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Skype brings video group calls to mobile, and you can get it before it becomes officially available
10 years ago Skype brought free video calls to desktop, and 4 years later the same service was available on mobile. It has now been announced that in the coming weeks group video calling will become available to “hundreds of millions of mobile users” on Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows 10 Mobile. While the group calling ...
Tinder plays cupid, only showing you people it thinks deserve your unattractiveness
So you thought you had complete control; that swiping away less desirable faces on Tinder (Tinder, Inc.) could eventually lead you to virtually anyone. You were wrong; it turns out that Tinder has been selecting the appropriate people for you commensurate to your level of popularity, or unpopularity. Tinder ranks your desirability before anyone else ...
‘Mr. Robot’ wins best TV drama Golden Globe, but the brilliant Rami Malek only gets a nod of appreciation
USA Network’s hacker series Mr.Robot beat out other popular TV series, such as Game of Thrones, Empire and Narcos, to win this year’s Best TV Drama at the Golden Globes. Series creator, Sam Esmail, collected the award, stood amongst the series’ actors and producers, and stated that it “took a lot of courage” to give ...
The last of the Lumias? Microsoft Lumia 650 specs confirmed
Following rumors of the Lumia 650, Microsoft acknowledged its existence last month when the company’s Chief Marketing Officer, Chris Capossela, discussed the upcoming smartphone with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley at a Windows Weekly show. It also came to light during the discussion that at some point Microsoft’s smartphone ambitions could be edging away from ...
Samsung takes lightness to another level with its two new laptops
At CES 2016 this week, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. unveiled two ludicrously light laptops, the 13.3-inch and 15-inch Notebook 9s, weighing just 850 grams and 1.29 kg, respectively. The two laptops Samsung says will become available with Windows 10 Pro sometime in the first half of 2016, although the company didn’t say anything about the ...
Oculus Rift is finally available to pre-order this week, but how much will it cost?
The actual launch date hasn’t been released yet, but Oculus VR, LLC has just announced that pre-orders of the Rift headset will be available at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on January 6. As of yet it’s still a mystery how much the virtual reality device will cost, but when pre-orders start, that and the shipping ...
Mr. Robot is going to get so dark its star actor has been told he can tap-out from time to time
This article contains spoilers for Season One. Season One of USA Network’s acclaimed hacker series Mr. Robot ended with a twist of sorts,as it became clear that a round table of elites, including Phillip Price, the CEO of E Corp, were seemingly on good terms with Whiterose (BD Wong), the occasionally transgender hacker affiliated with ...
Microsoft’s AI ‘Little Bing’ gets a job as a news anchor in China
Microsoft’s artificial intelligent chatbot, Xiaoice, aka Little Bing, has recently been delivering the weather on the Chinese TV program ‘Morning News’. Previously employed as a personal assistant on messaging services such as WeChat, Weibo and Line, Xiaoice started as a trainee at the news center earlier this week. Using big data and smart cloud technology ...
It seems we might finally get to see a Microsoft Surface Phone in 2016
Rumors of a Microsoft Surface Phone have been doing the rounds for some years now, but it seems now that Redmond has given us some concrete evidence that the chimerical smartphone is on its way. This follows an interview with Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela and Windows Weekly. During the interview, a round-up of Microsoft’s ...
What were the best genre sci-fi movies of 2015?
It’s been a comeback year for sci-fi, ending with the return of Star Wars in the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as other films from our childhood attempting to rekindle the drama they once created on a global scale. Notably: Terminator: Genisys; Jurassic World; Mad Max: Fury. Out of the above ...
