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Could a government spy on your Facebook Messenger chats?
You have to be very careful what you say on Facebook in Thailand, lest you write something the Thai government deems transgressive and end up serving a 60 year jail sentence. Even liking or sharing a post in Thailand can land you in jail for a very, very long time, and bad language, if it ...
Microsoft is about to showcase something huge at upcoming E3
Rumors are rife concerning the upcoming E3 event in June, and what Microsoft has in store for us. Last year Microsoft didn’t exactly shock us at the same event, although there is a buzz about what we are apparently going to see this year. One of the most likely rumors to prove true is an upgrade ...
Busting A.I. myths: Robots will be our slaves for another 30 years
You wouldn’t have to travel too far back into the past to find people, or even the most revered scientists, who would not be able to conceive of the technology we use today. And, it’s conceivable right now as we march headlong into a new era of highly intelligent computers evolving exponentially, that technology will become something ...
Microsoft brings Skype for Business for Mac in Preview along with a slew of other updates
Microsoft just announced a flurry of new investments for Office 365, including an upcoming, and according to Microsoft “much anticipated” Skype for Business Mac Preview to run OS X El Capitan. The preview is now available to IT professionals upon request. Microsoft said that the roll-out will be in three stages, eventually leading to public ...
Madness at Microsoft: Flagship Lumia phones are now FREE
Microsoft’s flagship Lumia phones, the 950 and 950XL, were the focus of countless leaks and rumors for almost the entirety of 2015 – one of them has now been reduced to a giveaway. The phones have barely been out for six months and now Microsoft is saying that if you buy the larger Lumia 950 XL ...
Facebook news feed updates could mean less clickbait but less informed readers
Facebook Inc. has made yet another change to what you see in your news feed, this time predicting what you want to read after ascertaining how much time you spend reading certain types of stories. The update is part of the ‘Feed Quality Program’. One of the reasons for this, says Facebook, is that many users ...
Is Microsoft on the verge of upgrading the Xbox One, or what?
On the heels of the recent rumor that Sony Corp. will be upgrading the PlayStation 4 in October to the PlayStation 4.5, rumors have surfaced that suggest Microsoft has plans to upgrade the Xbox One. There’s a twist, though. Earlier in April Microsoft’s Xbox chief Phil Spencer put an end to the rumor that Redmond might ...
Looks like Facebook users might soon get paid for their posts?
Getting paid for your posts on Facebook would sure come as a relief to avid users of the social network whose large number of followers creates fantastic revenue, that goes one way only. A recent survey that has been circulating points to the possibility of this coming true – the survey was found by The ...
An Apple Original Series: Tech giant secretly schmoozing A-list celebs to drum up talent for slew of shows
Is Apple Inc. secretly turning up at big movie events, sidling up to A-list Hollywood actors in a bid to get them onside before the tech giant launches a handful of series designed to match or outrun the magnificence of Netflix, Inc. and Amazon.com, Inc.? It seems so, according to a recent detailed report by ...
New York, 5 minutes in the future: AR for creating virtual bed partners, according to new film Creative Control
Director (also co-writer) Benjamin Dickinson’s recently released film, Creative Control, is one of few movies over the past several years to take recent technological advances seriously, inasmuch as the technology isn’t far from what we already have. The filmmakers have said that the setting is New York, “5 minutes in the future”. In Creative Control’s case the technology ...