Author: Egon Kilin

Dyson investing in battery tech firm to develop new, long-lasting batteries

Dyson, the vacuum manufacturer that was one of the stars at CES 2015 in January has announced today that it would be investing in a startup battery tech firm called Sakti3, originating from the University of Michigan. Sakti3 works on battery tech that aims to outdo the conventional lithium-ion batteries in use in wearable technology, smartphones ...

Categories: Tech

Tags: Battery Technology, Dyson, Sakti3

Facebook real names doesn’t refer to the name on your ID

Facebook has updated a few of its community standards and guidelines this Sunday to better reflect the purpose of these standards. Among the details that were newly disclosed about the company’s policies, the Facebook real names policy has also been better clarified after backlash against it. According to an official blog post detailing the new ...

SecuTablet equals Samsung and BlackBerry teaming up

Remember those rumors back in January about Samsung buying BlackBerry? Well, those were quickly debunked by BlackBerry, but in turn the company let people in on a partnership that was ongoing between the South Korean and the Canadian company. Details about the partnership were just recently revealed at the CeBIT technology conference in Germany this weekend, ...

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Tags: BlackBerry, ibm, Samsung, SecuTablet

Best privacy apps for Android: end to end encryption for free

Secure communication has become a bit of a tabu now, seeing as the NSA, FBI and other government agencies frown upon end to end encryption provided by certain software. Those concerned with their privacy and want to have a secure communications experience when using their smartphones don’t have a lot of options out there, but ...

Facebook is sharing your conversations with advertisers

Facebook is actually sharing your conversations with advertisers, which sounds like a serious infringement on privacy, at the very least. Facebook’s new topic data offering to advertisers means that the social media network is opening up their data so that advertisers and marketing specialists can access the database and search for keywords with which they ...