“From using unique passwords for everything to utilising two-step verification and enabling encryption, here’s how to guard your privacy and stay safe 1.”
Google’s Deepmind Is Going Public for Researchers
“Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence division Google DeepMind is making the maze-like game platform it uses for many of its experiments available to other researchers and the general public.”
OLED, explained: Incredible tech, but what about cost and content?
“Recently, I took a deep dive into the world of high dynamic range (HDR), because it’s a curious new trend in TV technology—as in, equal parts mesmerizing and confusing.”
How to unsend your last Gmail message
“We’ve all sent an email that we immediately regretted sending. Maybe you broke up with someone rashly. Maybe you told your boss what’s what, only to remember you didn’t have any job security.”
Is the Google Home growing up fast enough?
“Perhaps I’m impatient, but after more than a month, I’m unimpressed by the improvements Google Home has made so far. Now, it’s still early in Google Home’s life. A month in, the Amazon Echo had nowhere near the robust library of capabilities and partners it has today.”
How to program Google Home to talk to you
“If I could talk to the gadgets in my life, just imagine it. “Okay, Google, what will today be like?” Thankfully, I don’t have to imagine it — this is actually my life. When IFTTT announced integration with Google Assistant, I logged on and started setting up a few tricks of my own.”
Google Translate is Amazing Now, and That Should Terrify You
“Translating languages is hard. If you’re fluent in more than one, you already know that there’s never any direct translation for a lot of phrases.”
This is Apple’s click wheel iPhone prototype
“We’ve known for years that Apple considered a number of different approaches when creating the original iPhone and iOS, but before today, we’ve not had a really good look at any of these early, discarded prototypes.”
The Nokia 6 announcement wasn’t what anyone expected
“We expected a Lumia running Android. What we got might be even better. The return of the Nokia name in the smartphone world when the Nokia 6 was announced by HMD Global wasn’t really a surprise.”
There must have been a lot of Fitbit trackers under the Christmas tree
“Fitbit may have reason for some holiday cheer. Its app rose to be No. 1 among free apps on Apple’s iOS app store on Sunday, suggesting a lot of the company’s fitness trackers were unwrapped on Christmas morning.”
