The Thunderhill Raceway in California’s Sacramento Valley is soaked in the oil of motorsport history. It is home to the longest automobile race in the United States, known as the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, and last September, it was host to a very different kind of race: a race between man and machine. In the […]
KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo has been reporting the 2018 iPhone lineup as two OLED models (5.8-inch and 6.5-inch) and one LCD model (6.1-inch) for a little while now. Today, a Digitimes analyst says that Apple has been testing various screen panels, and may only launch a single new OLED iPhone this year, with a 6.5-inch screen. […]
Google is testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin. A website first spotted online Thursday describes Bulletin as “an app for contributing hyperlocal stories about your community, for your community, right from your phone.” It’s designed to make it “effortless” to tell “the stories that aren’t being […]
This week, ads over YouTube carried a sneaky surprise: a cryptocurrency miner. The mining software briefly invaded the video platform in an attempt to secretly siphon the computing power from any YouTube viewers who encountered the ads. The culprit? Hackers who decided to abuse Google’s ad network. The bad actors seeded the advertisements with web […]
Facebook Live is launching monetization for video gameplay streamers, allowing users to tip creators a minimum of $3 via the desktop site. Right now, the contributor of the tips doesn’t get any special call-out or privileges, though Facebook tells me it’s considering different options for creators and gamers. For instance, it could have a special […]
Intel Corp (INTC.O) on Thursday gave a bullish forecast and blew past Wall Street expectations for the fourth quarter on the strength of data center sales, the business it sees as key to its transformation from a PC supplier. Intel stock rose 3.8 percent to $47.06, boosted by a 10 percent dividend hike and the […]
You know those ads that seem to follow you to every website? You went to one site one time to check out a thing and bam! that site’s ads now pop up on every site you visit. Well, now Google will let you mute them. At first, it may seem an odd move. Google makes […]
If you’re looking to cut down on the amount of time you spend performing certain actions on your iPhone, there’s usually a solution hidden in Apple’s mobile operating system. Here are five quick iOS tips that once you start using will make you a lot more time-efficient in the long run. This article assumes you’re […]
Ever since we first watched Star Wars, and saw the scene in which R2-D2 beams a hologram of Princess Leia into thin air, we’ve dreamed of having our own 3D-holographic projector. Thanks to scientists at Brigham Young University, our childhood Jedi-wannabe dreams may soon be a reality. What researchers there have demonstrated is a way […]
Microsoft appears to be gearing up for the next big Windows 10 update, after releasing Windows 10 Insider Build 17083 on Wednesday. Codenamed ‘Redstone 4,’ the next release is expected in the spring. Microsoft has made several tweaks to the operating system with this build, including a revamp of font management and how a user’s […]
Samsung has officially marked the calendar for Feb. 25 as the date it will launch its next big phone, all but confirmed to be called the Galaxy S9. We already knew the global smartphone titan would drop the device at Mobile World Congress — better known by its initials, MWC — next month in Barcelona, […]
BioWare said last summer that Anthem, the online multiplayer shooter that bears a more-than-passing resemblance to Destiny, was expected to be out in the fall of 2018. That target window remains posted on the official Anthem YouTube channel. But an in-depth Kotaku report on the state of the game’s development cites a source saying that […]
