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

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

Net Neutrality Is The Fight We Have To Win

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

2017 Game Awards Nominees

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

This Week In Tech 10/29-11/04/2017

Broadcomm bids to buy Qualcomm, the Razer phone was announced, the Nintendo Switch has sold more than the Wii U, and The Razor phone was announced the Razor Phone last Tuesday. here are the specs 5.72-inch IGZO display with 120 Hz refresh rate and Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) Dolby ATMOS sound, dual front-facing speakers and amplifiers (certified by THX) Dual camera with auto-focus and LED flash (12 MP, F/1.75 wide-angle and 13 MP, F/2.6 zoom camera) Long-life 4,000 mAh lithium-ion battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ 8 GB RAM – enough for the most demanding games and apps 4G Super-Voice … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/29-11/04/2017

Super Mario Odyssey Review

Disclosure I’ve not completely finished the came but I’m far enough to hav an opinion on the game I’ve just not beaten th final boss and finished the postgame. Super Mario Odyssey is the newest gsme in the series of Super Mario RPGs. This is the first of its kind a almost fully open world Mario game. Almost meaning there is still the there is still the world mechanic, but the worlds are just called kingdoms. In the game you are collecting moons similar to stars in Mario 64.   Gameplay The Gameplay is great. The game doesn’t lag at … Continue reading Super Mario Odyssey Review

This Week In Tech 10/21-10/28/2017

sorry for releasing this late I’ve been really busy. This week Nintendo announced an Animal Crossingmobile game, Google announced a new electronic payment system, the iPhone X is Avalible for pre-order, the most important thing I missed while I had computer problems was that Qualcomm made the first 5G connection. Super Mario Odyssey is out. Google announced Google Pay a payment system that intigrates Android Pay and a few other things. Super Mario Odyssey is out. It’s great. The game is long but it can be easy or hard depending on what you choose to do. I’ll be writing a full review … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/21-10/28/2017

This Week In Tech 10/01-10/07/2017

This week Google hosted their 2017 Made By Google Event and Sonos also hosted an event. AOL announces that they are killing AIM. On Wednesday Google hosted their 2nd annual Made By Google Event. At the event they announced new Pixel Phones, new Google Home devices, Airpod like wireless headphones, and some weird camera. For more information refer to my live blog. Earlier that same day Sonos announced that their making all their speakers compatible with airplay. They also announced a new speaker the Sonos Play One that is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. It’s coming out October 24th and … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/01-10/07/2017

Made By Google Event 2017

Yesterday Google hosted an event. They announced lots of stuff including the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Also stuff about Google Home and other new stuff. First Up on stage was Sundar Pachai he started talking stats and AI. Not much new there. Then Rick Osterloh who talked about more stats and also mentioned that google home is and how its been accepted by the general population . Google Home Hands-Free calling is coming to the UK.  Now for actuale hardware. The first thing they announced was the Google Home Mini which is a smalller and Dougnut shaped Google Home. … Continue reading Made By Google Event 2017

This Week In Tech 09/24- 09/30/2017

This week Star Trek Discovery Premiered. The CEO of Equifax stepped down. Elon Musk did a talk at the IAU confrence about SpaceX, Mars, and the Moon.  Reviews of the Essential Phone are out. So Star Trek Discovery premeired last Sunday. It was good but just didn’t feel like Star Trek. The 1st couple episodes didn’t have the component of dealing with world issues. I know that I’m a week lat but I’m working on reviews for episodes 1 and 2. By the way I’m launching a new site startreknews.weebly.com At the International Astronautical Congress Elon Musk talked about hisInterplanetary Transport System … Continue reading This Week In Tech 09/24- 09/30/2017

This Week In Tech 09/17-09/24/2017

By Sam Greenwood  09/25/2017 This week Nest hosted an event. Bose announced Google Assistant integrated headphones. Google buys some of HTC. And the reason this “week” has an extra day,Star Trek Discovery premeire. At their event Nest announced that Nest Secure a home security system. It looks interesting. Two Google related events happened. Google bought the mobile division of HTC for $1.1 million. And Bose announced Google Assistant integrated headphones. Now the biggest thing this week. Star Trek Discovery. It’s great the VFX are great. It matches with canon well and generally the story is great. I’ll write a full … Continue reading This Week In Tech 09/17-09/24/2017