Microsoft is getting into the livestreaming game with its latest purchase. The company has picked up Beam, a six-month-old service that competes with Twitch and YouTube gaming. Beam’s key advantage over the big players is its super low-latency videos, allowing users to interact with streamers in something that approaches real time (instead of the usual…
Hidden deep within Building 88 on the Microsoft campus lies what’s officially certified to be the quietest room in the world. Really — the company recently won the Guinness World Record for it. While I was in town this week, I got to spend about five minutes in there with Gopal Gopal, principal engineer at…
With last week’s launch of Instagram Stories, there’s no question who Facebook’s trying to put out of business. It’s not the first time they’re taking aim at Snapchat, but it’s definitely the one that will have the heaviest impact. There are a few key reasons why Instagram Stories is Facebook’s biggest chance of winning the…
A program named Mayhem has provisionally won a competition in Las Vegas to find software that does the best job of automatically defending against cyber attacks. Set up by the US Darpa research agency the competition hopes to spur interest in autonomous security systems. Mayhem’s creators will get $2m (£1.52m) to continue their work and…
With more and more internet users now wise to email scams, scammers are utilizing increasingly advanced techniques to stay one step ahead of their targets. A pair of researchers recently stumbled on a new a “wire-wire” technique that earned a 30-strong group of Nigerian scammers as much as $3 million a year, at least until…
Samsung unveiled its latest flagship smartphone — the Galaxy Note 7 — at its Unpacked 2016 event. The smartphone was launched with other devices but the Galaxy Note 7 was clearly the most intriguing. Layers of protection The smartphone is the first to feature Gorilla Glass 5 protection which can survive a 5.2-foot (1.6-meter) drop….
Few Days ago, Microsoft began distributing 2016’s major Windows 10 upgrade to customers via the operating system’s update service. Labeled “Anniversary Update” in a nod to the July 29, 2015, release of the inaugural edition, it was officially tagged as version 1607 to denote year and month. Although the upgrade can be downloaded immediately by…
Xiaomi has unveiled its new Mi Notebook Air, which comes in two different flavors, and as the name might suggest, it takes more than a few cues from a certain MacBook model. The higher-end version of Xiaomi’s Windows 10 notebook is a slim and light 13.3-inch effort with an all-aluminum chassis which packs in a…
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Says: ‘Today we opened the biggest and most advanced hardware lab in Facebook’s history. Over the next 10 years, we’re building everything from Oculus headsets to solar-powered planes. We’ve always had labs for each team, but our new lab will be a hub where engineers can work together to make even…
It looks like the new Instagram has features that are very very similar to SnapChat and social Media users world wide are talking about it. Instagram introduced a ‘new’ feature called InstaStories, where you can upload images and video which will not necessarily show on your timeline, but to a select few of your choice. Thats…
