You expect every laptop to have Wi-Fi and some kind of USB. What you probably don’t expect is battling specs that will make it difficult to know what sort of wireless and USB you have. We’ll sort it out for you here: What Wi-Fi 5 and USB 3.2 mean, and why they’re the same thing […]
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at what could be the announcement of a brain-machine interface that could one day hook human brains up to computers on Sunday. In response to a question asking for an update on Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup he founded in 2016, Musk replied that new information would be “coming […]
Microsoft has been serious about helping data scientists track and manage their machine learning experiments for some time now. For example, the company’s Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML) cloud service has supported the logging of experiments, including iterative runs with varying algorithms, hyperparameter values, or both. While Azure ML has had its own framework for […]
Windows 10 May 2019 Update is due in next month and hence Microsoft is now laying the groundwork for a smooth rollout of the update. The company has recently updated its support document in which they clearly mentioned that users who are using external USB storage devices or SD cards will have a hard time installing the […]
Wireless charging has a long way to go before it replaces wired charging, but the technology has advanced dramatically in the past few years. Everyone with the newest smartphones, wearables, and other gadgets can get behind the idea—simply place your device on a charging pad or stand and let it sit. Within a few minutes, […]
Owners of the Nokia 9 PureView have had a rough go with the in-display fingerprint sensor they’ve bought their phones — our Ryan Whitwam was not impressed with the fussing around and finger-jambing he had to do in order to achieve authentication. A software update last week was supposed to loosen up and get the […]
iFixit today published its teardown of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, offering more details on a potential flaw in the device, which has now been delayed following reports of several broken review units. Essentially, it looks as though Samsung was so focused on perfecting the folding mechanism on the smartphone/tablet hybrid that it made a major oversight: […]
Samsung Electronics is retrieving all Galaxy Fold samples distributed to reviewers, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday, as the firm smarts from the reputational blow of postponing the launch of its first foldable smartphone. The South Korean tech giant met with embarrassment ahead of the device’s U.S. release on April […]
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) quietly launched a free, ad-supported music streaming service last week for owners of the company’s Alexa-enabled devices (like its Echo smart speakers). This new service is similar to the Amazon Music streaming service (free for Prime Members) and offers access to about 2 million songs through playlists and music stations. The Amazon Music […]
It’s about that time of year, folks. With WWDC now less than two months away and Apple’s 2019 iPhone unveiling just a few months out, the Apple rumor mill is about to kick into high gear. And despite Apple’s best efforts to “double down” on product secrecy, the previous few years have shown that Apple […]
Neuralink SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at what could be the announcement of a brain-machine interface that could one day hook human brains up to computers on Sunday. In response to a question asking for an update on Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup he founded in 2016, Musk replied that new information would be […]
You now have access to a treasure trove of government info through your smart speaker if you live in the UK. The British government has made over 12,000 pieces of Gov.uk information available through Alexa and Google Assistant, saving you the trouble of wading through official pages. Some of them are simple questions like the […]
