LG has announced its bringing Nvidia G-Sync to its range of 2019 OLED TVs – promising to reduce tearing and smooth out the picture when using an LG television as a gaming monitor for your PC. LG TVs – like many premium sets – already have low input lag and premium audio capability that makes […]
After a number of first-party apps were found to have unusually high rankings, Apple has finally updated the App Store’s search algorithm to “handicap” itself and help make apps from other developers easier to find. Just don’t call this change a mistake, because according to a recent statement given to the New York Times by […]
Gauging a person’s emotion from their intonations is the bread-and-butter business of startups Affectiva, Beyond Verbal, Cogito, and Realeyes, not to mention an area of acute study for tech giants like Amazon. The potential upside is enormous: Knowing the precise moment someone becomes frustrated or saddened, say, could inform an intelligent assistant’s response or a […]
According to comments that someone inside Google passed along to Reuters late last month, it appears that Huawei will not be able to license the Google Play services version of Android for its upcoming Mate 30 line. This means that it will have to turn to another operating system, and while it did introduce its […]
We all hate being placed on hold when calling a business – especially the part where you’re forced to listen to excruciating hold music that seems to drone on endlessly. But what if your phone’s virtual assistant could go on hold for you, freeing you up to do other things? According to a new report […]
Product launch schedules aren’t rocket science but those are also carefully made with certain windows of opportunity in mind. When they miss those schedules, there’s a very strong chance it will affect other products or be affected adversely. That definitely seems to be the case with Huawei’s first and so far only foldable phone that […]
Apple and Google have both been ordered by the US Department of Justice to share personal details like names, phone numbers, and IP addresses for the users of a specific gun scope app. The request comes as the government is trying to stop breaches of weapons export regulations and has created a new round of […]
I’m baffled by why so few brands seem to be using Google’s new AR wrapper. It’s a landmark product that allows both Apple (.usdz) and Android (.glb) augmented reality models to be inserted into a website via a single line of code. My team is using it for clients as we speak. But we feel […]
Apple Inc on Friday confirmed that China’s Uighurs, a mostly Muslim minority group considered a security threat by Beijing, had been the target of attacks due to iPhone security flaws, but disputed rival Alphabet Inc’s description of the effort to track users of the smartphone in real time. Google Project Zero researchers said last week […]
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Apple Music launches a public beta on the web While this is the first time Apple has made its music service available on the web, […]
Huawei at IFA 2019 in Berlin took the wraps off of its next-gen mobile processor, the Kirin 990 system-on-chip (SoC) that will power the Mate 30 phones, including the Mate 30 Pro that could be the most important iPhone 11 rival launching this year. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Huawei is repeating what it […]
Streaming music subscriptions continue to drive the U.S. music industry’s growth and revenues, according to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released this week. The organization said total music revenue grew 18% to $5.4 billion in the first half of 2019, with streaming music accounting for 80% of industry revenues. […]
