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The news that Google’s DeepMind program AlphaGo beat human champions in a game of Go might have impressed a lot of people, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is far less impressed. In a comment made to audience members on the first day of the Microsoft Ignite conference being held in…
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen so many negative reviews on Windows 10 that I can’t help but wonder why I’m so happy with my version. I use two laptops for work – one is a MacBook Pro which now has the latest macOS Sierra, and the other is my older Windows 8.1 backup…
A few hours ago BBC News published a video of in-house tech expert reporter Chris Bailey Foxx telling viewers how to protect themselves from a security hack if they suspect that the two-year-old Yahoo hack affecting 500 million Yahoo users might have put them at risk. We’ve posted the video link here, as well as our commentary, to help our readers understand…
In what could be one of the biggest snafus by Facebook in recent times, the social media giant offered its “sincere apologies” for overestimating a significant video metric that it was reporting to its advertisers, according to a WSJ report. The error in question involved calculating the average time that Facebook users spent watching videos –…
In July this year travel agent Teri Goldstein was awarded $10,000 because Microsoft forced her system to upgrade to Windows 10. This is just one of many incidents where people have complained about forced installations of the latest Windows operating system from the Redmond, WA-headquartered software company. According to the Telegraph, reports have been flooding in regarding…
The latest Windows 10 update from Microsoft is actually an update for users of the older Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems, and is available from yesterday Sep 20 in the Windows Update section of the older OS versions. Of note is the fact that Win 7 and 8.1 users can still get a clean…
Even before rumors of Microsoft’s new Surface Phone started making its rounds, it’s been common knowledge that the Lumia 950 and 950 XL would be the first phones to be replaced. We’re now seeing tangible signs of that happening, with AT&T now offering the Lumia 950 at $299 with no contractual obligation. A month ago…
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld 2016 conference yesterday, founder and CTO Larry Ellison finally unveiled the plan he’s been talking about to topple Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) from the top of the cloud infrastructure industry. Yesterday we covered what he had said prior to the event: MUST READ: Oracle to Challenge Amazon in Cloud Computing Infrastructure…
For smartphone aficionados 2016 is nearly over, with most of the bigger launches already done and dusted. The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus from Apple are out, as is the Apple Watch series 2; and Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 is out, albeit bitten by a major recall bug because of battery overheating issues; so what’s…
Apple users who generally get their iPhones on a carrier contract will know this, but there are a surprisingly huge pool of Apple fans who don’t yet know that they can get a free iPhone 7…sort of. What you do is take your older iPhone 6 or 6S to a carrier – AT&T, Verizon, Sprint…
According to a recent report, Microsoft is going to give its Skype video calling app a new avatar called Skype Teams that will put it in direct competition with Slack, one of the world’s most popular team collaboration apps. Slack is essentially a chat tool with file-sharing capabilities that integrates with other apps to give…
If you’ve ready my recent article about Google’s problems of late, you’ll know that the company is spreading itself too thin across several projects. Another one of those seems to be Muze, a collaborative project with German company Zalando. The project involves using Google’s the machine learning capabilities of TensorFlow, and what it does is…
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…
It’s been nearly two months since we heard anything about the Model 3, but now a photo from one of Tesla’s employees is making its rounds, putting to rest speculations that the Model 3 is far behind schedule. So far, this is what we’ve seen. Earlier this year two prototypes were seen of the Model…
Personal security is a massive market opportunity. The fact that our modern societies are “relatively safe” does nothing to assure us that we’re safe when we’re out alone. Not even in the daytime. Women, of course, are generally more conscious about personal security when they’re alone, but nobody is truly safe in today’s biggest cities….
