It’s that time of the year again when companies are rounding-up their Best, Top, Most, and Highest whatevers. Google is always ready with this kind of things. The company recently released the ‘Google Play’s Best of 2016‘–a list of all … Continue reading Google Play’s Best of 2016 list is out
On Wednesday, a Samsung patent showing a design concept for a foldable smartphone made its rounds on the internet. The renderings in the patent, as well as a report claiming that Samsung will unveil two bendable phones in 2017, brought … Continue reading Samsung’s foldable phones could be pricy and few
Facebook is great at giving people things they, like from funny videos to links to heartwarming blog posts. And even if you don’t like some racist meme, somebody’s uncle sure does. But those are all opinions. Whether it admits it … Continue reading Facebook Floods the Internet With Lies, Google Tries to Bring Back Truth
A lab experiment appears to validate an idea about black holes proposed by none other than theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. Moreover, the idea — black holes emit energy called Hawking radiation over time and gradually shrink — seems counterintuitive. How … Continue reading Stephen Hawking Right Again?
In 1886, the German physicist Heinrich Hertz first demonstrated the existence of radio waves, which in honor of him are also called Hertzian waves. His purpose was to test the electromagnetic theory proposed a couple of decades earlier by … Continue reading Li-Fi, the New internet technology
The QUESS satellite is launched by a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, along with the LX-1 research satellite (suspected to test near space operations) and a Spanish science satellite. On August 16, 2016, China became the … Continue reading China Launches First Quantum Communication Satellite
Here’s a bit of unexpected Friday news: Google is building a completely new operating system. As in, not just an upgrade to Android or Chrome OS, but instead, a new system that’s not derived from the Linux kernel. It’s called … Continue reading Google is creating a new OS but not based on Linux
Facebook is preparing to take on Steam for casual gaming. The company today announced the Facebook PC Gaming Platform, a downloadable desktop hub for games made in partnership with Unity. The platform is actually an update to the Facebook Games … Continue reading Facebook and Unity team up to launch a Steam competitor
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies unveiled on Tuesday a smart material packed with sensors that will be used to craft the capsules for the tubular transit system. Made from famously lightweight carbon fiber, the material is eight times stronger than aluminium and … Continue reading Hyperloop capsules to be clad in mega-strong smart skin packed with sensors
Google has acquired Synergyse, a Toronto-based interactive training service for Google Apps for Work that was launched by a group of former Google employees in 2013. As part of this acquisition, Google will make Synergyse Training for Google Apps available for free … Continue reading Google acquires Synergyse, an interactive training service for Google Apps
WhatsApp, Facebook’s messaging service that recently rolled out end-to-end encryption to its users, will be blocked in Brazil for 72 hours, starting this afternoon. A judge from the small Brazilian state of Sergipe ordered telecom providers in the country to block WhatsApp today … Continue reading Brazil orders cell phone carriers to block WhatsApp for 72 hours
Android already commands over 80 percent of the mobile OS market share globally, and just under 60 percent in the US. But you wouldn’t know it here in Silicon Valley — almost everyone I know has an iPhone. As the consumer technology … Continue reading How Android gets to 100% market share
