Google Assistant and its companion hardware appliances have long been my go-to friend for information I could have looked up on my phone… Of course given their popularity, there is no denying that voice assistants are here to stay. In my home, I have 8 places I can ask Google something, and everyone in my…
Remember your first smartphone? It probably started with a phone featuring a “whopping” 2.1 megapixel camera. Your next phone most likely saw a bump up to 3.2 megapixels, followed by 5, 8, 10, 12, 18 etc… For a while, the megapixel count was one of the unique selling points of any new smartphone. Then something…
With eerie regularity airlines and hotel chains seem to be the target of pretty major security events – and today it is the turn of Cathay Pacific. In total, over 9 million customer records were stolen, including the following: passenger name; nationality; date of birth; phone number; email; address; passport number; identity card number; frequent…
For several years, mobile phone networks used the term 5G as their “shiny new thing” – something cool to dangle in front of customers long before anyone had actually settled on what it actually meant. Both AT&T and Verizon are now ready to turn on their first pieces of 5G coverage, and T-Mobile/Sprint (if that…
I’ll be honest here – for some reason, HP laptops dropped off my radar several years ago. After the hugely successful Mini 110, I simply stopped paying attention to their product lineup. Today though, they got my attention in a big way – with a big number to match it. Their fall refresh for the…