Amazon ‘s Alexa voice platform allows customers to shop on Amazon with voice commands rather than browsing and selecting. Amazon has been making it easier to shop using voice with Alexa, but the company’s focus now seems to increasingly be turning to using the voice assistant as a platform to trial digital subscriptions like music […]
Arlo is a well-known name in the smart home/wireless security camera game these days, and we’re pretty big fans of their products here at AP, but right now some people are pretty upset with the company, and it doesn’t have anything to do with the recent IPO. Widespread outages are being reported for the service, […]
Chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shut down several of its factories last night after it its systems were hit by a computer virus, reports Bloomberg. TSMC is the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, and supplies components for companies like ADM, Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. The company told Bloomberg that the virus infected a “number […]
Beats makes some truly fantastic wireless over-ear headphones, but do you really want to spend between $200 and $300 when you can get headphones that are just as good or even better for so much less? Most people answer no, and that’s why the Mpow 059 Bluetooth Over-Ear Headphones have been the best-selling headphones on […]
There’s a feature in Google Maps that can save you a ton of time if you use it properly. It tells you how busy a place like a restaurant or store typically is, and if there’s usually a wait time, before you even go. For instance, my wife and I went out to a sushi […]
Now that the Surface Go has reached store shelves, there’s a lingering question: how did Microsoft stuff a full-fledged PC (if a modest one) into such a small body? You have your answer. iFixit has torn down the 10-inch tablet, and it’s evident that Microsoft bent over backward to make the design work. For one, […]
Facebook Dating doesn’t plan to launch a standalone dating app, which should temper expectations about how deeply it’s diving into Tinder and Match Group’s territory. The feature will be based inside Facebook’s main app, alongside its many other utilities buried beyond the home screen. It’s not ready for the public yet, but company employees are […]
State-of-the-art quantum devices are not yet large enough to be called full-scale computers. The biggest comprise just a few dozen qubits—a meager count compared to the billions of bits in an ordinary computer’s memory. But steady progress means that these machines now routinely string together 10 or 20 qubits and may soon hold sway over […]
Canada’s new radio telescope has picked up a mysterious signal from deep in space with a frequency so low, it’s never been detected before. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment – or CHIME – detected the strange noise known as a fast radio burst on July 25, BGR.com reported. FRBs are frequently picked up on […]
You might think diagnosing cancer is easy: Someone either has a cancerous tumor or they don’t. In practice, it’s much harder. Telling the difference between a deadly and a harmelss lump is literally “beyond our perception” with current imaging technology, Ilya Goldberg told GeekWire. That’s where he thinks artificial intelligence can step in. Goldberg is […]
Scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current in a way entirely different from conventional metals such as copper. The research, published today in the journal Science, adds new meaning to the materials’ moniker, “strange metals.” Cuprates are high-temperature […]
Mobile 5G isn’t here yet. And no matter how fast or shiny the best phones available today are, they’re going to feel somewhat lacking once 5G networks finally start going live. But what if you could add 5G support to a phone months or even years after you bought it? That’s exactly what Moto is […]
