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Facebook is breaking up with the BlackBerry platform

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

WhatsApp's earlier announcement that it's leaving the BlackBerry ecosystem was apparently only the beginning of Facebook's exodus from the platform. The world's biggest social network and its Messenger app will stop working on the BlackBerry OS, incl... Go To Full Article

Microsoft Details Shader Model 6.0

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

Microsoft is giving final touches to Shader Model 6.0, an update to a key component of its Direct3D API. This succeeds Shader Model 5.0, which remained largely unchanged since the introduction of DirectX 11.0 in 2009. Shader Model 6.0 provides… Go To Full Article

Top 5 Fitness Wearables of 2016

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

With a few hundred different fitness wearables now available, we are spoilt for choice. However, not every fitness wearable is built the same and each has its unique set of features catering to different types of sporting needs. Let this… Go To Full Article

Google is giving Chrome's app launcher the axe

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

Folks who favor launching Chrome apps from their dock on OSX or the taskbar on Windows rather than through the browser itself are bound to be disappointed by today's news. Google has announced that the Chrome App Launcher will be… Go To Full Article

'Hyper Light Drifter' is set to launch at the end of the month

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

Heart Machine announced via Kickstarter on Tuesday that its forthcoming retro 2D RPG, Hyper Light Drifter, will be released at the end of March. The game, with a style that harkens back to 16-bit action-adventures, follows a helmeted hero as… Go To Full Article

Google Drive for Android gets a file editing shortcut

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

Many people adopt Google Drive because they're already invested in the company's other products, like Docs and Photos. They all play nice with one another, however on Android the Drive app is mostly a management tool -- to do some… Go To Full Article

Tesla Ludicrous Mode now available as retrofit for Model S P90D

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

When Tesla first introduced the Model S P90D with Ludicrous Mode, P85D owners no longer had the top-of-the-line performance version of the electric sedan. To make it up to owners, Tesla eventually offered a discounted Ludicrous Mode retrofit for the... Go To Full Article

Intel’s ‘Tick-Tock’ Seemingly Dead, Becomes ‘Process-Architecture-Optimization’

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

As reported at The Motley Fool, Intel’s latest 10-K / annual report filing would seem to suggest that the ‘Tick-Tock’ strategy of introducing a new lithographic process note in one product cycle (a ‘tick’) and then an upgraded microarchitecture the… Go To Full Article

Apple's messy iPad lineup keeps getting more complicated

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

iPad sales peaked following the holiday quarter of 2013 -- perhaps not coincidentally, that was when Apple's tablet lineup was at its most logical. Apple had just introduced the iPad Air, the first major redesign of its 9.7-inch tablet, and… Go To Full Article

Google Photos will suggest albums after your next trip

@ 2016/03/23 read/post comments(0)

Sure, Google Photos is clever enough to craft stories when you return from a trip, but you probably want more than that. Wouldn't it be nice if it could organize those photos into albums so that you're not left sifting… Go To Full Article

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