• Google is Buying HTC’s Research and Development Team for $1.1 Billion

    Google is Buying HTC’s Research and Development Team for $1.1 Billion

    HTC has finally announced that its “Powered by HTC” research and development division will be bought out by Google for $1.1 billion.  Powered by HTC is the team behind Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones.  According to HTC’s CO, Peter Shen, this will mean about half of their team will be joining Google.  But they…

  • Say “Good-Bye” to Google Drive As We Know It, and “Hello” to Backup and Sync

    Say “Good-Bye” to Google Drive As We Know It, and “Hello” to Backup and Sync

    Yesterday, Google made an extremely confusing announcement that could easily scare approximately 800 million people.  Essentially they said that Google Drive was going way, but that’s not actually the case.  However, there are some things that you should know about the changes that are coming.  To start, the Google cloud service known as Drive is…

  • A Design Flaw is Making it Extremely Easy to Hack Siri and Alexa

    A Design Flaw is Making it Extremely Easy to Hack Siri and Alexa

    Chinese researchers have discovered a terrifying vulnerability in voice assistants from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung and Huawei.  It affects every iPhone and Macbook running Siri, any Galaxy phone, any PC running Windows 10 and even Amazon’s Alexa assistant.   Using a technique called the “DolphinAttack”, a team from Zhejiang University translated typical vocal commands…