by Asmawisham | Apr 14, 2017 | Technology
Nest recently announced a new discount has launched for customers looking to purchase the company’s Nest Learning Thermostat, allowing them to buy the IoT temperature-controlling device for $219 on its website, totaling $30 in savings. Nest founder and chief...
by Asmawisham | Apr 14, 2017 | Technology
In just nine days, France is going to vote for the next French president — there’s going to be a second round face-off in three weeks too. And it looks like Facebook wants to avoid another fake news scandal as the company is preemptively running full page ads in major...
by Asmawisham | Apr 14, 2017 | Technology
Google appears to be testing a Dark Mode feature for YouTube in the latest version of its Chrome 57 desktop browser.The built-in mode was discovered on Thursday and shared in a Reddit post, and while the setting doesn’t appear by default, a quick command in the...
by Asmawisham | Apr 14, 2017 | Technology
Team chat platform Slack got a long-awaited feature on Thursday with the addition of status updates, finally allowing users to customize their status message beyond the default “away” setting.The new “set a status” feature includes five...
by Asmawisham | Apr 14, 2017 | Technology
Amazon has fired another salvo in the virtual assistant wars by opening up access to the far-field voice recognition technology found in its Echo smart speakers so that third-party manufacturers can make their own versions (via BBC).The move comes as Amazon attempts...
by Asmawisham | Apr 14, 2017 | Technology
Top music interviewer and CBC Radio 2 host George Stroumboulopoulos debuted his new House of Strombo music series on Apple Music on Thursday (via Billboard).The 10-episode show is a spin-off of the Canadian host’s radio series The Strombo Show, which is filmed...