Facebook’s continued fascination with VR reached new heights today, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke of the company’s new initiatives in VR onstage at Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Specifically, he talked about the increased effort towa … | Continue reading
February 21 marks the 30th anniversary of Nintendo’s adventure classic, ‘The Legend of Zelda.’ Since the earnest boy Link first put on his green tunic and sought out to save the princess Zelda from the evil Gannon, the series has made an indelible mark on the adventure game world … | Continue reading
With Mobile World Congress unofficially kicking off already, seeing new smartphones announced isn’t much of a surprise. Seeing a Windows smartphone from HP with a ridiculously impressive spec list was, however. Called the Elite x3, the device offers up a 6-inch Quad HD (2,560 x 1 … | Continue reading
Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship devices and while a short hands-on leaves me excited to spend more time with the device, I can’t help but worry about long-term durability. The new devices very much follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, keeping the larger screen … | Continue reading
In the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI that surrounds the slippery slope of manually unlocking a single iPhone, both the company and the government had a skirmish over one particular detail: who reset the phone’s iCloud back-up. Late this week, Apple had indicated that h … | Continue reading
Samsung has officially lifted the lid on its newest flagship smartphones – the much-leaked Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Following the design cues of their predecessors, the two handsets keep a similar appearance to last generation, but with a few tweaks to the overall styling- such as … | Continue reading
Samsung has announced a new dual sensor-equipped circular camera at Mobile World Congress that allows users to capture still images or videos in full 360-degrees. It achieves this by pairing dual 15-megapixel sensors (front and back) with a mobile app that automatically stitches … | Continue reading
In a little over an hour – at around 19:00 CET – Samsung’s 2016 Mobile World Congress keynote will begin, with the company rumored to be launching a range of different devices, including new flagship smartphones. We’ve got a team on the ground at the event, but if you can’t be th … | Continue reading
A leaked report at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today said that the HTC Vive will be available in April for the price of $799. Pre-orders start on February 29, and in the box you’ll find two hand controllers, a cable box and a pair of headphones, according to the report tha … | Continue reading
At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today, LG revealed its new 360 VR headset. The device features a hands-free and foldable design, but it only works with the company’s new G5 phone. LG says its headset weighs only 118g, which is roughly a third as heavy as the … | Continue reading
The LG Rolling Bot is a new gadget that looks a lot like a BB-8 and rolls around your house to entertain your pet — or for home surveillance. It’ll only work if you’ve got a G5, but has a built in camera so you can speed around your house in real-time to stalk pets or keep an eye … | Continue reading
LG has announced its newest flagship smartphone today at Mobile World Congress 2016, and it’s the first model from the company to use modular elements in its design. While other modular smartphone projects take a plastic approach to design, the G5 has an aluminium chassis and a ‘ … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever found yourself wishing to take a photo in every direction, LG’s new accessory is for you. The LG 360 cam is a new device that takes a photo in every direction with a single snap, just like Google Street View. It’s a cool gimmick and syncs automatically with your ph … | Continue reading
Huawei has launched its first hybrid laptop/tablet device under its ‘Mate’ range of products. We spent a few minutes with the device ahead of its launch. In many ways the MateBook draws on certain cues from the smartphone lineup – its full metal chassis and fanless design with he … | Continue reading
We polled nine entrepreneurs on what technologies could shape the way we think in 2016. | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,759 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the eight most interesting patents. Facebook’s imposter detection Patent Number – US 9,2 … | Continue reading
When Motorola announced the second generation of its Moto 360 smartwatch, it made it clear that the Sport edition would arrive several months later than the classic. You’d think that it would use that extra time to truly fine-tune the runner-friendly version. After all, there’s s … | Continue reading
The work week is over and for the most part, investment activity has halted for the weekend. A perfect time to play catch up with the state of the tech world. At Index we spend every day gathering news on tech companies from around the world so that there’s a convenient platform … | Continue reading
Facebook may be the go-to social network in many parts of the world, but in Japan, it seems users are preferring to stick with 140 characters or less. A new report by the Wall Street Journal indicates that Twitter is quickly outgrowing the likes of Facebook by approximately 10 mi … | Continue reading
Back in my day, the mark of a successful Instagram post had a number on it – specifically, 11 or higher. This week, that changes, because the number has dropped down to four. In an extremely minor update, Instagram will now show a number count for photos with at least four likes … | Continue reading
What makes an awesome game? Is it the characters, the plot, the world it’s set in, or just how many weapons you have at your ialoisposal? The games that have stood the test of time never rely on only one factor – they use a combination of distinct elements to ensure a gamer keeps … | Continue reading
2015 was a busy year for the Indian e-commerce industry. Many companies have joined the battle for a share of the e-commerce market. There are many e-commerce companies that were launched in the last year and many more that closed shop over the same period. Some of the newly laun … | Continue reading
There’s a lot to balance when you’re raising money for your startup. When is the right time? How much do you try to raise? Who do you bring to the meeting with investors? To help you avoid the mistakes that will cost you millions, I asked 13 entrepreneurs from YEC the following q … | Continue reading
After the Department of Justice today issued a motion to compel Apple to comply with its request to build software that could prove integral in unlocking the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, Apple has responded with a statement. Within the statement Apple deemed it unnecessary to … | Continue reading
Tesla now has a domain name that makes sense. If you wanted to check out Tesla’s auto lineup, you had to navigate your browser to teslamotors.com. It made sense, but only if you knew about the domain — or your favorite search engine knew you were looking for cars, not info about … | Continue reading
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that it’s time for all of us to boycott Apple. “I think what you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just th … | Continue reading
A few days ago, the rumor mill pointed out that Facebook Messenger would soon support SMS and multiple accounts for Android. Half of that came true today. Via an update, Facebook Messenger will now support multiple accounts, which the company is framing as a feature for families … | Continue reading