Google has inaugurated a new engineering center in Taiwan dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hardware, marking its largest establishment of this kind outside the United States. This move underscores Taiwan’s pivotal role in the global…
The second-largest hardware chain in the U.S. has finally decided to support Apple Pay. For those who don’t know what Apple Pay is, it is the mobile payment service that allows an iPhone user to select a credit, debit, or prepaid card from the Wallet app and…
Apple is working on a hardware subscription service that would let you use its products in exchange for a monthly fee. It would be different than the iPhone Upgrade program that lets you pay for the iPhone in 24 monthly installments. Under that program, the…
Google Meet is getting a small yet important update this week, which adds noise cancellation capabilities to the app. The new feature is available to all Google Meet users starting today and there’s no need to make any adjustments to the app’s settings to…
Ace Hardware Corporation, the world’s largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative, announced today that Jay Heubner, President and General Manager of Ace International will retire March 1, 2021 after 38 years with the company. Heubner joined Ace Hardware in…
Spotify has been the unrivaled champion of the thriving music streaming industry for a number of years now, but relying entirely on a service under siege by tech giants including Apple and Amazon seems like decidedly risky business. As such, it’s certainly…
Equinix is collaborating with Facebook and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to deploy and test Voyager, the Facebook-designed packet optical switches, inside two of its IBX data centers. As part of the TIP “Open Optical Packet Transport” project group, Equinix…
Xiaomi is broadening its already expansive range of products by venturing into virtual reality for the first time. The company today announced the Mi VR Play, an “entry-level” virtual reality headset that it hopes can open this new exciting medium to new…
Online video piracy is alive and well in 2016, but the threat landscape has shifted from straight conditional access (CA) technology and P2P file-sharing to illegal OTT set-top-boxes (STBs) that connect users to sites that look like professional OTT service…
IT products and services provider Challenger will establish a new online store to maintain its relevance in the retail market. Known as Hachi.sg, the portal, which will be unveiled in April 2016, will boast more products, an improved shopper interface and an…