From PC World: Fingerprint authentication will become a lot more common on smartphones of all prices as sensors get cheaper—and Google’s integration of the technology in the next version of Android will make it much easier for app developers and service providers to make use of them.
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From CNET: Sony has confirmed that it will offer a 1-terabyte edition of its PlayStation 4.
The new 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition will launch in select European and PAL territories starting July 15, Sony said in a blog post published Monday. PAL is the video standard used across most of the world...
Taking a short trip down memory lane, I could still remember the days when I was still in elementary, and would be ecstatic when the teacher announced there will be group projects in the class. This was a time of exploring the computers at school, and doing online activities to find out more information about the material we were learning about. The first project I was assigned in my Grade 4 geography class was a project about the different types...
Sometimes, combining two ideas together create an absolutely ingenious solution. Other times, you end up with something so pointless, it gets you simply nowhere. The camera phone is a prime example of an ingenious solution. As the saying goes, "The best camera you have is the one you have with you." With the popularity explosion of the mobile phone in the last two decades or so, integrating a camera onto it revolutionized the world in more than...
From InfoWorld: Web apps and pages may soon get a speed boost to rival the performance of native desktop and mobile applications, thanks to a new standards initiative from Microsoft, Google and Mozilla.
The work, WebAssembly, provides a way to compile the source code for the programmatic parts of...
From PC World: Tap a Windows 10 Mobile app, then go back to the home screen. Chances are you’ll see an annoying “Loading...” message. But with Microsoft wrapping up work on the desktop version of Windows 10, look for the fit and finish of Windows 10 Mobile to improve soon.
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From CNET: Lyft's yearlong tussle with New York State lawmakers ended Thursday when the ride-hailing service agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties to settle a lawsuit alleging it illegally operated in the state.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former State Superintendent of Financial...
From DailyTech: Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) Apple Watch sprinted out the gate with roughly 900k units sold via preorders, but word of supply shortfall quickly spread. Particularly telling, Apple froze the preorders relatively quickly and made it clear that while the smartwatch would be able to test at...
From InfoWorld: Oracle has reported a sharp drop in profit for the quarter just ended, with customers spending more on its cloud services but less on software that runs in their own data centers.
Chairman Larry Ellison portrayed the shift as a positive one and said Oracle can make more money...
From PC World: HP’s new crop of back-to-school laptops debut when summer has barely started—but the countdown to Windows 10 is already under way, and with that comes a lot of new hardware. On Thursday the company announced four laptops aimed at students: the Pavilion x2, and three new Envy models...
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