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Your internet connection speed is often the pivotal factor in defining your user experience. A slow connection might not matter when you’re checking your emails, but when you’re streaming HD video, it can be an excruciating experience if you’re not getting the internet speed that you want. It’s worse if you have to work from…
With over 2 million apps on the Apple App Store, it’s often hard to decide what you need. If you’re not careful you could end up overspending on apps that sound great in the description and the screenshots but will end up never being used. But guess what! Every weekend, some app developers will typically…
September 1 was a bad day for Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. His SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launchpad just days before it was set to carry a payload that included Facebook’s $95 million satellite. But that was just the first part of the day. Musk’s investments in Tesla as well as SolarCity cost…
Our buying habits have dramatically changed over the past several years. From being a nation of cash spenders to becoming a plastic population was merely the first stage of that change. The most significant stage, however, was the shift to electronic payments. How Old is e-Commerce? Electronic commerce isn’t a phenomenon that started with Amazon,…
A lot is riding on the success of Windows 10 for Microsoft, and the company knows this only too well. But when Microsoft closed its Windows 10 free upgrade deadline on July 29, they realized that only about 20% of all PC users opted for the new operating system. Flip that around and you’ll see that…
As an entrepreneur during the early years of technology, you would have had to set up your business the hard way. And one of the first things on your to-do list would have been your IT department. First, you would have hired a tech team capable of putting up your website and developing a mobile application for…
Microsoft is truly becoming a service-oriented company. The company seems to want everything to be available on a subscription basis so you never have to pay to own anything. The latest initiative along those lines is their Rent-a-Surface idea, where people can simply choose the Surface device of their liking and sign up for a monthly…
There’s been a lot of discussion lately around whether artificial intelligence will create a human resources nightmare around the world. That’s already started, and several jobs are already going the automation way, especially in the fields of manufacturing, industrial processes, construction, telemarketing and so on. In a recent article I posted on 1redDrop.com, I spoke…
The Internet of Things, referred to as IOT or IoT, is a surprisingly old technology that was around as far back as the 1982, when a Coke vending machine at the Carnegie Mellon University was “modified” to report how much inventory it had and whether it was cold enough! We’ve come a long way since…
Hot on the heels of confirmed reports that China is getting ready to equip cruise missiles with artificial intelligence targeting capability, a “summer study” on autonomy done by the Defense Science Board shows that the U.S. has already been thinking of weaponizing artificial intelligence. The DSB is a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of…
There has been plenty of speculation about Amazon increasingly becoming a transport and logistics company and competing directly with UPS and Fedex, the kings of parcel movement. Idle talk was further fuel when Amazon launched its own fleet of cargo planes, leasing 20 Boeing 767 wide body freighter aircraft to handle more of its own…
Ads can be very annoying, especially when they pop up unexpectedly when you’re busy reading something important. There are several ways to block these ads and even disable in-app or inline ads that you should be aware of. I’ll also tell you why ad blockers might be considered unethical by many people, including yours truly. But…
Tesla keeps outdoing itself with every coming month. It has recently announced that a Model S with a 100KWh battery is ready for delivery, and owners of the P90D version can opt for an upgrade to the new battery pack. The upgraded Model S certainly packs a punch, delivering an acceleration of 0-60 miles per…
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” – Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. It sends a chill down my spine. Everything I have ever done on the Internet since September 4, 1998 is on record somewhere in Google’s massive server farms. But…
Until now, we’ve been reporting all the good things that artificial intelligence can bring into our daily lives. But now, AI may soon be used to deliver death to our doorstep. In what many consider to be an alarming piece of news, China is reportedly building a fleet of cruise missiles with artificial intelligence capability. What is…
