One of the most important questions surrounding Microsoft’s HoloLens has been: What exactly are we supposed to do with it? At least we’ll know whom to ask: former Mass Effect chief Casey Hudson. Hudson, whose game credits include
Facebook is said to be eyeing games for its mobile Messenger product, a move that might jump-start the revenue the company generates from non-advertising sources. Facebook is in talks with gaming developers to incorporate or tie their apps in some way into Messenger, The Information
The shamelessness of ransomware pushers knows no bounds. After encrypting people’s files and then holding them to ransom, they portray themselves as service providers offering technical support and discounts to their “customers.” Researchers from FireEye recently
Sony has confirmed it is setting up a video game development studio focused on Project Morpheus, the PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset. The studio is being established in the northwest of England, and Sony has begun hiring developers. “The creation of this studio allows us to build a small but highly experienced team who can utilize their skills to showcase this exciting new immersive technology,” said Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) spokesman Sousuke Kamei via email.
Samsung will not have to pay all of the $930 million in damages that Apple was awarded in 2012, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., agreed with a California federal jury that Samsung violated Apple design and utility patents related to the iPhone. However, the appeals Thus, the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, where the case was originally tried, must recalculate the portion of the settlement dealing with trade dress.
How do you get excited about a phone that was announced almost six months ago? You try really, really hard to remember what made it so special in the first place. In the case of the Asus ZenFone 2, that special something is a bundle of almost-flagship features for a fraction of a flagship price. The
Google Cardboard started off as just a toy, but a recent internal move could be another sign of bigger virtual reality ambitions. Jon Wiley, who previously headed design for Google Search, is now the
Apple has been working hard to bolster its mapping technology since ditching Google Maps in 2012. To help that effort, the company just bought Coherent Navigation, a startup that offers a high-accuracy GPS navigation service. Coherent’s navigation system is used in the Iridium satellite network, according to the LinkedIn profile of Paul Lego, who was CEO of the company before going to work for Apple. Coherent, which was founded in 2008 and is based in the San Francisco area, counts the U.S. government as a customer and had been aiming its technology at the mining, construction, energy and agriculture industries. Coherent had fewer than 10 employees, according to its LinkedIn page, which states that the company “has ceased operations.”
The DVR box rounds out its app lineup by letting users stream their videos, music, and photos from a networked computer.
This week the G4 smartphone from LG Electronics starts shipping outside its home country, with arrivals in the U.S. and Europe expected in a couple of weeks. While the smartphone has a great screen and camera, it doesn’t get everything right.
The Internet is no stranger to technical limitations—it has been running out of IPv4 addresses for years—but researchers now say that the Internet could soon experience another crunch: Its physical infrastructure could soon be running at its maximum capacity. According to
I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to do that, but I can’t say for sure. Windows 10 is still a work in progress, and the available Let me start with the basic warning: Do not install Windows 10 on your main computer until the commercial version is released. For the time being, install it on a spare computer, a virtual machine, or not at all.
The best and worst thing about Android Wear watches is that they all run Google’s basic platform. Watch makers can add their own custom watch faces, and maybe an app or two, but they can’t throw a skin over Google’s standard interface as phone makers can. It provides a consistent experience across the line and makes for fast software updates, but it puts a big onus on the hardware makers: you have to innovate on the hardware side. LG’s Watch Urbane attempts to bring class to the Wear market with a stylish all-metal chassis and stitched leather band, but it only succeeds in achieving a sort of Vegas-style faux-class. The Urbane is big. It’s about the same size as the
According to Micro Express, the majority of the customers for its Microflex 20B are power users that do a lot of work with Photoshop, video and other intensive applications rather than game. Personally, I’m taking that with a grain of salt; most "work" power-user systems don’t feature red and blue interior lighting, or a clear panel to show off the inner workings. But regardless of how you classify it, the 20B is a capable performer that won’t break the bank. The only fly in the ointment with our $1,699 test configuration was that Micro Express's CPU choice limited the graphics upgrade options. Hosting the 20B's main components is an Asus X99-Pro motherboard—one of Asus' best with Tri-SLI support, eight RAM slots, and a PCIe 3.0 M.2 slot. The M.2 slot is filled with a 512GB Samsung XP941 PCIe 2.0/M.2 SSD. It doesn't take full advantage of the slot's 4GBps of bandwidth, but it still reads and writes at over 1GBps. A PCIe 3.0 SM951 would utilize the slot to its fullest, but it wasn't available when Micro Express shipped us this system.
The world of Linux is ready to welcome you, with a shower of free open-source software you can use on any PC: hundreds of active Linux distributions, and dozens of different desktop environments you could run on them. It’s a far cry from the one-size-fits-all, this-is-just-what-comes-with-your-PC vision of Windows. Everything from software installation to hardware drivers works differently on Linux, though, which can be daunting. Take heart—you don’t even need to install Linux on your PC to get started. Here’s everything you need to know. The first step is choosing the Linux distribution you’ll want to use.
Everything about this portable Bluetooth speaker is well done--except the sound.
