Microsoft yesterday claimed its own tests show that Edge, the default in Windows 10, used 27 percent less power than the No. 1 browser, Chrome, and 35 percent less than the slowly-sliding-into-obscurity Firefox. The Redmond, Wash. company’s Edge-eats-less campaign may have been motivated by Edge’s poor performance in the... Read more

IBM IBM is using the power of its Watson supercomputer, “cognitive imaging” and artificial intelligence to help doctors better diagnose patients facing major diseases. The tech giant on Wednesday announced its Watson Health medical-imaging collaborative, which includes 16 members from health systems, academic medical centers and imaging-tech vendors. IBM... Read more

Daesh (the so-called “Islamic State”) probably isn’t very happy either If there’s one thing America’s most dogmatic evangelists (comprised of a diverse cadre of Muslims, Christians, etc.) and Daesh (aka “the Islamic State”) can agree on it’s that evolutionary theory is surely the work of the devil — or so... Read more

Netflix and YouTube account for more than half of all bandwidth usage for streaming video, but one often overlooked contender is starting to creep up the charts. According to Sandvine, a broadband services company that monitors Internet usage numbers, Amazon Video accounted for 4.3% of downstream internet traffic during... Read more

Dropbox works just like any other folder on your computer, but with a few differences. Here’s how it works: Drag and drop to move files around, just like you normally would Any files or folders inside Dropbox will get synchronized to Dropbox’s servers and any other computer linked... Read more

In today’s connected society, text message etiquette can be a tricky minefield – especially when it comes to rejecting amorous advances. But an answer may be at hand with a program from the makers of Burner, an app that lets users create and destroy new phone numbers. With the... Read more

A lot of the entrepreneurs I meet have a fascination with the way venture capital firms actually work. One part of this fascination is a healthy, rational interest in how their companies get discovered and analysed, and how investment decisions that affect them get made.  Another part of it... Read more

Five of the London mayoral candidates gathered yesterday to debate the city’s fastest-growing sector: technology. All of them were keen to woo the techie crowd at Here East, a ‘digital campus’ in the former Olympic Park: frontrunners Sadiq Khan and Zac Goldsmith but also Sian Berry (Green), Caroline Pidgeon... Read more