When Viva and Yoshiko, one an English speaker and the other a Mandarin Chinese speaker, tried Google’s prototype smart glasses during a sneak peek at Google I/O 2022, I got shivers down my spine. The expressions on their faces, the sudden ability to meaningfully communicate with someone who before didn’t fully understand what was being […]
Apex Legends Mobile, a free battle royale hero shooter, will arrive on Android and iOS on Tuesday, May 17. According to Electronic Arts, Apex Legends is designed for mobile with streamlined controls and optimizations for quality battle royale gameplay on a tablet or phone. In Season One of Apex Legends Mobile, players can choose from […]
Grubhub is offering to pick up the tab for lunch across New York City next week — and restaurants are yawning. The barrage of freebies from food delivery companies — including rivals UberEats and Doordash, as well as grocery apps like Getir, Gopuff and Gorillas that deliver items within minutes — is reaching new heights, […]
Google I/O is the tech giant’s annual chance to boast its wins, and also provide meaningful updates on where its various products stand. Below, we’ve collected some of the key numbers and metrics from Google I/O 2022. 24 new languages Google announced early on at I/O 2022 that Translate is picking up 24 new languages, […]
(NewsNation) — A nightmare scenario: One man had hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen in mere hours. A new scam is making its way into your bank accounts and stealing your personal information. TSA plans for summer travel rush An alert is being issued about the theft of your cellphone number. The scam is called […]
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) lost nearly $2.4 million on data plans for iPhones and iPads that were supposed to help homeless veterans connect to telehealth services. Ultimately, 85 percent of the iPhones meant to be loaned went unused and remained in storage one year after their purchase, according to a new inspector […]
Sony After several recent leaks, Sony unveiled its new premium WH-1000XM5 headphones with an all-new refined design and countless upgrades. While everything is a little better than the previous generation, they cost $399, a $50 price increase over the 1000XM4s. Sony makes arguably some of the best noise-canceling headphones available, but the all-new Sony WH-1000XM5 […]
Universal Control is no longer a “beta” feature, with the beta labeling removed in the macOS Monterey 12.4 and iPadOS 15.5 release candidate versions that were seeded to developers and public beta testers earlier today. Apple in March released Universal Control as part of macOS Monterey 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4, and since launch, it has […]
every iPhone since the 2015-released iPhone 6S has come with Apple’s Wallet app baked right into its operating system — although, the app was first rolled out as “Passbook” a few years earlier, in June 2012 with the launch of iOS 6, but evolved in Wallet roughly three years later — and it has evolved […]
The rumors are flying after satellite operator Globalstar coyly announced an agreement this week with “a large, global customer” to build out a new communications network, just months after announcing that an unidentified “potential customer” had put up more than $300 million to finance the purchase of 13 new satellites. Analysts believe that the customer […]