Tag: tech
Samsung's latest experiments include a phone app to calibrate...
Samsung is once again revealing C-Lab experiments at CES, and this year they reflect the stay-at-home reality of the pandemic. The...
Messaging platform Slack crashes, users around the world...
The communications platform, Slack, which boasts more than 75 million active users, has crashed, leaving many businesses without their...
Poco teases a sequel to its legendary F1 phone
Poco has released numerous phones since its iconic Pocophone F1 debuted in 2018, but the Xiaomi-created brand has steered clear of...
SolarWinds hack may have been much wider than first thought
The scope of the SolarWinds hack keeps growing. The New York Times has conducted interviews indicating that the allegedly Russia-backed...
Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille
While much of what made 2020 such an absolute nightmare will still be with us on January 1 (sorry!), we will really, truly be leaving...
Apple is developing its own modem for future iPhones
Apple has started developing its own cellular model this year, one of the company’s executives has revealed. According to Bloomberg,...
Cruise begins driverless testing in San Francisco
Cruise Automation, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Honda and T. Rowe Price...
Amazon Web Services outage is affecting major sites and...
If you're having trouble with some websites and apps at the minute, you’re far from the only one. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which...
These are the most common password that people are using...
Password management software company NordPass published its list of the "Top 200 most common passwords of the year 2020." The top...
Twitter users say fleets are ripe for harassment
Just hours after Twitter’s new fleets feature first launched to most people, some users are questioning whether the company did enough...
Google Maps no longer has to guess how crowded your transit...
These days, finding out when a public space or subway car is crowded isn’t just for convenience, it could potentially save lives....
Google Pixel Slate owners are reporting serious memory...
Google’s Pixel Slate may be on the cusp of a reliability crisis that’ll dwarf the beleaguered slate’s previous hiccups. A report at...
Brain-computer interface enables patients with severe paralysis...
Researchers demonstrated the success of a fully implantable wireless medical device, the Stentrode™ brain-computer interface (BCI),...
Samsung chairman dies at age 78
Lee Kun-hee, the long-time chairman of Samsung Group who transformed the conglomerate into one of the world’s largest business empires,...
Google debuts an Apple Watch YouTube Music app
If you’re one of those rare YouTube Music subscribers with both an iPhone and Apple Watch, you won’t be left out in the cold when...
Google will push Hangouts users to Chat in 2021
Google is, once again, changing up its messaging app strategy. The company plans to make Chat, its Slack-like app, free for everyone...