It is after a work day and time for me to start cooking for dinner. I am exhausted from a long day at work and waiting for the water to boil. I never realized how bad all-day meetings could be until now. All of a sudden, the doorbell rings. I hesitate. I generally do not open the door for unexpected guests, but I relent since it may be a neighbor. Unfortunately, it is not a neighbor but a salesman for a security company. "Hi, my name is Mike, and...
A week after my finals at university ended, I moved to a camp for work. I still return to Calgary on the weekends, but for the most part I am away. During these first two months of working at the camp, I have been sharing a large cabin-like room with a couple of guys. It is all nice and not like the usual idea of what a cabin is. However, all the little annoyances that come from sharing a room with a couple of people are still present. If someone...
From PC Mag: This week we've had yet another reminder of the poor state of online security after Adidas admitted its US website had been hacked. In the process, data for millions of consumers was stolen.
As Bloomberg reports, Adidas discovered "an unauthorized party" had gained access to its...
From The Verge: Motorola is teasing a press event in August that contains a “big announcement,” likely for a new flagship smartphone. In a statement to The Verge, Motorola says the news will “change the way people use and interact with their phones.”
The event takes place in its Chicago...
From CNET: 5G is the next tech revolution. Slated to launch around 2020, Huawei is getting a head start.
The company's first 5G phone will go on sale next year, it announced at Mobile World Congress Shanghai, sometime before the end of June 2019. It'll follow Huawei's first 5G Kirin chip, which it...
From PC Mag: OnePlus might be coming to a carrier store near you. In a one-on-one at Mobile World Congress Shanghai, OnePlus CEO and founder Pete Lau said the company is working with US carriers, and that it aims to produce a 5G smartphone next year.
The announcements came as part of a conversation...
From PC World: Midway through developing new Windows Insider builds, Microsoft usually begins dropping some doozies. Wednesday's release of Windows 10 Insider build 17704 was no exception: Microsoft retired its Sets UI again, updated the Windows 10 version of Skype, and began promoting a new Fonts...
From CNET: Amazon wants you to think of your Fire tablet as not just a tablet but a full-fledged Alexa-enabled device -- or more precisely, a slimmed down Echo Show.
It's called Show Mode, and it's coming as a free software update for current generation Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets. Like the...
From The Verge: Samsung’s Bixby assistant had a rough time of it. Not only did no one want to use the assistant, but Samsung even recognized that it’d have to bribe users to do so. The company announced this week that it’s shutting down those gamification efforts — called My Bixby Level — on August...
From PC Mag: China's smartphone market is increasingly dominated by four big players: Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi.
According to a report from marketing and analytics firm Canalys, the Chinese smartphone market shrunk by more than 21 percent year over year, from 114 million shipments in Q1 2017...
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