In tandem with last Friday’s World Sleep Day, musician Moby released his latest album, Long Ambients 2. The ambient electronica album is available exclusively on the Calm meditation app and is a sequel to Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep, released in 2016. With a Calm account, you can listen to Moby’s six relaxing tracks to …

Lyft is the first US ride-hailing company to be heading to the stock market. Filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering on March 1, Lyft said it plans to “revolutionize transportation” and be the “defining brand of our generation.” When the company goes public, Lyft said it plans to set its share price between $62 and …

One week before it’s expected to lift the curtain on a long-rumored video streaming service at an event on March 25, Apple announced two new iPads.  Starting at $499 (£479, AU$779), the new iPad Air features a 10.5-inch Retina display and the same A12 Bionic processor used in the iPhone XS. The new $399 (£399, AU$599) iPad Mini will replace …

Samsung showed off its Galaxy Fold phone-tablet hybrid last February, but it was outshone even earlier than that by Xiaomi’s own foldable effort. The Chinese electronics maker is hoping to show it’s a company that can do even more: Not only compete with super-premium devices from bigger companies, but make phones for those on a budget. Xiaomi on Monday revealed …

Here’s a surprise: A full week ahead of its scheduled product-launch event, Apple just released new tablets: a new 10.5-inch “iPad Air” (really just an update of the now-discontinued 2017 iPad Pro) and — for fans of small tablets — the first iPad Mini update in years. See iPad Mini (2019) at Apple Many observers once thought Apple would drop the …

Headset manufacturer Plantronics acquired Polycom for $2 billion last year. After the deal closed, Reuters reported that the company was trying to sell itself and Logitech was interested in acquiring it. But no sale transpired, and instead the company has decided to rename itself Poly and recalibrate its mission. Poly will focus on “the human experience of communications and collaboration, aiming to …

Need to print in color? Move along, nothing to see here. If you’re good with monochrome printing, however, don’t move: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Office Depot has the Samsung Xpress M2070W monochrome laser all-in-one printer for $49.99 shipped. Regular price: $129.99. See it at Office Depot Sorry to say you can’t lop yet another 20 percent …

There are just too many VR helmets and goggles out there — getting even one on your face is enough of a struggle. But Qualcomm’s new vision for its next generation of standalone VR headsets has a solution to that problem.  Qualcomm is developing VR headsets that will work as wireless PC-connected, head-mounted displays. Hardware will start arriving later this …

Not everyone has a green thumb or an eye for landscaping. Some people don’t even get to try because they’re so busy. Others watch HGTV over and over again and still never achieve the yard of their dreams because it’s easy to forget most of what you learned by the time you get outside. But since you can take your …

Google has released the first beta of Android Q, the next version of its popular mobile operating system. Early adopters can get started by enrolling any Pixel device, including the original Pixel and Pixel XL. The search giant said a preview software development kit (SDK) is also available Wednesday for developers.  Android Q brings “a number of additional privacy and security …