Intel CEO Brian Krzanich held his company’s CES press event inside virtual reality, as Intel provided more than 260 VR units in chairs for all of the press attending the event. As he did so, he showed a number of live events in VR. Intel’s people began prepping the VR setup befor … | Continue reading
LG’s modular phone accessory strategy that served as the primary differentiator for last year’s G5 smartphone appears to be no more. The Wall Street Journal reports that the South Korean company is pivoting away from the plug-in ‘Friends’ modules for the upcoming G6 device after … | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS — Samsung says it will finally be revealing its report on what went wrong with the Note7 "soon."Speaking at a press event Wednesday, COO of Samsung America Tim Baxter confirmed the company would have a report on the phone "very soon," though he didn't give an exact time … | Continue reading
Hyundai unveiled a whole bunch of futuristic things at CES this year: a low-cost driverless car, a bunch of robot exoskeletons, and an electric scooter. But the most out-there thing the South Korean automaker had to show wasn’t even physically present because it doesn’t exist yet … | Continue reading
Good on ZTE for managing to squeezing some press at every turn for its Project CSX offering. At the very least, the whole undertaking has been one of the more interesting approaches a major smartphone maker has taken over the past year, appealing to the internet hive mind for ide … | Continue reading
ZTE asked its users what features they’d like to see in the company’s next phone, and the people spoke. They want an eye-tracking, self-adhesive phone, of course. ZTE showed off that phone today at CES under the name Hawkeye.For now, ZTE only has a design model, which looks, well … | Continue reading
The dream of a Linux computer for normal humans is relatively dead. Sure, Google put Linux in billions of hands and homes with Android and Chrome OS, but neither OS is very much like the desktop Linux flavors well-meaning open-source developers have been crafting for decades.A co … | Continue reading
Delphi has been coming to CES for 21 years as of this year, the company’s CTO Jeffery Owens told me on Tuesday before we embarked on a short tour of downtown Las Vegas aboard an Audi equipped with Delphi’s latest self-driving tech. In the beginning, Delphi had to work pretty hard … | Continue reading
For over a year, the government has worked to establish secure connections to all federal websites, protecting visitors from malware and tracking. And although it didn’t meet the White House goal of having all federal websites served over secure HTTPS connections by Dec. 31, 2016 … | Continue reading
One of the biggest and most biting criticism of modern tech is the industry’s excessive push to solve trivial problems. Nowhere is this theme more apparent than among the sea of forgettable gadgets at CES, itself a trade show that revels in the opulence of Las Vegas and the often … | Continue reading
It’s not officially CES until Sony takes the stage here in Vegas. Actually, it’s not technically CES until tomorrow morning either way, but here we are at the Las Vegas Convention Center, nonetheless. This week is always a big one for the hardware giant, hitting a broad spectrum … | Continue reading
AT&T is diving further in promulgating the Internet of Things. On Wednesday, the telecommunications company announced a partnership with Aira to provide wireless connectivity to wearables for the blind and visually impaired. It’s estimated that there are 20 million blind people i … | Continue reading
AT&T has expanded the toolkit it offers developers to build the Internet of Things with the introduction of two new versions: one for those using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and another geared towards Raspberry Pi-like devices. The idea is to provide developers with the connectivit … | Continue reading
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The 'YouCam Makeup' virtual studio allows users to try on cosmetics with this augmented reality interface. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Technology Tech, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Ces | Continue reading
Samsung has been making Chromebooks ever since it introduced the first one way back in 2011, but now it’s ready to up the ante a notch with its new Chomebook Plus and Pro. This time around, they can run any Android app from the Google Play store, and they’e also the first Chromeb … | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS — Is it actually fishing if you can see underwater?Drones are out in droves at CES this year, and as we start to accept them in our everyday lives we're seeing new and interesting ways for people to use them, even while fishing. Although plenty of people have taken thei … | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS — If there's a single piece of tech at CES 2017 that feels like the future, LG Display has it. And it's not a trendy new category, like an electric car, or an underwater drone, or a fancy VR headset.It's a TV. And it's transparent.SEE ALSO: LG's new 4K TV is thinner tha … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices surged 4th January, surpassing $1,100 but proceeded to fall back. Source | Continue reading
Samsung has announced two new Chromebooks, the Samsung Chromebook Plus and Chromebook Pro, which will be able to run Android apps out of the box. | Continue reading
GoPro just issued a press release announcing plans to relaunch its Karma drone sometime later this year. The company says it is still finishing testing on getting Karma back in flying shape, and will share more detail in early February about this “global relaunch” of Karma.Karma … | Continue reading
The landscape of cutting-edge art, usually limited to traditional multimedia, audio and visual hacks, is undergoing a major shift with the advent of virtual reality art tools like Oculus Medium and Quill. Now, one of the earliest players in the space, Google's VR paint-meets-scul … | Continue reading
GoPro recalled its first drone, the Karma, about 16 days after launch in November last year. Now GoPro says it will be re-launching the drone this year, though it doesn’t have a specific date to share yet. For GoPro, the launch can’t come soon enough. The company said it would cu … | Continue reading
For Chinese citizens, there’s now one less loophole in the country’s comprehensive censorship of Western media outlets. According to the The New York Times, on December 23, Apple removed the Chinese versions of the newspaper’s apps as well as their English counterparts in an act … | Continue reading
LG's 'wallpaper OLED' lives up to the hype. The screen is thinner than an iPhone. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Techonology, Technology, Sound Bar, and Lg Tv | Continue reading
It's 2017, and the iPhone 7 still has no headphone jack. In the intervening months, we've seen a variety of solutions from companies big and small to restore the missing jack, from dongles to battery cases that include a 3.5mm headphone port. Now, Incipio, one of the biggest case … | Continue reading
Samsung got such a good response to its smart refrigerator in the past year that it has launched a whole family of them under the Family Hub 2.0 brand name. John Herrington, senior vice president at Samsung Electronics America, said at the South Korean electronics giant’s CES 201 … | Continue reading
This year, CES is lousy with self-driving cars. So why should we care about Hyundai’s Ioniq, a sporty-looking hatchback with an electric motor and an array of autonomous sensors? For one, the Korean automaker claims that because it’s using cheaper sensors and less computing power … | Continue reading
We’re still in the early days, but it seems a safe bet that this CES is going to be quiet on the smartwatch front, as companies reassess the flagging category. The RunIQ is a rare exception to the story, the fruits of a long ago announced partnership between Intel and running sho … | Continue reading
ColorMe is a site I built to make working with the CSS Color Function easier. It provides a UI for applying adjusters to a base color and gives a visual of the adjustments. The excellent SassMe was my inspiration. The Color Function is a CSS feature in editor's draft stage of spe … | Continue reading
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At its event in Las Vegas today, Samsung introduced QLED technology, the next evolution of its Quantum Dot technology popularized in its highest end televisions SUHD models. As good as SUHDs are, OLED TVs are generally acknowledged to be superior for their purer blacks and accura … | Continue reading
No surprise, Samsung is spending CES making a big appliance play, and front and center to the company’s strategy is the second generation of its Family Hub refrigerator line. A few hours after LG announced its own version of the appliance complete with a built-in Alexa voice func … | Continue reading
Today at CES 2017 Samsung announced the Samsung NEXT Fund – a $150 million venture fund targeted at early stage startups working in emerging tech.Specifically, they will be looking for companies focused on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and “other n … | Continue reading
Heroes of the Storm is welcoming its latest fighter. The newest character for Blizzard’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is now available. Zul’jin, a troll from the Warcraft universe, is an assassin character that excels at killing enemy heroes with his throwing axes. He a … | Continue reading
At the CES consumer technology conference in Las Vegas today, accessory maker Griffin Technology announced the launch of a new product that brings MagSafe-like functionality to the new MacBook Pro, which does away with the long-running MagSafe standard for charging cables and ins … | Continue reading
Routers are suddenly getting really, really interesting after spending an eternity being weird, ugly, and dull. Every company and probably half of all Kickstarter campaigns are now trying to get in on the multi-unit router craze — today, there’s a new one being announced by Asus. … | Continue reading
At CES 2017, a huge range of products sporting Amazon's Alexa have popped up in a variety of segments, making it one of the hidden stars of the show. | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics America chief Tim Baxter announced that the company has sold 5 million Gear VR virtual reality headsets for mobile devices to date. The South Korean electronics giant made the announcement at its press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas th … | Continue reading
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Samsung on Wednesday announced it’s launching a laptop geared for the gaming audience called the Notebook Odyssey. This is the company’s first official foray into the space, but it may leave some gamers wondering why. The computer is available in two screen sizes — 15.6 and 17.3 … | Continue reading
Samsung has teamed up with Google to create the Chromebook Plus and Pro, two Chrome OS laptops that are the first to natively support Google Play apps. Both feature 360-degree rotating touchscreens, a built-in stylus, quad high-definition screens, 4 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, a … | Continue reading
Google’s presence at CES this year is small. The company’s seems to mostly be working through partners at the show to demonstrating the real world use of its various software initiatives. Take Samsung’s two new Chromebook offerings. The Google was on hand to talk up the ways in w … | Continue reading
After around a half-decade away, Samsung’s re-entering the gaming space. Today at CES, the hardware giant announced the Odyssey, a portable gaming notebook available in 17.3-inch and 15.6-inch configurations, both sporting a middling 1,920 x 1080 display with a top brightness of … | Continue reading
Gaming laptops are one of the things that every PC maker has prioritized at this year’s CES, with big names like Lenovo, and now Samsung, starting whole new sub-brands of gaming PCs. Samsung’s answer to Lenovo’s Legion is the Notebook Odyssey. The Odyssey begins with a 15-inch la … | Continue reading
Following months of leaks, Samsung is today making its latest Chromebook official. The new computer is actually two models — the Chromebook Plus and Chromebook Pro — and is the first one built from the ground up with support for Android apps. It’s also the first Chromebook to com … | Continue reading
The 2017 edition of the Samsung Notebook 9 comes with the claim of being the world’s lightest 13-inch laptop, and at only 1.8 pounds / 820 grams of weight, it probably merits the title. I tried it out here at CES 2017, and what’s interesting about it to me is how little Samsung … | Continue reading
Google has been sued by the Department of Labor for withholding data in an ongoing audit. In a complaint filed today, the Department says Google refused to provide compensation data as part of an anti-discrimination audit, and seeks a court order forcing the company to comply.The … | Continue reading