Apple’s iOS 10 feels like pointless filler and changes made for the sake of changes. The public beta of iOS 10 came out the other day, and the first thing I did was download and install it to not only test devices, but also my main go-to iPhone (because why not? Live dangerously, YOLO, and […]
(Image: HTC) Thanks to an HTC $100-off loyalty code, I purchased my HTC 10 for $599 in April. HTC is again offering $100 off the HTC 10 from now until July 31, if you purchase the HTC 10 at HTC.com. If you want the HTC 10, then you should purchase it directly from HTC, as […]
Los Angeles-based photographer Alex Stone was shooting a car on a desolate public road in Southern California this past weekend when he was confronted by an angry man who demanded that the photo crew get off his “driveway.” Stone’s recording of the confrontation went viral, and the man in the video has now been arrested […]
Oculus is running its third developer conference for people interested in building VR experiences. Oculus Connect 3 is (you guessed it) the third annual developer conference hosted by the company, and it’s taking place in San Jose between October 5 and October 7. The event typically contains some news relevant to both developers and end […]
Asus Chromebook C301SA will come with 64GB of storage for under $300. The original vision for Chromebooks was one of laptops that required the bare minimum of specs thanks to Google’s Chrome OS and its reliance on cloud computing, with a price point that matched. Google itself made the rare exception of trying to go […]
Walmart today announced its plan for taking on Amazon’s Prime Day. Amazon’s annual sales holiday kicks off tomorrow, promising a host of online deals and discounts across a variety of categories, including electronics, toys, household items, apparel, and more. Walmart now says it will have a variety of new deals, too, like those on popular electronics like Apple […]
Facebook is clearly very serious about its mission to connect the world and in the process, it has launched solar-powered drones that use lasers to connect to each other and the ground, and more prosaic efforts like new antennas for covering both urban and rural areas. Today, Facebook is expanding this work with the launch of […]
Google’s Project Fi wireless service has long allowed its subscribers to take their phones to more than 135 countries without having to worry about getting a huge bill for international data usage. That’s because international data is simply included in the company’s plans without a surcharge. Until now, though, you would only get 2G speeds when traveling abroad, but as […]
Twitter is expanding upon its live-streaming plans yet again. This morning, Twitter and CBS News announced a new partnership that will see the social media service offering a live stream of the news network’s coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Twitter users will be able to watch “wall-to-wall” convention coverage from CBSN, CBS’s […]
Yesterday afternoon, before he took the stage at the Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference, we sat down with GV CEO Bill Maris in a billowing white tent on the campus of the Aspen Institute, where the conference is being held held. We talked about how Brexit impacts GV’s European strategy. (You may recall it has an office in […]