Now playing: Watch this: Alexa will take your next Starbucks order 1:33 You don’t have to be embarrassed about admitting to another human being that you want a grande caramel frappuccino with extra whipped cream and a triple shot of vanilla syrup. Starbucks now lets you order via voice command or text through its iOS …
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“You’ll be more comfortable removing your glasses.” No matter how many times I’ve worn a Vive VR headset — with glasses — I get asked to take them off in demo after demo. I politely decline. Sometimes, not so politely. I can’t see without my glasses. At about a -9 myopia with astigmatism, the world becomes a color blur. I’ve …
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Apple long has argued in favor of customer privacy, but the company wants to do more with your personal data so services like Siri voice recognition can get smarter. A new option in its iOS 10.3 software, released earlier this week for beta testing, asks iPhone and iPad users to share iCloud account data. iCloud services include file storage, email, …
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LG is looking to play it safe with its next flagship phone. The company’s upcoming G6 phone, which will be unveiled next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, will have a sealed battery like the iPhone and Galaxy S phones, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans. LG opted to skip the removable battery …
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Apple’s legal battle with Qualcomm has gone international. The iPhone maker on Wednesday filed two lawsuits against Qualcomm in China, according to Reuters, which cited a press release from Beijing’s Intellectual Property Court. The first alleges that Qualcomm “abused its clout in the chip industry,” a violation of China’s anti-monopoly law. Apple seeks 1 billion yuan ($145.32 million) in damages, …
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Bring it on, Apple — at least, that’s what Qualcomm’s top executives seemed to be saying Wednesday. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf and Derek Aberle, head of the wireless chipmakers’s licensing business, fired back at lawsuits filed over the past week by Apple in the US and China. Those suits, they said, are all about the money, an effort by Apple …
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Now that Samsung announced that two different battery problems caused its initially well-regarded Galaxy Note 7 to burst into literal flame, the company desperately needs a Phoenix phone — and the Galaxy S8 we expect to see in the coming months (but not at the usual Mobile World Congress show) will be Samsung’s first attempt to convince the world that …
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You’ll no longer have to fumble around to find your missing AirPods. Apple’s latest iOS 10 beta update, 10.3, lets you locate your new Apple wireless headphones using the “Find My iPhone” app, undoubtedly making a few of you feel very relieved. The app can play a sound on one or both AirPods to help you find them. There are …
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No really Verizon, how do you feel about Yahoo? In Verizon’s fourth-quarter report on Tuesday, references to Yahoo, which the telecom giant agreed to acquired for $4.8 billion, are buried near the end with little additional insight. You could forgive Verizon for being skittish when it comes to talking about Yahoo, a business it once coveted for its user base …
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Looks like we’ve got our first peek of LG’s new flagship Android phone, the G6, expected to be unveiled next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Spain. The new handset is expected to have rounded corners and a super thin bezel, according to a photo obtained by The Verge. The phone will be LG’s prime shot at …
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