Enlarge ImageSorting Skittles the newfangled way. MrPrezident/Hackaday What sort of Skittles eater are you? Do you like to carefully select according to the colour of the moment? Do you like to eat all the Skittles of each colour, in order of enjoyment? Or do you only eat one flavour, and give the rest away? Whichever …
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Canon promises 120
Enlarge ImageCanon plans to release this SLR with a 120-megapixel sensor. Canon Canon wants a whole new level of detail for photos and videos. In a Tuesday announcement, the Japanese camera maker said it’s building an SLR camera that can capture 120-megapixel images — more than double what’s possible with its new 50-megapixel EOS 5DS . And for video fans, …
Read More »Amazon’s speedy delivery service dishes up restaurant orders
Prime Now users in certain Seattle zip codes will now be able to see restaurant listings. Amazon And now apple butter pork chops, brought to you by Amazon. The Seattle online retailer is pushing deeper into restaurant deliveries, announcing Tuesday that it’s partnered with a handful of Seattle eateries to serve up orders in an hour or less under its …
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Enlarge Image Legend Want a blinged-out iPhone 6S but can’t quite afford the $200,000 Luxe model that Brikk announced last month? Finnish company Legend wants to send you a gold, diamond-encrusted iPhone 6S or 6S Plus for as little as $3,300 (about £2,150, AU $4,700). The company has begun taking preorders for two iPhone 6S models — the Classique and …
Read More »Raspberry Pi gets an official 7
The new 7-inch touchscreen for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. Raspberry Pi How touching: the cheap-as-chips Raspberry Pi mini-computer now has an official 7-inch touchscreen for building a basic tablet or control panel. The touchscreen comes from element14, the British company behind Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi micro-computer brain is designed to be plugged into other components to custom-build everything from …
Read More »Amazon may be cooking up a $50 tablet
You may feel bombarded with reports about the gadgets Apple will soon release. But if you’re looking for a bargain, it seems Amazon may have the tablet for you. In this CNET Update tech roundup, learn about the reports about Amazon’s $50 tablet and the company’s latest Prime Now perk: restaurant food delivery service. Also in mobile news, Verizon launches …
Read More »Google to test same
Enlarge ImageGoogle will compete with Amazon in fresh-food delivery. Google Google wants to bring you your groceries. The search giant on Tuesday confirmed it will test a same-day delivery service for fresh foods later this year. Bloomberg earlier reported the news. Google will first test the service in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as one other, to-be-named US …
Read More »Adobe ramps up CC Video tools for cutting
Enlarge ImageAs part of Premiere Pro’s HDR-editing, Adobe increased the waveform display’s range up to 10,000 IRE. Adobe If you’re looking for a one-word summary of this season’s updates to Adobe Creative Cloud’s video applications, I’d go with “trendy” — but that’s not a bad thing. Most of the enhancements are targeted at creating trendy types of content on trendy …
Read More »Buy an iClever smart USB charger, get your choice of freebies
CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image iClever Not to repeat myself, but you know those little USB wall plugs you’ve been hoarding over the years? Time to toss ’em out. They don’t supply nearly enough juice for …
Read More »How and why do people use their Apple Watch?
How do you use your Apple Watch? Apple The Apple Watch functions as a high-tech timekeeper and a health and fitness tracker, and that’s exactly how a large group of people surveyed are using it. The most frequent task among more than 2,000 Apple Watch owners polled by research firm Wristly for its latest “State of the Apple Watch” report …
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