A major release of WordPress (version 5.0) open source publishing software and a major gathering of WordPress experts (Wordcamp) coincided in early December 2018. It wasn’t a coincidence. People who had contributed to the new software could explain what was … Read the story...
Ebook news: border library, authors and filmmakers disagree on EU laws, Notting Hill movie bookshop
From: Klaava Travel Guide nonfiction ebooks
News on ebooks, writing and self-publishing Haskell Library by nekonomist. How to Write Even When Life Gets in the Way Writing long works, like books requires persistence and patience. Excuses don’t advance a project. … Read the story...
The demand for batteries show how fundamentally traffic will change
Every day, new markets and new business opportunities are discovered and created across the world. Most of them don’t go anywhere, but some do. It is not every day that a market-changing, even world-changing, new market is looking at us … Read the story...
Experts agree that this is the best smartphone of 2018
If you ask a generic question like “What is the best phone available at the moment”, experts tend to give different answers because they don’t know the requirements the user has for the device. Product tests conducted by offline and … Read the story...
Microchip implants are threatening workers’ rights
From: The Next Web
It’s not often trades unions and employers are equally worried about an issue threatening workers’ rights. But recently, the UK’s Trades Union Congress and the main body that represents British businesses, the CBI, have both voiced … Read the story...
Think twice before buying any of these gadgets if you want to protect your family’s privacy
In addition to phones, tablets, ereaders and computers that we are frequently using, new gadgets that are marketed as home appliances have been discovered to leak private data to corporate marketing databases. Internet software development organization Mozilla examined a range … Read the story...
All right, there is one extremely useful thing Google does when it sucks our private data
A real life experience proved how software that is constantly spying on mobile phone users has its benefits, too. In a catastrophic situation where you can’t retrieve any data from an old Android phone – and you don’t have backup … Read the story...
Acer Swift 7 review: thinness above all else demands many compromises
From: Ars Technica
The tech industry is obsessed with making things thin, and Acer is no exception. The company bills the new Swift 7 as the world’s thinnest laptop, measuring 8.98mm thick at its widest point.
We expected voice user interface to be the next big thing – but that was before the Magic UX
At the moment, we have two ways to interact with our communication devices: touching the screen, or using keyboard+mouse combination. A strong candidate to supplement these ways of interaction is voice. Big technology companies are investing heavily in voice recognition, … Read the story...
The killer app for 5G mobile networks: cloud gaming
Game consoles, like the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox are essential for gamers because the hardware has the processing power to manage complex graphics-intensive games. As cloud technology and network communication technologies develop, we get new options for playing those … Read the story...