If you were hoping to stream PC games from your powerful gaming rig to your iPhone or iPad, we’ve got some bad news. PC gaming giant Valve says Apple has rejected its Steam Link app, meaning it may not appear on the App Store after all. (It’s available in beta on Android right now.) Valve says that Apple actually …
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LG ThinQ TVs get their Alexa update
At CES 2018 LG announced it was adding Google Assistant and Alexa voice control to its OLED and Super UHD TVs with ThinQ (its branded AI); now Amazon joins Google with LG’s roll out of Alexa support. Its LG SmartThinQ Skill for Amazon Alexa allows you to ask your Echo to play your favorite show, launch LG WebOS apps and …
Read More »iOS 11.4: What you need to know about Messages in iCloud
Announced last June, Apple’s Messages iCloud feature was delayed with the release of iOS 11 in the fall of 2017. The feature — which promises to keep all of your messages and shared images synced across all of your Apple devices — made another appearance once iOS 11.3 was released in beta, only to get removed yet again. With iOS …
Read More »2019 iPhone will have third camera for AR, says analyst
A 2019 iPhone has been rumored to have three cameras. Now an analyst report speculates that one of the cameras will have a telephoto lens, while the other two will work together to perform depth mapping for AR (the same way 3D cameras do) rather than a dedicated 3D-sensing module. That’s according to Lu Jialin, a Deutsche Securities analyst, as …
Read More »Fox CEO James Murdoch offers advice to Apple, Facebook and Snap
James Murdoch has some advice for non-media companies looking to enter the space: be tolerant of failure and have patience. That goes for companies “dabbling” in TV content production. Namely, Apple. “Going piece by piece, one by one, show by show, it’s going to take a long time to really move the dial and have something,” Murdoch said in reference …
Read More »Apple rumored to use OLED displays for 2019 iPhones
Apple will reportedly use OLED displays in three of its expected 2019 iPhones. The Cupertino-based company will use OLED screens in three new iPhone models planned for next year, according to MacRumors, citing a report in South Korea’s Electronic Times. The site suggests the trio of new phones will come out during Apple’s traditional September release window. Apple is expected to …
Read More »Mozilla Firefox joins Chrome, Safari in making it easier to build sophisticated websites
With Mozilla’s flip of a virtual switch, life got easier for the people who make websites and the people who use them, which is to say, everybody. On Monday, Mozilla accepted an update for its Firefox browser that enables technology called web components. You probably won’t directly care about them unless you’re a programmer. But you’ll almost assuredly care about …
Read More »Bose noise
Late last year Bose presold “prototypes” of a new product it was creating called Noise-Masking Sleepbuds that some 3,000 people picked up at a discount on crowd-funding site Indiegogo. Those early units shipped in April and after a couple of months of “real feedback from real people” Bose is ready to officially launch the product at a press event in …
Read More »Zippear is the simple earphone cable manager we need
Always finding your earphone cables in a knotted mess? Well, that’s a problem that easily goes away with Israel-based Zippear’s magnetic solution. Using magnets to manage cables in general isn’t new, but Zippear’s nifty idea takes it further by having more magnets to easily arrange how the cable is looped. The result is a tangle-free solution, and I know, because …
Read More »Nokia’s 5.1, 3.1, 2.1 bring the essentials on the cheap
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