Could high-tech training be the ticket out of a low-paying job? The Obama administration thinks so. The White House took steps Tuesday to advance its nationwide initiative to help young, unemployed and low-skill workers get trained in technology and placed in well-paying tech jobs. Enlarge Image Obama checks out a high-tech, health-oriented teddy bear at …
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If you use Google Calendar for the majority of your schedule planning, then the newest method of handling deleted events will be a welcome change for you. Have you ever tried to pin down an appointment with a busy attorney? Tuesday at 4 p.m. is fine, and then it’s not. But then it is again. Google understands that you may …
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VR viewers for phones can be fun, and cheap. But they’re usually not convenient. It’s what makes this particular VR phone accessory pretty clever: it’s made to snap into shape on the fly. Figment VR, launching today on Kickstarter, is a clever spring-loaded iPhone 6/6S or 6 Plus/6S Plus case that transforms into a stereoscopic viewer for your phone’s VR …
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After pairing your Apple Pencil to an iPad Pro, you’ll want to enable iOS 9’s battery widget. When enabled, the battery widget will display the current battery percentage of your iPad Pro, plus any Bluetooth devices connected to it. With the Apple Pencil using Bluetooth to communicate with the tablet, it naturally shows up in the widget. To enable it, …
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It looks like Twitter might be playing around with the idea of letting users react to tweets with emoji characters rather than forcing them to heart/like everything. But if that’s the case, it’s probably a ways off (the feature is currently being tested in a developer build of Twitter’s iOS app). If you can’t wait to ’emoji’ things rather than …
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Streaming service Vudu has announced the first 4K Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos titles are now available for owners of Vizio Reference series TVs, with more brands to follow. The 11 streaming titles from Warner Brothers include “:Mad Max: Fury Road,” “American Sniper,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Gallows,” “San Andreas,” “Man of Steel,” “Jupiter Ascending,” “Edge of Tomorrow” and …
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Nvidia has slashed the price on its powerful gaming-centric 8-inch Android tablet, down to $199 and £149 in the UK, which converts to around AU$320. That’s down from $299 (£240 in the UK), which leaves you a bit of extra cash to spend on apps or a controller. A quick refresher: The Nvidia Shield Tablet arrived last August, and it …
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Australia might need to start having a conversation about Net neutrality. That’s the assessment of NBN chairman and former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski, who says the entertainment industry is facing a major shift as broadband becomes the main delivery channel for content in the home through ‘over-the-top’ (OTT) services. With consumption of subscription video expected to skyrocket in the coming …
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Brendan Eich is back in business. A year and a half after resigning as Mozilla’s chief executive following an uproar over his anti-gay-marriage stance, Eich is spinning up a new company called Brave Software. With nine employees and $2.5 million in early funding from angel investors, the San Francisco startup has begun work on software that promises to make the …
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TiVo CEO Tom Rogers plans to step down in early 2016 as consumers’ television viewing patterns continue to morph. Rogers, who has been CEO for 10 years, will relinquish his role as chief executive on January 31, the end of TiVo’s fiscal year, the San Jose, California-based company said in a statement Tuesday. Rogers will stay on with the company …
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Canada is now the third country where Apple Pay will work, if you happen to have exactly the right credit card. Apple launched the mobile service just over a year ago in the US and brought it to the UK in July. With an iPhone 6 or higher or an Apple Watch, people can use Apple Pay to pay for …
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Apple’s new iPad Mini 4 outscored supersized sibling the iPad Pro in screen quality, according to new testing from DisplayMate. In its latest lab tests, DisplayMate analyzed the screens of the new iPad Mini 4 and the iPad Pro as well as last year’s iPad Air 2. All three received high marks for their displays, but this year’s models outscored …
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Ask Google a question on your mobile device, and you may receive a better answer than you got in the past. The Google search app for iOS and Android can respond to questions typed or spoken. Easy questions like “What is the capital of Brazil?” aren’t generally a problem. Interpreting a long, complex question is a different story. The software …
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Adobe Systems on Tuesday released a new version of its Lightroom software for editing and cataloging photos, reversing a change that triggered angry protests from hundreds of customers a month ago. The new version — Lightroom 6.3 to those who bought a perpetual license and Lightroom CC 2015.3 for those who pay monthly through Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription — restores …
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With the recent launch of YouTube Music, we now have four different YouTube apps. YouTube’s become so big — full of cat videos, music, let’s-plays, vlogs, comedy and much more — that it’s hard to find the specific videos you want. YouTube decided to spin off individual apps dedicated to its popular genres of video, music, gaming and kids, while …
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