Wagons may be a niche in the US market but they are really popular in Europe. In the old continent, carmakers are competing fiercely in the wagon segment and the folks there can now welcome a new model, the Volvo V60. The new generation V60 can be described as a more refined, wagon version of […]
A few decades ago, if someone would’ve told you devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home would become common household products, you probably wouldn’t have believed them. But, this is a different time, and these days, we expect a lot from our tech. As a virtual assistant, Alexa has come a long way in a […]
HMD Global on Sunday unveiled the Nokia 7 Plus ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona to upgrade the experience over the original Nokia 7. The new smartphone has enhanced specifications as well as an all-new build. Also, the latest Nokia phone is a part of Google’s Android One initiative that is aimed […]
Unlike “animojis” that are native to iMessage, Samsung will let you share these AR Emojis through various messaging platforms including WhatsApp. Put it this way, Samsung left the radical changes to Apple. The Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones that Samsung introduced at a crowded press gathering here in Barcelona don’t look a whole lot different […]
It’s also out for Windows 2-in-1 devices, so long as the you have access to the developer channel. Chrome on Chromebooks and Windows-2-in-1 devices is on its way to becoming more like its sibling on mobile. As lucasban has posted on Reddit, the pull-to-refresh gesture is now available on the browser’s developer channel for those […]
Android fans were in for a bit of disappointment regarding Android’s long-awaited dark mode. Earlier this week, a Google employee stated that the company was working to implement a systemwide dark mode in the upcoming Android P. It turns out that those statements were the result of miscommunication between Google employees and users on the […]
Apple is moving encryption keys for China-based users’ data from the US to the Asian country. Some say that’s bad for dissidents. Apple says the keys are safe. Apple has privacy advocates worried over a change in how it protects the data of iCloud users in China, according to a pair of reports. The data, […]
Welcome to LG’s new smartphone strategy. A new flagship every year, followed by an incremental upgrade six months later. It’s a strange approach that’s sure to annoy early adopters, but LG’s certainly not the first to adopt the strategy — it’s in-line with the sort of thing OnePlus, among others, have been doing for a […]
Sony’s Mobile World Congress plans seem to have leaked out ahead of time: details for its new flagship Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact smartphones have hit the internet a few days early, according to Evan Blass at VentureBeat. According to Blass, Sony will be announcing the 5.7-inch XZ2 (a follow-up to last year’s XZ model) […]
An Apple repair and refurbishment center in Elk Grove, Calif., has placed about 1,600 accidental calls to 911 over the past four months — and it’s not at all clear why. Jason Jimenez, public information officer at the Elk Grove Police Department, confirmed a report from CBS13 in Sacramento that emergency dispatchers have been fielding […]
Facebook has managed to step into controversy again. The social network has recently been besieged with criticism from all corners about the role it plays in public discourse and how it addresses those problems. It promised to do better. Yet at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of activists and elected officials, […]
A decade after it was founded, Dropbox has filed to go public. The beloved, easy-to-use (if somewhat stagnant) file syncing service had documents unsealed at the SEC today revealing plans for an initial public offering, where Dropbox is looking to raise up to $500 million. The company will trade on Nasdaq under the symbol “DBX.” […]
