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Google CEO Sundar Pichai hacked by same group that embarrassed Mark Zuckerberg this month
A group of hackers – or perhaps security professionals with an underhanded marketing strategy – known as OurMine are at it again embarrassing the world’s most well known tech executives. Earlier this month the group hacked Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter, Inc. and Pinterest, Inc. accounts, as well as CEO of Spotify Ltd., Daniel Ek’s Twitter account. ...
Creator of upcoming futuristic ‘human-augmentation’ Amazon series talks to SiliconANGLE
“It was very overwhelming at first,” said Stephan Zlotescu, writer and director of the acclaimed True Skin, a 2012 short film based on human augmentation in a vastly more tech-immersed world. The film gained almost immediate acclaim and was quickly snapped-up by Amazon Studios to develop as a series following an earlier attempt by Warner Brothers ...
Opera goes toe-to-toe with Microsoft over what it feels is a sketchy Edge browser claim
Opera Software has taken umbrage with Microsoft over a recent claim by the Redmond company that its Edge browser is way more efficient in terms of laptop battery life than others browsers when surfing the web or streaming video. In what Microsoft called a Microsoft Edge Experiment its own browser came out smelling of roses ...
Google’s new symptom search might help prevent a wrong self-diagnosis of imminent death
We’ve all grappled with the reality of searching for a symptom on Google, perhaps a mere rash, or a pain located somewhere in the armpit, and after hours of reading coming to the conclusion that we are either terribly ill and will have precious few weeks to spend with our loved ones, or that we ...
In good faith: Can Microsoft be trusted with LinkedIn social data?
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion one of Microsoft’s partners, harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services, believes Microsoft and its partners stand to benefit considerably from “LinkedIn’s treasure trove of information”. But there are some obstacles Microsoft will have to overcome, harmon.ie asserts, and one of those ...
Using Microsoft’s Edge browser can save hours of laptop battery life
Microsoft wants to show what a profound difference a browser can make to the battery life of one’s laptop, notably how its own Edge browser is far less demanding than Google Chrome in terms of power consumption. In what Microsoft dubbed a Microsoft Edge Experiment, rival browsers including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera ...
Microsoft has just got into the blossoming marijuana business
Microsoft and marijuana, not two words we might usually associate, although Microsoft founder Bill Gates is said to have smoked weed in college and been open about his support for the legalization of the plant in his own state. Microsoft’s relationship with cannabis just got much more real after a partnership was formed between the company ...
The first short film written entirely by a robot is total chaos, but has its moments
“In a future with mass unemployment young people are forced to sell blood.” This is the first line of the first movie written completely by artificial intelligence. It’s arguably the best line in the far-out film, and probably the only line that might resonate with people for being somewhat, if not apocalyptically, reasonable. The film, Sunspring, ...
World’s first high-tech flying hospital poised for take off
A recent collaboration between global technology companies and a non-profit humanitarian organization has led to the creation of a partly automated flying eye hospital which prevents, treats or cures blindness in places around the world where treatments can be inaccessible. Orbis International and Crestron Electronics, Inc. as well as other technology companies, have teamed-up to ...
Microsoft lights up E3 2016 with two new consoles, claims “the most powerful console ever built”
Microsoft did not let people down at this year’s E3 event following months of speculation as to what the company might announce. Microsoft’s Xbox chief Phil Spencer had said prior to the event that consumers were going to see something “really substantial” and that’s just what they got. In terms of substance, the biggest announcement ...