Google Pushes robots.txt Exclusion Protocol an official Standard
Google wants to turn the decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) into an official internet standard — and it’s making its own robots.txt parser open source…
Day: July 1, 2019
Wireless Carriers Showing Doubts About Google’s baLOON Project Getting Doubts
Google's Loon Project working on providing Internet access to areas with limited access . The company uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an…
Roku kicks Sony, Amazon, Google and Apple’s a$$ in Media Streaming Platform Market
Roku continues to hold a commanding lead in streaming media platforms in spite of Amazon’s growing influence in the living room. "David Watkins, Director at…
Spotify Shuts Down Beta Program That Let Independent Artists Upload Own Music
Earlier today Spotify notified participating artists about their final decision to close the beta program that gave them an easy way to add tracks to…
Equinix 1 Billion Dollar Joint Venture to form xScaleTM Data Center in Europe
Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the signing on June 27, 2019, of a greater than U.S.$1.0 billion initial joint venture…
Scientists Engineered Bacteria that Could End Plastic Polution
To stop plastic pollution, two students engineered a bacterium that could transform plastic into usable compounds.Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao who have been working on…
Wikipedia Co-founder calls for social media strike for Privacy and Free Speech
In an effort to pressure the social networks into restoring control of personal data to users, Dr Larry Sanger, a co-founder of the Wikipedia on…
Samsung Isn’t Giving Up. Launches Bixby Marketplace
Although Samsung's virtual assistant Bixby could be quite useful from time to time, it never did get the love Samsung would've hoped for. Nevertheless, Samsung…
Apple rolling out 100,000 radio stations with Siri Ahead of Time
Apple is bringing live radio stations from several online providers for Siri users on iPhone, iPad and HomePod. Although marketed as a fall iOS 13…
Kareoke, Music Streaming and Sketchbook Upgrade Coming to Tesla
In a tweet, the company's CEO Elon Musk said that a "fun, little music tool" will be coming to drivers' dashboards soon, which will include…
Waze Carpool Gets Fresh Design
Waze has decided to update the app with a fresh new design and making things clearer for both drivers and riders.Most of the changes are…
Android Q Successfully Rooted
Rooting is a process that allows you to get full root access to the Android operating system code (in Apple world its called jailbreaking). using…
Pocket-sized Recon Drone on its way to Afghanistan
The tiny and stealthy silent FLIR Black Hornet (16.8 cm in length) is heading to Afghanistan this month with the 82nd Airborne Division With flights…
Bye bye Brave Browser Tabs Preview
Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. The browser blocks ads and website…
Revenge Porn Victims are not taken Seriously Enough
Revenge porn referred to sharing private sexual images or videos of a person without their consent.“Delays in government action on image-based sexual abuse is gambling…
Amazon is Selling Entire Houses with Free Shipping
Prebuilt modular houses seems to be selling out like hot buns on Amazon. Multiple news outlets, including real-estate sites Curbed and the Real Deal, reported that one…
Linux Dominates Windows on the Azure’s Cloud
In the last few years there has been a drastic growth in demand for Linux servers seemingly leaving Windows servers behind. As revealed by, Scott…