Games that let you bounce virtual balls off the floor and wall. Apps that make you feel like you’re at the 1969 moon landing after pointing your phone at a poster. These are a couple of the new things you’ll be able to do on your iPhone and iPad with Apple’s augmented reality update, …
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On Wednesday’s podcast, we talk to CNET’s Scott Stein about these stories: Apple will offer a fix for that battery slowdown feature. We just don’t know exactly when. Apple’s iOS 11.3 will come with new tricks for ARKit. Virtual reality could cut the cord this year with HTC offering a wireless adaptor for its Vive headset. The 3:59 gives you …
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Net neutrality may not be the law of the US, but it’s now the law of New York state. On Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order (PDF) that requires New York state agencies to only contract with internet service providers that follow net neutrality principles. This means ISPs doing business with the state must promise to treat internet …
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Medical records tend to be kept in a variety of doctor’s offices, both digitally and on paper. It can be a mess. Apple thinks it has a solution, saying Wednesday it will introduce a new Health Records feature in its next iOS update this spring. Health Records, which will be available to patients at a dozen medical providers to start, …
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I’m not up to anything untoward, I assure you. I just don’t want my kids, who are constantly borrowing my phone to play music or Google something, reading my texts as they go by. If you want to restrict the contents of the iOS Messages app to its intended audience only (read: you), then here are five tips to to …
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On Wednesday, researchers revealed serious flaws in modern processors that could affect practically every Intel computer released in the last two decades — and the AMD and Arm chips in your laptops, tablets and phones, too. And on May 21, researchers found a fourth variant. Read more here. The good news: Intel, AMD and Arm believe they can fix — …
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Time for some tough love: If you’re not using a password manager, you’re crazy. These tools not only help you build a more secure database of passwords — a different one for every site, of course — but also save you considerable time when it comes to actually using those passwords. OK, I hear you: There’s the expense to consider. …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Can Apple’s HomePod capture emotions? James Martin/CNET If you’re only moved by the displays at CES, Google and Amazon have this smart speaker thing sewn up. They’re infiltrating every product they can, while Apple can’t even get its HomePod launched. Yet, as Apple’s …
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Apple has had its ups and downs in the ever-important Chinese market, but on Monday some good news reached the electronics giant. The iPhone 7 Plus was the second-best selling phone in the populous nation last year, accounting for 2.8 percent of all smartphone sales, according to Counterpoint Research. It was bested only by the Oppo R9S, a phone from …
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Jimmy Iovine says he’s still “committed” to Apple. The music mogul on Tuesday shot down rumors he’s planning to leave Apple in August after his stock fully vests, according to a report by Variety. Last week, the music industry blog Hits Daily Double and Billboard reported Iovine is leaving the company, which he joined in 2014 when the iPhone maker …
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