Google is blocking uncertified devices from running Google apps, but it will make an exception for custom ROMs Android is an open-source operating system, so in addition to the “blessed” version that Google distributes to major manufacturers, a million other varieties have blossomed. If your Android device is certified by […]
Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads Apple has a big problem. Just five years ago, its iPads and Mac laptops reigned supreme in US classrooms, accounting for half of all mobile devices shipped to schools in 2013. Apple has now slipped behind both Google and Microsoft […]
The first Chrome OS tablet is here Chrome OS has run on laptops, desktops, convertibles, and all-in-ones, but until today, it hasn’t run on a tablet. That changes with the Acer Chromebook Tab 10, the first tablet to run Chrome OS. Acer’s Chromebook Tab 10 is very much meant to […]
After Facebook’s Algorithm Change Devastated Organic Reach, How Are Publishers Coping When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that the site’s News Feed algorithm would further emphasize posts from friends and family, publishers that hadn’t diversified across many platforms faced a reckoning. Publishers like Little Things, despite testing its […]
U.S. Pushes China on Cars and Finance in Tariff Talks The Trump administration is urging China to lower tariffs on cars and open its market to U.S. financial services as part of talks to resolve a rise in trade tensions that has shaken global markets, according to a person familiar […]
With first death in Riyadh, the Saudi-led war in Yemen hits home An enormous hole had opened in the peeling green-painted ceiling of their home, which was filled with smoke and debris. He and the others ran outside, but realised that one of their housemates was not with them. Thirty-eight-year-old […]
Water heater may have emitted gas that killed Iowa family A water heater may have been the source of the gas leak that killed an Iowa family of four found dead in a Mexican hotel, officials said Monday. An inspection over the weekend determined the water heater in the rented […]
The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France The Paris prosecutor’s office is investigating whether anti-Semitism was a motivation for the killing of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor that has outraged France’s Jewish community. Mireille Knoll was stabbed 11 times and left in her burning Paris apartment […]
Train’s arrival in Beijing raises speculation of Kim visit The arrival of a special train in Beijing and unusually heavy security at a guesthouse where prominent North Koreans have stayed in the past have raised speculation that Kim Jong Un is making his first visit to China as the North’s […]
Is Trump’s silence on Putin, Daniels telling? President Donald Trump’s blistering tongue and stinging tweets spare almost no one. But there are two blatant exceptions to his saturating rhetorical fire: Vladimir Putin and Stormy Daniels. The President never shrinks from slamming his perceived foes from Rosie O’Donnell to the cast […]
