From InfoWorld: Samsung’s Windows-based Galaxy Books, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress, point to a critical weakness in the company’s multiple-OS strategy.
The company uses Windows 10 in PCs, Android in smartphones, and Tizen across wearables and smart appliances. This has led to a lack of...
From PC World: Lenovo is working with Amazon to get the Alexa voice assistant into a range of Motorola smartphones, and in the process, looking to depose Google's voice assistant technology.
The partners will first focus on developing an Alexa "Mod," a block that will attach to a Moto Z modular...
From InfoWorld: Google Assistant might be the future of voice-controlled intelligence on our Google devices, but Google hasn’t made it easy to get it. There are versions of it on Google Home, the new LG watches, and in Allo chats, but if you wanted the full mobile Assistant experience, you had to...
From CNET: WhatsApp last week introduced its revamped Snapchat-esque Stories feature, but that's not all the Facebook-owned messenger has up its sleeve.
The company late last week announced it's working on a new commercial messaging platform specifically for businesses, according to the Hindustan...
For those who are dating or married, ten days ago was probably a pretty significant day in the early year. For myself, it was another day to make sure I do something special for my compadre, even if it is something small. I think the most standard gifts to give on this day are flowers and chocolate. However, I have never liked giving standard gifts, despite my lacking creativity. Last year, I found a place in Calgary that combined the two gifts...
I remember when I was a college student, my quantum physics professor told us something interesting about nuclear fusion. He said the research of realizing controlled thermonuclear fusion began in the 1950s. The scientist at that time predicted the time spent on commercializing generating nuclear fusion power would be fifty years. Now almost seventy years has passed, there is no sign of putting a nuclear fusion power generator into reality. Some...
From PC World: Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm's use for security-sensitive functions should be discontinued as soon as possible...
From InfoWorld: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back some net neutrality regulations that require broadband providers to inform customers about their network management practices.
The Republican-controlled FCC on Thursday suspended the net neutrality transparency...
From PC World: Gaming laptops have woefully short battery lives. It's par for the course when you're packing that much power into a portable notebook—but it's also a flaw that popular gaming hardware company Razer is taking aim at with the sleek-looking Razer Power Bank external battery.
The Power...
From CNET: Apple doesn't want any talk of clouds redirecting you to non-Apple products.
In its quest to dominate the iCloud game, the company recently bought out an Asian social network which had registered the iCloud.net domain.
AppleInsider was told the Cupertino, California-based company paid...
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