Chinese Smart TV-Maker Accused of Spying on Owners' Other Devices

  Skyworth chief executive Tony Wang unveils premium 8K TV models at the Consumer Electronics Show during the CES Unveiled event at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 5, 2020.  A China-based manufacturer of smart televisions has been accused of spying on its users by scanning their homes for other devices connected...

Honda Is Now Selling Japan's First Level 3 Autonomous Car

Honda is taking the lead in autonomous driving sales in Japan. The auto manufacturer has announced that sales of its Legend sedans in Japan will be equipped with a "Traffic Jam Pilot" feature that allows the car to drive itself on crowded highways. Honda says it is going to make 100 of the limited edition sedans, according to Bloomberg on Thursday. The company was one of the first to...

Starlink Satellite Internet is Open for Pre-Booking

By Rounak JainThe Starlink satellite internet service is expected to be available in 2022The Starlink satellite internet service is coming to India in 2022.Starlink has started accepting pre-bookings, with a fully refundable deposit of $99 (approx. ₹7,300).If you want early access to the Starlink internet service, you can pre-book using a debit or credit card.Currently, Starlink promises speeds of...

Could bitcoin ever become gold?

 Different views have been delivered on this subject. It is the younger generation that is buying bitcoin compared to who buys gold. On the other hand, since the second half of 2020, more institutions have become buyers of bitcoin. As JPM points out;"...private gold wealth is mostly stored via gold bars and coins the stock of which, excluding those held by central banks, amounts to 42,600...

If "Facebook Is Private", Why Are They Feeding Users' Private Messages Directly To The FBI?

 Authored by Matt Agorist via TheFreeThoughtProject.com,Despite decrying censorship when it was happening to them last year, when Donald Trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook earlier this month, the left praised the move by big tech. “Facebook is a private company and can do what they want,” the pro-censorship hypocritical crowd chanted ad nauseum through the digital ether after bad orange...

A New Streaming Platform for Short Attention Spans

Quibi is a company that is trying to capitalize on the ever deteriorating attention span of the consumer. The service aims to compete with TikTok and YouTube by creating professional content people can watch on their phones that's cut down to 7 minute segments - far shorter than traditional 22 minute TV shows. The platform is also taking advantage of consumers' incessant need...

Aircel Expands 4G LTE Services in India

Indian mobile operator Aircel has launched 4G LTE services in Tamil Nadu and Jammu & Kashmir. The launch comes within a month of operator's recent LTE deployment in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Odisha. Aircel holds 20MHz of broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum in the 2,300MHz band across eight telecom circles Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha,...

70 of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet

By Johnny Webber 1. netflixroulette.net — Find something random to watch on Netflix. 2. pintsinthesun.co.uk — Find somewhere to drink a pint in the sun. 3. gfycat.com — Upload your gifs. 4. youconvertit.com — Convert documents. 5. ninite.com — Download all the free software you want at the same time. 6. squirt.io — Speed read the web one...

Moto 360: The Watch

By Brian Barrett I do not need a smartwatch (no one does). I do not think smartwatches are anywhere near fully functional yet, or if they'll ever be. But after seeing the Moto 360 yesterday, I know one truth that supersedes those others: I am going to buy one as soon as they let me. For as long as the first smartwatch rumors began bubbling, I've been a skeptic. There are too many usability...

Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile

By Brad Stone At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX. This was a revamped interface that resembled the table of contents in a magazine, allowing users to click directly into videos and articles. Manufacturers often apply their own design flourishes to Android, and this one looked good—not groundbreaking,...

Mumbai Gets Its Drone Pizza Delivery

Mumbai, May 22 : The financial capital, notorious for its traffic snarls, has achieved a first in the country after a city-based pizza outlet used an unmanned drone to execute a delivery by taking the aerial route recently. "All of us had read about (global e-commerce giant) Amazon's plans of using drones. We successfully carried out a test-delivery by sending a pizza to a customer located 1.5...

From Homeless To Entrepreneur In Just 4 Weeks

Leo (L) is well on his way to success. ONE man’s simple social experiment may just have spawned something amazing. Patrick McConlogue offered a homeless man either $100 or the chance to learn code. He made his choice, and it changed his life. McConlogue introduced the concept in a blog...

This App Could Get You Kidnapped

By Lex Berko The app bubble has somehow yet to burst and everyday more start-ups emerge hawking their mobile services. Some of these are useful, like the crowd-sourced navigation tool Waze and the language instruction app Duolingo. Others are not-so-useful, like the much maligned and very confused LeftoverSwap. Now...