Austin Pruitt, a two-time US Paralympian, walked me over to a racing wheelchair that he set up for a stationary workout routine. Pruitt has cerebral palsy from the knees down, which forces him to walk slowly, but he’s able to compete on the world stage by racing in a wheelchair. He said he used to …
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Update, June 5: The Lenovo Z5 has been officially announced — and it has a notch after all. Notches, it seems, are the new black. Originally seen — and often criticized — on the Essential PH-1 and iPhone X in 2017, the trend of adding notches to Android phones has only accelerated this year as phone makers look to maximize the screen …
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The Oneplus 6 has now been officially revealed. Now, it does have a notch, but also image stabilization on its dual rear cameras. We spoke with OnePlus co-founder, Carl Pei about the new phone and the future of OnePlus. We may be getting our first glimpse of the OnePlus 6 a few days before its official debut, thanks to Amazon. German tech …
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The reports of ZTE’s death are greatly exaggerated. Well, at least for now. The fate of the Chinese maker of telecommunications gear has been up in the air since ZTE disclosed on Wednesday that it had shut down “the major operating activities of the company.” The closure followed a US Commerce Department denial order, which banned any American businesses from …
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If you’re having problems with your MacBook keyboard, you’re not alone. And now the issue may be heading to court. A class-action complaint filed Friday says people who bought a MacBook or MacBook Pro equipped with Apple’s “butterfly” keyboard “face a constant threat of nonresponsive keys and accompanying keyboard failure” and accuses Apple of failing to alert consumers about the …
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There’s been an awful lot of hacks in the news recently, and it’s always frustrating to see my oh-so-personal phone (in my case, a Motorola Moto Z2 Play) go months without a patch. Google is pretty quick to issue them, but it takes longer for OEMs like Motorola and Samsung to get with the program, and I’ve definitely noticed some major …
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A few years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find an elegant, premium phone that was also waterproof. Aside from Sony’s Xperia phones, most waterproof phones were clunky-looking with midtier specs. These days though, most high-end flagships come with some level of protection against water. In addition to the LG G7, Samsung, Apple and Google all have waterproof marquee handsets that satisfy …
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Snapchat started to roll out its second redesign in six months to iPhone users late on Thursday. It’s hoping to win back the people it alienated with an overhaul introduced earlier this year. The redesign sees the company backtrack on some of the features that failed to resonate with users, including returning Snaps and Chats to chronological order and returning …
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Google introduced its new user privacy policy on Friday in advance of a strict, new European data privacy law due to come into effect on May 25. The actual content of the policy hasn’t changed, but Google has updated the language and navigation of the document, and introduced videos and illustrations in order to make it clearer than ever before …
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YouTube has rolled out high dynamic range (HDR) to users of the iPhone X, enabling improved contrast and color on HDR-enabled YouTube videos. As spotted by Macrumors, videos like those from the popular HDR Channel, are now able to be viewed in HDR mode. Neither the iPhone X nor the Apple TV are able to output the videos in 4K, …
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