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Google has partnered with the Sao Paulo government for the Rotas Rurais project to map out an area of over 60,000 square kilometers, giving addresses to 340,000 residences. By including them in a new database, roughly two million citizens will be given access to medical care, emergency services, government identification, and more. Google introduced the […]
Microsoft offered a first proper look at the next Xbox and revealed the console’s name: Xbox Series X. Previously known as Project Scarlett, the next-generation Xbox resembles a PC tower and it arrives holiday 2020. Xbox chief Phil Spencer wrote in a blog post the Series X design allows Microsoft to pack in four times […]
The president of the US tweeted that “We have agreed to a very large Phase One Deal with China……..The Penalty Tariffs set for December 15th will not be charged because of the fact that we made the deal.” The 15 percent tariffs that would have raised prices on Chinese-made items –including consumer electronics products like […]
Google has managed to catalog an unbelievable amount of imagery to populate its various mapping services. In a blog post by Google Maps Senior Product Manager Thomas Escobar said the company has now captured more than 10 million miles of Street View imagery. That’s enough to circle the globe more than 400 times, Escobar notes. […]
Amazon’s American delivery capacity has more than doubled. They’ve gone from fulfilling 20% of their orders to about 50%, despite an uptick in sales and the introduction of one-day Prime shipping – FedEx and UPS better watch out. CNBC reports that Morgan Stanley analysts are predicting a 68% compound annual growth for deliveries between 2018 […]
Citizen has introduced a Smart Clock thatcan accept Alexa commands through other devices to set timers, much like its Amazon counterpart, but offers a more stylish package that could better fit in with your decor. Set a timer and blue LEDs in the minute markers will show the remaining time without making you reach for […]
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly weighing an injunction against Facebook to stop it from integrating WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger into its own services, according to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The news follows reports that the the FTC has been investigating Facebook as part of an antitrust investigation, […]
Samsung has clarified to Korea’s Yonhap News Agency that it hasn’t actually sold one million Galaxy Fold devices, despite what executive Young Sohn said on stage earlier this week. Yonhap says a company spokesperson “said Sohn may have confused the figure with the company’s initial sales target for the year, emphasizing that sales of the […]
We’ve heard Mark Zuckerberg’s vision, and Facebook shared a charter outlining its rules. Now, Facebook is committing $130 million to the effort. That initial investment is expected to cover the board’s operating expenses for approximately six years or two three-year terms. It will pay for things like office space, staff and travel expenses. Facebook says […]
Twitter introduced labels that appeared on US election candidates’ profiles and tweets in order to identify the office they were running for. Twitter announced today that it will be applying similar labels to candidates’ profiles and tweets for the 2020 US elections. On Twitter when you see the special label on a candidate’s profile or […]
Microsoft is tweaking its Windows logo and the icons for many of the operating system’s apps. Microsoft is now redesigning more than 100 icons across the company with new colors, materials, and finishes. It’s part of a bigger push to modernize Microsoft’s software and services under the Fluent Design set of principles. “With the newest […]
Google is making it a little easier to sift through news stories and potentially find more informative stories in the process. It’s rolling out a search feature that uses AI to organize news articles by story in carousels. This not only helps you focus on a specific topic, but increases the chances that you’ll see […]
YouTube is enacting a stricter anti-harassment policy to curb hate speech and threats that might have otherwise skirted past its moderators. The online video giant no longer allows material that “maliciously insults” people based on traits like gender identity, race or sexual orientation. It’ll also bar “veiled or implied” threats, not just direct ones. You […]
Microsoft has been notifying Windows 7 users about January’s end of support throughout 2019. Now, the company is making its notification prompts even bigger, as full-screen pop-ups to warn about the end of life of Windows 7. The full-screen notification will warn that “your Windows 7 PC is out of support,” and it will start […]
Android Auto has slowly become a very popular offering in vehicles, but it wasn’t always that way. Back in 2017, one of the biggest car manufacturers didn’t have plans to offer Android Auto. Over 2 years later, BMW is now ready to integrate Android Auto in their vehicles, and they will start next year. BMW […]