Today's announcement of Google Home is likely to be the most exciting "living room" news that comes out of the company's annual developers conference, but that doesn't mean TV has been completely forgotten. Google today announced a bunch of new hardware partners for Android TV and Google Cast, its two solutions (just two!) for watching web content on TV screens.
One of the most famous Amiga games of the late 80s is transformed into a stunning new adventure that plays as good as it looks. Shadow Of The Beast is the game everyone is been dreaming of for 27 years. Before saving up enough money to buy an Amiga 500 computer I would spend so much time staring wistfully at screenshots and previews that I ended up literally dreaming about it, or at least the game I imagined it to be.
In this test, we pitted five phones against each other. The iPhone SE’s camera is up there with the iPhone 6S. For Android, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge was flying the flag for the South Korean firm, while the Xperia Z5 Premium is still the best of the bunch for Sony – the X series has yet to be released here.
Lenovo has essentially taken its popular ThinkPad T460s design and shrunk it down into a more manageable frame with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2016 edition. The ultrabook sports a similar black magnesium and carbon fiber reinforced plastics. Similar to the T460s the X1 Carbon offers slight curves around the corners of the display lid and the bottom of the chassis, helping to spice up the otherwise professional simplistic aesthetic.
Uber is rolling out a new feature to its mobile app that can be quite helpful but also somewhat creepy: it will now let you track friends and family in real time as they’re taking Uber rides.
Lenovo have heralded the X1 Tablet as 'the 2 in 1 for business and the lightest and thinnest ThinkPad, and weighing in at under 1.1kg and under 13 mm with keyboard'. That doesn't even begin to do this newest ThinkPad justice.
Google I/O is in full swing over in San Francisco and, on the wearable front, the big news (apart from the exciting Daydream VR platform) is that Android Wear 2.0 – “the most significant Android Wear update since its launch two years ago” – is coming soon.Landing in the fall, Android Wear 2.0 evolves the smartwatch platform beyond anything the handful of minor incremental updates have done so far.
Most of the rumors around the upcoming phone have been vague and often contradictory.For example, last year KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that Apple was aiming to significantly reduce the thickness of its next-generation iPhones. However, there have been other reports suggesting that the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will retain virtually identical physical dimensions to the prior-generation iPhone 6s/6s Plusa significant contradiction to the earlier leaks.Additionally, aside from the strong rumors that Apple will employ a dual-lens camera in the iPhone 7 Plus, very little is known about the device's specifications.
Lenovo is already a well know producer of technology, and you're likely familiar with the brand in the laptop world. Thing is, it doesn't just deal in computers and in Asian markets it has a bustling smartphone business.It may have only recently purchased Motorola, a much more established name in the UK mobile market, but it's now looking it get its own-brand handsets onto our fair shores as well.Its first offering is the Lenovo K5, a budget phone that will set you back just £129 SIM-free, and from the looks of it that's a pretty good deal.
Apple is far from confirming any rumors detailing buttonless iPhones, but even Apple can’t keep everything a secret, no matter how desperately it may try.Now, there’s yet another clear hint that the home button is doomed. Filed on March 5th, 2015 and awarded to Apple on May 17th, 2016, a patent called Man-machine interface for controlling access to electronic devices doesn’t sound that exciting.
There’s no need to tip.Uber has been saying it for years. And the car-hailing app was embraced, in part, because of it. It’s all-inclusive and cashless; one fare and one email receipt, automatically charged to your credit card after rolling up to your destination.
If you're reading this article, you've probably got a Mac yourself, or have other Apple devices around the house. If this is the case, then Apple's ecosystem is quite inclusive for other Apple devices, making the iPhone 6s a much better buy over the Android-based LG G5.
Everyone has a digital assistant these days. Microsoft has baked Cortana into the heart of all its software and Google has just announced a major revamp to what it now calls Google assistant. Apple, on the other hand, has seen its digital assistant Siri fall behind the competition in recent years, but the company is now set to make the biggest overhaul to the feature yet by bringing it to the desktop.
The transportation war has become increasingly brutal in China, with Uber playing catch up since its launch in 2013.The San Francisco-based taxi-hailing company is burning $1 billion to compete against its number one rival DidiChuxing (formerly DidiKuaidi).To put that value into perspective, $1 billion is approximately how much Uber earned per year in its top 30 cities around the world.Didi, heavily armed with financing from local tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., is dominating the market. DidiChuxing raised about $2 billion in its latest round of funding, Bloomberg News reported.
Missed the news? Microsoft will be increasing its Xbox Live rates to R159 a month, making for a massive increase compared to the current R50 a month rate.That got us thinking, though… How much does it cost for a Xbox One and PS4, along with the necessary items (i.e. extra controllers and online subscriptions)?
