We've made it to the end of another week, which means it's time for And finally — your place to catch up on the best rumours from the past seven days. This week, we've heard whispers of Alexa growing smarter, a bizarre Google broadcasting hat and an Amazon security camera. Amazon prepari...
THE BOTTOM LINE We can largely avoid the hazards if we protect people’s privacy and fight unfairness. In the last 15 years, we have witnessed an explosion in the amount of digital data available — from the internet, social media, scientific equipment, smartphones, surveillance cameras, and many ...
Apple products have created major cottage industries for accessory makers over the years, but it always seems a little strange when a company makes an accessory for an Apple accessory. That's the case with Pad & Quill's Leather Apple Pencil Grip, which is exactly what it sounds like: a leat...
A huge data breach that may have exposed users' private information and log-in details for thousands of websites was uncovered last week, in what looks to be the most significant internet leak of 2017 so far. Dubbed 'Cloudbleed' in reference to the notorious 'Heartbleed' breach in 2014, th...
American business publication Fast Company has released its list of the most innovative companies of 2017. The annual list ranks enterprises that “tap both heartstrings and purse strings and use the engine of commerce to make a difference in the world” according to its website. Amongst the top ...
The internet is a pool of information and knowledge openly available to all. The possibilities are endless. This information is aided by a platform wherein you input your keywords to be able to get what you are searching for. Google is a multinational, publicly-traded organization built around the...
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All due respect to NASCAR fans, but this is the sort of race we’d rather watch: Companies competing to be the first to unleash the world’s first global internet. Because, hey, we need to be able to surf porn check our fantasy baseball team from anywhere on the planet. It would also be useful t...
Websites can track people acros the internet by checking your device battery life - and may even be hoping to panic you into spending money.  This is according to researchers at Princeton University in the US, who crawled across the top million websites to see what type of tracking they used.&n...
In the course of our day-to-day lives, we produce vast amounts of data. Whether gathered through online communications platforms, tracking devices, or other sources, these data reveal information about our behavior, decisions, and preferences. Researchers can ultimately use the data to improve syste...
With mobile phones becoming the primary source of Internet access for most of us (and for many, the only source), it's no surprise that Google's focus when it comes to Search has also come to rest on our small pocket computers. Shashidhar Thakur, Vice President Engineering at Google, was visiting...
Angela Lawrence, senior lecturer in marketing in Staffordshire Business School at Staffordshire University, reflects on how the internet has not only changed our day-to-day working lives, but the way we live, and how it is important to be connected. "I remember the first tim...
Serious about landing your dream job this year? Or at least, landing a more fulfilling and higher paying job than the one you’re in now? If you said, Yes, then let’s do it! My last article in Huffington Post,2017 Highest Paying Jobs, Best Companies and Fastest Growing Industries, has been helpi...
You probably don’t want to admit it but you love distractions. In fact, just like monkeys, you get a shot of dopamine every time something pulls you in another direction. Why do you think you check your email so much? Want to be more productive and get your focus back? There are no secret tricks h...
This week, I didn’t just want to quit Facebook. I wanted to quit the internet. The outpouring of vitriol surrounding President Donald Trump and the media’s response was endless. My Facebook page was overwhelmed with angry statuses (or depressed statuses). My aunt chose to share a picture of fir...
We’ll likely see new business models and video streaming products from the big ISPs if Trump removes net neutrality rules, and upstart content providers could struggle to compete. The “days are numbered” for the net neutrality rules enacted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission under ...
In 1995, some 40 million people all over the world were connected to the Internet. By 2000 that had grown to around 400 million, and by 2016 it reached 3.5 billion. That means almost half the global population is connected to a single technology. That’s an extraordinary statistic and one that rais...
Earlier this month we told you all about the hackers that were working hard to make the already great NES Classic even better. Using mod tools to tweak the files installed on the Classic’s built-in storage, users are able to more than double the number of games installed on the retro system. Now, ...
As Google continues to invest in machine learning technology to help it better understand and parse user queries, columnist Eric Enge emphasizes the need for marketers to continuously improve content quality and user satisfaction. Back in August, I posited the concept of a two-factor ranking mo...
If you take a look at some futuristic predictions from the past, you can see that thirty or forty years ago scientists believed that the future would be dominated by computers. They were only partly right. According to some data, there were about 2 billion personal computers in the world in 2015. A...
Have you ever been attacked by trolls on social media? I have. In December a mocking tweet from white supremacist David Duke led his supporters to turn my Twitter account into an unholy sewer of Nazi ravings and disturbing personal abuse. It went on for days. We’re losing the Internet war with the...
One study says that 47 percent of U.S. jobs could potentially be replaced by automation over the next 20 years. How's your business handling that prospect? To say that technology has changed the world in just a few short years is something of an understatement. Take the way it's affected our persona...
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If you're holding your shiny new Android smartphone and are wondering how to get the most from it, then you've come to the right place. Whether this is your first smartphone, you've just hopped over from an iPhone, or you've had a number of Android handsets, we've pulled together some of the best An...
Google last year sacrificed the Nexus brand for an entirely new line of high-end smartphones. The Pixel phones became quick hits, especially following the Galaxy Note 7 disaster, even if they’re not as affordable as most Nexus phones used to be. The Pixels are also different from Nexus handse...
Don't you hate it when your phone loses its internet connection and you can't search for something on Google? Well, Google's latest Android app makes that experience a lot better. Google announced that the new version of the Google Android search app will work better for you when you are i...
  • Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:53
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Google has introduced a potentially game-changing update for its Android app that provides offline features for its search results.  Searches made while offline will now be saved and automatically run as soon as the the device gets an internet connection again.  This is particularly useful...

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