Social media companies work hard to get us addicted to their services, Silicon Valley insiders have reportedly revealed. Features such as infinite scroll and Likes keep people looking at their phones for longer than necessary and feed on their insecurities, they told the BBC’s Panorama for a documentary set to air Tuesday. Aza Raskin, formerly of …
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Forget fingerprint scanners tucked away on the back of your phone or beneath a home button — your next smartphone is probably going to have a fingerprint sensor under the screen that measures your temperature, just to make sure you’re a real human. In an article published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, a group of Korean researchers revealed they have …
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These photos of an 18-watt Apple USB-C charger may herald fast charging coming to iPhones without people having to resort to buying third-party adapters. Photos of an adapter labeled “engineering sample” surfaced this weekend on Chongdiantou.com (Google Translate version), as spotted by Macotakara, and were reportedly taken by someone in Apple’s supply chain. One of the photos provides an (almost unreadable) close-up …
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You’re on the train. It’s a busy train. You’ve had a long day. Maybe it was raining. Maybe you did a hard shift and you’ve been on your feet all day. Maybe you’re at the end of your tether. But you’re on this train and you need a seat. You would straight up race a pregnant woman on crutches for …
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Still haven’t found the perfect way to stream the World Cup? Here’s your latest option. Subscription video-distribution platform FuboTV, which specializes in sports, has kicked off its beta run of its 4K HDR10 streaming service. You can use it to watch World Cup matches on Fox and FS1 (but not Fox Sports bonus feeds) if you’ve got a Fire TV …
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After a successful launch in May, OnePlus is adding red to the 6’s colour palette, it announced Sunday. The red OnePlus 6 will only be available with the 128GB storage, 8GB RAM setup, but in all of OnePlus’ existing markets. That means the US and UK are covered (for $579 and £519, respectively), but not Australia (US price converts to $785, …
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The iOS 12 beta has a boatload of features to grab your attention: Memoji, group FaceTime calls and improved notifications. But one of the most significant changes is performance gains under the hood, especially for older devices like the iPhone 5S. Apple made some big claims during the WWDC keynote when iOS 12 was first unveiled. Using the example of an …
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If you’re in the market for a top Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Google Pixel 2 are probably on your list of considerations (note that the next flagship phone from each of these manufacturers–the Note 9 and Pixel 3–should be here in August and October, respectively. That’s no surprise — as the reigning Android phone maker, Samsung has …
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A little spring cleaning led to an unexpected discovery. Under an old couch I ran across something I hadn’t seen in years, an old black polycarbonate 13-inch MacBook. Originally released in 2006 and discontinued in 2011, these plastic laptops were incredibly popular in their day, starting at $999 for the white model and $1,199 for the black model. These were …
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Believe it or not, the launch of the 2012 iPhone 5 was highly controversial for two reasons. The first one — the replacement of the Google-powered Maps app with Apple Maps — was rendered moot when a proper Google Maps app came to the phone three months later. But the sting of the second took longer to wear off: The …
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