Enlarge / The event invite strongly hints at the upcoming video service. Apple CUPERTINO, Calif.—At 10am Pacific on Monday, March 25, Apple and its partners will take the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, Calif., to talk about a new TV-streaming platform, a new magazine-subscription service, and possibly much more. We’ll be liveblogging […]
Enlarge Valentina Palladino The Versa Lite confused me at first. When Fitbit announced the new Inspire and Inspire HR fitness trackers, the company also debuted the new Versa Lite. This smartwatch looks identical to the original Versa, which came out last year, but it lacks a few features and costs $ 40 less. Considering the […]
Enlarge theaelix On Microsoft’s official Office GitHub repository (which contains, alas, not the source code to Office itself but lots of developer content for software that extends Office), the widely loved (?) Clippy made a brief appearance with the publication of a Clippy sticker pack for Microsoft Teams. Teams users could import the stickers and […]
Enlarge / The Nokia 7 Plus. HMD is in hot water following a report from Norwegian site NRKbeta, which found that HMD’s Nokia 7 Plus was sending users’ personal information to a server in China. HMD responded to the report, admitting, “Our device activation client meant for another country was mistakenly included in the software […]
Apple has already unveiled new iPads and brought Intel’s Core i9 processor to the iMac this week, but the announcements aren’t over yet. Today is all about the second generation of AirPods, which are available to buy right now. As rumored earlier this year, Apple today unveiled “Hey Siri” AirPods, which are capable of activating […]
Enlarge / A VT100 remote terminal, which is basically the same thing as Windows Remote Desktop. Wolfgang Stief Initially announced last September, Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service has now entered public preview. The service brings together single-user Windows 7 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and multi-user Windows 10 and Windows Server remote desktop services (RDS) […]
Enlarge / Apple AirPods. After announcing new iPads and iMacs earlier this week, Apple has released details about its next-generation AirPods. The new wireless earbuds, which are available for preorder today starting at $ 159, come with an updated, Apple-designed chip, more battery life, and “Hey Siri” voice-command support. Apple also debuted a new wireless […]
Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? Peter Bright / Flickr It’s clear that Microsoft is in the very final stages of development of Windows 10 version 1903, the April 2019 Update. The fast distribution ring has seen two builds arrive this week after two last week, bringing with them no new features but […]
Gunnar makes useful computer and gaming glasses outfitted with its various blue-light-reducing tints. It also makes sunglasses. If you want both in one pair, Gunnar does that, too. The company’s Work-Play lenses are photochromatic, shifting between a warm tint to counter harsh blue light from artificial sources indoors, to a strong sunglasses tint when you […]
Enlarge / The Google Stadia controller, which includes a few custom buttons. The service will also support wired USB controllers and mouse-and-keyboard controls. Google SAN FRANCISCO—At the Game Developers Conference, Google announced its biggest play yet in the gaming space: a streaming game service named Google Stadia, designed to run on everything from PCs and […]
As usual, LG included lifestyle marketing images with its press release. Here, a whole galaxy apparently awaits those who install OLED TVs in extremely stark, modernist apartments. LG You can watch LG TVs with your significant other, it seems. Neat! LG You can talk to it, because if last year’s CES showed us anything, it’s […]
Enlarge Marco Verch / Flickr One of the more notable features of Google Project Zero’s (GPZ) security research has been its 90-day disclosure policy. In general, vendors are given 90 days to address issues found by GPZ, after which the flaws will be publicly disclosed. But sometimes understanding a flaw and developing fixes for it […]
Enlarge / The Android Q logo. It’s also a "10," for "Android 10." The Android Q beta is now live, and after playing “spot the differences,” we’re here to report our findings. For this first preview release, Android Q is mostly a lot of small tweaks for users and new APIs for developers. A lot […]
Enlarge / The Steve Jobs auditorium on Apple’s new campus. On March 25, Apple executives and partners will take to the stage in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s Cupertino campus to talk about subscriptions, software, services, entertainment, and media. These are all things Apple has dealt with before, but never before has an event […]
Enlarge massmatt Valve is opening up its latency-reducing, DoS-protecting network relay infrastructure to every developer using its Steamworks platform. A few years ago, large-scale denial-of-service attacks against game servers were making the news and becoming a frustratingly frequent occurrence in online gaming and e-sports. To protect its own games, Valve has for a number of […]