Verizon may have been the first to start deploying actual 5G, but its network was small and spotty. T-Mobile was the first to an arguably much more important title — the first to launch nationwide 5G network coverage. And, along with that nationwide network, the company has also started deploying its 5G home internet service. […]
Nearly two years after the United States launched a broad attack on Chinese tech giant Huawei, the campaign is showing signs of working. Huawei’s smartphone sales have collapsed outside of China, hurt by a U.S. export ban that prevents new Huawei phones from carrying the Google Play app store, which means many of the most […]
Farewell Uber, Open Table and apps for airlines I no longer fly. Hello DoorDash, Zoom and apps for picking wine to drink at home. As politicians and newspapers won’t let you forget, it has now been a whole year since the coronavirus first turned us into pandemic hermits. One less-obvious way to measure how your […]
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test. When the pandemic upended our lives, many of us were forced to stay home and shift our work and hobbies to the internet. Office meetings and classrooms were replaced with video calls. We binged on Netflix, played more […]
Enlarge Getty Images / Aurich Lawson A home security technician has admitted he repeatedly broke into cameras he installed and viewed customers engaging in sex and other intimate acts. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former employee of home and small office security company ADT, said that over a five-year period, he accessed the cameras of roughly […]
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now The technology required to digitally recreate and furnish real rooms in 3D is considerably more complicated under the hood than it appears to end users, and it’s even trickier to import an […]
India’s Nukebox Studios is aiming for another global hit with the home design game Room Flip. The creator of Food Truck Chef and Sponge Bob: Krusty Cook-Off has launched a new game targeted at the underserved demographic of older women and other people who enjoy home decoration. Inspired by other titles like Glu’s Design Home, […]
Getty Images Hackers have livestreamed police raids on innocent households after hijacking their victims’ smart home devices and making a hoax call to the authorities, the FBI has warned. It said offenders had even spoken to responding officers via the hacked kit. It marks the latest escalation of a crime known as “swatting”, in which […]
As Bungie looks beyond “Destiny” toward new projects, it helps to remember the “secret behind every Bungie game, past present and future,” said CEO Pete Parsons. “There’s three things, all you need to know. First, it’s a place you want to spent time in,” Parsons told The Washington Post. “Second, it’s filled with a bunch […]
Enlarge / Your home office can always use some sprucing up, especially when it’s your main place of work. Corey Gaskin By Cyber Monday, most of us have been through the home-office setup phase of working from home but, with lengthening timelines to return to the office, Cyber Monday might be a good time to […]
Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert today shared what’s next for Spot, the company’s quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. In a few months, Boston Dynamics will start selling Spot with a robot arm to businesses interested in mobile manipulation systems. And eventually, the company wants to sell Spot for use in […]
ABC Mouse At home and looking for a way to keep the kids entertained as well as educated? ABC Mouse is the ideal way to do both. It’s an online learning portal for kids age 8 and under and it promises to be great fun as well as teach them valuable things. Right now, there’s […]
The new power menu has way, way more buttons. Mishaal Rahman The smart home controls are just the standard Google Assistant options for lights, doors, cameras, thermostats, and more. Mishaal Rahman Android 11 has had four preview releases so far, but they’ve been stripped of many features that we know are in development and just […]
Sasi Ponchaisang Essays. Coupons. Last-minute directions to Grandma’s house. Whatever you need to print, there’s a home printer that can do it. And intense competition among competitors such as HP, Epson, Canon, and others has forced prices to such absurd lows that you can now walk into a store — even your local supermarket — […]
Over the years I’ve worked as a technology journalist, I’ve been lucky enough to watch multiple product categories evolve from their earliest days to maturity and sometimes sunsetting — a cyclical process that is rarely identical between different types of products, but often has similarities from category to category. One common thread I’ve noticed is […]