If Snapchat, Vine, and Periscope can’t satisfy your social video craving, now there’s Riff. Facebook launched a new app for sharing and creating short video clips with your friends. Watch CNET Update below to learn how it works: Now playing: Watch this: Facebook hopes to make viral-video magic with Riff 2:54 Also in this tech-news …
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Facebook continues to face scrutiny in Europe over its privacy practices. CNET Facebook is facing more pressure from European regulators concerned about its privacy policies. Government privacy regulators from France, Spain and Italy recently joined a regulatory group already looking into how the company deals with the personal data it collects from its users, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. …
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Office Lens (shown here in the iPhone version) enables users to take pictures of things like receipts, business cards and whiteboards, and save and share them in a variety of ways. Microsoft Office Lens, a scanning app that’s been a hit on Windows Phone, is coming to iOS and Android. On Thursday, Microsoft made available a preview of the Android …
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Matt Elliott/CNET If you share photos of your kids on Facebook, then you might like Facebook’s new Scrapbook feature that collects the photos you share of your kids and keeps them in one place. Scrapbooks also make it easier to share photos of your kids with your partner’s Facebook friends. A Facebook Scrapbook lets you create a photo tag for …
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Apple bought Beats Music in a $3 billion deal for the company best known for its premium headphones. Apple Apple’s bid to relaunch its Beats streaming music service is already facing scrutiny. The European Commission has sent questionnaires to several labels and digital music companies about Apple’s plans for Beats Music, according to a report in the Financial Times (subscription …
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Waze’s iOS app now sports a traffic bar, along with other new features. Waze Stuck in another traffic jam? You may be able to tell how long it’ll last if you’ve got the latest iOS version of the Waze navigation app. Launched on Wednesday, Waze version 3.9.4 for Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users now displays a new traffic …
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The now defunct Kinect for Windows V2 sensor. Microsoft Last year when Microsoft announced an adapter kit that would allow Kinect for Xbox One sensors to work with Windows, some wondered whether the company would cease making Kinect for Windows sensors. On Thursday, we learned that the answer is yes. Starting today, Microsoft will no longer be making Kinect for …
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First impression: the Aurender Flow looks and feels like a high-end component. The impeccably finished solid aluminum case, big volume control knob, and all-metal control buttons let you know this is the real deal. As for sound quality, it’s spectacular! The Aurender Flow Aurender Connectivity is limited to just one USB 3 port and an optical digital input, plus a …
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Woolworths’ new app brings grocery lists to the Apple Watch. Woolworths After a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of the Woolworths logo appeared at Apple’s most recent product event, the grocery chain has revealed the details of its new Apple Watch app — set to be one of the first local apps available on the device after its April 24 launch. Woolworths has …
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Cord cutters who want to watch “Game of Thrones” can do so on Sling TV too. HBO The going rate for HBO without a cable subscription seems to be 15 bucks. Sling TV is the latest provider to announce the availability of HBO without requiring a cable subscription. For $15 per month, Sling TV subscribers can access the live HBO …
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Apple Watch sales could hit 1 million units in its first weekend. Apple The Apple Watch will shine in its first weekend of sales following its April 24 launch, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says. The analyst predicted Wednesday in a note to investors that the company will sell 1 million smartwatches that first weekend. Munster likewise predicts strong preorders …
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Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET If you’re routinely on the receiving end of Word documents and have a current version of Microsoft Office, you may have noticed something: Whenever you open one of these file attachments or downloads, Word opens in something called Protected View. This is, believe it or not, a feature, even if it comes across an annoyance. By …
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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET It can be difficult to remember which MacBook model you own, given that Apple doesn’t give them very distinct names. Do you have a “Mid 2010” or “Early 2011” machine? What type of processor do you have? Is it even possible to upgrade your RAM? Fortunately, finding your Mac’s basic specs in OS X is very simple …
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Facebook Ok, the topic is #humpday: Make a video! That’s the gist of Facebook’s newest app, called Riff, which encourages people to upload videos, tag them with a topic and then invite friends to respond and add content. People can create any topic they want from “#shakeitoff” to “game face.” “Our hunch was that if you could make videos collaboratively, …
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Future Illuminations Like most mammals, I like shiny, flashy things. And things that glow. If they can flash and glow at the same time, so much the better. Today only, and while supplies last, Ellumiglow has the Future Illuminations Remyx LED sound-synchronized earphones for $25 shipped. That’s after applying coupon code nojoke — because this ain’t no April Fool — …
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