The HDMI Forum has announced the final specification for HDMI 2.1. We’ve written before about HDMI 2.1 and how it’s a significant leap in what is possible over the venerable A/V connection. Higher resolutions, frame rates and numerous additional features mean this is definitely a next-generation connection, and cable, despite looking exactly like every previous …
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December, 2017
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8 December
Apple reportedly acquiring Shazam music recognition app
Apple might be adding another notch onto its acquisition belt. The iPhone-maker is acquiring Shazam, the popular music recognition app, according to TechCrunch. The report suggests that it’s adding the app to its portfolio in order to bolster Apple Music functionality. London-based Shazam, whose app can also identify movies and TV shows, is expected to sell for “nine figures” or …
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8 December
Fast
Gather round, kiddies, and let me tell you about a time when we’d take a photo, and then wait, sometimes for hours or even days, to see how it came out. Back then, we couldn’t check voicemail while walking down the street unless we stopped at a payphone (a big box you put coins into). Enlarge Image Quality over quantity: …
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8 December
Amazon Music Unlimited just expanded to a lot more places
Amazon’s subscription music service, Music Unlimited, launched last year to compete with existing services like Spotify and Apple Music. It’s now getting a bigger global footprint: it’s available in 28 new countries starting today, Amazon announced. The service boasts 40 million tracks, is independent from Amazon Prime and works on iOS, Android, Macs, PCs, web browsers and Amazon’s Fire TV …
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8 December
Next year’s iPhone batteries look like they’re getting bigger
The latest iPhones do a lot of amazing things, but they’re mostly the same old story when it comes to battery life. Maybe 2018 will be the year when Apple’s batteries will see some improvement. A new report from respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities says that the next trio of iPhones coming in 2018 will all have …
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8 December
Nvidia’s hugely powerful $3,000 Titan V PC GPU is fastest ever
Looking for a way to turn your home computer into a deep-learning AI super-monster? Nvidia has an expensive answer. The new Titan V GPU promises a crazy amount of processing for deep learning and AI applications. It’s nine times more powerful — at 110 teraflops — than last year’s Titan X, Nvidia’s last massive desktop graphics processor aimed at machine learning …
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8 December
iPhone X: Absolutely everything you need to know
Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 8, 8 Plus or X: Which should you get? 3:42 Editors’ note: This post was originally published on Sept. 26, and continues to be updated with Apple news and features. After spending more than a month with the iPhone X ($285 at Amazon), we’re convinced that it represents a bold step into the future. With innovative …
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8 December
Twitter’s tumultuous 2017
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8 December
Acer Chromebook 15 is a big laptop that’s also a big bargain
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8 December
Volcanic new ‘Jurassic World’ trailer explodes onto the internet
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