While some manufacturers like LG and HTC seems to be going on a smartphone diet, others like Xiaomi just keep on churning model after model of nearly identical smartphones. Case in point is one of two new phones it just launched in India under its Redmi line. The Redmi Note 5 might sound eerily familiar, […]
A Korean report says the S9 will get its own 3D emojis. Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S9 phone could borrow another iPhone X feature if the rumors are true. (The first is said to be a more robust version of Face ID.) The Galaxy S9 may come with a 3D emoji feature, Korean news outlet ETNews […]
Google is following Facebook, following Instagram, following Snapchat. The search giant is the latest tech company to take a page from the millennial-messaging app’s storybook. It’s rolling out tappable, visual stories that incorporate text, images, and videos in the style made popular by Snapchat. It started widely testing the multimedia format, called AMP stories, today […]
Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email with its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” Does that sound like a terrible idea to anyone else? It sure sounds like a terrible idea to me, and not only that, but an idea borne out of competitive pressure and existing leverage […]
The Apple HomePod’s sound quality is very good, but not as good as competing “smart” speakers like the Sonos One and the Google Home Max. That’s the finding by Consumer Reports, which published on Friday the early results of a comprehensive review of Apple’s Internet-connected speaker, which costs $350. The speaker went on sale on […]
Let’s just lay our cards down at once. AMD’s Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G APUs are everything budget gamers have been praying for: surprisingly decent gaming performance at a shockingly low price. In years past, such a statement would be met by skepticism and dismissive “whatever” animated GIFs. But AMD actually over-delivered on […]
Google still has some serious work to do to get its most recent Android version to users — only 1.1 percent of Android users are using Oreo — but the company is already hard at work on Android P, which we’re starting to hear the first rumors about in a new report from Bloomberg. One […]
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is switching things up for this year’s major updates. Instead of meeting a tight deadline and ticking all the boxes on the checklist, development teams will be able to push back some features if they’re not polished enough. Axios and Bloomberg previously reported that Apple was focusing […]
The latest iOS 11.3 public beta allows you to disable CPU throttling — but you sacrifice the stability of your iPhone. So, how does the latest iOS 11.3 public beta handle an iPhone crashing due to a worn battery? Well, I happen to have an iPhone in the lab that is awaiting a battery replacement, […]
New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition technology is subject to biases based on the data sets provided and the conditions in which algorithms are created. Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, recently built a dataset of 1,270 […]
The Graphics Card is one of the essential hardware components if you are deciding to build a gaming PC. Even if you are just looking for a boost in gaming performance for your existing PC, a decent GPU is the most effective gaming upgrade to get an increase in the FPS. Due to cryptocurrency mining, prices of […]
The next feature update to Windows 10, codenamed Redstone 4 and likely called the Spring Creators Update, is right around the corner. The expected 1803 version number means that it will be finalized next month, and that means that Microsoft will be freezing app updates in the Fast ring. The company does this so Insiders […]
