A new alleged iPhone 7 leak is showing off some new — and unusual — features for Apple’s upcoming flagship phone. Images posted to French tech website Nowherelse.com show off the potential chassis for the 4.7-inch iPhone 7, supposedly taken from a promotional video by an Italian case manufacturer. The chassis boasts an extra pair …

Just as electricity transformed everything we do, artificial intelligence — think really, really smart machines — will upend industries from retail to finance to transportation. And that will reshape our world and change our lives, said a panel of experts Monday discussing “The State of AI” at the EmTech Digital Conference in San Francisco. The transformation, though, will rest on …

Depending on how you look at it, the LaCie Chrome is either high-end desktop art for the aspirational classes or a triumph of form over function. Maybe it’s both. The eye-catching desktop solid state drive is made from solid chromed zinc and attaches to the base via neodymium magnets. The enclosure is hand assembled aluminium with a mirror finish. It’s …

Google’s upcoming video-chat app, Duo, has a feature that’s been bothering me since it was unveiled days ago. It’s called knock-knock. Knock-knock is a peek-a-boo video preview of the person calling you. It’s like a video doorbell for your conversation. Stuck in a meeting? Oh, that’s my kids waving to me, maybe I should answer. Waiting on line at Starbucks? …

Soon, you may be able to strap a gadget on your wrist to keep tabs on your alcohol consumption. It’s called the BACtrack Skyn, and it’s not a breathalyzer. You don’t need to bring it up to your mouth. Instead, the gadget uses an electrochemical sensor to measure your sweat — which, when you’re drinking, will typically contain ethanol. Then, …

Why even have an operating system if you can’t make it look exactly the way you want? If you want your Windows 10 device to reflect your personality (visually, at least), you’re going to spend a lot of time in the Personalization tab in the Windows 10 Settings menu. Related stories: Your guide to Windows 10 A closer look at …

June brings lots of big Netflix originals. The fourth season of “Orange is the New Black” arrives on June 17. Apparently, the show is going to become a bit darker. On the lighter side, Netflix will stream season one of “Voltron: Legendary Defender” starting on June 10. I was a huge Voltron fan when I was a kid, so I …

Looking to manage your Microsoft account, change how you sign in to Windows 10 or add a family member to your PC? You can do that in the Accounts tab in the new Windows 10 Settings menu. The Accounts tab is also where you can change sync settings across an account — if you don’t want your desktop background and …

Acadine Technologies, a startup trying to give phone users a software alternative to the dominant powers of Google and Apple, is on its last legs. With no new funding in hand, last month’s warnings of possible layoffs at Acadine are materializing. The company’s entire engineering staff will lose their jobs this week. In addition, the Hong Kong-based startup is warning …

Most cables get plugged in and left alone for years at a time. All those power and HDMI cables connecting your home entertainment system together rarely get touched. The cables meticulously organized at your work desk may as well be cemented in place. But the cables we use everyday — the computer and smartphone chargers — go through hell. They …

Facebook Live lets you broadcast whatever your smartphone can see for up to 90 minutes at a time. But soon you might be able to keep on streaming as long as you like. TechCrunch reported Monday that a new “continuous live video” API is coming to Facebook’s broadcast partners, which would allow them to keep streaming beyond the 90-minute time …

In VR, what you hear is almost as important as what you see. Perhaps that’s why Facebook just bought Two Big Ears, an Edinburgh-based spacial audio company. Terms of the acquisition weren’t disclosed. Two Big Ears specializes in a set of tools that lets virtual-reality content creators build a 3D sound stage, taking sound from a variety of sources and …

A legal spat has broken out in the world of dating apps between popular, twosome-focused service Tinder and its less well-known rival, threesome-focused service 3nder. Tinder, which is owned by online dating giant Match, is currently suing 3nder due to the similarity in their names. 3nder has taken issue with the lawsuit, launching a campaign against its rival called Tinder …

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Apple may be counting on healthy sales for this year’s iPhone despite the gloom and doom predicted by many analysts. The company has reportedly asked its suppliers to manufacture 72 to 78 million new iPhones by year’s end, Barron’s Asia reported Monday, quoting from Taiwan’s Economic Daily Times. If true, that would be a big bump from the 65 million …