While audio technology has certainly advanced enough that it’s easy to find earbuds and headphones with wonderful sound quality, few of us enjoy always having something in or on our ears. Unfortunately, phone and laptop speakers haven’t advanced at the same rate. And even the smallest external speakers are a bit bulky to carry around everywhere. So it’s a good thing the HumBird Bone-Conducting Speaker provides amazing sound you can take with you anywhere....

A quick Googling shows several threads on different forums, including Gmail help forum, where several users have complained about the same. Most of these users complain about Gmail’s non-stop loading and non-display of messages even after signing in. One such complaint goes like this As you can expect with any Google forum, there haven’t been much help from Google, but in one of the threads, a Google employee has suggested this solution- There are no clear indications available for the cause and pattern of the issue, like when using a particular browser or while using a particular OS etc....

Recently, competition commission of India, the watchdog of fair competition in India, had found Google manipulating the search results for flight-related queries. The search giant Google found routing the flight-related queries towards its own flight search service. According to the competition commission of India, Google has abused its dominant position on three counts largely concerning to search. According to the 190-page pdf shared by CCI, this practice actually harms start-ups and is unfair to the consumers as well....

Now it looks like Google’s next smartphone, the Pixel 2 could be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 836 processor. The reports from UberGizmo claims that Google Pixel 2 could be the first phone that will feature the upcoming Snapdragon 836 chipset. Well, the company haven’t said anything about Snapdragon 836 processor. But, the reports claims that Qualcomm is about to launch the next generation Snapdragon 836 processor later this year. As we already mentioned there are not many details available concerning Snapdragon 836, but the sources claim that the processor won’t be miles ahead of the Snapdragon 835 in terms of performance....

David Burke, VP of Engineering, Android at Google, announced at the Google I/O 2016 opening keynote that Google is welcoming recommendations from Android users for the final name of Android N. Burke noted that coming up with the final name of an Android release is the among the toughest thing the team has to do before every release. So, to make things easier this time around, the company is welcoming suggestions for Android N from users itself....

Like every other Honor device, the Honor 8X is filled to the brim with useful features and customization options. One useful option in Emotion UI on Honor 8X is the ability to natively lock apps and then unlock them using the fingerprint scanner or face unlock. While previous Honor devices have also offered face unlock and app lock feature, the ability to use face unlock for unlocking protected apps was missing....

But for other IT, HR, and business executives that I’ve spoken with over the last several months, the focus now is much more on how to bridge the divide that is taking place. The divide between those that go back and those that remain remote. The concern is strategic: How to maintain a distinct culture of properly engaged workers. It’s also tactical: How to ensure a much more distributed workforce remains effective while also being equitably treated....

As of now, most of the desktop web browser has a private browsing mode. Google Chrome browser has an ‘Incognito mode,’ whereas the Edge browser has an ‘InPrivate Mode’. Private browsing mode is a feature that lets you browse privately over the device. In Private Browsing mode, the browser doesn’t save your history, cache, passwords, cookies, etc. This is a built-in feature of a modern web browser, but it isn’t enabled by default....

At the end of August, Microsoft officially released its digital personal assistant, Cortana, as a beta for Android users. The features list isn’t as fleshed out as it is for Cortana users on Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 10, but the arrival of the option was warmly welcomed by Windows users that wish to bridge their preferences, Notebook, and more to their PC and the personal assistant on their smartphone....

A member of my staff helped her mother find over $5,000. She found two life insurance policies, retirement benefits, and rebates from utilities sitting unclaimed in her grandparents’ names for more than 20 years. But if you get a call claiming you’re owed something, don’t fall for it; you have to do the work yourself. Spammers will use the lure of money to trick you. Tap or click for my best advice to stop robocalls for good....

Google I/O is arguably the biggest conference for the search giant, where the company not only announces new things, but also outlines just how other things will get better. Now, this year’s event, Google I/O 2015, has finally been given the finalized dates. The new conference will take place on May 28 and May 29, 2015. It will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California over those two days, and registration is set to go live on March 17 at 9:00AM PT/12:00PM ET....

The Google I/O conference is still going strong, and now, while on stage, the company has unveiled Google Photos, a brand new way to organize and catalog all of your photos from your devices. While on stage, Google unveiled Photos, which, as previously rumored, will function as a way to better catalog and, even better, organize all of your photos from all of your devices. That even includes videos. With a simple gesture of pinching on the display, Photos will let users navigate to a certain period of time, from years, to months to days....

Getting in on the Black Friday and Cyber Monday bandwagon, Google has kicked off its own “Cyber Week Deals” on the Google Play Store. Running until November 29, the sale sees the company offering hefty discounts on a wide variety of games, apps, TV shows, movies, and more hosted on Google Play. Meant for consumers in the United States, the app deals includes up to 50 percent discount on apps like Sleep cycle alarm clock, Runstastic PRO, 30 Day Fitness Challenge, and more....

Google has just released two new apps on the Play Store — Docs and Sheets. Both these services are a part of Google Drive but it looks like the company is breaking them into standalone apps to help them make more recognisable to general users. Right now, these standalone apps don’t offer anything new over the Google Drive app except for a different colour scheme. However, expect things to change drastically with time with the Drive app becoming defunct down the line....

Google on its Android developers blog states that they have used machine learning to identify bad apps with identifiers like impersonation, inappropriate content, and malware to remove over 700,000 apps and 100,000 developers in 2017. Well, that number is up by 70% from 2016. Google on Android developer blog claims that ‘copycats’ are the most common reasons for app removal from Google Play. Not only these, the search giant also claims that they have removed as much as 250,000 apps that were caught impersonating big titles....

Google launched the Pixel C tablet not too long ago, and now for the developer crowd out there, the company is aiming to make it easier to get. At least $150 cheaper, anyway. Google has officially launched a promotion that will see developers get $150 off the stock Google and stock Android tablet. However, that $150 discount doesn’t apply to the keyboard, so you’ll still need to fork over $149 for that....

The Pixelbook from Google is a high-end laptop that runs Chrome OS, and, for some who might love the hardware, being limited in its operating system’s options may be a dealbreaker. That may not be a limitation in the future, though, based on a report from Android Police and citing posts on Reddit. There have been references to a mode entitled “AltOS” discovered within the latest build of Chrome OS, with some code reading “Message string for AltOS picker screen” and even includes “go/vboot-windows”....

Well, so if you have a Netflix account and want to download any video then you can use a new tool called “Free Netflix Downloader” to download Netflix videos directly on your Windows PC/laptops without a hitch. As we already mentioned Netflix now allows users to download only selected videos using Android or iPhone. So, this tool will help you download any video of your choice. The tool Free Netflix Downloader has been Developed by DVDVideoSoft and is only available for Windows PC/Laptops....

On Dec. 29, a message from Facebook offered free essential Internet services in India, but this service was some local critics of the boycott. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg did not understand; he wrote an article published in a medium that requires public support for “Free Basics” Internet services. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India invites people to participate and together decide whether to ban the service or implement it. Free Internet India Refused Zuckerberg’s Personal Letter of Dissatisfied Here is the full article Zuckerberg: India must select facts rather than imagination to make one billion people interconnected....

The November feature updates are rolling out to the Venu 2, Venu Sq 2, Forerunner 255 series, Forerunner 945 LTE, Forerunner 955 series, Fenix 6/MARQ, Fenix 7/Epix (Gen 2), MARQ (Gen 2), Enduro 2, and Tactix 7. Earlier this year, I tested the Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar that launched with some of these features in this update, but even that device gets some of the new goodies. The Garmin Enduro 2 lives on one of my wrists at all times while I test out all kinds of other smartwatches and GPS sports watches on the other wrist....