From CNET: During a press conference Sunday, Samsung said two separate battery defects caused both the original batch of Galaxy Note 7 phones and the replacement units to overheat.
The first battery, it said, suffered from a design flaw. The battery's external casing was too small for the...
"Did you just say that?" my friend turned around as she gave my other friend the dirtiest look on her face yet. "Yes," my other friend replied before pausing for a brief moment. "Wait, what did you think I just said?" "I thought you just said, 'Let's undress'." Suddenly, we all burst into laughter before my other friend could manage to respond. "I said, 'Is that Andres', not 'Let's undress'." Well, at least he had an opportunity to clarify...
If you take a look back at 2016 and the trends in the consumer computing world, you will notice one big thing being custom colors and RGB. Previously, we would have seen three categories of products when it came to color schemes. One was an all-black look. There might have been some streaks of different accent colors, but predominantly the product would be black. Second would be a very bright color, whether red, blue, or green plastered all over...
From InfoWorld: Among enterprise apps, Microsoft Office 365 is tops, Slack's growing fast, and platforms like Salesforce and Box are here to stay. But Slack's explosive continued growth isn't guaranteed.
These conclusions and more come from enterprise identity management firm Okta, courtesy of the...
From PC World: When Microsoft launched its Cache note-taking experiment last year, we hoped it could become Microsoft’s version of Google Keep, if Microsoft devoted enough resources to it. Sadly, that’s not the case.
In a note to users, Microsoft said Thursday that it would shut down Cache at the...
From CNET: Uber has agreed to hand over $20 million to settle claims that it misled drivers about how much money they could expect to make working for the ride-hailing service and how much it cost to buy or lease a car through the company.
The charges were brought by the Federal Trade Commission on...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft is betting that less is more in 3D design, with the acquisition of the Swedish developer of a 3D data optimization system, Simplygon.
Simplygon takes 3D models in a number of formats, and reduces the volume of data used to describe them by taking out some of the detail...
From CNET: After more than a year in the making, LinkedIn's desktop redesign has arrived.
If the makeover, which launched Thursday, looks a lot like the professional network's overhauled sleek mobile app -- well, that's part of the master plan.
The professional network wants the overhauled home...
From PC World: Raspberry Pi's new Compute Module 3 has serious competition coming its way from the maker of the Pine64 board computer.
The new SOPINE A64 64-bit computing module is a smaller version of the popular US$15 Pine64 computer.
It was announced the same week as the Raspberry Pi Compute...
From CNET: HTC is offering a $10m fund for creators to produce virtual reality content that highlights key sustainability issues around the world.
The VR content, which will be playable on the Vive headset, is designed to "improve awareness, education and lead to action," HTC states. It will aim to...
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