Twitter will soon let you control who replies to your tweets in an attempt to curb online bullying and harassment. Speaking at an event during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at Las Vegas, Suzanne Xie, the company’s director of product management, said the social network is bringing significant changes around conversation this year. Xie said … Read more
Sonos accuses Google stealing its Speaker. Sonos has brought two lawsuits against Google for alleged copyright infringement, claiming Google used five of its patents to build its own speakers. It’s asking for a ban on all Google devices that use the supposedly stolen tech, including smartphones, laptops, and of course speakers. According to a report … Read more
Lenovo puts e-ink display on ThinkBook Plus laptop. Lenovo has a bunch of interesting laptops at this year’s CES trade show, which include one with 5G support, a Chromebook with a detachable keyboard, and a $2,500 foldable ThinkPad. The one that’s caught my attention is a simpler dual-display affair the ThinkBook Plus. It has an … Read more
Samsung unveils a 8K TV and rotating TV. Every year, several companies reveal futuristic TVs at the Consumer Electronics Show held each January at Las Vegas. This year, Samsung has got the ball rolling with a new 8K bezel-less TV, and a rotating TV called Sero. The stunning new8K TV features a 99 percent screen-to-body … Read more
Dell Laptops to let you control your iPhone. In a bid to make their devices more attractive to iPhone users, Dell will soon allow app mirroring for iOS on its laptops. The functionality will be available through an update to Dell Mobile Connect, a software that was released in 2018 for Android users to connect … Read more
AI creativity will bloom in 2020 as machine learning has been trotted out as a trend to watch for many years now. But there’s good reason to talk about it in the context of 2020. And that’s thanks to developments like TensorFlow.js: an end-to-end open source machine learning library that is capable of running pre-trained … Read more
Huawei’s revenue hits record $122B this year. Huawei reported resilient revenue for 2019 on Tuesday as the embattled Chinese technology group continues to grow despite prolonged American campaign against its business, but cautioned that growth next year could prove more challenging. Eric Xu, Huawei’s rotating chairman, wrote in a New Year’s message to employees that … Read more
Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show. Snapchat’s most popular yet under-exploited feature is finally getting the spotlight in 2020. Starting in February with a global release, your customizable Bitmoji avatar will become the star of a full-motion cartoon series called Bitmoji TV. It’s a massive evolution for Bitmoji beyond the chat stickers … Read more
2020 will see AI move from buzzwords to solutions, One of the ways you can tell that a new technology is still at the hype stage is that no one talks about its problems. When an innovation is rising towards the ‘peak of inflated expectations,’ people talk about it in hushed tones as something almost … Read more
Spain’s Glovo grabs $166M Series E for its deliver anything app. Spain’s Glovo, an on-demand delivery app platform which operates in Europe, LatAm and Africa delivering food but also other urban conveniences from groceries to pharmaceuticals, has bagged another €150 million (~$166M) in a fast-following Series E round led by Abu Dhabi state investment company, … Read more