With Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 arriving in stores soon, here’s an important reminder: Face Unlock isn’t anywhere near as good at securing your phone as a fingerprint. If you follow the tech news cycle, you’ve seen the stories: first following the release of the Galaxy S8 and now the new Note. The technology is easily fooled. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The infamous pharmaceuticals entrepreneur lists one-of-a-kind album but warns he may destroy it.
Source: CNET
Mesosphere, which was one of the early companies to adopt containers and which focuses on allowing businesses to run their big data and analytics workloads in the cloud, today announced that it now also supports Kubernetes on its DC/OS platform for running big data applications in the cloud. This announcement is going to come as quite a surprise to many. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Are you upgrading to gigabit internet? Here’s how to check your standards for gigabit compatibility, and make sure your devices will be as fast as possible.
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Source: Digital trends
The internet has claimed its latest victim. Don’t worry, it’s not the collective mind of our progeny (though that might be at risk as well), but rather the venerable Yellow Pages, that guidebook you thought would never go away.
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Source: Digital trends
NASA’s Juno mission overturns widely held scientific assumptions—again.
Source: Wired
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to build a route connecting Vijaywada and Amaravati in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Source: Wired
Kobo’s never had an issue taking on the bigwigs. It’s outlasted bigger names like Sony and Barnes & Noble in the devoted e-reader space, and now it’s ready to take a swipe at Audible’s marketshare dominance. The Rakuten-owned company has just announced the launch of its own audiobook service.
The store is live now, with titles available for a la carte purchasing. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
As apps like WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber gear up to let businesses use their messaging apps to speak with their customers, there is a parallel track of development happening outside those walled gardens. A startup that has built an open service — sitting outside any specific messaging app — to let businesses communicate with customers by text, has raised a notable round of… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
It’s not just the same car with a new coat of paint.
Source: CNET