CLOSEThose smart TVs that sold for unheard of low prices over the holidays come with a catch. The price is super low, but the manufacturers get to monitor what you’re watching and report back to third parties, for a fee. Or, in some cases, companies like Amazon (with its Fire TV branded sets from Toshiba and Insignia)…

Machine learning has been trotted out as a trend to watch for many years now. But there’s good reason to talk about it in the context of 2020. And that’s thanks to developments like TensorFlow.js: an end-to-end open source machine learning library that is capable of, among other features, running pre-trained AI directly in a…

MMX-MMXX — Spaceflight lived, software ownership died, and net neutrality lived and died. Nathan Mattise – Jan 1, 2020 12:00 pm UTC Look, we can’t do this without at least mentioning the 2013 Qualcomm CES Keynote, perhaps remembered best as “Born Mobile.” It had everything: over-enthusiastic millennials, Guillermo del Toro, Maroon 5, NASCAR, surprise Steve…

The certification is important, as Samsung will be able to promote its 8K TVs as being validated by the 8KA, complete with a logo. “Our goal is to provide consumers with the ability to easily identify premium 8K displays from other devices when making purchasing decisions,” said Samsung Display VP Hyogun Lee.While this might sound…

Windows 7 users will need to pay the price to move to Windows 10 this month (Image: MICROSOFT • GETTY)Microsoft has been warning us that this day would come. And now, it’s almost here. Windows 7 end of life lands on January 14, 2020. After that deadline, Windows users running older versions of the desktop…