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Monopoly man watches disapprovingly as Congress yells at Google’s CEO
2018-12-11

Google‘s CEO, Sundar Pichai, is in Washington today. He’s trying to explain how the world’s most advanced technology company works to Congress. At some point we’re sure he’s going to be arrested for witchcraft. Pichai’s not the only fat cat with deep pockets in the room – sure, a lot of those...

Monopoly guy watches disapprovingly as Congress yells at Google’s CEO
2018-12-11

Google‘s CEO, Sundar Pichai, is in Washington today. He’s trying to explain how the world’s most advanced technology company works to Congress. At some point we’re sure he’s going to be arrested for witchcraft. Pichai’s not the only fat cat with deep pockets in the room – sure, a lot of those...

The chatbot bubble has officially burst
2018-12-11

Google Allo is the latest casualty of Silicon Valley’s course correction on conversational interfaces. Google Allo is done. Announced in 2016, it was Google’s big attempt to build a Google chatbot right into your text message conversations. Allo’s death signals something important to the tech...

Boost your site’s SEO ranking with this $24 tool
2018-12-11

No shame in low Google rankings, but the reality is that if you aren’t showing up in the top 3 for your most important keywords, you probably aren’t being found at all. You can start getting some return on all that digital effort with some solid SEO knowledge like that offered by SERPCloud Pro. Right now, you can...

Instagram gets WhatsApp-style walkie-talkie voice messages
2018-12-11

Facebook-owned Instagram has just added one of the best features from its sister app, WhatsApp: direct voice messages. Just as in WhatsApp, you can find it in any conversation (including group chats) in the Direct messaging section of the app. Tap and hold the microphone button located in the text entry box, and you...

Elon Musk talks pot, the SEC, and Twitter flame wars
2018-12-10

The Tesla CEO addressed a wide range of issues in an interview over the weekend. This weekend CBS News aired a wide-ranging interview with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during which he reflected on his companies, his erratic behavior, his pot smoking, and even the SEC. Here are the top takeaways from that interview...

Meet the Tumblr refugees trying to save its adult content from oblivion
2018-12-08

Tumblr posters of porn and kink fear a ban on naughty content will eviscerate not only their blogs, but the communities they’ve built on the networks. “The internet is for porn,” goes the song from musical Avenue Q. Since Tumblr announced this week that it will no longer be part of that internet,...

Apple, Amazon, and Google drop as tech stocks bear the brunt of China trade worries
2018-12-07

With the arrest of a Huawei executive in Canada, investors fear the fate of a tentative tariff truce. Investors in tech stocks are nervously watching as the Trump administration continues to press China on trade. Some of them are unloading tech stocks to reduce risk in front of the weekend.Read Full Story

This tech company has a very, very unfortunate name
2018-12-07

KnowTechie is one of my favorite blogs. Earlier this week, it published a post about a super-cheap ‘smart’ RGB bias light from Chinese tech brand MINGER. Yes, you read that right. MINGER. It’s unfortunate the branding team at MINGER didn’t stop to Google it first, as MINGER is a rather cruel British insult....

Mozilla is deeply concerned about Microsoft killing EdgeHTML
2018-12-07

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue the EdgeHTML browser engine. Future versions of Edge would use Google’s Chromium rendering engine, which powers a swathe of browsers, including Chrome and Opera. Edge was never a popular browser, and at the time of writing commands just 4.34 percent...

Newly minted Oscars host Kevin Hart may have a homophobia problem
2018-12-06

Some of Hart’s homophobic tweets have resurfaced. (A lot of them, actually.) He’s deleted them, but he can’t delete people’s memory of them. When future scientists investigate what “Twitter” was, they may discover that it was a magical place where one could go to watch...

From the View-Master to Sears trash cans, this man designed our world
2018-12-06

Charles Harrison designed hundreds of familiar household goods—and, as an African-American executive in the 1960s, helped to blaze new trails. As a child of the 1960s and 1970s, I grew up in a world imagined by industrial designer Charles Harrison—I just didn’t know it. The New York Times has...

This M.C. Escher-inspired hotel is Instagram gold
2018-12-06

The stairs lead to nowhere. M.C. Escher fans, rejoice: You can now stay inside a hotel that brings the artist’s trippy visual illusions to life through its interior design.Read Full Story

Waymo unveils first operating US driverless taxi service
2018-12-05

Hundreds of people in the Phoenix, Arizona area now have consumer access to Waymo’s driverless taxi service. These “early riders” can now order an autonomous vehicle pickup 24/7. Welcome to the future. Waymo – a Google sister company under the Alphabet umbrella –  today announced the service, called...

The $19 app that takes all the headaches out of cloud storage
2018-12-05

Whether you’re using Dropbox, Google Drive, Box or another cloud storage option, you’re often slowed by searches, logins and other inconvenient steps. With CloudMounter, your cloud storage gets super simple immediately. And right now, a lifetime license for CloudMounter service has been slashed to only $19, a 57...

What Spotify and Instagram would have looked like 30 years ago
2018-12-05

Warning: These illustrations are a nostalgia suckerpunch. Nostalgia sucks, but I can’t help but love it, because I’m old. Which is why I felt an instant connection with these modern digital brands reimagined as the objects of the 1980s and ’90s.Read Full Story

India’s new satellite is a first step in providing rural areas with faster internet
2018-12-05

India launched its heaviest satellite, the GSAT-11, also called ‘The Big Bird,’ from the French space port of Kourou in South America, earlier today. The satellite is expected to provide high-bandwidth connectivity in the country, with data transfer speeds of up to 14 Gbps. Update #4#ISROMissions Here's the video...

Alphabet’s drone division will begin trialing aerial deliveries in Finland next year
2018-12-05

In July, I wrote about how Wing – one of Google X’s pet drone projects – “graduated” to become a full company under the Alphabet banner. Now, after months of testing its drone delivery service in Australia, the company is expanding to Europe with a trial planned in Finland next year. Wing’s official...

A new mobile app can detect anemia without a blood test
2018-12-05

A new smartphone app can tell if you have anemia just by analyzing the color of your fingernail in a photo. Anemia, a common blood disorder brought on by reduced levels of the blood’s oxygen carrier, Haemoglobin, causes severe fatigue, heart problems, and complications in pregnancy. It already affects more than 2...

Google reportedly personalizes search results even when you’re in incognito mode
2018-12-05

Google provides you personalized search results based on your previous searches, location, and several other factors. So if you want to avoid this and search discreetly without leaving a trail, the most common option is to switch to your browser’s incognito mode. However, a new study from privacy-focused search...

Why document management needs an upgrade
2018-12-04

We all love to talk about tech and the cloud as if they’ve these things dramatically changed the way we live our lives and work. And don’t get me wrong – they could. They should. But too many of our businesses still operate like it’s 1997 when it comes to asset management. Sure, you may have a Dropbox Business...

Microsoft may reboot its Windows web browser again
2018-12-04

A better built-in browser could help Microsoft take on Chromebooks in earnest. When Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015, it came with a new web browser called Edge, which replaced the aging Internet Explorer as the default and offered interesting new features such as Cortana suggestions and page annotation. Now,...

South African man hands thugs $60K in Bitcoin after heinous torturing
2018-12-04

It seems cryptocurrency scammers aren’t afraid of using more old school tactics in order to extort Bitcoin from their victims. A man from South Africa was purportedly attacked for his Bitcoin by someone he met on Facebook, according to local news outlet, the Soweto Urban. The attack took place on November 16 where...

How to mess with the PlayStation Classic’s hidden settings using only a USB keyboard
2018-12-04

We need to update the infinite monkey theorem. This states that a monkey hitting keys on a typewriter will eventually type out a complete published text, you know, like Hamlet or something. Things are different these days. I mean, who (apart from Instagram-loving hipsters) even has a typewriter anymore? This is why we...

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