Wing drones are ready to deliver fresh food to customers’ doors in Australia. Wing, a startup under Google parent company Alphabet, on Tuesday launched its commercial drone delivery service in North Canberra, Australia. The drones will deliver fresh food, hot coffee and over-the-counter health products to customers’ homes within minutes, the company said. Customers order items using …
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Motorola can boast about making the first commercial phone running on a live 5G network, but I’d bet money that its rumored foldable update to the iconic Razr phone will leave the most lasting mark. Both are key devices in 2019’s mobile story, a landscape that’s in the midst of tremendous evolution. 5G is the next-generation data network poised to …
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Rachel Kinnon and Jeanie Austin, librarians at the San Francisco Public Library, receive about 60 questions a week from a dedicated group of fans: prison inmates. The inquiries, usually handwritten and sent by post, range from requests for information about transitioning to life outside of prison to explanations of technologies that may not have existed before a prisoner was put …
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Google Maps has been adding Waze features like incident reports in recent months, and now it’s experimenting with informing you about traffic jams more quickly. The Slowdowns option allows people caught in unusual traffic jams report it to Google, letting Maps gather data more quickly and giving others on that route the chance to divert, according to 9to5Google. The reporting …
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Heftier taxes for the biggest US tech companies are on the horizon in Europe as top officials mull the introduction of a digital tax. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Monday that Europe should lead the way on introducing a tax (aimed at Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) regardless of whether a global consensus on the issue can be reached. …
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Microsoft, having given up on its own core browser technology, has released test versions of its Edge browser built instead on the same foundations as Google’s Chrome. “In these first builds we are very much focused on the fundamentals and have not yet included a wide range of feature and language support that will come later,” said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s …
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The UK government is taking a hard line when it comes to online safety, moving to establish what it says is the world’s first independent regulator to keep social media companies in check. Companies that fail to live up to requirements will face huge fines, and senior directors who are proven to have been negligent will be held personally liable. …
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Michigan cheeps! I have two more library programs coming up, including a new one on cord-cutting! First, I’ll be at the Warren Public Library (Civic Center) tomorrow, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. The topic: My favorite ways to save money when shopping online. Then, this Saturday, April 13, join me at the Ypsilanti District Library at 3 p.m. to learn …
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The US Army’s specially modified version of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headsets resembles a real-life version of the first-person shooter video game Call of Duty, according to a CNBC reporter who got a first-hand look at how the Army is using the augmented reality technology. Microsoft won a $480 million contract in November to supply the US Army with prototype HoloLens …
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Samsung’s three S10 phones — the Galaxy S10E, Galaxy S10 Plus and the standard Galaxy S10 — are excellent overall. I love the screens, the design and the overall camera photography. You can read my ode to the Galaxy S10’s five best features here. But — and you knew this was coming — not every feature or design element is smooth sailing. This …
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