Microsoft has unveiled the latest iteration of its Surface Pro tablet computer, and it has an unexpected surprise inside. While the Surface Pro 9 has the usual spec-bumped Intel processor, a sharp PixelSense display, and Thunderbolt 4 ports, there’s also an option to swap the Intel part for a new …
Read More »Prioritizing Digital Experiences
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Read More »Xbox Cloud Gaming
Microsoft’s xCloud cloud gaming service is expanding in 2021 and its Xbox Game Pass service is driving new engagement with the Xbox ecosystem. That’s the word from the company in a recent blog post, which highlighted recent developments for both platforms. Xbox Game Pass is Microsoft’s monthly subscription service …
Read More »GeForce Chromebooks
Cloud gaming is just starting to become a viable technology with new platforms like Stadia and xCloud gearing up to offer next-gen titles. Nvidia, however, has been toiling on GeForce Now for years — it first debuted the technology as “Grid” in 2013. Today, GeForce Now is a service …
Read More »Orchid or a Dandelion?
When It Comes to Retirement, Dr. Thomas Boyce is a pediatrician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His best-selling book The Orchid and the Dandelion summarizes two types of individuals: dandelions (hardy and propagating) and orchids (requires extraordinary …
Read More »Amazon FreeTime comes to Android phones and tablets
Amazon’s FreeTime service, which includes access to curated kid-friendly content and various parental controls, is now arriving on Android devices with the launch of a new FreeTime Android app. The app offers parents a similar set of parental controls as those found on Amazon’s Fire tablet devices, as well as a handpicked …
Read More »YouTube Kids comes to smart TVs
YouTube Kids, the application offering a filtered version of YouTube that’s more kid-friendly, is now natively available on the big screen for the first time, Google announced today. Previously a mobile-only application, YouTube Kids will now be offered on a range of smart TVs, including those from LG, Samsung and Sony, which …
Read More »Google Maps Timeline finally comes to iOS
Google Maps users on iOS are getting a feature that’s new to them, but not to users on Android or desktop computers. It’s called Timeline, and Google first rolled it out during the summer of 2015. Timeline is sort of like a life log tool — it tracks all the …
Read More »Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award, comes out against erosion of online privacy
Famed British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee has been honored repeatedly over the years for his role inventing the World Wide Web as we know it. Now, he’s won the 2016 Turing Award, widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing. Just another feather in the cap of the man who …
Read More »A freshman comes up big in CCS soccer
Freshman Charlie McKay stumbled a few times the first game he was asked to play goalie for the Menlo-Atherton varsity boys soccer team but it didn’t take long for him to earn the trust of his older teammates. McKay rewarded his teammates for that trust by coming up big during …
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