August was a slow month for tech news, but Microsoft continued to update its Azure cloud platform with a variety of new features, including a new type of instance for high-performance computing. Here's the breakdown of all the features you need to know about: Microsoft
Samsung has filed for a patent covering a mobile device that could run a second operating system via virtualization. While that’s nothing new for the PC industry, it’s the accompanying illustration that’s intriguing: an Android phone running virtualized Windows apps. The Samsung patent application, reported on
Apple will add support for Sony’s Felica RFID communications technology to the new iPhone 7 that is expected to be announced on Wednesday, according to Felica is the defacto standard on which all contactless payment cards and commuter passes in Japan are based. It’s a standard feature in most phones on the market and Felica readers are in hundreds of thousands of stores, railway stations, on buses, taxis, and vending machines. By adding a Felica chip to the iPhone 7, the phone could be used in lieu of dedicated payment and transit cards with the installation of an appropriate app.
If you’re a fan of SwiftKey, you won’t have to forgo all of those slick new emojis that are now a part of Android Nougat. In an update, SwiftKey has added the SwiftKey was kind enough to post an official changelog as to what’s new: The changes are hitting the stable channel of SwiftKey, which you can grab from the
The electronic devices you rely on every day for communication, security, and entertainment are at risk of damage and disconnect due to unexpected blackouts, voltage fluctuations, and other power disruptions. The
Google may serve a side of tablet with the main entrée of Pixel phones this fall. According to the (usually very accurate) hardware-leaking
Google appears to be planning some added security for upcoming Chromebooks. The company’s Led by
Google is developing a new operating system named Fuchsia, and the early source code is already public. Google itself and Fuchsia’s developers haven’t explained what the OS is for—but we can dig into the source code to learn more. Fuchsia is a new, open-source operating system being worked on by Google employees. “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System),” reads the cryptic description on the project’s That’s it, though. While the project’s source code is available and we can see who specifically is working on it, there’s been no official announcement from Google or explanation from the individual developers as to Fuchsia’s purpose.
Bringing you everything from stats to game-time snacks, these apps are as indispensable as your TV remote.
Intel's RealSense computer vision platform has been lacking a low-powered way of recognizing what its depth-sensing cameras are seeing -- until now. The chip giant is buying Movidius, the designer of a range of system-on-chip products for accelerating computer vision processing. Movidius supplies chips to drone makers such as DJI and to thermal imaging company FLIR Systems, itself a supplier of DJI. Its chips help computers figure out what they are seeing through cameras like Intel's RealSense by breaking down the processing into a set of smaller tasks that they can execute in parallel. There are systems that already do this using GPUs, but those are relatively power-hungry, often consuming tens of watts. That's not a problem in fixed applications with access to mains electricity, or in cars, which have huge batteries and a way to recharge them. But in drones or other lightweight IoT devices, power consumption needs to be much lower.
Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind mapping is a technique for visualizing and developing ideas. Unlike linear note taking, mind mapping mimics the way our brain radiates ideas and connects them through natural associations. That makes them ideal for brainstorming, planning complex projects, and writing everything from business plans to novel plots. Mind maps always start with a central concept, represented by an image or text, in the middle of the map. As you begin to free associate, you build branches out from this main node, then branch off of those ideas, and so on.
When it comes to privacy, both Google’s Chrome OS and Microsoft’s Windows 10 take an “opt-out” stance. By default, both platforms collect a variety of data about your usage, but the way they go about it is often different. While Microsoft presents users with PCWorld recently broke down all the ways Microsoft
We already saw Ubisoft's demo for So we headed to the Grand Hyatt outside PAX to strap this disgusting gasmask on my face and see what it could do. Turns out, it can make you retch and feel like you want to die! Though perhaps it was my own fault for hammering on the fart button a dozen times in a row to see just how many farts I could endure.
