The tech industry is preparing to take a stand for net neutrality…again. Facebook, Google, and other companies have all pledged their support to the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality planned by the Fight for the Future nonprofit organization. The Day of Action has a simple goal: convincing people who use some of the world’s most popular websites…
The tech industry is preparing to take a stand for net neutrality…again. Facebook, Google, and other companies have all pledged their support to the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality planned by the Fight for the Future nonprofit organization. The Day of Action has a simple goal: convincing people who use some of the world’s most popular websites…
Tech is uniting against President Trump. Indeed, a host of companies have come out in opposition to the new administration. From 127 tech firms teaming up against Trump’s immigration ban, to Google employees’ massive walkout in response to the immigration ban, to Lyft’s $1 million donation to the ACLU, tech has taken up the language of protest and spoken loud and…
This year gave us some of our favorite tech yet, but it wasn’t good news for all. As with every year, companies went out of business, apps shut down and tech toys disappeared from store shelves for good. From VCRs and Pebble to Vine and Vessel and Meerkat, 2016 gave us plenty of tech fatalities. Let’s take a minute to…
Can an app stop you from getting pregnant? In conjunction with daily input from a basal body thermometer, it can indeed. European startup Natural Cycles, which also bills itself as a fertility tracking service, is today announcing a $6 million Series A funding round, led by Bonnier Media Growth, the venture arm of the Swedish media business. Existing investors Sunstone and E-ventures also participated…
Currently, Chromebooks run apps off the Chrome Web Store, as well as select Android apps in an experimental runtime. But according to details in the latest developer build of Chrome OS, compatibility for Android’s millions of apps could be coming. Users have spotted a glitchy check-box that appears momentarily when settings first load up. If ticked, it promises to “Enable…
OnePlus may only be on its third handset with the 5-inch OnePlus X, but its predecessors have both been very well received. The OnePlus One and OnePlus 2 both represented excellent value for money, and that’s the target for the OnePlus X too. Anyone with around £200 to spend on a phone will struggle to find a match for this…
Even a security manager who has steered away from emerging technology has a change of heart when it becomes ever more difficult to keep up with the ways criminals can sneak into our systems The end of Daylight Saving Time in the Northern Hemisphere signals the lateness of another year, and that means it’s budget time again at my company.…
Google+ ain’t dead, yet. The moribund social network has received a new shot at life with a redesign focused on allowing users to gather in communities devoted to certain topics. The change involves a full redesign of the service across the Web, Android, and iOS devices that users can choose to test when they sign in on the website. Google+…
Frankly, it was always possible to ask Google anything, but for slightly more complicated questions, the answers were a bit…wanting. Now, Google has updated its mobile app to better understand complex queries. In a blog postMonday, Google product manager Satyajeet Salgar explains some of the improvements that help the app make sense of your weird, human thought processes. First, Google…