Chrome is toughening its stance on annoying ads with plans for cleaning up the web by cracking down on obtrusive video advertisements that disrupt your browsing experience. Chrome is known for eating through RAM, slowing performance, but that’s not the only reason pages load slowly; sometimes an overload of ads can cause a problem as well, so Google has good reason to hit pause on the worst offenders. The new standards will apply to three of the most frustrating types of animated advertising. These include commercials longer than 31 seconds that play before a video and can’t be skipped, any ads…
Author: John Nyabuto
Nearly a year after launching the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 augmented reality headset, Google has finally decided to make them available for direct purchase. By the time of its launch last year, the Google AR headset was going for $999 a unit. The price still remains the same, but Google says you no longer have to go through a “solution provider” to purchase one. That’s very helpful for developers who may want to tinker with Google’s heads-up display and haven’t been able to easily do so since the device’s initial, ill-fated “Explorer Edition” launch way back in 2014. Google AR headset…
Normally, a newer or more recent flagship is expected to be more expensive than its predecessor. But that is not the case for Huawei P40 according to leaks. It is rumoured that it will keep similar pricing for P40 and its predecessor, Huawei P30 despite not having Google Apps. According to the leak, the Huawei P40 will cost between roughly $520 and around $960. For comparison, the Huawei P30 cost roughly $910 in the middle of the leak’s predictions, so it seems the pricing between the phones could be similar. Then it seems the Huawei P40 Pro will actually cost…
Google’s annual developer conference I/O 2020will be held from May 12 to May 14 at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California near Google’s HQ and is where Google has hosted the event for the past few years. The company revealed the date after users participated in its annual I/O teaser, which this year was a collaborative online game to restore a fictional satellite network. The event was announced in a tweet by Alphabet head Sundar Pichai after users took part in the company’s annual teaser puzzle. The biggest news of I/O 2019 was the announcement of the budget-friendly Pixel 3A and 3A XL. Besides…
Now would be the best time for Apple to ditch its proprietary Lightning connector and switch to the most ubiquitous and modern which is USB-C. European Parliament had late last week unveiled a proposal to force the world’s tech giants to adopt a single universal charging standard which is USB-C. The main aim of this proposal is to help cut electronic waste and while also simplify user purchasing decisions which is rather obvious. EU has not forced compliance yet but this sends a clear message to the primary target which is Apple that now is the best time to ditch its…
Instagram on the web has long been sluggishly moving as compared to the other apps on the web. A perfect example is how long it took Instagram to get notification of the web. This took a while before it was incorporated as is with most other features. Instagram is adding another feature to the web. The company is rolling out direct messages on the web to a “small percentage” of users worldwide as part of a public test following internal experiments in 2019. The direct messaging experience will be essentially the same through the browser as it is on mobile. You can create…
A number of Android users have even been able to get an early glimpse of what Whatsapp dark mode will look like by exploiting a small bug in the current beta release. So what is it, why does it matter, and when will it roll out? Here is what we know so far. WhatsApp dark mode is a new design which will replace/swap its current palette of light grey and green for shades of black, teal and midnight blue. Whatsapp dark mode does not totally replace the current look but will be available to choose if you one wishes to.…
If you spend a lot of time on Youtube, then you might know of MrBeast who started the #TeamTrees campaign. He raised $21million enough for 21.5 million trees to plant across the world. With the help of other top Youtubers like Techtuber Marquees Keith Brownlee, famously known as MKBHD and YouTuber Mark Rober to name just but a few, the campaign aims to plant the trees in Kenya’s Kijabe forest, India, United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Haiti, Indonesia, Ireland, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nepal, and the United Kingdom. Mr Beast in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation plans the first…
Samsung used CES 2020 to show off an 8K bezel-less screen. Samsung always set the bar too high for other TV companies by exhibiting bleeding-edge TV Tech. The TV in question is the Q950TS QLED 8K TV with Samsung calling its bezel-less screen an infinity screen as it has a 99% screen-to-body ratio — the highest in the world. Phones in the recent past have been working on minimizing their bezels and it looks like it has spilled over to televisions as we can see from Samsung and other TV brands. Samsung has also built an AI and machine-learning powered…
As technology progresses so fast, TV tech is similarly asserting how difficult it is to keep up with it. TV buyers nowadays easily get confused understanding what OLED and QLED displays are, what is Organic or Quantum or the difference between 4K screens and 8K screens. OLED is a successor to Plasma TV and it has grown in prominence in recent years with support from top TV brands like Panasonic, Sony, LG and Hisense while QLED TV makes up a large portion of Samsung TVs. So what is QLED and OLED and how do you differentiate the two, and TV…