Google wants to make art experts out of everyone. The search giant has launched a new feature for art-related searches that will allow you to understand more about the artist and his works, as well as where they can be found, it announced in a Wednesday blog post. Over 500 million Google searches per month are …
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Twitter’s taking its livestreaming of Major League Baseball to Tuesdays. The first matchup starts this evening and features All-Star Chris Sale of the Boston Red Sox returning to Chicago to take on his former team, the White Sox. The switch to Tuesdays from Fridays will give Twitter back-to-back nights of livestreamed baseball when a new show on Wednesdays called “The …
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Twitter is trying to give people even more control over who’s sending them direct messages. The social network added a new feature Tuesday that allows users to review DMs from people they don’t follow. In short, if you’ve opted to get direct messages from anybody, including non-followers, you can preview the message in a “Requests” inbox and either accept or …
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The UK wants tech leaders to play their part in putting a stop to terror. Following Monday’s Manchester attack, British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge tech giants including Facebook and Google to ramp up efforts in combatting terrorism and removing extremist content from the world wide web at the Group of Seven (G7) summit, reports Reuters. The meeting will …
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Here we thought the next cool screen tech would be foldable displays. Turns out, they could be stretchable. Samsung this week showed off new display technology that looks kind of like a trampoline. The 9.1-inch stretchable OLED display prototype, which Samsung called the first of its kind, can be flexed in two directions, unlike conventional flexible OLED displays that can …
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It was a chilly January night in Las Vegas as Danny Bowman and I hopped on our LeEco smart bikes in a dim parking lot of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. The chief revenue officer of LeEco — an enigmatic Chinese company positioned as one part Samsung, one part Netflix and many parts unbridled ambition — had spent the …
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Apple has created a free app development curriculum for high school and community college students interested in careers in the fast-growing app economy. The curriculum, called “App Development with Swift,” is a full-year course designed by Apple engineers and educators to teach students app design with Swift, the company’s popular programming language. The course work will teach students how to …
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There’s no need for the Supreme Court to get involved in Apple v. Samsung again, at least according to Apple. The iPhone maker on Monday filed its response to a Samsung petition for the nation’s highest court to consider yet another aspect of the two companies’ long-running patent dispute. Samsung in March asked the Supreme Court to look at a …
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A digital rights advocacy group says it was threatened by Comcast lawyers after launching a website that is organizing an investigation into allegedly fake anti-net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC. Fight for the Future, which operates Comcastroturf.com, accused the cable giant of censorship on Tuesday after receiving a cease and desist letter that said the group was infringing on …
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The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand, I struck up a conversation with a photographer who has never made …
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