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Ikea Ventures into Smart Home Design Market

“We have decided to invest significantly in Home smart across Ikea to fast-forward the development. This is the biggest New Business we are establishing since the introduction of Children’s Ikea,” said Peter van der Poel, manager Ikea Range & Supply, aka, the box that sits above Ikea of Sweden within the complicated Ikea Group org chart.   The new business unit is helmed by the aptly-named Björn Block, and sits […]

todayAugust 22, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Google Recreates Apollo 11 Cockpit In AR To Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary

It was back in 1969 when the Apollo 11 spaceflight made history as it landed two humans, namely Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. And on July 20, the world will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 that open doors for further lunar research. NASA had already set its plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary with a live, two-hour long television broadcast on July 19. Another […]

todayJuly 18, 2019

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Google is Testing a Play Button for Chrome’s Toolbar

It appears that Google will soon add a play button to its Chrome browser.  As first reported by ZDnet and Techdows, the button will live on Chrome’s toolbar, and will allow users to play or pause a video or music that’s playing in a tab. The feature is called "Global Media Controls," and it’s currently being tested on Chrome’s Development browser, Canary. Once it’s enabled, the feature appears next to […]

todayJuly 10, 2019

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Say Goodbye to iTunes as You Know It: macOS Catalina is Here

Say goodbye to iTunes, as you know it, anyway.  In the new version of macOS, called Catalina, Apple will break up the app into three separate apps for Music, Podcasts, and TV. The Podcast app lets you search for the show and episode based on content. The announcement, made at the Apple WWDC 2019, is similar to what Google announced at its own I/O conference last month. The TV and […]

todayJune 12, 2019

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Silicon Valley Ends it Run with Sixth Season

HBO’s biting tech industry satire Silicon Valley is coming to an end with its sixth season slated to air later this year, according to Variety. The show follows the borderline absurd struggles and occasional successes of a group of startup employees trying to maneuver the world of tech, secure funding, and beat out rival products from the giant, soulless corporations trying to crush them. It’s aired since April of 2014, […]

todayJune 4, 2019

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Should You Buy 5G This Year?

The simple answer is, "no."   But why not?   Yes, 5G is the latest and greatest with speeds expected to blow your mind.  But at this point, the networks are barely existent, present only in a few cities. Even then, they only work well in certain blocks, and even then, you need line of sight, and even then, you will still have LTE upload speeds.   You may be thinking […]

todayMay 22, 2019

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New Chrome Extension Promises to “fix” Gmail

The co-creator of Google’s beloved-yet-discontinued Inbox app, and former lead designer for Gmail, has released a new Chrome extension that considerably simplifies Gmail’s web interface.  Michael Leggett, who was Gmail’s design lead between 2008 and 2012, released the Simplify Gmail extension on April 2nd — the day after Gmail’s 15th anniversary which was also the day Inbox was discontinued. Leggett left Google in 2015.   The extension makes numerous small […]

todayMay 3, 2019

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Google’s Pixel 3a is Coming Soon

You may have been hearing (i.e. being teased) for awhile now that Google’s midrange Pixel 3 devices are coming out this year. Well, some Reddit techies were able to find some hidden device profiles in the Google Play Console that indicate it’s really here. Or at least, will be here, sometime this year. In the next few months. For sure.   The big tell is that these phones are listed […]

todayApril 9, 2019

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How to Turn Off Autoplay Videos on Your Browsers

Automatic video play is a feature that, while nice to have when it’s surfacing content that’s related to your interests, can be pretty annoying. Autoplay videos can be harmful, too, exposing you to violent, offensive, or otherwise unwanted content that you shouldn’t have to see by default. The Verge reports that several browsers, like Google Chrome and Firefox, now have built-in measures to curb autoplay videos, but for the most […]

todayMarch 20, 2019

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