From CNET: Google is trying to reinvent the emergency contact form for the smartphone era.
The search giant on Monday unveiled a new app called Trusted Contacts, which aims to keep you safe in dicey situations -- anything from a natural disaster to a walk home on a dark street.
The app, only...
From PC World: There’s a lot of excitement about Intel’s superfast Optane SSDs, but products won’t be on shelves this year as the chipmaker had earlier promised.
Intel is currently making Optane in a factory in China, and production will “ramp” up next year, said Stacy Smith, executive vice...
From CNET: Airbnb has agreed to drop a lawsuit against New York City over a new law that will fine hosts for listing many common short-term rentals in the company's biggest US market.
The short-term home rental service said late Friday it had settled the lawsuit filed against the city two months...
"Dude, watch Descendants of the Sun," my friend texted me back in March of this year. "It is the most amazing drama ever. Doctor meets soldier. So romantic." Having absolutely no idea what Descendants of the Sun is, like any person in 2016, I pulled up Wikipedia to find out. As it turned out, it was a Korean drama. I kind of chuckled a bit, and told her I will look into it. The reality is it was just a polite way of saying I am not interested...
Companies always have interesting names. Sometimes, their names directly attribute to the products they are making, and they are very obvious in that regard. I would think it is good for the name to be fairly indicative of a company's aims, although that is not always the easiest to achieve. There could be so many different connotations to a name, especially with everyone seeing a name and understanding it differently. Some company names seem...
From InfoWorld: Lashed to the much bigger ship that is Oracle, cloud software provider NetSuite is setting sail for a new market near you.
Until now, the 18-year-old company based in San Mateo, California, has focused on English-speaking countries and Japan. As part of Oracle, it plans to localize...
From CNET: In a flurry of activity, Twitter bought a startup on Thursday and immediately appointed its CEO as its new VP of product.
The startup, called Yes Inc, makes apps that allow users to connect immediately with friends to make plans and share videos. Yes' focus on snappy, short-form...
From PC World: Android Wear has had a rough year. What started with a promising announcement of Android Wear 2.0 at Google I/O has ended with a delayed launch, an utter lack of new models and now, a disillusioned manufacturer. In an interview with the Verge, Shakil Barkat, Motorola’s head of global...
From CNET: The Apple Watch design may come full circle. Apple patents published Thursday indicate that the California tech company may give the Apple Watch a circular display.
Both the original Apple Watch and the Apple Watch Series 2 feature a similar rectangular display as the watch face, almost...
From InfoWorld: For once, there will be a demilitarized zone in the war among major chip architectures Intel x86, ARM, and IBM Power9, which will all be used in a supercomputer being built in Barcelona.
The MareNostrum 4 is being built by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and will have three...
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