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More than a game, Super Mario Run is also incriminating proof that Nintendo, who was once hyper adamant — adamant, still, though a little lax now — about bringing its roster of popular and beloved franchises over to smartphones, has accepted that the huge smartphone audience is a tappable market, and that it'd be dumb not to tap it. Nintendo has done so — and in a smart way, at that. To test the waters, it first released not so much a

Stevenson will oversee the infrastructure side of the group, including the Lenovo's core datacenter products and solutions portfolio. (Image: Intel)Lenovo has hired former Intel CIO Kim Stevenson to serve as the SVP and general manager of

Google on Friday announced further updates to Hangouts that are geared for an enterprise audience. After gradually replacing Google Talk with Hangouts, Google is officially getting rid of Talk. Additionally, the company is removing SMS from

In February, Google confirmed that would makes its Assistant available to non-Pixel smartphones, which left many Android users wondering when they would benefit from the virtual assistant. Close on the heels of the announcement, the OnePlus 3 reportedly received the Google Assistant as an over-the-air (OTA) update. However, only a handful of OnePlus 3 users reported the arrival of the update in early March. Now, OnePlus is poised to push out the Google Assistant to the OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T. This news comes

Your Apple iCloud account may be open to attacks.Maybe the London-based hacker group -- which goes by the name "Turkish Crime Family" -- doesn't have access to 250-million Apple iCloud account names and passwords. But they

A new study looking into job automation estimates that millions of human workers around the world might lose their jobs to robots in the future. According to a new PwC report, many jobs worldwide risk automation from artificial intelligence and robotics by the early 2030s. However, the report notes that in many cases the jobs won't disappear altogether, but rather change and adapt. US Jobs Most At Risk Of Automation While automation will impact millions of human workers globally, Americans seem to be at

Pressed to explain his lack of concern, Mnuchin said, "It depends on what you think of artificial intelligence." (Image: CSPAN)Artificial intelligence won't pose a real threat to American jobs for "50 or 100 more years," Treasury

A recently developed vaccine shows great promise in the prevention of rotavirus, a deadly infectious disease which causes severe gastroenteritis in children and is responsible for hundreds of daily fatalities worldwide. Among this vaccine's major advantages are its heat-stable quality, meaning it doesn't require refrigeration, its high affordability and the fact that it specifically targets viral strains encountered in sub-Saharan Africa, the world's most rotavirus affected region. The new vaccine, known as BRV-PV, was tested in a large trial conducted in Niger by

The highest-end Nokia 6 Arte Black is among the phones set for a global rollout.

The first quarter of 2017 is almost over and Xbox is keeping the game train going with its free game offering for April. Xbox Live has announced its April Games with Gold featuring four hit games: two Xbox One and two Xbox 360 games playable via backwards compatibility. These games are: Ryse: Son of Rome, Darksiders, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and The Walking Dead: Season Two. These limited-time games will be available for download on their respective dates for FREE for all Xbox Live Gold members. 'Ryse:

At the start of the year, I was part of a panel that aimed to offer career guidance to graduating students at a local secondary school in Singapore. The panel dished out the usual advice about

Alibaba has joined forces with AusPost, Blackmores, and PwC to explore the use of blockchain technology to combat food fraud.The Chinese ecommerce giant said the goal is develop a "Food Trust Framework" to help improve integrity

A person who sticks to a healthy lifestyle — doesn't smoke, doesn't eat processed foods, stays fit with regular workouts, steers clear from carcinogens — and who has no known family history of the disease can get the big C. But why? 66 Percent Of Cancers Due To DNA Errors Scientists at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center shed light on this topic with their new study suggesting that random, unpredictable DNA copying errors account for nearly 66 percent, or at least two-thirds, of the

Google has announced plans to reduce the trust in Symantec TLS certificates until a point is reached in early 2018 where Chrome 64 will only trust certificates issued for 279 days or less from the security

Federal investigators are looking at whether the $81 million stolen from a Bangladesh central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year has links to North Korea. This is due to similarities in the code used in the online heist and in an earlier breach of Sony Pictures, according to two insiders quoted by Bloomberg and who asked to remain unidentified since the matter has not gone public. The theft, deemed one of the biggest bank heists in

ZTE Corporation has released its financial results for 2016, reporting full-revenue of 101.2 billion yuan, an increase of 1.04 percent to the 100.18 billion yuan reported in the previous corresponding period.The Chinese telecommunications hardware vendor, which

Two prominent economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, made national headlines when they reported in 2015 the spike in mortality among midlife white Americans since 1999, higher than the death rates of blacks, Hispanics, and Europeans. This time, Case and Deaton said the steady rise of deaths among white working-class Americans could have its roots to the not-so-rosy opportunities for the less-educated as they enter the job market. The new study, Case said, has identified a "sea of despair" behind the gloomy outlook

Vodafone NZ has announced that it will be seeking approval to acquire 70 percent of Farmside, the rural broadband and satellite arm of small carrier TeamTalk, for NZ$10 million in cash as well as the option

Do you need software-defined storage (SDS) for your enterprise virtualization, analytics, and enterprise sync and share workloads? If so, then Red Hat has the program for you: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2.Red Hat Gluster Storage

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ are inching closer to their March 29 debut and as the expected launch nears, more details on the devices are emerging online. Close on the heels of the color options for the impending Samsung flagships surfacing online, the alleged batteries of the two handsets have made an appearance. The supposed batteries of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ have surfaced online courtesy publication SlashLeaks. The leaked images show off the model numbers for the battery packs.

Intel has put its artificial intelligence efforts under one group led by Naveen Rao, former CEO of Nervana, which was acquired by the chip giant.

The lungs play an important role in producing blood. Until this discovery, lungs were only associated with breathing, and the bone marrow was thought to be the one responsible for blood production. New research carried out at the University of California San Francisco has found that most of the platelets are actually produced in the lungs, and not in the bone marrow. The study was conducted on mice and it suggests that the lungs have a reservoir of blood stem cells that

Predicting and acting upon financial fraud is one of the prime areas of application of advanced big data techniques like machine learning (ML). Earlier this week, a case of money laundering known as the Laundromat was

Last week, a colleague received the printer's proofs for an article that she submitted two years ago. You read that correctly. In the time that it takes to earn a master's degree, she managed to navigate the labyrinth of academic peer review in order to publish one essay. It's a success story, if you can maintain your sense of humor. Journal publishing in the humanities is slow, even by academic standards. Writers often wait several months to hear that an essay

President Donald Trump has given more than he promised to space agency NASA. On Tuesday, March 21, he signed an advisory bill and authorized funding of $19.5 billion to NASA. Initially, President Trump had proposed funding of $19.1 billion, but for reasons best known to him, he upped the amount by $4 billion. This is the first of its kind authorization bill that has been given to NASA in the last seven years. There are not many major changes in the bill

Fans of "Shark Tank" might recall a recent episode in which a startup company called Sand Cloud won a deal with shark Robert Herjavec. The company's business success to date--which helped it land the deal on

Rumors suggest that the Moto G5 handset could possibly get a new hue, which may excite smartphone lovers. Lenovo-owned Motorola launched its flagship smartphones Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February this year. The two smartphones were launched in two colors, namely Lunar Gray and Fine Gold. Moto G5: New Color Coming? The Moto G5 is possibly gearing up to add a blue shade to the available color options. Tipster Roland Quandt has shared the supposed offical image of the Moto

The New South Wales government has announced the appointment of Dr Maria Milosavljevic as the state's inaugural government chief information security officer (GCISO). Milosavljevic will leave her current role as the chief innovation officer and chief

Cloud-based collaboration tool Slack is in the business of making work life simple, but the startup darling's chief security officer Geoff Belknap is in the business of making sure this comes with an unsurpassable level of

For those feeling a bit hopeless because their Switch units are constantly having connectivity issues, fret no more. Not only is Nintendo offering a simple fix to get the affected controller in top shape again, it has also reassured that units moving forward will not hold the same woe. Nintendo Switch Left Joy-Con Connectivity Issues While it didn't admit that the Switch's Joy-Con has a core design flaw, Nintendo has acknowledged the connectivity problems and has confirmed that the issue stems from

New Zealand telecommunications carrier TeamTalk has urged its shareholders to reject the "predatory" and "exploitative" takeover by mobile carrier Spark, obtaining an independent assessment to demonstrate that the acquisition undervalues the company's value to the tune

Google has finally released the first developer preview for Android O, the next major version of its mobile operating system. The first Android O developer preview, however, is being rolled out differently compared to the first developer preview for Android N, which later turned out to be Android Nougat. While the Android Nougat developer preview was immediately released into the Android Beta channel, the Android O developer preview is only being made available for now to owners of Nexus and Pixel devices. If you

Virtustream announced on Thursday that its enterprise cloud platform is officially available in Australia and New Zealand.The cloud company -- which was acquired by EMC in 2015 for $1.2 billion, before the storage giant itself was