Breaking news: Google will bring its digital assistant to smartphones running the latest versions of its Android operating system, Reuters reported on Sunday. “For the tech community, our findings emphasize the necessity of sunsetting SHA-1 usage,” Google noted this week. That is important, and I felt relieved after reading coverage of SHA-1 by a benchmark… Read More
Back to Apple: it patented an interactive display panel with IR diodes. Was that meant to steal Amazon parachute’s thunder? As the saying goes, you wait ages for a bus and then two or more come along at once. It isn’t any different with tech news — it often follows a… Read More
Microsoft’s Cortana? It looks a lot like the revisited, digital version of Jiminy Cricket To be sure, the trending tool section of our weekly wrap is by far the most fascinating this week, given that meaningful news related to Google remains thin on the ground while the closing of the earnings… Read More
“Softbank Considers $1bn Investment In WeWork” — that is another one, and we promote the concept, daily. I ended up writing our weekly wrap late on Monday night as there has been little traction, if any, on the ‘trending tools’ topic I have duly covered for days. I didn’t manage to spot any… Read More