DVR manufacturer TiVo appears to have set up a placeholder app for Alexa last weekend, Dave Zatz reports.  TiVo announced at CES in January that it would be bringing Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to its boxes, old and new. Last March Amazon announced the skill programming interface (Google translation from Spanish) that would make it possible. …

Owners of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 detachable have been complaining for almost as long as the hybrid has been around of screen flickering that renders the display unusable — frequently just after the warranty has expired. It’s so rampant it has a name — Flickergate — and a discussion board.  Microsoft finally gave in and admitted that its attempts …

Fuji Rumors got its virtual hands on an invitation for a “first touch and try of a yet to be announced Fuji release” happening in Australia on May 26, 2018, and put on its frequently-accurate speculation hat as to what that new release might be. It narrows the options down to an X-T100 midrange mirrorless and an Instax SQ6. The …

Today we bid farewell to Nintendo’s first, unlamented effort at a mobile game, Miitomo. The company had started its slow death back in January, but today the site’s home page informed what’s left of its fans that the servers have shut down, and points you to its collection of Miiphoto memories.

Over the weekend, Copenhagen-based Bycyklen, a bike-sharing service, experienced a hack that sent employees scurrying to individually reboot the tablet interfaces for all but 200 of the bikes in its fleet of almost 2,000, and tourists scurrying for alternatives. On its Facebook page, the company said that no data was stolen — someone simply deleted it all — overnight Friday …

Sony announced its Xperia XZ2 Compact at Mobile World Congress in February, bringing its world-class camera technology to it and its bigger sibling the XZ2. Now, while you can’t buy the Compact from Verizon, you can buy an unlocked version and use it on Verizon’s network. CDMA networks like Verizon and Sprint’s aren’t as plug and play as the GSM …

The higher-tech retail arm of Walmart, Jet.com, is celebrating its entry into the Apple authorized reseller program with sales on accessories when you buy a handful of Apple products. The deals don’t look too amazing, though, since they don’t seem to be covered by Jet.com’s dynamic pricing engine. MacBooks, iPhone and Watch are all regular price, same as the Apple Store, …

Microsoft Build 2018 started Tuesday and is still ongoing, but now Google is competing for your future attention with its own annual Google I/O developers conference. Unlike the hardware-centric announcements of last October, I/O focuses mostly on software and how to to get the most out of those devices. Before the conference started, Google announced it had rebranded its Google …

Google announced the browser-based Tour Creator, for roll-your-own VR walkthroughs, at its Google I/O developer conference this week.  But if you want to create your own 360-degree content, you’ll need a camera that works with it. Out of the gate, Ricoh says it’s ready for you with its Ricoh Theta V, an existing 360 camera that will work with the …

After a long lull, this is turning out to be a big year for cloud gaming. Nvidia’s GeForce Now is still in beta but going strong, and now Valve is extending Steam’s in-home game-streaming capability to iOS and Android devices that connect to the same network as the host system.  The Steam Link app, which Valve plans to launch the …