From The Verge: Apple has announced it will no longer build a $1 billion (€850 million) data center in Ireland after planning delays lasting over three years, reports Reuters. Since 2015, Apple has wanted to build the data center in Athenry to be close to green energy sources, but the plans have...

From PC Mag: Four years ago, Google introduced a version of Android designed to work on your wrist. Called Android Wear, the service has weathered changes and challenges and emerges in 2018 with a new name, Wear OS, and a new focus outlined here at the Google I/O developer conference.

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From PC Mag: Back in early November last year, Qualcomm announced the world's first 10nm server processor family called the Centriq 2400. It was the culmination of four years "intense design, development and ecosystem enablement effort." However, less than seven months on, Qualcomm's presence in the...

From CNET: With Mozilla's release of Firefox 60 on Wednesday, web browsers will start letting you log into websites without a password -- an important change in authentication technology that could help curtail costly phishing attacks.

Firefox 60 supports technology called Web Authentication, or...

From PC World: Running Windows on top of the Qualcomm Snapdragon chips enables amazing battery life but includes all sorts of complications, including clunky emulation and some app restrictions. As expected, Qualcomm and Microsoft are eliminating a key roadblock with an SDK that enables 64-bit apps...

From PC Mag: Nintendo has been slowly releasing details about the paid version of the Switch Online Service since June last year. We already know the service launches in September and will cost $19.99 a year, $7.99 for three months, or $3.99 a month. But overnight, fresh details have been released...

From CNET: Google's voice assistant is now available on LG's 2018 OLED and Super UHD LCD TVs.

The capability, first announced at CES 2018, allows models like the new C8 OLED TV to accept commands over the remote control's built-in microphone, as well as talk back to you in Google's voice.

Using...

From PC World: Amazon and Microsoft announced a surprising partnership last fall, allowing the digital assistants for the two companies—Alexa and Cortana, respectively—to work together. Microsoft’s partnership with Alexa failed to appear by the end of 2017 as promised, however. During its Build...

From PC Mag: Back in March, Nvidia launched the GeForce Partner Program (GPP) in a bid to "help gamers know what they're buying." Two months on, and Nvidia is canceling the program due to "rumors, conjecture and mistruths" the company doesn't care to battle against.

As DigitalTrends reports, an...

From CNET: Fitbit finally rolls out two features users have been asking for: text response and female health tracking. But not everyone's getting them.

If you have Fitbit's Versa or Ionic smartwatch, you'll now be able to respond to texts from your phone or other messaging services like WhatsApp...