Samsung has done a minor refresh of its Notebook 9 Series laptops that were introduced at CES 2016 earlier this year; interesting, this refresh comes only a few weeks before CES 2017. Interestingly, a few rumors cropped up about Samsung selling off its PC division to Lenovo earlier in November; since …
Read More »LinkedIn-owned Lynda.com suffers data breach affecting over 50 thousand users
Lynda.com – the online resource to learn almost any skill you could ask for, has suffered a data breach that affects more than 50 thousand of its users. Thankfully, Lynda.com – unlike Yahoo – isn’t the one to hide their failures under the rug; the company has started notifying all …
Read More »Microsoft’s Project Cheshire might have a webapp alongside the apps
Microsoft has been working on a brand new to-do app; Project Cheshire. It puts us in a very conflicting place – does Wunderlist not serve all of the same purposes that Cheshire aims to? It’s an odd project, from an otherwise sane company. Google is the one who makes three …
Read More »Samsung might unveil its AR technology at MWC 2017
Samsung has been quite proactive when it comes to the AR and VR space – the company was the first to build and commercialize a mobile VR headset in partnership with Oculus; Samsung’s Gear VR works well, but now it seems the company wants to be the first to bring …
Read More »Microsoft releases massive dataset to help AI researchers create better voice responses
Microsoft has released a dataset of exactly 100,000 questions and answers, intended for researchers and educators. Microsoft is calling this dataset “MS MARCO” – that’s cleverly short for Microsoft Machine Reading Comprehension. The dataset, of course, serves a great purpose for researchers who require a good amount of data to …
Read More »Microsoft Edge to support Payment Request API with Creators Update
The World Wide Web Consortium is an organization that maintains the standard across the world-wide-web; known as W3C, the consortium was founded and is led by Tim Berners-Lee himself. W3C’s job is to maintain standards – its over 450 (and growing) members collectively suggest and work on ideas to keep …
Read More »Microsoft is reportedly among the first in line to buy LG’s foldable displays
The CES this year – in 2016 – showed us a lot of new and upcoming technology that blew our minds; one piece of technology was all the rage at the event: foldable screens. The two Korean giants – Samsung and LG – have been developing foldable displays for a …
Read More »Groove adds ‘Your Groove’ in the Android and iOS apps with the latest update
Microsoft isn’t always very good at keeping feature parity between the several versions of its software – especially now that they are publishing most of their software on multiple platforms including Android and iOS. It is often noticed – quite ironically – that the Windows 10 Mobile version of certain …
Read More »Microsoft might allow custom gamerpics on Xbox Live
The Xbox platform is going through an expansion – no longer is it limited to the consoles, it’s on every Windows 10 PC, and it intends to count the PC gamer as part of the Xbox family. Of course, Microsoft is very careful with those intentions, since everybody remembers what …
Read More »Microsoft will have a presence at the Mobile World Congress 2017
The mobile business hasn’t been very nice to Microsoft in the past few years; Microsoft sold off the very expensive Nokia brand – which, by the way, is making a comeback in 2017 – and then decided to sell off the remaining Lumia devices as fast as it could get …
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