Opera Software today disputed Microsoft’s claim that Edge, the default browser bundled with Windows 10, consumes less power on a laptop than Opera’s flagship. “We love it when someone picks a fight,” wrote Blazej Kazmierczak, Opera’s director of software development for the desktop Opera browser, in a Opera has waged a minor public relations campaign the last several months, supported by new features—including an optional power saver and an also-optional baked-in ad-blocker—in a bid to boost usage.
In scenes associated more with dictatorships than the U.S., politicians in the House of Representatives took to Twitter and Periscope on Wednesday to evade a TV blackout of a sit-in held to push forward new gun legislation. Trouble started when House Democrats, led by Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, started their protest. It came just over a week after a gunman killed 49 at a Florida nightclub and two days after four gun control bills were voted down by Republicans in the Senate. Asked for order on the floor, the Democrats refused to budge, and so the House went into recess. The cameras in the House are controlled by majority Republicans, and the signals are provided to broadcasters for their use. C-SPAN, a channel owned by cable and satellite operators, typically carries the signal live, and when the House went into recess, the feed from the floor went black.
“In real life, that’s a Hard Rock Cafe.” It was a throwaway comment that launched the developer watching over my shoulder into a lengthy explanation of licensing deals and how it would be prohibitively expensive for Ubisoft to get real brands into But I think he unintentionally missed my point. I wasn’t saying “I’m disappointed this isn’t a Hard Rock Cafe.” To be honest, I’m not sure anyone has ever uttered that sequence of words. What I meant was, “I’m amazed this recreation of San Francisco is so spot-on that I can match each building to its real-world counterpart.” I have little inherent faith or interest in
Dropbox made some major changes to its free tier on Wednesday, including support for read-only folders, as the company released a The biggest change users will notice: In order to automatically upload photos from their smartphones, they must install the Dropbox app on at least one Mac or PC. People who don’t mind manually uploading their photos to Dropbox won’t need to change anything. Dropbox won’t say how many people it expects the auto-upload change to impact. The change is aimed at helping people improve the way that they manage photos, but the company wouldn’t give additional information. It seems like the change is an attempt to get a group of users who are using Dropbox only for smartphone photo backup to either dive deeper into the storage service or ditch it entirely.
Dropbox just dumped a ton of new productivity features on users of its file storage and collaboration service that are all aimed at making it easier for people to get work done within its applications. Updates to the Dropbox app for These launches mean that Dropbox will be more valuable to people as a productivity service, and not just a folder to hold files. It’s especially important as the company tries to capture the interest of business users, who have a wide variety of competing storage services they could subscribe to instead.
If a Nexus 6 is your daily driver, it couldn’t hurt to start looking for a new phone. That’s because Google has updated its official end-of-life timeline for Nexus devices, and the company’s ginormous phone hits the last stop in October, as The just-updated Once your device hits the specified date, Google won’t promise any more updates.
Mobile World Congress, arguably the most important mobile tech trade show in the world, is coming to the U.S. Trade groups GSMA and CTIA are joining forces to bring a smaller version of the event to the U.S. in 2017. GSMA Mobile World Congress Americas will debut Sept. 12 to 14, 2017, in San Francisco and will replace U.S. trade group CTIA’s Super Mobility conference. Super Mobility will continue this year in Las Vegas from Sept. 7 to 9. The new conference will be the “first truly global wireless event” in the Americas, CTIA President and CEO Meredith Attwell Baker said in a press release. The new trade show, however, will apparently be more focused, spotlighting the leading innovations from the North American mobile industry, John Hofman, CEO of GSMA, said in a press release.
Sony is adding more devices to the compatibility list for Vue recently rolled out to Roku devices including the Roku streaming boxes, Roku stick, and Roku TV. Sometime during the week of June 27, PS Vue will also hit the Play Store, making it available for Android smartphones and tablets, as well. Roku (and Android in the coming days) joins a small roster of devices that work with PS Vue including the PlayStation 3, PS4,
It’s time for The highlight isn’t a more vibrant screen or face-melting page speed—it’s the color. The entry-level Kindle is now available in white, as is the $120 Kindle Paperwhite. Black’s still available, but the lighter hue looks seriously slick.
The emojification of your online emotional life is complete. The Unicode Consortium announced Unicode Standard Version 9.0 on Tuesday, complete with 72 new emoji characters—the most important of which include rolling on the floor laughing, face palm, fingers crossed, drooling face, lying face, nauseated, and shrug. Yes, Unicode managed to kill ROFL from text messages and Twitter replies overnight, as well as put the beloved Other notable additions to Unicode 9.0 include emojis for selfie, fox, gorilla, scooter (both kick and motorized), as well as bacon—what took you so long, UC? Anyone interested in checking out the
After years of demanding a full-blown PC to act as the brains of the operation, the popular Plex media player software is finally branching out to embrace other devices. Mere weeks after bringing its Media Server software That’s pretty exciting, actually. Plex’s Media Server software lets you beam your locally stored media to any nearby devices that have a Plex client app installed—it’s essentially like a little self-contained Netflix for your own stuff. And the WD My Passport Wireless Pro isn’t just battery-powered, it can also create an impromptu Wi-Fi hotspot for connectivity to other devices. So once you’ve loaded the device up with Plex and some music, movies, or photos, you’ve got everything you need to bring your media library with you around the world.
Seagate's packing an 8TB hard drive in its new external Backup Plus Hub, which can be hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 3 or Chromebooks for expanded storage. The external backup drive will also work with Windows PCs and Macs, and it'll be available in July. It will come in multiple versions with capacities ranging from 4TB to 8TB. A capacity of 8TB will be a welcome addition to Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi 3, which have internal storage issues. Chromebooks have limited internal storage capacity, while Raspberry Pi 3 requires an SD card to store files. The 8TB capacity is especially valuable to Raspberry Pi 3, which is commonly used as a media server. You can store more high-definition movies on the drive, which can be served to TVs via the Pi.
Or at least that’s the impression I had after a brief (maybe thirty minutes) hands-on demo last week during E3. From the start, Obsidian made it clear my experience wouldn’t necessarily be the same as every other person at E3. They’d actually brought
The company behind the Roost Smart Battery for smoke detectors expands into another segment of the smart home.
Android users beware: a new type of malware has been found in legitimate-looking apps that can “root” your phone and secretly install unwanted programs. The malware, dubbed Godless, has been found lurking on app stores including Google Play, and it targets devices running Android 5.1 (Lollipop) and earlier, which accounts for more than 90 percent of Android devices, Trend Micro said Tuesday in a Godless hides inside an app and uses exploits to try to root the OS on your phone. This basically creates admin access to a device, allowing unauthorized apps to be installed.
Don’t be surprised if you see spam coming from the top websites in the world. Lax security standards are allowing anyone to "spoof" emails from some of the most-visited domains, according to new research. Authentication systems have stepped in to try and solve the problem. But many of the top website domains are failing to properly use them, opening the door for spoofing, according to Sweden-based Detectify, a security firm.
Intel is still contesting a €1.06 billion (then US$1.4 billion) antitrust fine from the European Commission, which in May 2009 found it had abused its dominant position in the market for x86 processors. The Court of Justice of the European Union heard Intel's appeal against that fine on Tuesday. The facts of the case date back a decade or more, but In its 2009 ruling the Commission, the EU's top antitrust authority, found that
One of the main goals of SDN (software-defined networking) is to make networks more agile to meet the changing demands of applications. A new Silicon Valley startup, Apstra, says it has an easier way to do the same thing. Rather than control the guts of individual network devices through software that makes them more programmable, Apstra says it can deal with those devices as they are and shape the network from a higher level. The result is a new approach that might let IT departments bypass some of the complex technologies and politics of SDN and still make their networks more responsive to users’ needs. It's due to go on sale by August.
Maps can do way more than just replicate a layout of your city if you learn where all of its many features are located.
The objective was to make the powerful app easier to use and easier for users to share 'flows,' the equivalent of IFTTT recipes.
Die Macher von Spoiled.io haben nur ein Ziel: Mit Spoilern per SMS wollen sie nichtsahnenden Fans den Spass an der TV-Serie «Game of Thrones» verderben.
Der Facebook-Chef gerät wegen der Datensammelwut seines Netzwerks immer wieder in die Kritik. Er selbst schützt seine Privatsphäre offenbar mit Klebeband.
Für Schweizer ist es selbstverständlich, eine Adresse zu haben. Drei Vierteln der Weltbevölkerung geht es aber nicht so. Ein Start-up will das ändern.
Kebab, Avocado, ein Clown und Facepalm: Die Wächter über die Emojis haben diese Woche mehr als 70 neue Motive vorgestellt.
Für ihr Tempo sind die Schweizer eigentlich nicht bekannt. Doch jetzt hat es ein hiesiger Supercomputer in die Top 10 der schnellsten Rechner der Welt geschafft.
In «Homefront: The Revolution» werden die USA von Nordkoreanern besetzt. Um die westliche Freiheit kämpfen mag man trotzdem nicht.
Clevere Stecker, gebogene iPhones und neue Kopfhörer? Von Apple eingereichte Patentanträge zeigen, wo der IT-Konzern in Zukunft hinsteuert.
Gute Schulleistungen sollen mit Goodies in Games belohnt werden. So lautet die Idee eines neuen Bewertungssystems für Schulen, das auch hierzulande auf Interesse stösst.
Knopf drücken, Modul austauschen, schon hat das Handy neue Funktionen. Wie alltagstauglich ist diese Idee von LG? Ein Praxistest.
Anvitha Vijay war die jüngste Teilnehmerin an der diesjährigen Entwicklerkonferenz von Apple. Dort hat sie Kontakte bis in die Chefetage geknüpft.
Microsoft entwickelt eine Vertriebssoftware für Marihuana. Sie soll der US-Regierung die Kontrolle des legalen Handels erleichtern.
An der Game-Messe E3 in Los Angeles wurden letzte Woche massenhaft neue Spiele vorgestellt. Die Trailer dazu machen Lust auf mehr.
Facebook speichert jetzt, in welchen Läden Sie abseits vom Online-Shopping-Universum einkaufen. Die Daten gibt das Netzwerk an die Werbebranche weiter.
Dino-Kiefer, uralte Verhütungsmittel und antike Pistolen: Das Online-Auktionshaus Catawiki ist die grösste Fundgrube für schräge Sammlerstücke.