ZTE is trying its hand at making smartwatches for a second time with the ZTE Quartz. Quartz is the company’s first smartwatch to run on Android Wear and offer Google Assistant compatibility. The company’s first smartwatch, Axon Watch, launched back in 2015 but only in Chinese markets. Quartz has a 1.4 inch AMOLED Gorilla Glass display and a built-in speaker ... Read More »
While Google Home might be a great first-gen product, there’s a lot about it that still frustrates us. We’re still waiting for it to get support for reminders. We can’t yet add events to our Google Calendars. And we’d like it to integrate with more of the smart devices in our home. But it looks like one of our biggest ... Read More »
A Russian man long connected with sending spam emails has been arrested and is being held in Spain, with a law enforcement source contracting news reports saying he was involved with a computer virus linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent election victory. The arrest of Piotr Levashov at the Barcelona airport on Friday was not tied to Russian interference ... Read More »
Microsoft is acquiring Deis, a company that makes tools to work with the Kubernetes open-source container orchestration system. The deal, announced Monday, marks Microsoft’s continued interest in container orchestration. Deis creates tools that aim to simplify the development of modern, containerized applications. Containers allow developers to write an application for an isolated, portable runtime that is supposed to be easily ... Read More »
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Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer best known as the maker of iPhones and iPads for Apple, is said to be preparing a $27 billion bid to acquire Toshiba’s computer chip assets. Toshiba is most commonly recognized for making NAND flash and memory chips, with all of its factories in Japan. However, chip manufacturing in Japan has slipped as rivals in South ... Read More »
Imagine a fellow airplane passenger sitting next to you and yelling into his mobile phone for six hours during a cross-country flight. If simply thinking about that scenario gives you a headache, you’re not alone. On Monday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission killed a plan to allow mobile phone calls during commercial airline flights. Since 2013, the FCC and the Federal ... Read More »
In AMD’s world, a virtual reality headset that wires you to a PC isn’t fun. So the chip company has acquired Nitero, which provides technology for VR headsets to be wirelessly connected to PCs or mobile devices. Nitero’s technology will help device makers build VR headsets that wirelessly connect to devices in the multi-gigabit throughput range, according to AMD. [ ... Read More »
A group of hackers that has been trying to sell exploits and malware allegedly used by the U.S. National Security Agency decided to make the data available for free over the weekend. The security community was expecting the password-encrypted archive that the Shadow Brokers group unlocked Saturday to contain previously unknown and unpatched exploits — known in the industry as ... Read More »
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