GamingNews

IKEA creates a business unit devoted to smart home tech

August 17, 2019
It’s clear by now that IKEA is serious about smart home tech between its Sonos-powered speakers and connected lights, but the home furniture giant wants to formalize that commitment. It just established a full-fledged Home Smart business unit that, as you might guess, will be dedicated to smart home products. It’s the “biggest” new unit since the Children’s IKEA…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Hitting the Books: How big tech might monopolize AI

August 17, 2019
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories. Our modern world wouldn’t exist if not for machine learning. From…
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GamingNews

Teardown videos prove Nintendo’s revised Switch with new CPU lasts longer on a charge

August 16, 2019
Nintendo claims that the only difference between its new, revised Switch and the older model is improved battery life. Not content to take Nintendo’s word for it, some popular YouTubers put their brand new, currently hard-to-find units to the test, cracking them open to search for any new undisclosed features or hardware tweaks along the way. The consensus? Nintendo isn’t fibbing about that…
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MobileNews

Comment: Android’s fragmentation also happens to be its core strength [Video]

August 16, 2019
When you hear “Android fragmentation,” we often conjure up the negatives, but there is more to the mobile OS forks than slightly slow software updates. Unlike Android, iOS has an end-to-end experience controlled by Apple from start to finish. That means that because of iOS, we sometimes wrongly see fragmentation as a dirty word. The thing is, it is actually quite the opposite on the Android…
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