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(credit: Chrome) Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party researchers reported they were surreptitiously tracking users’ browsing history and inserting tracking code into specific ecommerce sites they visited. The five extensions flagged by McAfee purport to offer various services, including the ability to stream […]
Californians now have access to some of the fastest electric vehicle chargers on the planet… even if people can’t really use those chargers yet. VW’s Electrify America has installed California’s first publicly available 350kW EV chargers at Simon’s San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore Valley, 40 miles from San Francisco proper. The shopping location now […]
The University of Guelph will be the first Canadian university to map its entire campus and have it on the BlindSquare app to help students who are visually impaired navigate its grounds and buildings.
(Reuters) — High school students in one Chinese school may want to think twice before dozing off in class. Artificially intelligent cameras with facial recognition tools will be watching. The Hangzhou No. 11 Middle School has installed a “smart classroom behavior management system”, which captures students’ expressions and movements, analyzin…Read More
Dutch mobile game publisher Spil Games announced it has hit 300 million installs for its mobile games. That’s a testament to the company’s method of testing titles on the web and then reposting the most popular titles as mobile apps. Amsterdam-based Spil Games said it focuses on intellectual properties with good prospects. The web portal […]
Not to be left behind in the digital age, a Catholic church in France has installed card terminals to take donations from willing parishioners. This digital upgrade has been rolled out at the Saint-François de Molitor church in Paris. Devout Catholics can now simply tap their card on one of five wireless terminals circulated during […]
Published time: 27 Aug, 2017 20:44 Russian engineers have begun a 72-hour moving operation to position a 227-meter-long railway arch for the Crimea Bridge on the piers located in the Kerch Strait in what is regarded as a “unique operation” in global bridge building. The arch, which stands 227 meters long and 45 meters high, […]
Porsche knows that electric vehicles are the future, and it just took a big step to prepare for that future. The performance car brand just opened a new office in Berlin, and the new facility includes the company’s first two ultra-fast 800-volt chargers (one is pictured below). They can ‘only’ charge existing EVs at up […]
Samsung has announced something of a landmark moment for the movie industry: its first ever commercial installation of a LED display in a cinema. The Korean electronics giant first unveiled the Samsung Cinema Screen back in March, and debuted the display at a series of events at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. […]
On the heels of a disappointing first earnings report for Snap, a new report indicates the company’s trouble attracting new users deepened at the start of the second quarter. According to Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence data, downloads of Snapchat in April 2017 fell about 16 percent year-over-year combined on both the App Store and Google Play. That puts […]
