This profile originally appeared in The Cohort, Poynter’s bi-monthly newsletter about women kicking ass in digital media. It’s no secret that journalism is moving at a faster pace. And that’s especially so for those covering breaking news. They’re having to work quicker and quicker to get content up online, on social media, produce video, and often have to talk to people on one of the most difficult […]
Microsoft announced yesterday that it will be opening its third IoT & AI (Internet of Things and artificial intelligence) Insiders Lab. The new lab, located in Munich, Germany is set to open in April and will provide an EMEA point of presence to round out the existing labs in the Americas (Redmond, Wash.) and Asia (Shenzhen, China). Mission possibleThe mission of the labs is to provide facilities […]
Samsung Galaxy S8. Photo by Michael Krigsman. Is it a “work of art” as Samsung described it? Of course not. The Galaxy S8 is no Michelangelo. Samsung is also saying it’s the best design in consumer electronics, and although we shouldn’t take the Korean tech giant’s hyperbole too literally, I for one agree. The unveiling and design of the Galaxy S8, in a lot of ways, is […]
A teardown shows the new iPad looks a lot like the original iPad Air. iFixit With its tablet sales on a sustained decline, Apple made a surprise move last month by introducing a new 9.7-inch iPad with a lower price point of $329. This new model replaces the iPad Air 2 in the company’s tablet lineup, but its specs suggested that newer doesn’t necessarily equal better. It […]
I headed out to New York City for the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event last week and describe my day on MobileTechRoundup show #394. Kevin and I had plenty of other mobile tech to discuss too. Image: ZDNet Recapping the Samsung Galaxy S8 event Gear 360 and Samsung DeX look interesting Kevin bought a Moto G5 Plus and is impressed Huawei P10 hands on Garmin’s new Forerunner 935 […]
It’s no secret that vending machine offerings are not always the healthiest options for snacks and drinks. As one of the most convenient means to get a quick fix, vending machines are often the sources of high calorie snacks when you’re on the go. According to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health, the simple act of making people wait for your snack in […]
THE National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) expressed its keenness to be “flexible” in discussing the provisions of the Government of the Republic of the Philippine’s (GRP) demand to have a bilateral ceasefire agreement to end armed hostilities. “The NDFP negotiating panel is willing to be flexible and is open to discuss with its counterpart what kind of bilateral ceasefire agreement is desired by the GRP […]
Image: Garmin Serving as a successor to 2016’s Garmin 735XT, the Forerunner 935 is focused on athletes focused on performance and results. Running is a major focus while the recently announced Fenix 5 series is focused on adventure and style, in addition to multi-sport fitness. The Garmin Forerunner 935 has similar functionality to the Fenix 5 series, but has a lighter design with more plastic and less […]
Chat is nothing new in business (or even new to Microsoft), but it’s heading out of the technical department and the personal chat clients, and into the wider workforce. Microsoft Teams has some obvious similarities to Slack and HipChat and the other business chat services, but it has a different focus. This is chat for teams of people in your business who already use Office 365 tools […]
O’Keefe said Project Veritas’ lawyer, Benjamin Barr, is submitting complaints and requests for investigation to the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the FEC. O’Keefe provided the Center for Public Integrity with copies of the letters from Barr to the Department of Justice and the Federal Election Commission. The letters state the creators of the PAC “fraudulently misrepresented […]
TEHRAN: Iran has banned some of its women players from billiard sports competitions for a year for violating the Islamic codes of conduct at a tournament in China, sporting authorities announced.The Disciplinary Committee of Bowling, Billiard and Boxing Federation did not reveal the nature of the alleged offenses, saying it would name the transgressors later.“Women sent to China Open (billiard) competitions will be banned from all domestic […]
Default Twitter profiles over the years… Image credit: Twitter Twitter users were shocked today when thousands of eggs disappeared, but cosmetic changes are unlikely to fix the service’s main problem, which is retaining new users. It’s what’s known in the marketing world as a “leaky bucket“. New Twitter profile image Twitter has been giving new users an egg-like profile picture since 2010, with the idea that they’d […]
Silicon Valley tech companies should do more to help media companies get subscribers and revenues – this was the gist from six panelists discussing “Journalism + Silicon Valley: The Balance of Power” at a recent event in San Francisco organized by the Tow Center for Digital Journalists. The event marked the release of Tow Center’s report: “The Platform Press: How Silicon Valley reengineered journalism |” It is […]
AMD Ryzen is amazing in many aspects except one: gaming. Intel is beating AMD in this division. So the company promised to prove it is good for gaming with an optimization project and so far, the results are looking good. AMD collaborated with studio Oxide Games to release a patch for the game Ashes of the Singularity. Based on the company claims and tests of independent third parties, the game improved […]
Major internet service providers (ISPs) on Friday said they don’t plan to sell their customers’ web browsing data, even after Congress cleared the way for them to do so. The statements from Verizon, Comcast and AT&T follow the congressional vote to repeal federal regulation that would have prevented ISPs from selling consumers’ personal information. “We have committed not to share our customers’ sensitive information (such as banking, […]
Kingston’s Data Traveler is among only a handful of drives certified to work with Windows To Go. Can you imagine being a modern business traveler on a 12-hour transcontinental flight without access to a portable PC or even a tablet? I can’t either. And yet that’s the unpleasant reality the Trump administration has forced on some passengers who are booked on nonstop flights to the United States […]
Verizon said on Friday it would reorganize its operating structure to focus on three core business areas: media and telematics, network and technology, and customer and product operations. The telecom giant has also hired former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg to lead its new network and technology team. Vestberg will focus on further developing Verizon’s fiber network infrastructure. He will initially be based in Sweden, and is expected […]
Attackers are using fake airline booking confirmation messages to steal corporate credentials. Image: iStock Cyberattackers are carefully crafting individual phishing emails puporting to be from airlines and financial departments to deliver malware and are even mimicking internal corporate travel and expenses systems in order to steal personal details from specifically targeted victims. While cybercriminals using the lure of fake travel itineraries is to dupe those in sectors […]
Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes: “Amazon is a tornado.” Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes is disarmingly honest about the ride the company has been on in recent years. This is what happens, he says, “when the world’s largest bookseller comes into your industry.” It wasn’t Amazon’s bookselling ability that caused Rackspace headaches, of course, but its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS). Rackspace started out as web hosting […]
One of the few regrets of Vint Cerf, who is often referred to as the ‘father of the Internet’, is the fact that encryption using public cryptography was not baked in the original ARPANET design. While the early Internet was meant to meet a number of requirements such as resilience and openness, encryption was not one of them. Some of this was because of the high cost […]
Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from reality. That’s an extreme paraphrase of Poe’s Law, but it applies to so much of our world today. Including the management of Twitter. On Thursday, Twitter announced more changes to the way it works. Soon after, an image started circulating which supposedly explained these changes. And it was so confusing. “Replies now part of Timeline. Timeline and TimelLine are now […]
Heroin addiction and its use has increased rapidly in the United States in the past few years. The most impacted are the whites in the country, as well as people with low income and poor education. According to the CDC, in 2015, drug overdose killed 52,404 people in the United States. Out of this number, 63 percent died due to opioid addiction. Now, a study reveals that heroin addiction […]
By Martin Petty and Neil Jerome Morales | MANILA MANILA Allies of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte have prepared legislation to postpone elections to the over 40,000 village councils in the country and allow him to choose replacements in what they say is part of the war on drugs. If passed by Congress, the move would make Duterte, a former mayor, the most powerful leader in the Philippines […]
Citrix XenDesktop Essentials –the promised Citrix Cloud service for delivering Windows 10 Enterprise virtual desktops on Azure — is now available for purchase. As of this week, we finally know the pricing for this service. XenDesktop Essentials costs $12 per user per month, or $144 per user per year. There’s a 25 user minimum for the service, and billing is charged monthly. To date, users have been […]
