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Google I/O 2018 Keynote

Sam Greenwood

Yesterday Google held their annual I/O event. they made lots of cool and innovative announcment. Waymo was also there. But there were no hardware announcments (other than that the Smart Displays that were announced in January at CES are realecing in July), guess we’d have to wait til the fall. The first thing that was announced is that Gboard will soon support Morse Code. Then they announced a bunch of updates to GMail including autocomplete in gmail web (it includes calender events, addresses from your contacts, etc). Google Photos cane enxt with the introduction of Suggested sharing and AI reccomended … Continue reading Google I/O 2018 Keynote

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Samsung Mobile World Congress 2018

Sam Greenwood

Dj Koh is the first to be called up. Samsung will announce the S9 and S9+ today. Both phones will have the new SmartThings app, Bixby, and more. The S9 and S9+ will have a headphone jack and a USB-C port for charging. The phone has the Infinity (edge to edge) display. They annoucned (security system name) uses face recognition and iris scannert. THe camera has an auto detect mode. AR Emojis. The S9 will be compatible with ARCore Specs Catogory S9 S9+ Camera Dual Apirchure, 960 FPS slo-mo Dual Apirchure, 960 FPS slo-mo, dual camera Menory Dolby Atmos Dolby … Continue reading Samsung Mobile World Congress 2018

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This Week In Tech 01/14-01/20/2018

Sam Greenwood

This week Nintendo announced a new product This week marks the end of support of Windows 8.1. Google Fi and Amazon Prime both getting price changes. This week Nintendo announced Labo a very interesting product. It is a series cardboard building kits that interact with the Nintendo Switch. Theres a piano kit that works with the Ir sencor in the joycon. Google is changing the price model of their Fi phone carier. Fi is introducing Bill protection which linits your bill at $60, Fi charges a flat  $20 monthly and $10 per GB, now you’ll get charged to a monthly … Continue reading This Week In Tech 01/14-01/20/2018

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Everyting You Need To Know From CES 2018 (from big brands)

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Samsung TVs all new Samsung TVs will have Bixby built-in Appliances   Computers Notebook 7 Spin The Notebook 7 Spin\ is a 2in1 computer that Samsung showed at CES Other Samsung Flip LG TVs Appliances   Phones LG announced the V30 at CES For inages of LG V30 Click Here* Other Cloi Cloi is LGs personal AI assistant device (like Google Home or Amazon Echo) it uses LGs ThinQ technology and can control LG appliances. Lenovo Computers ThinkPad X1 Its the premium version of the  X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga. It has Dolby Vision HDR and Amazon Alexa Arriving in January, the … Continue reading Everyting You Need To Know From CES 2018 (from big brands)

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Nintendo Direct 01/11/2018

Sam Greenwood

With a great trailer they announced that Dark Souls is coming to Nintendo Switch on Nay 25th it will include the previously realeced DLC. The next thing that was announced was that The World Ends With You Remix sometine this year Kirby Star Allies Comes out March 23rd The Deffinitive Edition of Legend Of Zelda Spinoff Hyrule Wariors is coming to Nintendo Switch this Spring Msrio Tennis Aces is a new Mario Tennis game coming to Switch this Spring. A new mini-game hosted by Luigi called Balloon World is coming to #SuperMarioOdyssey in a free update next month! Move up … Continue reading Nintendo Direct 01/11/2018

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Samsung CES 2018

Sam Greenwood

The first thing that was announced was that starting this spring all Samsung IOT devices will be compatable with the SmartThings app. Tied to that they announced the SmartThings Cloud(it will work with all Harmin devices.).Bixby is becoming predictive by 2020 all Samsung devices will have Bixby. TVs They announced the universal TV guide on their smart TVs it allows you to see a TV guide like interface for streaming and also SmartThings. Bixby is also coming to Samsungs smart TVs Computers Samsung announced the Notebook 910 The S-Pen Is compatible with it. The next thing they announced was the … Continue reading Samsung CES 2018

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LG CES 2018

Sam Greenwood

This year at CES LG is focusing on AI with the announcement of their ThinQ AI platform. Thsi paltform can be intgrated with stuff from other brands. The LG Cloi is  smart home robot like Jibo. It uses AI intigrations to learn your habbits. Theres also the LG styler which is a clothing steamer it uses NFC to detect whzt settings to set the Styler to. They also showed off the LG smart fridge. This seams to be a lot better than Samsung’s. It can bring up recapies, notes, your calender, and more. This fridge also files customer service erquests … Continue reading LG CES 2018

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This Week In Tech 11/26-12/02/17

Sam Greenwood

This week Apple had a bunch of security issues on mac, Google bans lockscreen ads, Tesla batteries are running in Australia, The founder of Vine is working on a new app. Last Tuesday someone tweeted about a security issue with all Macs running Mac OS High Sierra. The bug is basically the ability to login to the Macs root account without the password. Apple realeced a patch to MacOS but the next update broke the patch. And an IOS update caused a bunch of iPhones to crach. Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann said (on Twitter) that he’s working on a new app. … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/26-12/02/17

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Net Neutrality Is The Fight We Have To Win

Sam Greenwood

By Sam Greenwod November 28, 2017 What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is essentially fairness and equality on the internet and that all internet data is the same. This is important because it would effect your money, your rights, other guidelines, and the world overall because the US has a massive influence over the rest of the world. Why is it important? It’s important because losing net neutrality would cause the cost of internet access to go up and it would also allow telecom companies to make internet “fast lanes” and zero-rating practices. This could also cause changes in other … Continue reading Net Neutrality Is The Fight We Have To Win

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2017 Game Awards Nominees

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Earlier today the 2017 Game Awards Nominees were annuonced and her they are catogory by catogory: Game of the Year Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment) Persona 5 (Atlus) PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo) Best Game Direction Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games) Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom) Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD) Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda) Best Narrative Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Tameem Antoniades, Elizabeth Ashman-Rowe / Ninja Theory) Horizon Zero Dawn (John Gonzalez / Ninja Theory) Nier: Automata (Yoko Taro, … Continue reading 2017 Game Awards Nominees