This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. ZTE plans to make a phone designed by you, suggesting the possibility of flexible screen you can roll up in your pocket when you don’t need it. The …
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The problem with finding love is that it’s easy to overthink it. So the True Love Tinder Robot helps your heart want what it wants by sensing your real feelings and pointing you to romance with its romantic robot hand. A matchmaking mechanoid, the True Love Tinder Robot is a box with handprint-shaped sensors and an artificial hand all ready …
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You’ll be able to catch festive treats such as “Sherlock“, “Doctor Who” and “Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas” via Apple this Christmas as iPlayer comes to the new Apple TV. Set-top boxes and streaming devices like Apple TV are only as good as the content you can watch through them, which means apps for the popular TV and video …
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A “Furious 7” soundtrack smash, late-night celebrity shenanigans and a giant ball pool: these were the most watched and talked-about videos on YouTube in 2015. The hugely popular video-sharing site has revealed its official top trending videos of the year while launching a new Trending tab that shows you what’s currently hot. The annual list is compiled by YouTube, based …
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First it was smartphones. Then it was wearables. Next, the connected revolution could be about to change the clothes you wear. That’s according to Clothing+, a company looking to help fashion and sportswear brands add technology to our clothes to create connected, data-collecting smart garments. Clothing+ has come up with Peak+, a blueprint for smart clothing that seamlessly monitors our …
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BBC Three disappears from TV schedules and moves entirely onto iPlayer from February next year. Launched in 2003, BBC Three is the publicly funded broadcaster’s youth-oriented channel. That means it’s at the sharp end of changing habits in the digital era as we move away from traditional TV towards the Internet and mobile entertainment. The BBC says 16-24-year-olds spend 50 …
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With just a few weeks to go before “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” warps out of hyperspace and into theatres, the last thing you want is to have the story spoiled. Thankfully, a new Chrome extension warns you when spoilers could be about to ruin the balance of the Force. “The Force Awakens” is the first Star Wars …
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The Force will awaken in less than a month, so now is the perfect time to revisit the classic Star Wars movies and once again take the journey — or introduce some younglings — to a galaxy far, far away. “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” is the first film in the legendary series in a decade, continuing the …
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Amazon’s dark new sci-fi show “The Man in the High Castle” is too “expensive” and too “dangerous” for traditional TV broadcasters, according to the show’s writer and producer Frank Spotnitz. “The Man in the High Castle” is a 10-episode series funded by Amazon and available exclusively to viewers of Amazon Video. Based on a 1962 novel by Philip K. Dick, …
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Another nail in the coffin for Windows XP: Google will finally stop supporting Chrome on older operating systems. In a post on the official Chrome blog, Google announced the end of Chrome’s support for Windows XP and Windows Vista, as well Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion for Apple computers. If you’re running any …
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