Accoding to reports, the long rumored Apple iPhone 7 may be coming to users a bit earlier than what was initially expected. According to the latest information in the rumor mill, the new flagship smartphone from the Cupertino-based company would be opening for pre-orders come Sept. 9, only more than a month away from now….
For a year after its launch, Microsoft allowed users of previous versions of its desktop OS to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. That offer ended last week on July 29. If you’ve missed the boat, you’ll be interested to learn that the company’s free upgrade offer is still available to those who use assistive…
The story of malware always comes with the same warning, to be careful of where you download your apps from. Quite often, the instructions to practice safe app shopping is to use the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. It’s repeated often enough that people believe it. Unfortunately, malicious apps have made it…
Snapchat raised so much money they’re doing something really weird with it. 1.8 billion US dollars would make any sane person go crazy. Personally, I think I would buy an island. But what happens if you’re one of the biggest, most influential social media companies the world has ever seen? Well, you start doing weird…
Amazon is inching closer to a reality of delivering products using airborne drones. It’s now partnering with the UK government to expand trials of its drones to cover various delivery scenarios. In collaboration with the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Amazon will test drones that fly beyond the operator’s line of sight in rural and…
Verizon has agreed to acquire Yahoo for $4.83 billion in an all-cash deal, which will be completed early next year. The telecom giant, which also owns AOL, will bring under its wing all of Yahoo’s search, communications and digital content products, as well as its ad services, which cumulatively reach a global audience of over…
In just a few short days, Microsoft will be celebrating Windows 10’s first birthday. It has been a busy year that has seen a number of Windows 10 updates with new features and improvements, but the biggest one is arriving on August 2nd. Microsoft’s free Anniversary Update to Windows 10 includes some highly requested features,…
But for the first time, and what makes this year’s choice unique, is the fact that this year’s winning computer has won using only Chinese designed processors. The computer based in the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, and named Sunway TaihuLight was designed and developed by the Chinese National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering…
When Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo earlier this week to mark Instagram’s 500th million user milestone, he probably didn’t imagine that what was going on in the background would garner more press attention than the actual quite significant social media occurrence. But that’s what happened. Yes, it seems that even the CEO of…
The ‘spaceship’ or ‘mothership’ as some are calling it is set to open some time next year. The circular building is massive in scale and includes a 100,000 square-foot fitness center, 11,000-car parking garage topped with solar panels the building will need to produce some 20-megawatts (enough to power 3,000 homes) of power and a…
