[ad_1] You’ve probably seen a few of these smart paper or smart pen things over the years — write in this special notebook and it gets saved to an app, that sort of thing. A new entrant to this niche space is the Everlast notebook, which obviates the necessity of ...
Read More »Google brings its upgraded keyboard app Gboard to Android
[ad_1] Google today officially announced that it’s rebranding its Google Keyboard application for Android users to “Gboard,” the name sported by its newer keyboard app that sports a fully integrated Google Search engine, emoji and GIF search, and more. The keyboard’s Android launch had been spotted earlier this week by a number of media sites ...
Read More »Verizon is letting Samsung brick the Note 7 after all, but waiting until after the holidays
[ad_1] About a week ago, Samsung announced that it was finally ready to be done with this whole Note 7 situation, once and for all. The company issued a release stating that it would issue a software update here in the States that would effectively brick the troubled handset, rendering ...
Read More »New Kia GT is Automaker’s Quickest Car to Date
[ad_1] Kia is giving us a closer look at its upcoming sports car in the second installment of the video series “The Curve Ahead.” The new car is seen driving around the track, clocking a 0-62 mph run of 5.1 seconds. The Korean automaker calls its new sports car “the ...
Read More »Nokia to acquire IP network analytics firm Deepfield
[ad_1] Nokia Nokia has announced plans to acquire Deepfield to improve the firm’s IP network and data analytics solutions portfolio. Announced on December 15, Nokia said the deal to acquire the small US-based company “will extend Nokia’s leadership in real-time, analytics-driven network and service automation” and will advance solutions including ...
Read More »Google launches first developer preview of Android Things, its new IoT platform
[ad_1] Google today announced Android Things, its new comprehensive IoT platform for building smart devices on top of Android APIs and Google’s own services. Android Things is now available as a developer preview. Essentially, this is Android for IoT. It combines Google’s earlier efforts around Brillo (which was also Android-based, ...
Read More »Mario arrives as Pokemon Go peaks, with declining downloads, falling revenue
[ad_1] The phenomenal mobile hit Pokémon Go has peaked, just as the anticipated Nintendo title Super Mario Run hits the App Store, vying for mobile users’ attention and the chance to best Pokémon’s record-breaking numbers. According to new data from App Annie, Pokémon Go has seen declines in both downloads ...
Read More »The Arduino MKRZero is a teenier, tinier DIY board for hardware hackers
[ad_1] What do you buy for someone who has everything? Either a pink fairy armadillo or an Arduino MKRZero. I’d recommend going with the Arduino. The MKRZero is basically a really, really small microcomputer with a number of outputs and headers as well as a battery management system and USB ...
Read More »Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from outside fact checkers
[ad_1] Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth.” It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, ...
Read More »Periscope sunk without Twitter’s wings
[ad_1] Periscope’s app is slipping beneath the waves. It’s steadily dropped from #23 on the overall iOS app charts in January to #441 this weekend. Now Twitter is adding Periscope’s live streaming abilities to its own app, something it should have done from the start. Taking 21 months to build ...
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