Tag: reviews

October 16, 2018

Over time a Windows PC will build up a collection of applications that automatically start when you first turn on the PC or laptop. Some of these are useful – cloud syncing services for example, which work best when you […]

October 12, 2018

It’s almost 2019, if you can believe it, and more than fall leaves or pumpkin spice lattes, tech fans like myself relish the smell of a freshly unboxed smartphone (thanks to Apple’s annual September unveiling). But it’s not just consumers […]

October 12, 2018

First announced at the F8 conference in May, the feature gives a standard 2D picture a semi-3D effect that changes perspectives when you tilt and move your phone, or view it from within a VR headset—similar to panning around a […]

October 11, 2018

Increasingly, developers rely on a microservices architecture to build an application as a suite of fine-grained, narrowly focused, and independent services, each of which is developed and deployed independently. Despite the agility fostered by the microservices approach, it also brings […]

October 11, 2018

Fitness trackers and smartwatches have become so advanced that we now expect them to give us detailed information on our heart rate by default. The optical heart-rate sensor was once a unique feature that commanded a premium, but now even […]

October 10, 2018

If you remember last year’s massive Equifax breach, you may also recall DoNotPay, a “robot lawyer.” The AI started as an easy way for people to dispute parking tickets and other minor annoyances, but it quickly expanded to offer more […]

October 10, 2018

The new release is currently testing with the brave and fearless Microsoft Insider Program. Yes, the same team of beta testers who didn’t spot it the first time. Alright, to be fair to them, they did spot it, back in […]

October 10, 2018

Every year Google brings new features to its Photos app together with the Pixel launch. This year, Google introduced Live albums and new editing features in the app. Live albums is a feature that automatically adds photos of people and […]

October 9, 2018

It’s easy to imagine artificial intelligence as a force that makes existing technology more convenient or more powerful, or as one that opens the door to entirely novel possibilities. But one overlooked effect could dramatically change our society, and how […]

October 9, 2018

Building distributed systems is hard. When you’re working with applications that span a planet, the speed of light is a brake on what you want to do, complicating data replication among servers and services. Someone buys a widget in Hong […]