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Google had been working on a project called Dragonfly, which was being developed as censored search engine that would be used in China. The decision comes after hundreds of Google employees called on the company to cancel the project. The Intercept has a very detailed article about what Project Dragonfly was. It was a very secretive project that relied upon
Looking for the final decoration to finish off dressing your O Christmas Tree? Well take a look, or rather a listen, to the Accelerate Holiday Tunes bauble with Bluetooth speaker. Connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth and instead of a Silent Night you'll be Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. The decoration comes in four different colours - Red, Gold, Green and
Facebook revealed more bad news about the lack of security on its platform. In a post on its Developer News site, Facebook notified developers that a photo API bug was discovered that “may have affected people who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to access their photos.” Currently, we believe this may have affected up to 6.8
A Texting Tax in California will most likely be showing up on your mobile bill. The state has decided that residents of California should be taxed for texting as a way to squeeze more cash out of its citizens. Call me not surprised in the least as this action is exactly the kind of thing that the state would do.
Heart rate monitoring is a standard feature for wrist-worn devices today, but this first came to Fitbit's product line with the ChargeHR in 2016. I've had mine for over two years now, and time hasn't been kind to it. The strap's bubbled up and the plastic's degraded and cracked. The electronics still work fine but the ChargeHR was designed as
A Yellow Pages came through my letterbox the other day along with other festive promotions. That was the first clue - a Yellow Pages didn't used to fit through the letterbox, being usually left on the doorstep for the homeowner to trip over. The next clue was the blue flash in the top right hand corner "Final Edition". That's right,
Huawei CFO has been locked up in Canada appears to be awaiting extradition to the United States for Iran Sanction violations and the Chinese are very pissed off. Lot's of diplomatic activity going on. One wonders if this is just a little bit of gamesmanship for the trade deal. But one thing for sure is that this is a pretty
Google announced that it will expedite the closure of Google+ for consumers. In October of this year, Google said it would shut down Google+ for consumers “over a ten month period”. That timeframe has been shortened to “within the next 90 days”. This decision comes after the discovery of a new bug that impacted approximately 52.5 million users in connection
Last year, Pantone's Color of 2018 took us to outer space with Ultra Violet. This year's takes us to Earth's inner space with Living Coral announced as Pantone's Color of the Year for 2019. Officially known as Pantone 16-1546, the colour is "an animating and life-affirming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge." Pantone
DeepMind introduced AlphaZero in 2017. It is a single system that taught itself how to master chess, shogi, and Go, beating state-of-the-art programs in each case. AlphaZero has developed a ground-breaking, highly dynamic, and unconventional style of play. A report titled: “A general reinforcement learning algorightm that masters chess, shogi an Go through self-play” was published by Science Magazine. Part
WordPress 5.0 has been released I will not be one of the first to upgrade largely because we have a lot of editors here and one thing I have found is that big UI changes like this will always cause a certain amount of chaos. Plus I want to give the automatic team a few days to fix some bugs
Google announced that it will stop working on Google Allo, a smart messaging app. Google is going to focus more on its Messages app for Android phones. Google stated that, thanks to their partnerships with over 40 carriers and device makers, over 175 million people are now using Messages, their messaging app for Android phones, every month. Earlier this year,
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