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Trademark filing hints at new Fitbit trackers

Fitbit, the company behind the world’s most popular wearable devices, may have big plans for the remaining months of 2016. So far this year, the San Francisco-based company has already released two new trackers: The Fitbit Blaze smartwatch arrived in March for $200, followed by the Fitbit Alta activity tracker in April for $130. Now a recent filing with the …

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Snapchat video views at 10 billion a day

Snapchat’s chatty users like video. Roughly 10 billion videos are viewed on Snapchat, the ephemeral-photo app that’s becoming a media platform, up a quarter from February, according to the same-named company behind the app. Snapchat is using the data, which was earlier reported by Bloomberg, to show its investors that DJ Khaled‘s stomping ground is a place where content is …

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‘We’re going to need a bigger TV’: What’s new on streaming in May

Let’s hope May wasn’t your month to start doing more outdoor activities. Throwing a little nostalgia in the waters, Netflix has enough “Jaws” movies to keep you terrified until next summer’s beach season. For kid-friendly chomp there’s “The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl” — or you could harpoon both those ideas and binge on the next season of “Arrow” (yes, …

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Remote Australia says g’day to Sky Muster satellite NBN

More than 200,000 residences across regional and remote Australia can start connecting to the NBN with the network’s satellite service now available for retail sale. The service is being provided by the Sky Muster satellite, which launched last October to replace NBN’s Interim Satellite Service. NBN says customers buying through retail ISPs should expect satellite speeds of roughly 25Mbps for …

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Movidius Fathom: Is this the USB stick your DIY hunter

With a little plug-in stick, maybe you’ll be able to build a future self-navigating vehicle. Or at least test out your navigation system. That’s the idea behind the Fathom Neural Compute Stick from chipmaker Movidius. It claims the Fathom is “the world’s first embedded neural network accelerator.” It’s a plug-in stick with a dedicated low-power processor inside. Target price? Under …

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​When it’s too damn hot for tech

Most phone testing facilities have a machine — a chamber, really — that alternately bakes and freezes phones to make sure they operate in extreme temperatures: hot and cold, dry and humid. I’ve always intellectually understood the purpose of extreme climate tests, but it wasn’t until I carried three phones, a camera and a smart band through the 106-degree swelter …

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