All posts tagged "Mobile"

Skype is more than just voice and video chat: it contains text chat, too. Unfortunately, it’s incredibly unreliable, and only getting worse. None of my friends use it anymore–everyone’s switched to Telegram, which always works properly. Microsoft has wasted its time by rewriting the Skype client over and over instead of fixing the core problem. Skype...

 (Paintbox Garden/Houzz) Traces of winter have all but disappeared by May; the last frost dates have usually...

Amazon has gone into overdrive promoting their powerful and popular voice assistant Alexa, but most people don’t realize: Alexa is more than just the Amazon Echo. What Alexa Is (And Isn’t) To better understand where you can and cannot use Alexa, it’s useful to separate the software and hardware elements. In short, Alexa...

 (University of North Texas) Guido Verbeck’s team at the University of North Texas started out last year...

Visitors to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum can now take an especially innovative trip through...

When the air conditioner is running during the summer, it may not necessarily be functioning in a way that optimizes your home’s humidity level. With the Nest Thermostat, you can tell your air conditioner to cool your house based on the humidity level, so your house doesn’t feel like a Florida swamp. Most...

Can the once popular sandwich chain survive in the modern era of fast casual foods? (AP) Subway is...

Would you rather eat your coffee than chug it? (Krispy Kreme) You can now get your coffee in...

If you’re curious about how often your heat or air conditioning is on throughout the day, you can actually look at your Nest’s usage history to see when things were running, as well as see what the temperature was set it at a particular time during the day. Normally, if you wanted to see...

When you set up a network in your office, and depending on the equipment and setup used, just how smart and/or efficient could that network actually be? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of...