All aboard the Nintendo nostalgia train — next stop, your Android phone. That’s the plan from Hyperkin, anyway, which will soon start shipping out the SmartBoy Mobile Device attachment for $50. Slide your Android device inside and download Hyperkin’s app, and you’ll have effectively transformed your phone into a modern day remake of Nintendo’s popular …
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Google reportedly offered $30 billion for Snapchat early in 2016. But it looks like Google may have decided to compete with Snapchat instead. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are both reporting that Google is on the verge of launching a news service that echoes Snapchat Discover, by creating similar mini-magazines of slides (containing text, photos and videos) that you’d swipe …
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Three years ago CNET addressed whoever might step into Mozilla‘s then-empty CEO slot and asked 10 questions about the future of the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser. It was a chaotic time, with Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich quitting after a controversy over his stance on gay marriage, and Google‘s Chrome increasing its threat as the browser of choice for …
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Google is relegating poorly behaved Android apps to obscurity, making it harder for you to find them when you’re searching the Google Play Store. “We recently enhanced our search and discovery algorithms to reflect app quality,” Google Play Product Manager Andrew Ahn said in a blog post Thursday. “This results in higher quality apps being surfaced in the Play Store …
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Now playing: Watch this: We dropped the Moto Z2 Force like it’s hot 3:40 Twenty-eight. That’s how many times we dropped the Motorola Moto Z2 Force to test the claims of its shatter-resistant screen. ShatterShield, the name for Motorola’s hardcoat layer, promises that the display won’t shatter or crack when dropped at a height of 4 or 5 feet. And …
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When Google’s Chrome arrived in 2008, it showed off a bold new tab design that made the tops of websites look like folders in a filing cabinet. Firefox came up with its own variation in 2013 called Australis that had even curvier tabs. Now, though, Firefox is going for the austere, bare-bones rectangular tabs that Microsoft’s Edge browser uses. The …
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LG is expected to unveil its high-end V30 phone later this month during the IFA tech show, but it may look a little different than past generations. Most notably, the V30 is reported to lose the V series’ unique second screen for some sort of “floating bar,” according to Android Authority. The V series is LG’s most advanced line of phones. …
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In 2010, an Apple engineer left a prototype iPhone 4 in a bar, spoiling the biggest redesign to the iPhone since its 2007 debut. Apple has arguably never made as big a mistake since. But history has a way of repeating itself. For its 10-year anniversary, Apple is widely expected to redesign the iPhone yet again — and another leak may …
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iOS users can now explore the world using the new version of Google Earth, the company announced today. The latest edition of Google’s interactive map of the globe includes Voyager, a section that features interactive stories about popular destinations. It has multi-day itineraries for 17 cities and more than 140 stories in eight languages. The latest Google Earth also features …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s virtual assistant Bixby Voice is here 1:36 Bixby Voice is a mixture of a personal assistant you can ask questions and command to set reminders, and an automation tool you can instruct to open apps, tap on buttons and enter text without touching your phone. If that sounds confusing, that’s because it is. It’s certainly …
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