You’re probably seeing a lot of “size matters” headlines (and jokes) flash across the Web today. That’s because Apple pulled a 180 and, for the first time, introduced a new, smaller phone: the 4-inch, $399 iPhone SE. It also unveiled the smaller iPad Pro, essentially taking the jumbo iPad Pro and shrinking it to normal …
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LG’s Watch Urbane makes comeback on AT&T as G5 preorders open
LG’s Urbane LTE second edition smartwatch is back, riding on the coattails of the company’s new flagship smartphone. AT&T customers can soon get their hands on a package of high-end LG goodies, with the operator making the G5 smartphone and Urbane Second Edition smartwatch available for preorder from Monday. Both the smartwatch, touted as first Android Wear watch with LTE …
Read More »Make people jealous of your lock screen with Windows Spotlight
Windows Spotlight is a new feature in Windows 10 that affects your lock screen — it’s basically Bing’s homepage images, but on your lock screen. The photos cycle periodically, so it’s sort of like a curated slideshow of beautiful, high-resolution images on your lock screen. Oh, and Windows also lets you provide feedback about each image for a more personalized …
Read More »Twitter in 10 tweets
Twitter is turning 10 on Monday. The social network has become immensely popular on a very simple theory: Say what you want in 140 characters or fewer. (That sentence is 123 characters, including spaces.) Though that may not sound like a lot of room to maneuver, Twitter’s users have figured out how to craft pithy, playful and poignant messages that …
Read More »One year later, Apple’s 12
It’s been nearly one full year since I reviewed Apple’s 12-inch MacBook. That slim, light system was not only Apple’s only completely new laptop design since the 2012 MacBook Pro, but also among its most controversial. The knocks against this system — an odd-man-out, not part of either the Air or Pro MacBook lines — were numerous. Its screen was …
Read More »Amazon warns Kindle users: Update by March 22 or else
This is pretty much your final warning: If you have a Kindle, you need to update it before March 22 or it’s going to lose Internet connectivity. That, just to be clear, would be very bad, because without the update you’ll no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or sync your device with the cloud, not to mention …
Read More »Facebook wants to be everywhere, except BlackBerry
BlackBerry is facing death by a billion cuts after Facebook pulled support for its social media apps from the mobile platform. The decision by Facebook, which last year passed the milestone of 1 billion people using its service in one day, follows on the heels of a similar move from WhatsApp, which announced last month that it would pull BlackBerry …
Read More »Here’s a tasty collection of the absolute best
Somebody on Twitter pointed out that Pioneer was blowing out my favorite affordable tower speaker of all time — the Andrew Jones designed Pioneer SP-FS52-LR towers — which are now selling for just $180 a pair. That started me thinking, if I was going to share the news of the deal why not also scour the interwebs for more good …
Read More »Wonder Woman reveals glowing bracelets in new ‘Batman v Superman’ pic
It’s only a week now until the new “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” film hits theaters, but we have a sneak peek at Wonder Woman’s famous armored bracelets to look at while we wait. On Friday, actress Gal Gadot tweeted a new image of herself as Wonder Woman from the film, her wrists crossed in defensive mode wearing her …
Read More »Music lovers with crappy audio systems, maybe they’re right after all?
I have a number of friends who love music and have the worst audio systems, and though I’ve tried to help them out most couldn’t care less about the sound of their music. I’ve known folks with massive LP and CD collections who were perfectly content with the sound of the crappiest of hi-fis and headphones. This diverse group included …
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