A California court has dismissed part of a lawsuit brought by Twitter that challenges U.S. government
Facebook is considering a new feature so that not every message your send on its Messenger app will live forever. On Monday, screenshots revealed a potential version of Facebook Messenger on iOS where users can set a time-limit for their messages to remain visible after being sent. According to the screenshots, Messenger users will have the option to enable disappearing messages on the iOS app and set a time-limit for the messages to disappear after one minute, after 15 minutes, after one hour, after four hours, or after a day. The screenshots were posted on Twitter by @iOSAppChanges and were picked up by
Smartphone makers always want to up the ante just enough to make you crave the next shiny thing. We have some indications about just what Samsung may be preparing with the successor to the
Nvidia and Samsung have avoided a potentially ugly court battle with a settlement that ends all outstanding intellectual property litigation between the two companies.
With more leaks than the Titanic, we pretty much knew what to expect out of today’s That’s right.
Frito-Lay is vanquishing any nostalgia you might’ve had left for Cracker Jack by eliminating the physical toy inside. In its place, all Cracker Jack boxes will now include a piece of paper with a QR code printed on it. Scanning that code into an
The key to virtual reality: You have to try it for yourself. It’s no surprise then that Oculus wants to get Rift demo units into stores for people to play around with, and today the company announced it’s bringing headsets to 48 Best Buy locations starting May 7. You can even That's great news for people who haven’t bought a Rift yet—but less great for early adopters still waiting for their preorders to ship. The Oculus Rift launch is, to put it politely, a total mess. Officially “released” (and
Fingerprint readers are practically a must-have feature now. LG Innotek, which is the components subsidiary of parent company LG, is showing off a new capability that might make unlocking your device in the future even easier. The company shared some details about an under-glass fingerprint sensor module, which would allow you to place your finger on the smartphone’s glass for identification. This would eliminate the need for a button, which you’ll find on the bottom in
Solar Impulse 2, a pioneering solar-powered aircraft attempting to fly around the world without burning a single drop of fuel, set off early Monday for the U.S. coast-to-coast leg of its flight. The aircraft departed Moffett Field in Silicon Valley at 5:30 a.m. local time bound for Phoenix, where it is expected to land at around 9 p.m. Solar Impulse 2 had been in California for just over a week after arriving from Hawaii. The goal of the flight is to highlight and promote clean energy. The aircraft is powered by solar energy, gathered from thousands of solar panels that blanket the top of the aircraft. They charge up four batteries with enough power to keep the aircraft in the air day or night.
When it comes to battling cheaters and bandits, Valve is playing the long game. The company recently instituted a new rule for players of Anyone caught cheating will not only earn a ban on that Steam account, but any other Steam account associated with the same phone number. If the additional accounts don’t own the game yet, they won’t be able to purchase it. The new banning method was first reported by That’s a wily move by Valve just months after it encouraged users to add a phone number to their accounts to expedite trades and market transactions. In late 2015, Valve put into place a three-day waiting period for gamers to trade items or sell them in Steam’s Community Market.
Nearly four years after Google Chrome became the most-used web browser according to StatCounter, rival metrics firm NetMarketShare has come to the same conclusion. Both firms now say that Chrome is more popular than Internet Explorer, though their respective percentages vary greatly. According to
Streaming site The new unnamed service would cost somewhere around $40, and offer additional features such as a cloud DVR service and on demand viewing for past episodes.
Qualcomm has talked about putting “silicon brains” in mobile devices and is now providing tools to train smartphones to recognize people, objects, gestures, and even emotions. Phones like Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and LG’s G5 that use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chips will get deep-learning capabilities with the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine software development kit, announced on Monday. The SDK will include a run-time that will exploit chip features so smartphones can accomplish deep-learning tasks like tracking objects and recognizing sounds. The kit could also be used in self-driving cars and autonomous drones and robots. Computers can already recognize people in images, as seen on Facebook. That recognition is thanks to deep-learning systems, which usually require complex neural networks, thousands of servers, and high-performance processors. Qualcomm’s SDK doesn’t need as many resources and is targeted at the tasks and power-consumption levels available to mobile devices.
Canonical has been talking up
“Android” and “enterprise” are two words that traditionally
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I’ve been living with Invoxia’s Triby kitchen gadget ($199 MSRP, My early impression of the Triby was that it was a modern interpretation of the transistor radio that graced many kitchen countertops in the last century. Maybe it was the look? Maybe it was because the Tirby’s features assume you’re placing it in your home’s central thoroughfare? Whatever the case, the Triby is a far cry from that tinny, mono-speaker experience.