The Google Photos team, steadily improving its service for saving and sharing pictures and videos, has added a new ability to show slideshows. “It’s now possible to play a slideshow from any album. Just open the album, click on a photo and select Slideshow from the dropdown menu,” the Google Photos team said on Google+ …
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While you’re at home watching “Infested,” “The Fly,” “The Wasp Woman” or “The Deadly Mantis,” an LG Electronics TV could be protecting you from real-world mosquitos. The TV issues ultrasonic sound waves that repel mosquitos but that are too high-pitched for humans to hear, the company says. But the 32LH520D TV only is available in India so far, Reuters reported, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Photography enthusiasts love “raw” photo formats that let them wring as much flexibility and image quality as possible out of their cameras. And now they’re going to get that ability on iPhones and iPads. That’s because Apple’s next-gen iOS 10 software adds a …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. There’s never been a better time to be a young programmer. At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple debuted a new tutorial app for iPads called Swift Playgrounds that will ship this fall. Students learn basic programming instructions to control an animated …
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Performers get irritated by all the phones pointed at the stage. Kids at birthday parties get sick of smiling for their parents’ cameras. But things are different for the person with the camera: they’ll be happier if they take the shots than if they don’t. That’s according to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s iMessage is available today only on Apple products like iPhones and Macs, but the company could bring its encrypted messaging service to phones powered by Google’s Android software, according to a report Thursday. The company plans to announce the move at its …
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Bluetooth, the wireless standard that’s widely used to link fitness trackers to mobile phones and wireless keyboards to computers, will become more powerful in its next incarnation, the industry group developing the technology plans to announce Wednesday. “Bluetooth 5 has a lot to offer,” said Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, in a June newsletter. Specifically, …
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Google’s artificial intelligence software, smart enough to help vanquish the world’s top Go player and answer your email, is coming to your iPhone. On Monday, Google published an early version of TensorFlow (the 0.9 release candidate) that adds support for iOS, the software that powers Apple iPhones and iPads. TensorFlow is “neural network” software that lets computers process data in …
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One problem with shooting virtual reality video: There’s nowhere for the crew doing the shooting to hide from a camera that sees around a full 360-degree circle. Startup Double Robotics on Wednesday announced a product it thinks will help. The company already sells telepresence robots in the form of a $3,000 iPad on a stalk that rolls around under the …
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Microsoft inadvertently opened the spam floodgates for users of its Outlook.com email service for nearly 17 hours before fixing the problem Wednesday. These days we rely on email services to shield us from countless messages stuffed with financial scams and pharmaceutical product offers. But it was tough to sift the wheat from the chaff on Outlook.com for a good chunk …
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