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Google self-driving car faces its toughest test yet: Crappy weather in the Pacific Northwest
Google’s self-driving car is to experience a less enjoyable climate than it has been experiencing so far in Mountain View, California and Austin, Texas. It will now take to the often rainy streets of Kirkland, Washington, where, according to Google, the car will also have to face a more hilly terrain and traffic patterns to which ...
Ouch: Microsoft recalls power cords for Surface Pro models due to cases of fires and electric shocks
Earlier this month news broke concerning Microsoft getting ready to replace power cords for its Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro 3 models sold prior to March 15th, 2015 (first reported July 2015). This was confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson to ZDNet who wrote in an email, “As a result of damage caused ...
More than one billion people are now using WhatsApp, making it the world leader in messaging
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has seen a surge in popularity over the last few years with the number of users reaching a whopping one billion this week, according to a WhatsApp official blog post. That means one in seven people who live on our fair planet are active WhatsApp users. When Facebook acquired the app ...
Who the hell is Steve Jobs?
“I actually wanted him to die,” was the response I heard from the only person I could find who had also watched the film Steve Jobs. I can’t say I shared the sentiment; in view of my own understanding of the man behind Apple Inc.’s great ascent, concocted out of all the mostly negative data ...
This will be huge: Facebook live-streaming video coming to iPhone users in the US and soon to the rest of the world
iPhone users in the U.S. will now be able to stream what’s happening to them on the go via Facebook’s new live video feature. Although the feature is only available to people in the U.S., Facebook announced that live video will be rolled-out to the rest of the world in the “coming weeks”. The feature, ...
To like or not to like is probably a silly question: Facebook finally yields to consumers and adds cutified sentiments
‘Like’ was never enough for Facebook Inc. users, considering many feeds consist of news reports detailing things such as massacres and missing Malaysian planes, not to mention the break-up of a school friend you haven’t seen or cared about for 20 years. Billions of Facebook users had a frisson of hope last year when it ...
2016 is the year Microsoft will make ground on Google for consumer cloud dominance, according to expert
Reports suggest that if you work for a large company, one that has been in existence for a while, looked after by a commensurately sized IT team, then the chances are you’ll be working with Microsoft’s Office 365 rather than Google Apps. “Office 365 organizations are more than 4x larger and are five years older ...
Now there’s no excuse for not doing what you said you’d do with Cortana snooping on your emails
Can you imagine this: You promised your girlfriend/boyfriend last week, in an email, that you’d accompany him/her to the gym (you put on a ton of weight over the holidays). You never made it to the appointment. “I forgot,” you tell your loved one. “Impossible,” is the reply you’re met with. “Cortana would have reminded ...
Synchronicity: A wormhole love story not in touch with its characters
“The power to cross the universe in an instant; the impossible becomes possible; all the unbelievable things you could accomplish; the eternal questions you could answer… and you want to get laid.” This piece of dialogue – part of a witty repartee amongst 101 minutes of quasi-seriousness – could stand as the synopsis for the ...
Microsoft updates Office Apps for iOS, including new inking tools for iPad and iPad Pro
iPad and iPad Pro users can now use the Apple Pencil, or their finger, in Office, Microsoft has announced. The update includes the addition of a new ‘Draw’ tab in the Office ribbon so users can access inking, drawing and writing tools quickly. Instant inking has also been added so that an iPad will detect ...