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Apps

Minutiae: The Self-Proclaimed ‘Anti-Social Media’ App to Celebrate the Mundane

"Real" Social Media Unlike its counterparts in Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram, Minutiae claims to be an anti-social media platform that prides itself on capturing "real" photos of an individual's lives. The app's defining feature is the limitations it places on users; each individual receives a notification at a random time…

Posted on June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Why are Virtual Assistants Mostly Female?

Be it Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, or even Google’s nameless ‘Assistant’, there is one thing that all these digital assistants have in common: they all have female voices. Part of the reason for the number of female-voiced digital assistants could be that they generally tend to perform tasks…

Posted on June 15, 2017June 10, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Education

Google’s Jamboard: Not Your Everyday Whiteboard

Google Jamboard Google is looking to integrate itself firmly within the everyday workplace by adapting to modern needs, this time through a new product, the Jamboard. The interactive device is really just a large whiteboard, where ideas or pictures drawn onto it can be mirrored onto another Jamboard or any…

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Copy and Paste Like Never Before with Google’s AI Enabled Android O

Google’s vice president of engineering, David Burke, says that the next big frontier for Android smartphones to overcome will be the perpetual pain that is to copy and paste. Android O Android O, Google’s latest version of the operating system, will allow users to copy and paste information like never…

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Human Speech in Digital Assistants: Blurring the Lines between Tool and Companion

Digital Assistants can do many things: tell you the weather, a joke, guide you to your location, or remind you to return that phone call. But one thing they cannot yet do is not give away the fact that they are robots. Amazon is currently working on correcting this, by…

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Big Data

Net Neutrality Will Decide the Future of the Internet

While net neutrality has been a term passed around for quite a few years now, there are still large segments of frequent internet users that have no idea what the term really means and how it would potentially affect them. But it is set to have massive long-term ramifications on…

Posted on May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Show Don’t Tell: Your Camera Could be the Next Keyboard

Snapchat’s success with Story has been followed by multiple social media behemoths including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to follow suit and introduce their own versions of it. This bandwagon effect of people preferring visual status updates almost certainly spells the beginning of the end for the traditional keyboard. Now Google…

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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DevOps

Google’s Certification for Mobile Site Developers

Google’s new certification program for mobile developers has launched and includes a wide range of topics to test individuals’ ability to competently create mobile sites. Exam topics range from the most basic to more advanced concepts, and passing it can demonstrate your “ability to build and optimize high-quality sites, and…

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Emerging Tech

Emma Watch: Microsoft’s Wearable Retort to Parkinson’s

Advances in wearable technology are no longer all Fitbit and Apple Watch but are now expanding to find unique ways to improve the lives of diverse groups. One notable example of late has been the Emma Watch, the brilliant brainchild of British Microsoft Research employee, Haiyan Zhang in collaboration with…

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

netflix, streaming, service, video, piracy, copyright, theft, film, tv, television, industry, convenience, subscription

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Are Subscriptions an Antidote to Piracy?

Threats to Netflix As most people know, recently a hacker that went by the alias 'The Dark Overlord' attempted and failed to threaten Netflix when it pirated the newest season of Orange is The New Black and held it for ransom. When Netflix refused to budge, the season was put onto…

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Why are Virtual Assistants Mostly Female?

Posted on June 15, 2017June 10, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

Education

Google’s Jamboard: Not Your Everyday Whiteboard

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

#artificialintelligence

Copy and Paste Like Never Before with Google’s AI Enabled Android O

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

#artificialintelligence

Human Speech in Digital Assistants: Blurring the Lines between Tool and Companion

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

Big Data

Net Neutrality Will Decide the Future of the Internet

Posted on May 29, 2017May 29, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

#artificialintelligence

Show Don’t Tell: Your Camera Could be the Next Keyboard

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

DevOps

Google’s Certification for Mobile Site Developers

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

Emerging Tech

Emma Watch: Microsoft’s Wearable Retort to Parkinson’s

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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Are Subscriptions an Antidote to Piracy?

Posted on May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 by Nayaz Gill by Nayaz Gill

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