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Ubergizmo Pandora Premium Available On Google Home And Assistant Devices Ubergizmo Pandora's music subscription service is available on Google Home speakers and Google Assistant-powered audio devices now. The service is called Pandora Premium and it provides subscribers with access to a vast library of tracks. It's an on-demand music ... and more »

Study Finds Blue Light From Smartphones Can Accelerate Blindness Ubergizmo A study conducted by researchers from the University of Toledo finds that the blue light emitted by devices like smartphones and tablets changes cells in our eyes which could accelerate blindness and hurt vision. The study highlighted that blue light ... and more »

EA's turmoil isn't over yet. Chief Design Officer Patrick Söderlund is leaving the publisher after years in various positions, and mere months after receiving a promotion to his current role. It's not clear why he's leaving or where he'll go nex...

Ubergizmo President Trump Bans Government Use Of Huawei And ZTE Devices Ubergizmo It's no secret that lawmakers and agencies in the United States view Huawei and ZTE products as security threats to the United States. There have been repeated calls to ensure that their products aren't used by government officials. President Trump has ... and more »

Ubergizmo Essential Phone Android 9 Pie Update Rolling Out On Sprint Ubergizmo The Essential Phone was the first non-Pixel smartphone to receive the Android 9 Pie update. Google released the update earlier this month and the Pixel handsets were the first to get it in addition to the Essential Phone, the device made by the company ... and more »

Firstpost Elon Musk Reveals More Details About Taking Tesla Private Ubergizmo Tesla CEO Elon Musk took many of the company's shareholders by surprise earlier this month when he tweeted that he's considering taking the company private at $420 per share. He mentioned in the tweet that the funding for this transaction had been ... Update on Taking Tesla Private | Tesla Tesla Elon Musk on Twitter: "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." Twitter all 1,782 news articles »

Tencent thought licensing Monster Hunter: World for the Chinese market would help it compete with Steam when it comes to PC gaming. Unfortunately, things didn't go according to plan: the company has pulled the Capcom-developed title from its PC gamin...

Ubergizmo Uber Uses AI To Determine If Your Trips Are Personal Or Business Ubergizmo People use Uber for work trips and personal trips, and sometimes in the heat of the moment, we might accidentally expense a work trip to our own personal account, and a personal trip to our work accounts. This means that it can get messy trying to sort ... and more »

NVIDIA just launched its biggest graphical advance since 2006, and kids are well-equipped to hack election results. Also, Azealia Banks and Elon Musk have different stories to tell about last week's surprising tweet.

Ubergizmo Nikon Z6, Z7 Could Be The Company's Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras Ubergizmo Nikon has been teasing the upcoming announcement for their new mirrorless cameras which is set for an official reveal on the 23rd of August. In terms of branding, it is unclear as to what Nikon could be calling these new devices, but according to Nikon ... and more »

The Discord gaming community boasts 150 million members and 46 million active monthly users, who spend their days chatting about games, finding people to play with and looking for advice on how to resolve issues. Up until now, game publishers have had to monitor public discussions looking for people who need help or relied on expert users to assist them, but that’s about to change with Zendesk’s new Discord support bot. Zendesk VP of product and platform, Luke Behnke, says they count a fair number of gaming companies as customers, and they have been looking for a way to have more direct communication with Discord users right where they play. With the Zendesk-Discord integration, users can request help by typing /support, and then the nature of the problem. This activates the Zendesk bot and triggers the creation of a help ticket, paving the way for a customer service rep to work directly with a person having an issue. Calling the Zendesk bot in Discord. Screenshot: Zendesk Prior to this, the only way that the game publishers could use Zendesk to generate help tickets was through the traditional sources like email, texts or phone calls, which required their users to leave the flow of the game. This integration allows the publishers to let the customers come to them for help without leaving the community. Behnke says his company has been talking to Discord, whose members generate more than 530 million messages a day, about creating an integration that would work for their users. “We worked with Discord on this and they have been testing it internally and giving us feedback,” he said. Conversation with game publisher CSR using Zendesk-Discord bot. Screenshot: Zendesk Of course, it requires people know that you type /support to activate it, but Behnke believes that if the integration works well, word will get around that this is a useful way to get support directly from the publisher without leaving Discord. He says his company sees this as a unique approach to customer service, one that the gaming publishers, who tend to be innovative, are particularly open to. Future updates could include the ability to push messages to the community such as information on an outage, or for the bot to answer common questions without accessing a human CSR. For now, this integration is in early release.

Ubergizmo Apparently Google Continues Tracking Users Even When Told Not To Ubergizmo It has been said that (depending on where you are) pressing the crosswalk button to make it turn green is nothing but a placebo, designed to give users the feeling that they are in control. Could the same be said for privacy settings? In a report from ... and more »

Mashable Build up your IT street cred with this jam-packed online certification ... Mashable Just because you know how to tinker with motherboards doesn't mean you can clinch any job you please. You may have a wide range of technical chops and ... and more »

Mashable Google tracks you even if you turn off 'location history': report Mashable When using a service like Google Maps, Google will ask you to permit access to your iPhone or Android phone's location data. When agreeing to this request, you allow Google Maps to record your location history, and display your location history on a ... and more »

DeepMind has successfully developed a system that can analyze retinal scans and spot symptoms of sight-threatening eye diseases. Today, the AI division -- owned by Google's parent company Alphabet -- published "early results" of a research project wi...