BlackBerry is back with another phone. But does anyone care? The struggling phone maker on Tuesday unveiled the BlackBerry DTEK 50, its second phone powered by Google’s Android mobile software. Unlike the company’s first Android phone, the Priv, the DTEK 50 does away with BlackBerry’s signature physical keyboard and opts for a full screen. It …
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Instagram crash may require app’s reinstallation
Refresh, reinstall and cry because the fun of picking between photo filters Lo-Fi and Valencia was at a standstill. That’s a pretty apt description of what some Instagram users experienced Monday. The popular photo-sharing app crashed on Monday night and a handful of users could not even find it in an app store, International Business Times reported. Instagram sent out …
Read More »Twitter dazzled, dismayed by Bill Clinton’s star turn at DNC
If you’re old enough to remember Bill Clinton campaigning for president by playing his saxophone on a late-night talk show, you know what a crowd-pleaser he can be. And if you’re not old enough but you watched his speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, you may well know it too. Of course, you need not have watched …
Read More »Android’s new Emergency Location Service could save your life
A new utility from Google could save your life. The company on Monday announced that emergency services will be given your precise location if you call them with an Android smartphone. Product manager Akshay Kannan in a blog post pointed out that 70 percent of emergency calls come from mobile phones, and that “accurate emergency location can be the difference …
Read More »Stop sacrificing storage for price with Western Digital’s new SSD technology
If you like solid-state drives that use 3D vertical NAND flash memory, like the Samsung SSD 850 Evo or the Crucial MX300, here’s some good news: there will soon be more of them. Western Digital today announced that it, in collaboration with Toshiba, has successfully developed next-gen 3D NAND, called BiCS3, which stacks memory cells vertically in 64 layers (compared …
Read More »Venmo users can make purchases, split checks
Venmo wants to make buying takeout with your friends as easy as possible. The PayPal-owned company on Tuesday said it will release a feature that enables users to make purchases and split the bill at participating stores’ apps, expanding on its digital payment platform. Venmo launched a beta version for a handful of users in early 2016. Starting Wednesday, everyone …
Read More »Microsoft Word wants to help you with your homework
Back in the days of shrinkwrapped software, Microsoft would roll out giant new upgrades of its Office suite every few years, brimming with a laundry list of new (but not always improved) features. But now that we’re in the era of cloud-based Office 365 — productivity software as a service — the updates are more frequent and more subtle. To …
Read More »Game based on Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ lets you play kingpin
Ever wanted to be a drug kingpin? Well, now you can try out the lifestyle without a stint in jail. Narcos: Cartel Wars is a mobile game based on the hit Netflix series “Narcos” that lets you step into role of cartel kingpin. The game was made by Gaumont Television, which produces “Narcos,” and FTX Games, reported Variety, and will …
Read More »Adobe Lightroom now playing on your Apple TV
If you’ve ever had the yen to display the photos in your Adobe Lightroom mobile catalogs on your TV — and that’s a pretty specific yen — there’s now an Apple TV app for that. It allows you to navigate your collections, see individual photos and slideshows, and zoom in on photos. In addition to the synced photos, it will …
Read More »Did the Roman Reigns experiment die at WWE Battleground?
After more than two years, it looks like the WWE may have finally given up on the Roman Reigns experiment. What’s the Roman Reigns experiment, you ask? It’s WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon’s plan to make Reigns the next big thing. If it worked, he’d be as well known as the likes of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, John Cena …
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