Now playing: Watch this: No more Nexus? Google’s phone may get a new name 2:29 What’s next for Nexus? That’s the question, following reports from Android Central that this year’s generation of the search giant’s phones will lose the Nexus branding that they’ve borne since 2010. Google’s 2016 phones will reportedly come in slightly smaller …

She looked good as ever in the US Open’s first round, so it’s appropriate that Snapchat is showcasing Serena Williams’ 22 major tournament victories. Snapchat Discover usually makes use of the platform’s photo and video sharing to serve up ads, but the ESPN channel has offered up something a little more engaging than the usual multimedia fare with the Serena …

Try tweeting an eggplant at @NYPLEmoji and see what you get in return. Created and curated by New York Public Library reference librarian Lauren Lampasone, the Twitter bot will respond to any emoji tweeted at it with a surprisingly relevant image from the library’s extensive archive. The Jack O’ Lantern, for example, returned a vintage Collier’s magazine cover. The eye …

Parallels, the software that lets you run other operating systems side by side with OS X on your Mac computer, is about to get an upgrade. Version 12, available from August 23, doubles down on support for Windows 10 in addition to the usual bevy of speed and performance upgrades. As with the previous 11 versions, Parallels is primarily software …

Samsung’s latest flagship will be landing down under on August 19, and you’ll be able to preorder the Galaxy Note 7 starting on August 5 from Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Samsung Retail and Samsung.com.au. Jump to the bottom of the story for a round-up of preorder and plan deals. We’ll keep that updated as more …

After breaking away from Google and partnering up with Lenovo, Motorola is hard at work on a new launch and a new look. In Australia, that means bringing a budget-conscious Android experience to consumers. Part of that is dealing with the repeated pain points of access to particular stock and variants. “That’s why we’re launching the Moto Online Store in …

Don’t bother trying to find the perfect pair of headphones: Nura wants to do the work for you. This group of Australian entrepreneurs is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter for a new kind of headphones, and it’s promising an experience tailor-made for your ears. The Melbourne-based inventors claim that they’ve built a form of automatic hearing detection that allows the …

Ghost Riders, cyborgs, apocalypse dragons and giant centipedes: This year’s Case Mod World Series was hotly contested, and now the winners are in. With more than 120 entries and over 80 finalists, there was some truly stellar work competing for the $30,000 prize pool. The world’s largest case modding contest offered prizes for the best tower mod, best scratch build …

It’s been available on other platforms for a while, but the NASA app on Tuesday launched on Apple TV. The free app was already available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Amazon’s Fire OS, and has been downloaded 17 million times across all platforms. The move to Apple’s media streaming box means that getting those spectacular space vistas on a big …

Acer is aiming for the lower end of the market with two new notebooks announced just ahead of Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. The Switch V 10 and One 10 are both designed with students and the budget-conscious in mind, conveniently priced to compete with Chromebooks, another stab at cornering the wallet-friendly convertible market. Unlike the Chrome OS software that runs …