April, 2016

• 19 April

  Intel will cut 11% of workforce as it moves away from PCs

  

  The writing may have been on the wall for a while, but Intel on Tuesday acknowledged that sliding PC sales would force the company to go through a major restructuring. The world’s biggest chipmaker said it will cut 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its global workforce, by the middle of next year. The job …

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• 19 April

  Apple updates its 12

  

  Now playing: Watch this: More speed, better battery life for Apple’s 12-inch MacBook 1:29 If you’ve been holding out for a new MacBook, Apple’s finally answered your call. Maybe. The 2016 update to the 12-inch MacBook that debuted last year is now available to buy, but note that it’s more of a spec bump than anything else. Apple’s new MacBook …

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• 19 April

  Wayfair gets into the swing of home services

  

  Wayfair has turned itself into a go-to place to buy big and bulky home furnishings online. But, what if you don’t know how to install that remote-controlled ceiling fan or put together that 60-inch double bathroom vanity piece? Hoping to make it easier for folks to do home renovations using the Web, the Boston e-commerce company on Tuesday teamed up …

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• 19 April

  9 settings every new iPhone owner should change

  

  New iPhone? Take a peek at its settings. So many categories, so many options within those categories. It’s enough to make your head swim. And you might find yourself wondering, are Apple’s factory settings ideal? Right out of the box, is the iPhone really configured for optimal performance, productivity and battery life? Not so much. Here are the iPhone settings …

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• 19 April

  Will ‘Who’ marry me? Time Lords Tennant and Smith join proposal

  

  The Internet is full of photos and videos of “Doctor Who”-themed wedding proposals. Brad Trechak, an IT developer from New Jersey, saw an opportunity to raise the bar and give his girlfriend Missy Levy the ultimate wedding proposal for a pair of hard-core Who-vians, short of something that involved breaking the laws of time and space. Trechak proposed to Levy …

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• 19 April

  HDR could be the new TV technology we’ve been waiting for (The 3:59, Ep. 30)

  

  New TV technologies — 3D, 4K, curved screens — have mostly failed to excite consumers, but a new concept called HDR has a chance to offer something noticeably better than the ubiquitous high-definition TV. In this latest installment of The 3:59, we focus solely on the subject of HDR, with TV reviewer David Katzmaier offering up a quick version of …

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• 18 April

  This floating Star Wars Death Star speaker would impress Darth Vader

  

  If you’re a Star Wars fan, music simply sounds better when channeled through a Death Star speaker. Sure, there are already some pretty fancy speakers out there that employ the design of the Empire’s most potent weapon and take advantage of Bluetooth technology. DIY audiophiles can even print out their own Death Star speakers. But none of these speakers spins …

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• 18 April

  Slinky swimming snake robot has the undersea moves

  

  Autonomous underwater vehicles are opening up the aquatic domains in more detail than ever before. However, current drone technology is still limited in a few ways, one of which is size, shape and flexibility. With a swimming snake robot, Norwegian engineering company Kongsberg Maritime believes, we could access, survey and monitor hard-to-reach areas. Together with Norwegian University of Science and …

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• 18 April

  Teradek Sphere will change how live 360

  

  Teradek makes wireless video devices for capture, control, monitoring and webcasting, and now it’s bringing that knowledge to the burgeoning 360-degree content market with Sphere, a system for real-time monitoring and live-streaming of panoramic HD video. No, it’s not the sexiest of subjects, but soon Sphere will be what helps bring immersive live events to your eyeballs. The small black …

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• 18 April

  YouTube to live

  

  The tech world is obsessed with two things right now: virtual reality and live video. So why not combine them? That’s what YouTube is doing. The Google-owned video behemoth said Monday that it’s launching live streaming for so-called 360 videos, which let you look up, down and all round a scene. To kick things off, the site will live-stream a …

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