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Huawei announced back at CES 2017 that it planned to bring Amazon Alexa to its Mate 9 smartphone and it's now making good on its word. Amazon's digital assistant is now rolling out to Huawei Mate 9 handsets in the United States, but don't expect to have a mini Amazon Echo in your pocket. While the Huawei Mate 9 gets credit for being the first Alexa-enabled smartphone, one could argue that the Alexa integration is rather incomplete. Huawei Mate 9 Alexa Integration Having

Over the past few years, Adobe has moved aggressively from a developer of creative applications to address business needs of its media-creating customers. The result has been the Adobe Experience Cloud, a roll-up of app suites

False promises abound in Silicon Valley, especially when it comes to free products going paid. But what can you do? Nothing really, and that's a problem.

If you have some cash to spare, then Mass Effect: Andromeda can offer you some nice perks. When the space shooter releases, people will find out that they can buy in-game items using real-world money. Very much like in other AAA multiplayer games like Overwatch and For Honor, microtransactions will appear in Andromeda to give players some quick boosts in multiplayer mode. Mass Effect: Andromeda is coming out March 21 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows. The game has received mixed reviews from various game sites. Real Cash

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On March 21, users all over the world reported that there was a problem while signing in to Skype, OneDrive, and Outlook along with various other Microsoft accounts. A similar problem had plagued users a few days ago, when they were unable to sign-in to their cloud services. Even the Xbox Live site recorded signing in issues, along with limited access. The users faced issues while purchasing and downloading items using Xbox Live. Managed Service Accounts (MSA) is Microsoft's single sign-on program, through which

"As hackers get more aggressive and more sites become outdated, hackers will continue to capitalize by infecting more sites," Google warns.

An oft-frustrating thing with renting movies on iTunes is that users are locked to finishing a film on the device they watched it on initially. So when they rent a specific film using an iPhone, that same film can't be watched on other iDevices. Until now, at least. iTunes Movie Rentals Just Got Better Cross-Platform Support Apple has now introduced a "rent once, watch anywhere" feature with the arrival of iTunes 12.6, which signals that the company is loosening its restrictions on

Artificial intelligence (AI) is simultaneously overhyped, misunderstood, and already hugely impactful, according to Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman, who said many organisations were already successfully using the technology before it became an industry buzzword.Schuerman told ZDNet that

Apple Inc. has been granted another patent, which may usher in a change in future devices. The company has obtained rights for a mobile device with the ability to change dimensions of its screen, which may well lead to Apple capturing the market with a dynamic product. Incidentally, as reported earlier, Apple also acquired a patent for facial recognition integration for its phone locking mechanism. The Shape Shifting Technology The U.S. patent number 9,600,070, filed by the Cupertino-based company is titled "User interface having

One week after the start of Microsoft's rollout of its Teams service to Office 365 business users, Microsoft has started delivering Teams to Office 365 Education customers.Microsoft Teams

The biggest challenge facing Joel de la Garza, chief security officer for file sharing giant Box, is juggling the need to be secure with the need to allow for innovation.Speaking with ZDNet in Sydney, the California-based

The net worth of U.S. President Donald Trump has slipped, dropping by $1 billion according to Forbes' latest list of the richest people in 2017. Released on Monday, March 20, Forbes' new world's billionaires list estimates that Trump's net worth has dropped from $4.5 billion in 2016 to $3.5 billion this year. This $1 billion decline also translates to a considerable drop down the list, as Trump fell from the No. 336 spot last year to No. 544 this year. In

Instagram is expanding its "shoppable" post format that's designed to encourage potential shoppers to make more in-the-moment purchases while browsing photos on the social network.

The Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) is expected to launch soon and the AT&T version recently received certification from the Federal Communications Commission. Samsung has yet to offer any official information regarding the smartphone and it remains unclear just when exactly the new Galaxy J7 will hit the scene, but the FCC is typically among the last stops a device has to make before it's ready for primetime. Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) Coming Soon The Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) is among the rumored Samsung

(Image: file photo) NEW YORK -- A lot of people woke up confused by the news this morning that the US government is banning electronics on some inbound flights from several Muslim-majority countries. They're right. It

A balanced diet is defined as one which contains proper proportions of fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates. All these nutrients help one maintain their fitness levels and health. Food is one of the most underrated factors which helps maintain and safeguard against mental aliments like depression, schizophrenia, hyperactivity disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and attention deficiency. Earlier reports show that having a healthy diet helps in reducing the effects of mental illnesses like depression. A new study has given more clarity on why

In a poorly rolled out bit of security theater, the US just banned people from carrying laptops, cameras, and tablets—but not phones—in the cabins of airliners traveling from several Middle Eastern and North African cities to the US. The regulation affects fliers from Amman, Cairo, Istanbul, Jeddah, Riyadh, Kuwait, Casablanca, Doha, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. It'll also affect anyone connecting through those airports. No US airlines fly into any of these airports. Note that Abu Dhabi is involved. Abu Dhabi (AUH) has

The bug is one of three unpatched flaws that affect the Nest Cam and Dropcam Pro's firmware version 5.2.1.

U.S. children get exposed to opioids and most of them are younger than 5 years old, the most vulnerable age group to the potentially deadly effects of prescription medicines. Figures from the National Poison Data System showed that of the nearly 190,000 reports of people under age 20 who have come in contact with prescription opioids between the years 2000 to 2015, 60 percent involved children 5 years old and below. Of these reported cases of opioid exposure, 96 percent occurred at home. How

Smart Voice & One RemoteMaking TVs "smart" is one thing, but being able to use them smartly and to their full potential is another.Smart TVs have come a long way since Samsung first introduced theirs as

For Honor, a war game that pits Knights, Vikings, and Samurai against each other in chaotic free-for-all matches, received praise from critics for its combat system, balanced character classes and realistic physics. However, one of the aspects of For Honor that has drawn criticism is the free-to-play model of the game. For Honor features microtransactions that require either real money or steel points that players acquire to unlock everything that the game offers. Analyzing The Unlockables Of 'For Honor' Redditor bystander007, in a post on

Chinese networking giant Huawei will be constructing and opening a datacentre in New Zealand within two years as well as expanding its research centre in Wellington and opening another one in Christchurch, it has been reported.According

Adobe is launching its Experience Cloud, which combines parts of its marketing, analytics and content tools, with the aim of broadening its footprint for more roles and functions of an enterprise.And with the launch of Experience

Augmented reality will soon be part of everyday life, if we are to believe Tim Cook. Cook, Apple's CEO, is excited about the future of augmented reality and Apple together. He is psyched that the company is exerting its technological resources to research, develop, and apply AR technology on Apple products, particularly its flagship iPhone. If that happens, then AR can be Apple's "next big thing." While still in infancy, AR is not a new tech. Popular Pokémon GO is an application of

OK, hands up, who knows what High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) is? It's an archaic networking data framing protocol that's used in modems, X.25, frame-relay, ISDN, and other now uncommon networking technologies. I know it because

Perched atop the Delta IV rocket as it blasted off in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on March 18 was a US Air Force's Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) satellite. The WGS-9 will be the ninth member of the planned network of 10 military communication satellites in space. "WGS provides anytime, anywhere communications for soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and international partnership through broadcast, multicast, and point-to-point connections," Robert Tarleton, director of the Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate at Air Force Space Command in Los

The cosmetics company Lush makes ethics a priority in its decision making, CDO Jack Constantine explains. So when Lush moved to the cloud, it looked for a provider that met its digital ethical standards. (via PCMag)

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 ripped through the AnTuTu benchmark, achieving a spectacular score no other smartphone has hit so far. Up until now, Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus had been the top performers on the AnTuTu benchmark, scoring 172,001 and 181,316, respectively. On the Android front, the OnePlus 3T ruled the game, boasting a 162,423 score. Samsung Galaxy S8 AnTuTu Benchmark It now looks like there's a new smartphone king in tow, as a new video surfaced online showing the purported Samsung

It has been just under a year since I reviewed the Toshiba Portégé Z20t, a 2-in-1 hybrid ultrabook that ticked a lot of boxes for me -- although there were also some niggling annoyances. In the frame now is Toshiba's new 2017 flagship ultrabook, the Portégé X20W-D. The removable screen of the Z20t has been replaced with a 360-degree rotating configuration, and Toshiba says this laptop is

After The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York announced last week the development of a blood test to identify autism in children, there have been reports of yet another advancement in diagnostic technology, this time from scientists at Yale, the John B. Pierce Laboratory, and the VA Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut. The team has worked on an early diagnosis tool for depression and schizophrenia and created a blood test that can differentiate between the two conditions. Their procedure focuses on a new

Tech companies and auto makers need to join forces and educate regulators on self-driving cars, or rules of the road will never get off the ground.