From PC World: Samsung Electronics wants to buy its way into the connected car market, with a plan to acquire Harman for US$8 billion.
It's the latest in a line of acquisitions by Samsung, as it seeks to diversify its business beyond the slowing smartphone market. Other recently announced deals...
From CNET: Earlier this year at F8, the social network's most important conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a big investment in chatbots, which use artificial intelligence to allow people to text with the software to help them do things like schedule calendar meetings or buy a pair of shoes...
From InfoWorld: Google’s major push into home automation and artificial intelligence has been sort-of realized with the Google Assistant. It lives inside of the Pixel smartphone and Google Home hub, but that’s just the start. The company wants to enable your favorite apps and services to connect...
If you have lived long enough to witness the dawn of the internet era, give yourself a pat on your back: You are now an internet veteran. As an internet veteran, you have probably witnessed the fundamental shifts in the ways we do open communications. It started with simple message boards, which evolved onto internet forums, followed by the rise of social media. But what has not changed is the importance of winning debates on the internet. As you...
With how fast technology advances, especially in products like laptops or mobile devices, it always seems kind of neat to go back to the older products to see how they compare in feel or performance. I used to do this a lot with my parents' older laptops, including one of the laptops on Windows 3.1. Despite having practically zero battery life, weighing over seven pounds, and with a screen size smaller than ten inches, I often liked using that...
From InfoWorld: Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts.
Law enforcement authorities on Monday also “began sharing certain data that they indicated...
From CNET: Here's a little something to get excited about if you're a Windows 10 watcher on the lookout for new features.
Microsoft on Wednesday released its latest Windows 10 Creators test version, which includes a virtual touchpad that lets you control external monitors from tablets without...
From PC World: Living with the beta version of Google Maps is a great way to test out the latest features that sometimes come down the road rather quickly.
This time there are several new tools to play with that impact everything from what the map looks like when it starts up to how your trip...
From CNET: Samsung recently published a patent (original, in Korean) that shows renderings of a phone that folds in half down its middle.
The company is expected to release a bendable smartphone next year, according to reports. We don't know for certain whether this patent would tie in to those...
From InfoWorld: Lenovo created a stir when it said the Yoga 900 and 900S hybrids would work only with Windows, not Linux. The company has now changed its stance, bringing Linux support to those PCs.
The PC maker earlier this month issued a BIOS update so Linux can be loaded on Yoga 900, 900S and...
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