Virtual reality is continuing to creep into the everyday online experience. Its latest advance: the blogging platform WordPress, where you’ll now be able to upload and share VR and 360 degree content right on your site. Readers will be able to view the content in their browsers, and they’ll also be able to click a …
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Now playing: Watch this: 5 ways to use your Wi-Fi-only iPad while traveling 2:12 Whether traveling for work or pleasure, the iPad is a perfect travel companion. It’s lighter and runs longer than a laptop and springs to life instantly. Plus, its screen is large enough to get work done or enjoy TV shows or movies while in transit. If …
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Now playing: Watch this: Free up space on Android phones 1:03 Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET It doesn’t matter if your Android phone has expandable storage via a microSD card — you fill up whatever space you’re given, whether it’s 32GB or 200GB. Here are some easy ways to free up storage on your Android device — both the internal storage and …
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Slack, which has become the chat software of choice in the workplace, now lets users set up videoconferencing from within Slack’s desktop apps. Users can make video calls to one person or to a group by clicking on the same icon that launches voice calling. That, in turn, brings up another button with an icon of a video camera, the …
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If you thought Apple’s last couple of years were big, just wait for 2017. The launch of the large-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in late 2014 sent Apple’s fortunes soaring. Apple became the most profitable company in the world, and the following year, with the 6S and 6S Plus, was even bigger. But enthusiasm waned in 2016 — iPhone …
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Travel can be tricky. Did you pay too much for that flight? Forget to pack some important items? What happens if your flight is delayed or canceled? As always, knowledge is power. The more you plan, research and prepare, the better off you’ll be. With that in mind, I’ve rounded up these nine tricks to make your travels faster, easier …
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Google has simplified the process for iOS defectors to switch to Android without forfeiting the most important data on a device: contacts, calendars, and photos. Instead of connecting your iOS device to computer and going through a series of steps, as the process used to require, you only need the Google Drive account installed on your iPhone and a Gmail …
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Ever just skip the reading part and hit the Accept button after one of your favorite apps changed its terms and conditions? Yeah, you’re not alone. But you should know these updates do more than revise the apps’ software. They may also let the app grab more of your personal information, including your location, personal contacts, the device you’re using …
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Apple’s iPhone design hasn’t changed in two years. Will 2017 be different? Looking at what the new year could bring from the tech giant, we consider what the next iPhone and Apple Watch could look like. We also chat about new iris-scanning tech from Qualcomm that could help kill off passwords and about Google’s parent company reportedly axing plans to …
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With a digital mapping service called What3words, residents of even the smallest, most rural village in the African nation of Ivory Coast now have an official address. The country’s postal system just adopted the startup’s technology, which assigns a three-word phrase to each 3-meter square on the map. For example, heaven.mallard.houseguests is a structure on the outskirts of Mberie. The …
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