Techlife News
How Apple May - Or May Not - Be A Leader On Privacy And Data Use
There has been big news on the battle for privacy and data recently, as Apple took action against some of the other biggest names in the business.
5 min |
Techlife News #380
PCWorld
How Intel & PC Makers Are Creating The Ultra-Responsive Laptops Of Tomorrow
Notebooks and Chromebooks are poised to take advantage of the project Athena Spec, which will guide premium laptop designs from top pc makers (and Google!) over the next few years.
8 min |
February 2019
Techlife News
Apple's Top Retail EXEC To Leave Amid iPhone Sales Slowdown
Apple’s top retailing executive is stepping down amid a slowdown in iPhone sales that has raised doubts about the company’s future growth prospects.
1 min |
Techlife News #380
PCWorld
HTC Reveals Two VR Headsets, The Untethered Vive Cosmos And Gaze-Tracking Vive Pro Eye
Only one of them seems worth your attention, though.
5 min |
February 2019
PC Magazine
Does Windows 10's Security Boost Make Antivirus Obsolete?
Not so long ago, the venerable Windows Defender got a new name—Microsoft Windows Defender Security Center—and made a leap in functionality.
4 min |
February 2019
PCWorld
How To Unlock And Enable Developer Options On Any Android Phone
Google’s dev tools can be fun to play with.
2 min |
February 2019
AppleMagazine
Unblocking Naked Venus: Facebook OKS Museum Nudes After All
It seems Facebook can be friends with a topless Venus after all.
1 min |
February 8, 2019
AppleMagazine
How Apple May - Or May Not - Be A Leader On Privacy And Data Use
There has been big news on the battle for privacy and data recently, as Apple took action against some of the other biggest names in the business.
5 min |
February 8, 2019
AppleMagazine
Spotify Buys Gimlet, Anchor To Ramp Up Its Podcast Game
Music streaming service Spotify is buying podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor as it looks to take on Apple’s popular iTunes’ podcasting platform.
1 min |
February 8, 2019
AppleMagazine
Apple's Top Retail EXEC To Leave Amid iPhone Sales Slowdown
Apple’s top retailing executive is stepping down amid a slowdown in iPhone sales that has raised doubts about the company’s future growth prospects.
1 min |
February 8, 2019
AppleMagazine
EU Says Social Media Now Better At Removing Hate Speech
The European Union says major social media firms have stepped up their efforts to remove hate speech online.
1 min |
February 8, 2019
AppleMagazine
A Deluge Of Drones Fly Over Super Bowl Stadium, Despite Ban
The sky above the stadium that will host Sunday’s Super Bowl is being “inundated” with an alarming number of drones, raising the specter of injuries to tourists or others — or a possible collision with aircraft, the FBI said.
1 min |
February 8, 2019
PCWorld
How To Personalize Your PC
A PC doesn’t have to be a tool; it should feel like an extension of who you are.
8 min |
February 2019
AppleMagazine
Q1 2019 - Services Vs Devices - Apple Opens New Chapter
Apple hoped to offset slowing demand for iPhones by raising the prices of its most important product, but that strategy seems to have backfired after sales sagged during the holiday shopping season.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #379
AppleMagazine
Memos: Facebook Allowed ‘Friendly Fraud' To Profit From Kids
Facebook allowed children to rack up huge bills on digital games while the company rejected recommendations for addressing what it dubbed “friendly fraud,” according to newly released court documents.
3 min |
February 1, 2019
AppleMagazine
Youtube Promises To Stop Promoting Misleading Videos
If you believe the world is flat, don’t count on YouTube recommending videos supporting your theory.
1 min |
February 1, 2019
AppleMagazine
Cashless Super Bowl Coming? Visa Says Yes
So you’re headed to the Super Bowl some year in the future, and you’re wondering how much cash you’ll need for the big game.
2 min |
February 1, 2019
Techlife News
Samsung, Like Apple, Feels Sting Of Slowing Global Growth
Samsung expects its quarterly operating profit to fall 29 percent compared with last year, adding to the tech sector’s unease about the effect of slowing global economic growth on the industry.
1 min |
January 13, 2019
Techlife News
Watching Tv Is Free And Easy With Under-The- Radar Locast
You canceled cable long ago. Your TV antenna has trash reception for ABC. But you want to host an Oscars viewing party. What to do?
3 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Toshiba Unveils Robot To Probe Melted Fukushima Nuclear Fuel
Toshiba Corp. unveiled a remote-controlled robot with tongs that it hopes will be able to probe the inside of one of the three damaged reactors at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant and grip chunks of highly radioactive melted fuel.
2 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Social VR - Repairing Facebook's Damaged Reputation
It’s fair to say that social media’s reputation hasn’t quite grown at the same rate as the number of people who register to use its various forms. Right now, there are an estimated 2.77 billion social media users around the globe, with this figure expected to hit the three billion mark in 2021.
5 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Review: ‘Arctic' Is A Solid, And Solitary, Survival Tale
The premise for ”Arctic ” is so simple it’s almost silly to describe: Stranded man tries to survive. It’s also been done more than a few times in movies, so it’s understandable if hearing that invokes a yawn. And yet with barely any dialogue, traditional storytelling methods or even a cute pet or inanimate object to help, director Joe Penna and star Mads Mikkelsen have made a riveting and precisely plotted film worthy of other greats in the genre.
2 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Researchers Say Amazon Face-Detection Technology Shows Bias
Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin, according to researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto.
2 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Q1 2019 - Services Vs Devices - Apple Opens New Chapter
Apple hoped to offset slowing demand for iPhones by raising the prices of its most important product, but that strategy seems to have backfired after sales sagged during the holiday shopping season.
3 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Facebook Merging Instagram and Whatsapp
With Facebook announcing plans to merge its Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messaging services, we take a closer look at the giant’s stronghold on the ways in which we communicate, and explore whether the new changes will bring us closer together, or give Facebook access to more data to sell advertising and increase its dominance in the market.
6 min |
Techlife News #379
Techlife News
Everything Is Pretty Good In ‘The Lego Movie 2'
“The LEGO Movie” is a hard act to follow. Its world was so fresh and vibrant and unexpected, it’s no wonder that it spawned a number of spinoffs of varying quality. But the big test was always going to be the sequel and whether or not it could recreate the magic of the first. And I’m pleased to report that ”The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part ” is pretty darn good, but also you can’t help shake the feeling that it’s just never going to live up to the exciting newness of the first.
3 min |
Techlife News #379
PC Magazine
How Secure Is Your Messaging App?
Which messaging app would you choose for absolute security? Every developer will say they responsibly consider the security and privacy of their users. But with so many different choices, it can be hard to tell which messaging platforms you can trust.
5 min |
February 2019
Maximum PC
2019 Tech Preview
Take your mind back a moment. It’s November 1996, Bill Clinton has just beaten Bob Dole to the presidency, “Macarena” is topping the charts, and Star Trek: First Contact is about to make waves at the box office. In the world of tech, however, something more wonderful is about to happen. Andrew Grove, Intel’s CEO of the day, is about to drop one of his truth bombs, and that truth? Well, it’s that by 2011, thanks to a combination of Moore’s Law and genius architectural advancements, Intel CPUs will be operating at the 10GHz mark and beyond. Although that prediction may have fallen a bit flat over the years,it’s not to say we haven’t advanced since then, technologically at least. The world of the transistor stops for no nerd, and as another orbit of the sun comes to a close, it’s time for us here at the Maximum PC Lab to condense all of our prophetic ability into one clean, crisp, potentially slightly wooly, article. So, folks, likely more accurate than your election-time pollsters, and definitely more truthful than those Hurricane Florence weather forecasts, hold on to your hats, because it’s time for Maximum PC’s Tech Preview 2019.
10+ min |
January 2019
Maximum PC
Thermaltake Tt Premium X1 RGB
The macro master with speedy keys
3 min |
January 2019
Maximum PC
Sapphire Radeon Nitro+ RX 590 8GB
Look who’s back, back again
3 min |