With iOS 10, Apple made a fundamental change to the way the Touch ID sensor worked, and it’s a particularly annoying change. Previously, you just had to tap the Home button, and then you were into your device. But with iOS 10, Apple tweaked it so that you are now able to unlock the device […]
Samsung remained the leader in worldwide smartphone shipments, with 77 million phones shipped in the second quarter. Recent reports showed the Samsung Galaxy S7 outselling the Apple iPhone 6s, and today’s IDC worldwide quarterly mobile phone tracker report confirmed Samsung continues to lead the smartphone market thanks to strong S7 sales. As ZDNet’s Jason Perlow […]
You can’t say you haven’t seen this coming. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said again and again that the iPad Pro is the company’s vision of the future of computing. And today, Apple is confirming this vision with a new ad. For the first time, Apple is calling the iPad Pro a computer. The ad […]
A high-quality, tiny, ultra-wide angle lens with almost zero distortion… that’s what Venus is promising with the full-frame Laowa 12mm f/2.8 ZERO-D. And they’ve already raised over a quarter of a million dollars from people who believe they will deliver. I’m a professional full-time photographer and I choose to let people download and use 95% […]
Lumo officially launches its smart running sensor, Lumo Run, today, and we took it for a spin around the park to tell you how it compares to other jogging tech out there. TechCrunch first caught wind of Lumo’s smart pants with the running sensor last October. It was a breakout product from its posture trainer Lumo […]
The Mi Notebook Air is Xiaomi’s first laptop. A quick Google search for “Xiaomi” and “Apple” gives a hint at how the Chinese manufacturer is perceived compared to the U.S. tech giant: “Xiaomi Apple clone,” “Xiaomi Apple copycat,” and “Xiaomi Apple ripoff” are related searches that are suggested for users seeking further information. With its […]
Yahoo finally found a buyer, Mobileye and Tesla broke up, and some of the largest tech companies reported quarterly earnings. These are the biggest tech stories of the week. You can now get the Weekly Roundup sent straight to your inbox, delivered Saturday mornings. 1. Verizon (which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch) announced it is acquiring Yahoo’s core business for […]
W riting on a computer is awful. Without discipline – in my case, at least – an effort to get out 1,000 words of non-fiction usually ends up consisting of thirty minutes of web browsing before writing, intermittent Facebook trips while tapping out a few hundred words, and a nice jaunt through Hacker News at […]
While Alphabet’s core advertising business has often been questioned as the net value of its ads has been in decline, there’s one thing that’s hard to argue — it’s still one of the biggest technology businesses in the world, and it’s still growing. And it’s growing very quickly. Alphabet reported a second quarter that continued tech’s hot […]
The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner this year was ENTy, a polished and highly practical hardware solution for tracking posture, helping with diagnosis and possibly treatment of diseases that affect balance. There were 35 teams in the […]