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WeChat poised to become China’s official electronic ID system Interesting blend of tech social media and government services. My fear for Western countries is that Facebook would likely be seen as the dominant social media […]
Apple’s Legendary Lisa Operating System Is Coming to Your Desktop for Free Apple’s Lisa project might be the most loaded chapter in the company’s lore, and thanks to the Computer History Museum, you’ll soon be […]
UptimeRobot – Free dashboard uptime monitoring for any websites This can be useful if you have one or more hosting providers and need to keep stats (or be alerted) when the sites are unavailable. The […]
How to play music on Google Home without a Google Music subscription Obviously Google Home works really well with a paid subscription to Google Music (I've been using the free 3-month subscription that came with […]
How To Fire Up a Steam Locomotive [4K] in just 6 to 7 hours I love riding on heritage steam railways when I can and always used to think it was an hour or two […]
Amazon Alexa and Google Home top App Store charts on Christmas Day, implies smart speakers were popular holiday gifts The App Store charts always provide some interesting nuggets of information on Christmas Day and other […]
Chrome 64 Brings a New Feature to The ‘Flags’ Page – Find Your Changes Easier Chrome’s ‘flags page’ has been here for some time, but there’s some great news. It got redesigned recently, making it […]
In Germany, consumers get paid for using power Germany has spent $200 billion over the past two decades to promote cleaner sources of electricity. That enormous investment is now having an unexpected impact — consumers are […]
Google Maps’ Moat – How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? This cartographer has spent over a year doing a deep analysis of Google Maps detail vs Apple Maps and others and concluded […]
Make this self-flying camera drone your personal photographer The Hover Camera Passport drone, which is on sale for $349.99 a limited time, uses face-detection technology to fly and follow you autonomously while capturing footage of […]