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Kado wants to make the world's thinnest charger
TechCrunch - 28 Feb 2017 15:53
What can you wrap up in ribbons? Stick in your sock? And what can you take out in public and not get thrown in the dock? The Kado phone charger, of course. This new product by Itay Hasid and Daniel Assis is making the ro...
SpaceX announces plans for moon mission
CBSNews - 28 Feb 2017 08:16
SpaceX founder Elon Musk announces plan to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year
EVgo launches 150kW high-power fast charging station in California
Slash Gear - 28 Feb 2017 00:42
EVgo, the operator behind more than 900 electric vehicle fast charging stations throughout the U.S., has announced the launch of a high-power EV fast charger in Fremont, California. This has been done in conjunction with...
Gaming company Kabam's roller coaster ride to a $700 million exit
TechCrunch - 28 Feb 2017 21:55
Yesterday, the Game Developers Conference kicked off in downtown San Francisco, and consolidation is a central theme for this year’s attendees. Late last week, we talked with Kevin Chou, cofounder and CEO of the gaming...
Walmart's new app helps you skip store lines
Engadget - 28 Feb 2017 21:04
Walmart doesn't just want its mobile app to speed up your checkout -- now, it might help you avoid lines altogether for certain services. An upgrade to the app has introduced "express lane" services for both prescription...
Everything You Need To Know About IT Asset Management (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Forbes - 28 Feb 2017 17:37
The best asset management program is the one that leverages your company's existing capabilities and tools, and tracks your assets to the level of detail that is commensurate with your organizational risk appetite.
Oculus shows off upcoming VR titles at GDC 2017
Engadget - 28 Feb 2017 17:00
It's the start of the 2017 Game Developers Conference and, as you might expect, it's an event where VR is likely to take center stage. Kicking it all off is Oculus, which not only announced a new Gear VR plus a new contr...
Oppo's 5x optical zoom camera is like a periscope inside your phone
Android Central - 28 Feb 2017 16:53
ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! We live in a glorious age of dual-camera smartphones. Huawei uses a color sensor plus a monochrome sensor to enhance detail and contrast. LG has a standard angle camera plus an ultra-wide-angle o...
How to force Cortana to use your default browser
PC World - 28 Feb 2017 15:00
One of the great horrors of Windows 10 is that Microsoft forces you to use Bing and Microsoft Edge with Cortana. When you search with Cortana, any web searches are automatically sent to Bing and displayed in the Edge bro...
Windows 10 Cloud to allow win32 apps only from Windows Store
Slash Gear - 28 Feb 2017 13:30
It seems that the still unconfirmed Windows 10 Cloud might not be so bad after all. Well, it still depends on how the Windows Store app narrative plays out but at least there's hope. It recently came to light that the lo...
Careful how you use Facebook reactions, they'll soon affect News Feed more than likes
Digital Trends - 28 Feb 2017 07:40
Facebook will now start prioritizing "reactions" over "likes" when ranking your News Feed. The move comes just days after the first anniversary of the feature, which was been used 300 billion times since its launch. The ...
Humans watch a billion hours of YouTube every single day
The Verge - 28 Feb 2017 06:42
YouTube users are now watching more than a billion hours of videos every single day, the company has announced. Put back-to-back, that's more than 100,000 years of footage, split between the millions of YouTube users acr...
Report: Nikon in early development stages for new mirrorless system cameras
Digital Trends - 28 Feb 2017 03:25
It appears Nikon is set to join Canon with its own serious mirrorless camera following the system's rise in popularity among photographers. The news comes directly from Nikon Japan. The post Report: Nikon in early develo...
Walmart is cutting down lines by expanding 'scan and go' feature
Slash Gear - 28 Feb 2017 22:23
Walmart stores can, depending on the time of day and location, have exceedingly long checkout lines, a problem amplified during holidays and major sporting events. That all may be changing in the near future, however, as...
Snap: Rewriting 'Art of War' for social networking -- by not documenting anything
TechCrunch - 28 Feb 2017 22:00
Social networks may be the most valuable and durable types of businesses powered by “network effects,” the phenomenon of products or services becoming more powerful the more people use them. This is one reason the im...
MobileIron lands reseller deal with Lenovo
ZDNet - 28 Feb 2017 19:36
Under the deal, Lenovo will resell MobileIron's security and management platform to enterprise customers purchasing Lenovo PCs, tablets, and smartphones.
SanDisk's new 256GB A1 microSD card is perfect for Adoptable Storage
Android Authority - 28 Feb 2017 17:00
At MWC in Barcelona, SanDisk has expanded its line-up of A1 compatible memory cards with the new Extreme 256 GB microSD card.
All the phones we saw at Mobile World Congress 2017
Android Central - 28 Feb 2017 17:00
There's a long list of new phones to be excited about. Mobile World Congress has always been a fantastic place to get an early look at many different phones that aren't quite here to buy yet. Every year is a little diffe...
'Brass Tactics' is a VR RTS that puts you in a clockwork battlefield
Engadget - 28 Feb 2017 17:00
Real-time strategy and VR don't seem like they would go together. After all, the key attraction to virtual reality is feeling like you're in someone else's shoes in a faraway land of make believe. The top-down view of ty...
'From Other Suns' lets players move in VR however they want
Engadget - 28 Feb 2017 17:00
When I boot up a new VR game for the first time, the same question always hangs in my mind. "So," I think, "how do you teleport in this game." It's become a standard in virtual reality, the go-to movement system that let...
LG to debut its own virtual reality SteamVR headset at GDC 2017
Digital Trends - 28 Feb 2017 16:55ICYMI: San Diego's smart street lights and Norway's robotic sea snakes
Engadget - 28 Feb 2017 16:45
Today on In Case You Missed It: AT&T is teaming with GE to install 3,200 smart sensors atop San Diego's public street lights. These devices, part of a $30 million infrastructure upgrade, will help city administrators bet...