Apple is considered the coolest brand for wearables, according to a poll of just over 2,000 smartphone users. The maker of the Apple Watch earned its status pitted against 20 other brands in the results of a survey released Monday by Juniper Research. The smartwatch market is moving toward a two-company race between Apple and …

With the launch of Android 6.0 Marshmallow Google looks to solve a frustration of many Android users — setting up a new Android device. The old backup and restore process amounts to Google creating a list of apps installed on your device, and little more. When you’d restore from a backup, the Play store would install those apps, leaving you …

Lean is a convenient app that not only helps remove the video portion of Live Photos you’d rather not have, but it also helps save precious space on your iPhone. When taking a Live Photo with your iPhone 6S or 6S Plus, shortly before and after you press the shutter button your device captures video. The end result is two …

When it comes to the wireless networks of the future, speed won’t be everything. The advent of so-called 5G, or fifth-generation, wireless technology will bring incredible speed, for sure, with the industry aiming to see your network connection jump by 100 times. (Yes, 100.) More importantly, the network will be smart enough to act differently depending on how it’s accessed, …

Bitter old rivalries from the Star Wars universe apparently don’t apply when it comes to the political strategies of Ukraine’s Internet Party. Darth Sidious, aka Emperor Palpatine, was reportedly just elected to a seat on the city council of Odessa, Ukraine’s fourth largest city. And not even the arrest of Chewbacca on Election Day could stop it. Bizarre as it …

Apple is facing a lawsuit over a new software feature that lets iPhones switch to cellular data when the Wi-Fi signal is weak. Wi-Fi Assist has provoked complaints from customers since Apple introduced the feature in mid-September with the latest version of its iOS software for iPhones and iPads. Many have complained that Wi-Fi Assist is switched on by default …

Australia might be new to the Halloween phenomenon, but we’re certainly not immune to the trick-or-treating, the bad costume parties and the out-of-season-pumpkins in supermarkets. But as Halloween approaches, the subscription video on demand services are stockpiling plenty of good movies (and the occasional TV show) to help you put on a killer fright night movie marathon. Whether you want …

Just how smart is your smartphone? Smart enough to power a 3D scanner. So goes the thinking behind Eora 3D, a laser scanner that uses your phone as the brains. This Kickstarter project, which has already surpassed its goal five times over, aims to make 3D scanning affordable. It’s a small, tabletop monolith with a rotating green laser embedded in …

When you look at the website for the Phantom 3 drone made by DJI, you learn all about its fancy flight controls, 4K camera and other high-tech features. What you don’t learn is that the drone can make quick work of that dreaded fall task — leaf cleanup. For that clever use of the drone, you have to turn to …

I’m a very forgetful person, which means that technology is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, there are lots of techy ways to help people like me remember everything — on the other hand, there are a lot more tech devices for me to accidentally forget about. But let’s focus on how tech can help you …