The TiVo you know as an alternative to your cable company’s DVR is still around, but the company is betting on the cloud for the future. On Thursday TiVo announced its next-gen platform, a catch-all product for “providers” like cable companies. It’s available for multiple TV devices, including not only Linux- and Android TV-based set-top …
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4 January
White House puts the kibosh on personal phones
The White House just officially banned personal cell phones. The decree came down from the Twitter account of press secretary Sarah Sanders. According to a statement issued by Sanders today, “personal devices for guests and staff will no longer be allowed in the West Wing”. Sanders went on to say that the policy goes into effect “next week” and only …
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4 January
Apple joins alliance to shrink your online videos
For months, powerful companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have been working to shrink online video sizes. But their work just got more important, because Apple has now joined the partnership too. The Alliance for Open Media is working on technology called AV1 that compresses video before it’s stored or sent over the network. That technology is crucial to …
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4 January
OKCupid is DTF (in a manner of speaking)
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A moving come-on? OKCupid Let’s talk abbreviations. Who doesn’t know what DTF stands for? Should you be unsure, we need to talk. Or, perhaps, you need to venture into the world of online dating. OKCupid, a site that seems to have been around since the …
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4 January
Apple’s App Store takes in record $300M on New Year’s Day
It was a very happy New Year for Apple’s App Store. Owners of iOS devices made New Year’s Day the biggest sales day ever for the App Store, logging $300 million in purchases, the gadget giant said in a statement Thursday. That sales total is 25 percent higher than the same day a year ago. The App Store has been …
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4 January
CES 2018: Media’s old and new guards battle over TV’s future
Don’t worry. If you miss the first “future of TV” panel at CES next week, you can catch the second one a day later. For all the attention paid to off-the-wall gadgets at CES every year, the convention often feels like a giant stage to show off televisions. From eye-popping screen sizes to mind-bending display technologies, TVs are one of …
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4 January
Spotify hits 70 million subscribers, still well ahead of Apple
Spotify reached 70 million paying subscribers, the music-streaming company tweeted Thursday, indicating it had added a net 10 million members in about five months. The swelling membership suggests Spotify, which passed the 60 million mark at the end of July, is successfully preserving its wide lead over Apple Music, its next-closest rival. Apple said its service had “well over 30 million paying subscribers” in …
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4 January
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4 January
Zanco Tiny T1: The world’s smallest working phone
Last year, we saw the return of the Nokia 3310, a small feature phone with long battery life that echoed a past when phones were simple and cheap. The company Zanco is looking to take those qualities to the extreme with its Tiny T1 phone. The T1 is about the size of a domino and looks more like a key …
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4 January
Make your cords look neat and organized with these remedies
With phone chargers, routers, TVs, laptops, power tools, speakers, smart devices and more around your home, you’re bound to wind up with a tangled mess of cords. There are a lot of ways to wrangle your cord problem beyond Pinterest fixes that include binder clips, toilet paper rolls and shoeboxes. (They aren’t always the most aesthetically pleasing solutions.) Here are …
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