iOS updates are shipping with more and more show-stopping bugs. Once upon a time, I would encourage people to download and install iOS updates as soon as they were released. But that was before Apple started shipping iOS updates that contained show-stopping bugs that killed vital features, broke apps, or bricked devices. Nowadays I encourage […]
Gregory Crewdson is one of the best known and influential fine art photographers working today. He is currently the director of the photography department at Yale University where he received his MFA early on.
Google’s Android Wear smartwatch platform launched more than two years ago and it’s now supported by more than a dozen brands and runs on more than 100 watch designs. Today, the company took the wraps off version 2.0 of Android Wear, the biggest update of the platform yet. Google will release the developer preview of Wear 2.0 at […]
HP EliteBook 1030 business laptop HP is expanding its EliteBook family of premium laptops with the new 1030, which naturally sits between the 1020 and 1040 in the lineup. Like its predecessors, the business notebook offers a sophisticated design — with a correspondingly high-class price tag. The company says it’s squeezed a 13.3-inch screen into […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday that it wants to open more physical bookstores and add additional services to Amazon Prime. The e-commerce behemoth has never disclosed the precise amount of subscribers to Amazon Prime, which offers services like free two-day shipping and video/music streaming for a $99 annual fee. According […]
Facebook appears to have been blocked in Vietnam as a part of a government-imposed crackdown on social media, amid public protests over an environmental disaster attributed to toxic discharges from a steel complex built by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics. Dissidents are blaming wastewater from the steel plant for a mass fish death at aquatic farms and in waters off the country’s […]
Yo! It’s your friendly neighborhood liveblogger, Greg Kumparak (@grg). The good news: our liveblog system seems to be working! The not-as-good news: you’re a little early. The announcement is scheduled to start at 10 AM Pacific. We’ll start bringing pics, details, and more from the scene shortly before then. But don’t panic! You can just […]
Microsoft is selling the feature phone business it acquired from Nokia back in 2013 to a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn for $350 million, it announced today. At the same time former owner Nokia said it has inked a deal to license its brand to HMD Global, a new Finnish company run by ex-Nokia and Microsoft devices staff, to […]
For years, Twitter users have complained about the fact that link and photo URLs count against each tweet’s 140-character limit. Now that may finally change. According to a report in Bloomberg, Twitter will stop including photos and links in character counts soon, possibly within the next two weeks. URLs are automatically shortened by Twitter, but […]
Over the past few years EyeSight has been establishing a name for itself by bringing gesture control to a series of computing platforms, from mobile devices to smart eyeglasses. Today’s announcement brings the company’s technology to the format where it arguably makes the most sense: virtual reality. The company isn’t letting out much info on the […]