PlayStation Now streaming service available today on Windows PCs

PlayStation Now streaming service available today on Windows PCs

You don’t need a PlayStation to play PlayStation games anymore: Sony’s Playstation Now subscription-based game streaming service is now out for PC, and you an grab the app and start playing some of PlayStation’s best legacy titles immediately if you’ve got a Windows machine. It’ll cost you, of course – but not as much as […]

Yandex applies AI to filter annoying ads on Android, powered by user reports

Yandex applies AI to filter annoying ads on Android, powered by user reports

The rise in consumer usage of ad blockers is leading to a few creative alternatives to try to achieve a ‘better relationship’ between ad tech and web browsers. To wit Russia’s Yandex, which has just announced it’s adding a complaint button to its Android browser to lets users report ads they find annoying. Filing an ad complaint will […]

Apple to upgrade Mac lineup this year, iPad stylus support next year: Report

Apple to upgrade Mac lineup this year, iPad stylus support next year: Report

Sarah Tew/CNET A new report from Bloomberg highlights several planned upgrades to Apple’s iPad and Mac lineup. Starting with the iPad, Apple plans to cater to pro users with software upgrades to utilize the Apple Pencil stylus more throughout iOS. The software update is said to land next year, as Apple is looking for more […]

Updates to Apple hardware this year will focus on power users

Updates to Apple hardware this year will focus on power users

Apple’s roadmap for the rest of the year (and perhaps a bit beyond that) appears to take aim at big spenders and power users, if we can trust inside information posted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman — as one generally can. Expect updates to the iPad, MacBook Air and Pro and Thunderbolt display. The pendulum is […]

How Stop-Motion Photography Has Evolved Since 1900

How Stop-Motion Photography Has Evolved Since 1900

Big news in the world of mobile phone photography today. Motorola just announced a new Moto Mod for its Moto Z line of smartphones. It’s called the Hasselblad True Zoom, and it’s an attachment that adds RAW photography and 10x optical zoom. Canon announced today that it has developed a CMOS sensor with a global […]

Anglr is Fitbit for fishing

Anglr is Fitbit for fishing

As an avid non-fisher it’s hard for me to quite grasp the depths of depravity associated with a fishing trip. Waking up at 4am? Swinging a pole at some water? Drinking beers all morning in a hot boat? Catching and eating a squirming live thing? Not for me. The folks at Anglr want to change […]

Vision and neural nets drive demand for more powerful chips

Vision and neural nets drive demand for more powerful chips

New applications are driving demand for faster and more efficient vision processing. (Source: Ceva) The Hot Chips conference, now in its 28th year, is known for announcements of “big iron” such as the Power and SPARC chips behind some of the world’s fastest systems. But these days the demand for processing power is coming from […]

Amazon’s Prime Now service starts delivering test drives from Hyundai

Amazon’s Prime Now service starts delivering test drives from Hyundai

Amazon’s same-day delivery service Prime Now, which is today available in more than a couple of dozen U.S. metros, is experimenting with another type of service that goes beyond traditional purchases: it’s offering consumers the ability to test drive cars. Specifically, Amazon has partnered with Hyundai to offer test drives of the 2017 Elantra through a new […]

WhatsApp plans to let businesses on to its service before the end of the year

WhatsApp plans to let businesses on to its service before the end of the year

WhatsApp will finally take a step to becoming a platform after the Facebook-owned company revealed it will begin to integrate businesses services into its app before the end of this year. The company first announced plans to connect its userbase — which stands at more than one billion — with businesses back in January, and it today it […]