March, 2019

• 14 March

  Add 32GB to any mobile device with this 4

  

  Happy Pi Day, cheeps! Today’s the day for cheap pies: baked, pizza and otherwise. I’ve rounded up all the best Pi Day deals for you. Om nom nom. Today’s also the day to buy whatever cool geeky thing you’ve been eyeballing at ThinkGeek, because the store is offering 31.4 percent off sitewide. I don’t recall …

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• 14 March

  Phone eats an arrow, saves owner from attack (allegedly)

  

  We expect a lot from our phones: communications, internet access, entertainment. A man in New South Wales in Australia seems to have discovered an extra bonus feature of his phone: the ability to stop an arrow.  Here’s the story from the New South Wales police, complete with lots of “allegedlys.” On Wednesday, a 43-year-old man pulled into his driveway in …

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• 14 March

  Apple’s WWDC will kick off June 3 in San Jose

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s returning to San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on June 3 for its next developer conference. The company on Thursday said it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in the California city. The confab is in its 30th year, Apple said. The …

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• 14 March

  Qualcomm can’t get back the billions it paid Apple, judge rules

  

  Apple can keep the billions of dollars that Qualcomm paid it as part of their 2013 contract, a judge has ruled. And Qualcomm’s still on the hook for payments it stopped making.  In a summary judgment published Thursday, US District Court Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel of the Southern District of California granted four of Apple’s requests ahead of a trial …

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• 14 March

  Dropbox now limits you to three linked devices on a free account

  

  The free device ride on Dropbox is slowing down.  The company posted a note in its help center today with a new three-active-device limit for its free Basic accounts. The limit doesn’t apply to paying Plus and Professional users. That tidbit comes to us via 9to5Mac (and a tweet from Liliputing News).  Some Basic folks can still breathe easy, since …

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• 14 March

  Save $150: Chromebooks are on sale today at Best Buy

  

  A Chromebook, with a couple pricey exceptions, is an inexpensive, streamlined alternative to a Windows laptop or Macbook. Today at Best Buy, three Chromebook models are even more affordable. A trio of fairly high-end two-in-one Chromebooks are currently discounted. (The Macbook, too, is also on sale for a very reasonable $999.)  You can save $150 on a 14-inch Dell Inspiron and …

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• 14 March

  DuckDuckGo is now a default search engine option in Chrome

  

  DuckDuckGo is now a default search option in Google’s Chrome browser.  Google included private search engine DuckDuckGo in its updated lists of default search engines for Chrome 73, which the search giant released Tuesday. TechCrunch reported the news earlier. “Starting Chrome M73, we have updated the list of default search engines available in Chrome settings,” said a Google spokesperson in an email statement. …

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• 14 March

  Valve debuts Steam Link Anywhere, opens its multiplayer platform to devs

  

  Steam’s continuing beta of its Steam Link app, which lets you play games on any supported device by streaming them off a computer, added a major new capability today: streaming to devices on any network rather than only on the same network as the host computer. It’s all still in beta, but it fills an important hole that Steam needs …

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• 14 March

  NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2019 schedule: How to watch the games live

  

  College-aged men don’t have a monopoly on March Madness. The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament gets underway this month and promises as much buzzer-beating insanity as the men’s tournament.  It’s not a foregone conclusion that the University of Connecticut Huskies will dominate the field and win another title this year. In fact, after their remarkable run of winning six titles in …

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• 14 March

  Facebook blames server slipup for longest outage in its history

  

  Facebook’s daylong outage has finally ended.  The troubles first hit the social network — which has more than 2 billion users around the world — around 9 a.m. PT Wednesday, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. At this point on Thursday, more than 24 hours later, users have by and large regained full access. On Thursday, Facebook blamed the problem on …

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