The diminutive, glossy black, rectangular design of the Palm phone looks like a shrunken iPhone circa 2016. It evokes descriptions like “cute” and “adorable,” but also questions like “Who is this for?” and “Why does this exist?” Starting this week, even more people will be able to find out. The Palm is now getting new …
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If you like your text white on a black background, good news: Browser support for dark mode websites is hitting the big time. Apple built dark mode support into its Safari browser for MacOS and Mozilla followed suit with Firefox. But now dark mode website abilities are coming to Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s newly overhauled Edge and Apple’s Safari on iPhones and …
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Google did something un-Googley last week: It officially released an image of the Pixel 4, the next version of its flagship phone. This is a phone we all expected to appear, based not just on rumors, but also on Google’s pattern of an annual October release. Teasing a photo of an unannounced phone is a move we expect from LG …
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If you’re worried about your privacy, there are precautions you can take like staying off social networks, using cash or watching out for certain apps. But when it comes to watching television, more and more you’re out of luck. Smart televisions collect a massive amount of data on viewers, through a technology called Automatic Content Recognition. It recognizes everything you’re …
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Google has responded to reports that it’s stealing lyrics from Genius, explaining how it finds lyrics to show on its search pages. Google conceded its lyrics feature has been “under scrutiny this week,” but said it pays music publishers for the rights to display their lyrics. Reports on the alleged lyrics thefts, which emerged in The Wall Street Journal last …
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The future landscape of gaming platforms is starting to coalesce, and we’re getting a more solid vision of it from announcements made around the annual E3 gaming show. Google offered more of the details for its much-anticipated Stadia service in its pre-E3 press event — pricing, availability, speed requirements and launch games — while Microsoft gave us a glimpse of its …
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My eyes follow a little cartoon cow from the top left to the bottom right of a Microsoft Surface screen. There’s a reason I’m staring so intensely — and it’s not because it’s adorable. Both of my pupils are dilated by the act, but in less than five seconds they will be paired with a new virtual remote control system, …
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Mobile payments could soon make your wallet obsolete by allowing you to pay with just the tap of your phone or smartwatch. But they’ve had a slow roll-out and not all options are made equal. The three most established systems are from Apple, Samsung and Google, although some wearables from brands such as Garmin and Fitbit also offer their own payment …
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The iOS 13 developer’s beta may have revealed a major clue about a new feature coming to the 2019 iPhones, and another longtime iPhone feature could be on the chopping block. In this week’s Apple Core roundup, we’re looking at what the latest rumors are speculating about the next iPhone and Apple’s slip-up with the MacPro release date on its …
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In a rare move by any tech company, Google confirmed the existence of the Pixel 4 several months ahead of its anticipated release in October. The tech giant not only posted the news on its own Made By Google Twitter account, but it also included an image of the phone, which depicts a square camera bump, with multiple rear cameras. …
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