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Essential Tips For WhatsApp Users

Essential Tips For WhatsApp Users

Five Top DNA Testing Kits

Five Top DNA Testing Kits

DNA DATA STORAGE: Nature Provides A Way

Engineers have successfully been pushing more storage into smaller spaces for decades, but that can’t go on forever.

Connecting Everything To The Internet: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

If the Internet of Things industry is the Jedi order, with Philips Hue lightsabers and “smart” cloud based Force powers, then popular Twitter account Internet of Shit is a Sith Lord.

snapchat spectacles

snapchat is no longer just an app.

Elon Musk Could Help Puerto Rico Rebuild With Solar Power

Weeks after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico remains in desperate straits.

Fire HD 10: Best 10-inch Tablet For The Price

The Fire HD 10 fulfills Amazon’s simple plan for its tablets: Like other Fire tablets, it’s an inexpensive way to consume your Amazon content.

Viewsonic Has The Top Midrange Monitor

Designed for professionals who require consistently accurate colors, the 27-inch Viewsonic VP2768 uses a WQHD In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel to deliver stellar color and grayscale performance with wide viewing angles.

Don't Let Innovation Widen The Gap Between Haves & Have-Nots

Ray Kurzweil, one of the most forward thinking scientists alive today, has a pretty good track record when it comes to tech predictions, including his 1990 prediction about the rise of the internet.

Will Human Augmentation Be a Hard Sell?

There are basically two arguments against non-medical human augmentation.

Elon Musk Wants to Implant an AI Interface in Your Brain

Elon Musk has had another bright idea. Nobody can accuse Mr. Musk of a lack of intellectual diversity in his pursuits, which have ranged from glitzy solar roof tiles to cartoonishly fast cars, colonizing other planets, and domestic energy infrastructure. He’s someone who thinks in the future tense. And he clearly believes that AI is the future.

The Coolest Features in Windows 10 Creators Update

Windows 10 is now considered by Microsoft to be a service. What that means is that the OS is continually updated with new features and fixes in small increments (such as the redesigned Photos app— see our review in this issue) and big releases. The Creators Update is the latest big one, and it starts rolling out to Windows 10 users for free on April 11.

Microsoft Teases New Minecraft Marketplace, Currency

Microsoft’s Minecraft game is getting a new marketplace and its own currency. With the launch of the Minecraft Marketplace, businesses will—for the first time—be able to sell their original content to players within the game. Arriving this spring, the Marketplace will be packed with “amazing adventure maps, texture packs, mini games,” and other goodies available for purchase, all accessible across devices via Xbox Live.

What We Love Most This Month

MICROSOFT PROJECT SCORPIO Ready for the future of gaming? This new console—due to ship in Q4—looks to be the most powerful performer ever. Specs include a 6-tera flop GPU, which enables 4K and mixed-reality gaming. On the memory front, Project Scorpio will deliver a total bandwidth of 326GB/s, achieved by using 12 1GB GDDR5 memory chips running on a 384-bit bus.

Microsoft's Mixed-Reality Plans Go Far Beyond Hololens

When Microsoft made the surprise announcement of a new augmented reality (AR) product at a Windows 10 event in early 2015, the Microsoft HoloLens headset wasn’t the first thing the audience saw. Instead, as he unveiled the new technology to the world, Microsoft’s Alex Kipman — creator of both the Microsoft Kinect motion controller and the HoloLens — showed a logo for Windows Holographic, the Windows 10-aligned software platform underpinning Microsoft’s AR ambitions.

Your Next Cute Robot May be Korean

Pibo and Cubroid are friends. In a country where three giant conglomerates (LG, Samsung, and Hyundai) suck up most of the engineering talent, these two pint-sized little robots could be the future of Korean hardware innovation.

Spring Clean Your Gadgets

Spring is in the air, but gunk is in your gadgets: The smudges and crumbs you can see and the creepy-crawly bacteria that you can’t. Studies show that infection-causing E coli and Staphylococcus aureus, fecal matter (yep), and just plain dirt are hanging out on your tech.

IoT Botnet Mirai Now Forces Smart Appliances to Mine Bitcoin

Earlier this year, I declared the Internet of Things had officially hit peak stupid, courtesy of a new smart toaster being shown at CES. I should have known better. What’s even more useless than a smart toaster? A smart toaster that’s been hacked to mine Bitcoin.

Lego Makes Learning Fun With Duplo Stories Alexa Skill

Lego has launched an Amazon Alexa skill that’s designed for children aged 2 to 5. The free skill, which is available via any Amazon Alexa-enabled device including the Echo and Echo Dot, offers fun stories that encourage your kids to participate using the Lego Duplo toys they already own. The stories are designed to spark your little one’s imagination while helping to teach them numbers, colors, and language skills.

Fast Forward: Are Smartphones Hurting Our Kids?

Fast Forward is a series of conversations with tech leaders hosted by Dan Costa, PCMag’s Editor-in-Chief. Costa’s guest for this episode was Dr. Jean Twenge, who recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic called “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”

A.I Comes To Edge Computing

A long the coastline of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state hovers a fleet of drones, helping to keep the waters safe. Earlier this year, the drones helped lifeguards at the state’s Far North Coast rescue two teenagers who were struggling in heavy surf.

Razer's Terrible New Rewards Program Mines Cryptocurrency On Your PC

The internet can be a dangerous place, and if you’re not careful, you could end up unknowingly running crypto-miner malware.

Rapoo 8900p Advanced Wireless Mouse And Keyboard Combo

Rapoo 8900p Advanced Wireless Mouse And Keyboard Combo

Intel, AMD To Team Up On 8th Generation Mobile Chips

Intel, AMD To Team Up On 8th Generation Mobile Chips

Apple IPhone X Sets The Stage For Full-Screen AR

Apple IPhone X Sets The Stage For Full-Screen AR

Samsung Demos Stretchable OLED Display

Samsung Demos Stretchable OLED Display

The Coolest Features in iOS 11

The Coolest Features in iOS 11

Six Top Smart Light Bulbs

Six Top Smart Light Bulbs

Origin Neuron

A Stellar Gaming Machine

Google's AI Rewrite

Building Machine Learning Into Everything