From CNET: Longtime tech entrepreneur Halsey Minor has a plan for tapping all those idle servers -- think of them as "zombie" computers -- sitting in data centers and having them process, store and distribute video. And he says that plan will cost far less than rival services from Google and Amazon...
From The Verge: Xiaomi, one of the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturers, is planning to enter the US market by next year. The Chinese gadget maker recently expanded into western Europe, and the US smartphone market is next on its radar. The Wall Street Journal reports that Xiaomi could bring its...
From PC Mag: Apple has been accused of being many things, but "cheap" isn't one of them. If you want to own a brand new Apple-branded laptop, then the cheapest option is the MacBook Air, which starts at $999. Beyond that there's the MacBook and MacBook Pro starting at $1,299 each. However, the good...
From CNET: Amazon may stop stocking Google's Nest line of products, continuing the companies' already rocky history of support for each other's products.
According to a Business Insider report Friday, Amazon told Nest late last year that the online retailer wouldn't be listing any of Nest's newer...
If there is one game that a lot of people at my church know, it is a little card game called Dutch Blitz. Now being honest, I actually was surprised at how few people at my workplace knew how to play Dutch Blitz, but like its tagline, I can assure you it is a vonderful goot game! In essence, the game is centered on trying to get rid of your cards as fast as possible before everyone else can. Without explaining any more of the game, I think it is...
From The Verge: Analysis of Instagram’s code has revealed several files that point to possible upcoming voice and video calling features, reports TechCrunch. The files are labeled “call” and “video call” with phone and camera icons that are present in the app’s Android application packages (APKs)...
From PC Mag: In what is perhaps a veiled jab at Snap's new redesign, Facebook on Thursday announced that people don't want two separate News Feeds.
In October 2017, Facebook launched an "Explore Feed" trial in six countries to separate content from friends and family from Page posts; it's similar...
From CNET: A new Battlefield game is coming later this year for PCs and consoles, according to VentureBeat, which cites anonymous insider sources. The new EA game will reportedly focus on World War II, following the success of Battlefield 1, which lets players battle it out across Europe during...
From PC Mag: In a letter sent to employees, Best Buy Chief Executive Hubert Joly announced that the company is set to close all 250 of its mobile stores on May 31.
As Reuters reports, Best Buy's decision to close the stores is due to a combination of much lower margins on smartphone sales and an...
From The Verge: We’ve heard rumors that LG won’t call its next G-series phone the G7, and that the company scrapped its internal plans for the phone to start fresh. But today, Israeli publication Ynet published a video of a device that’s clearly marked as the G7 with the codename Neo. It’s unclear...
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