The gaming community is one of the most vibrant and powerful groups on the Internet. The power of platforms like Twitch to unite gamers interested in watching streams of other people playing video games seems intensely foreign to those outside the community, but has quickly become a pretty dynamic arena for gamers to chitchat online. Beam […]
Google is launching an update to its Translate apps for iOS and Android today. There are three main parts to today’s announcement: offline support for iOS, Tap To Translate on Android, and Word Lens support for Chinese across platforms. With this new version, the Translate team is bringing offline support to iOS. This feature, which […]
Android is growing again the expense of its smartphone rivals. Image: ZDNet Android has continued to grow at the expense of rival smartphone operating systems iOS and Windows Phone. Data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech for the three months ending March 2016 has Android continuing to grow sales across the US and China, as well as […]
(Image: Pebble) About three months ago I posted the news on the Pebble Health enhancements, but one frustrating aspect of the service was the limitation to view your health data only on the watch. The new Pebble Health update provides a smartphone interface for Pebble Health while also improving the text messaging experience for iOS […]
Starting out in studio portraiture and not sure what light modifier to choose to achieve the photo you want? In the post, we’ll take a look at the differences between the main modifiers in order to help you make a good choice.
uBeam could be vaporware, according to a blogger claiming to be uBeam’s former VP of Engineering. They accuse the startup of being unable to fulfill promises made about its technology. uBeam CEO Meredith Perry uBeam says it’s building a device that could wirelessly charge your phone or other electronics from several meters away. But in […]
The (in)famous former Top Gear presenter trio: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, who last summer signed to Amazon’s Prime video streaming platform to make a new car show to be screened on its platform this year, have revealed what it’s going to be called — and it’s The Grand Tour. Why a tour? Because […]
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service that claims a billion users, has launched desktop clients for Mac and Windows. The release comes about 15 months after WhatsApp released its first web app. People who have already been using WhatsApp in their web browsers will find that the software isn’t significantly different. The company said in an […]
Google announced today that it will no longer allow payday lenders to advertise on its systems because the loans often come with high interest rates and quick repayment requirements that push borrowers into debt. Payday lenders offer quick cash to low-income people, who are then required to pay back their loans within a short time […]
For better or worse, Twitter is the home to a lot of harebrained ideas. One great example of that is the @TweetXstitch account, which creates framed representations of some of the dumbest, funniest and most memorable moments at Twitter, taking ephemeral tweets and immortalizing them through the medium of needle and thread. The account started, as so many other silly […]