K1 plan (the K stands for Kiosk) now includes 2GB of OneDrive for...
From InfoWorld: If you're expecting to buy laptops with Intel's next-generation Core chips code-named Cannonlake chips by the end of this year, you may be disappointed.
There's a chance that shipments of Cannonlake -- Intel's first on the 10-nanometer production process -- may slip into next year...
From PC World: Intel’s revolutionary new non-volatile Optane Memory wants to make hard drives as fast as SSDs, but apparently not if you bought a PC on the cheap.
The super-fast Optane Memory M.2 drives announced Monday not only require a Kaby Lake processor, but a Core one at that, as first...
From InfoWorld: This December, Microsoft will shut down its CodePlex open source project hosting site, deferring instead to code-sharing site GitHub. The site will go read-only in October.
CodePlex was launched in 2006 when Microsoft was trying to make a name for itself in open source. But the...
From CNET: Apple is developing its own graphics processors to be used in future versions of products including the iPhone, said one of its partners on Monday.
UK-based Imaginations Technologies currently makes the graphics chips used in the iPhone, but said in a statement that Apple will cease to...
I have been taking my PhD program in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary for about one year now. At the PhD level, my study experience is quite different from the education I ever had before. For example, when I was in my undergraduate studies, I really cared about my GPA. I thought taking exams was the only purpose I had in school, therefore I almost lived in the library. If that does not surprise you, my high school time was...
The other day, I was browsing through Netflix to find a movie to watch. I stumbled on a movie I have not heard of before with a large five on the sign. That movie was Ice Age 5. I absolutely loved the Ice Age when I was growing up, especially Ice Age 3. It was quite the surprise for me to discover they made five of them. This may be news to just some of you, but what should not be breaking news is the fact Hollywood is absolutely obsessed with...
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