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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 ...
A drone selfie? Welcome to the Twitter drone
It’s a little too early to say how this will pan-out (pun intended) but Twitter has recently filed for a patent for a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that will be able to take photos and videos while being controlled via people’s Twitter accounts. How does it work? Twitter says that the drone’s location and the ...
Intelligently designed TV: Highly anticipated tech series coming in 2016
The portrayal of computer technology on television, either of those that create it, work in it, or of the manifestation of it in our lives, is suddenly at a point where we can feel content it’s being depicted with intelligence and thoughtfulness. Geeks are not so outlandish these days, they’ve been humanized, just as hackers ...
Now if you say ‘Hey Cortana’ on your Android phone you’ll no longer be heard
Following Microsoft’s introduction of its digital assistant, Cortana, for Android devices earlier this month, there has recently been quite a setback: your device will no longer understand you when you say, “Hey Cortana”. According to WinBeta this stems from problems relating to the microphone and, “incompatibilities with Google’s own ‘OK Google’ feature of Google Now.’ It ...