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  • Walmart and Microsoft Team Up to Take Down Amazon

    Image: Walmart While the country is in the midst of Amazon’s mid-year discount fiesta and Jeff Bezos enjoys being crowned the richest man in modern history, rivals Walmart and Microsoft announced a new five-year partnership in hopes of knocking the online shipping giant down a peg or two. According to The Wall Street Journal, the focus…

  • The Waterpik ‘Flossing Toothbrush’ Is Being Recalled Because It Might Set Your Bathroom on Fire

    Waterpik Sonic-Fusion toothbrushPhoto: Waterpik A freshly debuted $200 toothbrush that promises to both brush and floss your teeth is heating up bathrooms for all the wrong reasons. This month, the electric toothbrush and water flosser company Water Pik announced a voluntary recall of all units of its Sonic-Fusion toothbrushes over claims that some of the…

  • Report: Our Garbage President Is Facebook’s Biggest Political Ad Buyer

  • Google Announces Plan to Lay Massive Subsea Cable From Virginia to France

    Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) On Tuesday, Google announced yet another massive subsea cable project, this time a private line stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to connect a data center in the US directly to another in Europe. Per TechCrunch, the planned “Dunant” cable (named after Red Cross founder Henry Dunant) will make landfall in…

  • Voting Machine Maker Suddenly Remembers It Did Connect Its Machines to the Internet

    Photo: Getty Voting machine manufacturer ES&S has denied that its systems were ever equipped with remote-access software when confronted by reporters. But after receiving questions from a U.S. senator on the matter, the company has admitted it did do that dumb thing, but it did it a long time ago, and it doesn’t do it…

  • Amazon Warehouse Strike in Spain Reportedly Results in Police Clashes, Arrests

    Striking workers at a previous protest at Amazon’s flagship Madrid warehouse in March 2018.Photo: Paul White (AP) The second day of a three-day strike by Amazon warehouse workers near Madrid coinciding with the e-commerce giant’s Prime Day promotion escalated significantly on Tuesday, with trade unions telling Spanish newspaper Público that police in riot gear had…

  • The day when game consoles

    17 Jul 1970 American engineer Ralph Baer introduced the first prototype in the world of gaming TV set-top box. His invention called the “Brown box,” Baer showed the manufacturer Magnavox (subsidiary of Philips brand). The idea was very bold at that time computer games were previously the prerogative only of slot machines and display the…

  • By autumn, most smartphones will be frameless

    In the third quarter of 2018, 66% of all sold smartphones in the world will be frameless, with an aspect ratio of 18:9 or similar aspect ratio. This was reported by the analytical company IHS Markit. Now almost every smartphone manufacturer has introduced its frameless model, and often, and not just one. According to analysts,…

  • The entire line of iPhone 2018 compared to photo

    Appeared in Internet live photo front panels of the three new iPhone that Apple is preparing to release in 2018. Photo shared by Latvian designer Benjamin Gaskin (Benjamin Geskin), completing its comparative render these smartphones, based on the pictures. According to earlier leaks, the fall Apple will release two OLED models with a diagonal of…

  • Figure of the day: How many Russians are afraid of surveillance on smartphones?

    Figure of the day: 59% the Russians are afraid of surveillance on smartphones. Russian users are concerned that mobile applications can keep track of them. This was reported by “Kaspersky Lab” the results of the study. For example, 62% of respondents feel uncomfortable to share their location with web sites and applications, which is significantly…