Google has confirmed an issue with its Google Home and Chromecast products that can cause your home Wi-Fi network to crash. According to a TP-Link engineer who investigated the problem, the crash is caused by Google’s device sending hundreds of thousands of data packets in a short amount of time, a traffic spike that can […]
DETROIT – Ford is going to bite the Bullitt again. The Mustang that Steve McQueen drove into Hollywood history for the 1968 movie Bullitt emerged for the first time in 40 years Sunday at the Detroit auto show in tandem with the debut of a new, limited-edition 2019 Mustang Bullitt. The special model, due out this summer, will be available only in […]
A wild reversal comes to the News Feed Over the next year, we’ll start spending less time on Facebook. Those of us who used it to catch up on the news will find less of it to read. We’ll watch fewer videos, and we’ll see fewer advertisements. In theory, Facebook will make less money off […]
If Apple was hoping that the controversy surrounding their decision to slow down older iPhones with degrading batteries would pass, it hardly seems that way. Just last week a US Senator questioned Apple about their decision, and now more US lawmakers are chiming in with questions of their own. In a report from Reuters, four […]
TAG Heuer, the famous Swiss watchmaker who’s name is notoriously difficult to pronounce (it’s actually pronounced “tag hoy-yer”), has just announced the TAG Heuer Connected Module 41, a smaller version of the Connected Module 45 that was launched in Q1 of last year. As the name would imply, the watchface on the Connected Module 41 […]
It’s been just over six years since the last Ford Ranger pickup rolled off the assembly line, and Ford Motor Co. is ready to make the small-size truck for North American markets again. But this time, it’s a mid-size pickup, and it looks a lot more like the current F-150 than the former Ranger. Production […]
How will Facebook’s planned changes to its news feed affect me? That’s the question people asked Friday, a day after the social network’s announcement. But the answer to that depends on whom you ask. Facebook said that it’s shifting the focus of its news feed to promote “meaningful” posts, mostly from family and friends. The […]
Google has now updated the list of apps and games featured in the Android Excellence portion of the Editor’s Choice section on the Google Play Store. For those who may not be aware, the two lists are effectively meant to showcase the very best of what Android has to offer. Google launched the program back […]
THE FALLOUT OF the widespread Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities continued this week. WIRED took an in-depth look at the parallel sagas that caused four research teams to independently discover the bugs within months of each other. Dozens of patches are now floating around to try to defend devices against attacks that might exploit the […]
OnePlus is on track to launch its next flagship smartphone around June 2018, its chief executive has suggested, though the company has set itself an arguably bigger challenge this year. The Chinese smartphone maker has had a surprising trajectory since it launched its first Android device, the OnePlus One, back in 2014. However, it’s yet […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members will see most often, saying on Thursday that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands. The shift is the most […]
Netflix is everywhere these days. It’s built into TVs, set-top boxes, game consoles, and it probably won’t be long before there’s a toaster that comes with the streaming service pre-installed. If you’re a Netflix addict who does a good amount of viewing on a smartphone, it looks like Razer’s “smartphone for gamers” is going to […]
