
Skype’s apps for chatting and making voice or video calls have been around longer than Facetime, Hangouts, WhatsApp, or most other modern-day alternatives. But the Skype team has been making major changes in recent years and as the latest step in transitioning from a peer-to-peer communications app to a cloud-hosted one, Skype’s Gurdeep Pall says the app will be dropping support for some older platforms.
If you’ve got a relatively recent version of Windows, OS X, Android, or Linux you should be good to go.
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Skype’s apps for chatting and making voice or video calls have been around longer than Facetime, Hangouts, WhatsApp, or most other modern-day alternatives. But the Skype team has been making major changes in recent years and as the latest step in transitioning from a peer-to-peer communications app to a cloud-hosted one, Skype’s Gurdeep Pall says the app will be dropping support for some older platforms.
If you’ve got a relatively recent version of Windows, OS X, Android, or Linux you should be good to go.
Continue reading Skype is dropping support for older operating systems at Liliputing.
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NVIDIA’s chips may not be as popular with smartphone and tablet makers as they were a few years ago, but if you use a Tegra processor in a device where power consumption isn’t as constrained, it can offer pretty impressive performance. The Tegra X1 chip powers the company’s NVIDIA Shield Android TV console, and NVIDIA has been positioning its processors as solutions for smart cars for a few years.
Now the company is getting ready to launch its next-gen Tegra chip, and NVIDIA’s Andi Skende will be talking about the “Tegra-Next System-on-a-Chip” at the Hot Chips conference in California on August 22nd.
Continue reading NVIDIA to unveil “Tegra-Next” chip details in August at Liliputing.


NVIDIA’s chips may not be as popular with smartphone and tablet makers as they were a few years ago, but if you use a Tegra processor in a device where power consumption isn’t as constrained, it can offer pretty impressive performance. The Tegra X1 chip powers the company’s NVIDIA Shield Android TV console, and NVIDIA has been positioning its processors as solutions for smart cars for a few years.
Now the company is getting ready to launch its next-gen Tegra chip, and NVIDIA’s Andi Skende will be talking about the “Tegra-Next System-on-a-Chip” at the Hot Chips conference in California on August 22nd.
Continue reading NVIDIA to unveil “Tegra-Next” chip details in August at Liliputing.
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Ein leuchtender Ballon, der Daten empfängt, die per Laser übertragen werden: Facebook-Mitarbeiter haben ein System für die optische Datenübertragung entwickelt. Es ist Teil des Projekts, entlegene Regionen der Welt aus der Luft mit schnellem Internet zu versorgen. (Facebook, Netzwerk) 

Ein leuchtender Ballon, der Daten empfängt, die per Laser übertragen werden: Facebook-Mitarbeiter haben ein System für die optische Datenübertragung entwickelt. Es ist Teil des Projekts, entlegene Regionen der Welt aus der Luft mit schnellem Internet zu versorgen. (
Facebook,
Netzwerk)

When I finished reviewing the Emtec GEM Box micro-console recently, I concluded that it’s a nice little box for streaming PC games over the internet using Gamefly Streaming… if you don’t already have an Amazon Fire TV device that can do the same thing. I do have a Fire TV Stick… so I’m tempted to pick up a Fire TV game controller, and Amazon’s making it a little harder to resist that temptation today.
Continue reading Deals of the Day (7-20-2016) at Liliputing.


When I finished reviewing the Emtec GEM Box micro-console recently, I concluded that it’s a nice little box for streaming PC games over the internet using Gamefly Streaming… if you don’t already have an Amazon Fire TV device that can do the same thing. I do have a Fire TV Stick… so I’m tempted to pick up a Fire TV game controller, and Amazon’s making it a little harder to resist that temptation today.
Continue reading Deals of the Day (7-20-2016) at Liliputing.
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