The stock market went on a wild ride again on Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average closing down 1,175 points, its worst point drop in history. The Dow closed down 4.6 percent and turned negative for the year. At one point Monday afternoon, the Dow was down 1,579 points — the largest intraday point […]
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Google Pixel 2 photos get AI boost for digital zoom
Google’s Android phone has only one lens, but a technology called RAISR uses machine learning to help you zoom in better. One of the biggest differences between the iPhone X and the Pixel 2 is that Google’s flagship Android phone has a single camera while Apple’s phone comes with two. The pair of lenses in […]
Intel is Betting On Less With New Smartglasses
Intel has created a pair of experimental smartglasses that it hopes will avoid the ridicule lobbed at earlier efforts by other companies. “If it’s weird, if you look geeky, if you’re tapping and fiddling—then we’ve lost.” Itai Vonshak, head of products at Intel’s New Devices Group, told The Verge. Google Glass, the smartglasses introduced by […]
Facebook, Google Vets Form Coalition to Fight Tech Addiction
It’s time to talk about tech addiction. Several tech execs and social media pioneers have come out of the woodwork in recent months to decry the dangers and harmful effects of our internet-addled society. Now a group of former Apple, Facebook, and Google employees are joining the charge with an anti-tech addiction coalition called the […]
Broadcom Has Produced What Could Be the Best and Final Offer to Acquire Qualcomm: $146 Billion
Broadcom is back with what looks like a final offer to acquire U.S.-based chipset manufacturer Qualcomm. After the $120 billion offer, which also includes a higher breakup fee, Broadcom is prepared to offer the SoC maker $146 billion, which is an unprecedented moment and will definitely go down in history as the largest tech acquisition […]
LG’s Android Phone Division Exits China Amid Heavy Losses
LG Electronics is giving up on the Chinese Android smartphone market amid heavy losses, having opted to officially exit the Far Eastern country, local media reports. The Seoul-based original equipment manufacturer hasn’t launched a new handset in China since the LG G5 SE in mid-2016 but was still selling select models until recently, though its […]
Apple Investigating iPhone X ‘Incoming Call’ Bug
Apple is looking into a glitch that reportedly makes it extremely difficult for iPhone X owners to answer their phones. Though most people likely spend their days texting, messaging, and posting pictures to social media, phone calls are the cornerstone of a smartphone. Accordingly, some iPhone X owners are a bit annoyed lately that a […]
How Amazon Keeps Your TV From Accidentally Triggering Your Echo
If you haven’t seen it by now, Amazon’s Super Bowl LII commercial is fairly clever. Kudos to the company for coming up with a fun way to mash together celebrities and Alexa without it feeling overly cheesy or trying-too-hard. More importantly, a big thanks to Amazon’s engineers who came up with an ingenious way […]
Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify
More and more people are rocking out to Apple Music instead of Spotify. And as a new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates, if Apple Music continues to grow at its current rate, it will officially overtake Spotify this summer as the streaming world’s number one service. The news likely doesn’t thrill Spotify, which […]
There’s a bunch of free kids Audiobooks on Google Play to try out
The recent launch of Audiobooks on Google Play has been hit and miss for most. There’s some high prices on popular series like Harry Potter, and some series such as The Dresden Files (It’s fantastic) are incomplete. If you want to try some out, or get something interesting for the kids to listen to, then […]
Report: Microsoft will make Windows 10 S the default mode for five new Windows 10 versions
Microsoft reportedly will offer Windows 10 S as a default “mode” that it will sell with virtually all Windows consumer versions, several of which are being added as a part of a roadmap update. What isn’t clear, however, is whether the new Windows 10 versions — Entry, Value, Core, Core+, and Advanced, according to a […]
Super Mario Run Has 20M Players, Nintendo Still Hiding Revenue
Super Mario Run continued building on its 200 million global downloads recorded in October, Nintendo revealed as part of its consolidated financial report for the final quarter of the calendar year 2017, i.e. the third quarter of its current fiscal year. The first official Mario mobile game in the history of the company still boasts […]