[ad_1] Black Friday is still a couple of weeks away but retailers are doing everything they can to get and keep your attention right now. For Walmart, that means releasing its ad now to tease Black Friday offers like a $129 Apple Watch Series 3, $99 Samsung Chromebook Series 3 or a 1080p 40-inch Roku […]
Category: Mobile
Motorola’s revived RAZR is a fashion-forward foldable
[ad_1] Even so, I can’t help but wish Motorola had cooked up a few more ways to get things done on a RAZR without having to open it. That external screen is too small to fully display apps, so that’s out, but I’d love to access quick controls for say, my Hue lights, or sift […]
Siri can add items to your Walmart grocery order
[ad_1] Walmart Voice Order learns from your past orders so that users don’t have to specify exactly which item they want. According to Walmart, if the customer has ordered “Great Value organic orange juice with no pulp” before, they can just say “orange juice” and the app will figure out the user’s preferences. The feature […]
Apple’s Phil Schiller says Chromebooks won’t help kids succeed (updated)
[ad_1] We’ve asked Apple and Google for comment. There are already plenty of people who disagree with Schiller’s assessment, mind you. As we found out through the teachers themselves, Apple’s ideal and the practical reality can be two very different things. While some educators do see value in iPads, tight school budgets frequently make them […]
Google Maps can pronounce place names in local languages
[ad_1] Navigation apps can be helpful for getting around an unfamiliar country… up until you need to ask someone for directions and can't say a place name. Google thinks it can help. It's rolling out an update to Google Maps on Android and iOS that can… [ad_2] Source link
‘Pokémon Sword’ and ‘Shield’ offer an excellent but familiar adventure
[ad_1] The setup for Shield¹ is very familiar. More familiar, even, than Sun and Moon. You play a kid who dreams of becoming a Pokémon champion. You wake up in your sleepy town, talk to your mom, pick a starter, battle your friend/rival and set off on a quest to defeat a set number of […]
Apple may reveal its 16-inch MacBook Pro tomorrow
[ad_1] There’s no mention of a corresponding update to the 13-inch model, although that’s not surprising. Apple only just updated the smaller laptop in July — it’s a bit soon for a refresh, let alone a major one. And while Intel does have 10th-generation laptop chips, they’re U- and Y-series chips meant largely for ultraportables […]
Facebook is fixing a bug that turned on phone cameras
[ad_1] Some users said that when they viewed a video in full screen and then shrank it back, the app layout would shift slightly to the right. In the space on the left, you could see the phone’s camera had been activated. CNET says it was able to replicate the issue. Today, while watching a […]
Pandora adds podcasts to its web player and desktop app
[ad_1] Podcasts have been booming over the last few years — Stitcher, Apple, Spotify and plenty of others have been building out their services while Pandora seemed to struggle. The company hopes to differentiate itself with the Podcast Genome Project, which uses a mix of algorithms and manual curation to suggest both shows and individual […]
Goldman will re-check Apple Card credit scores after sexism claims
[ad_1] The outcry against the Apple Card began when Basecamp founder and Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson accused the bank of sexism after he was offered twenty times the credit limit that his wife was, even though they file joint tax returns. In response to the controversy, Goldman posted a statement on Twitter […]