Microsoft’s upcoming next-gen “Project Scarlett” console may be getting all the attention, but a new report from Thurrott claims that the company is also working on a lower-cost, streaming-oriented device like targeted at those who can’t or won’t pay what will likely be a high up-front cost for Scarlett. In a new video, Thurrott’s Brad […]
Canon is planning to launch an Indiegogo campaign for what it is calling the “ultimate go-anywhere camera.” Dubbed the Canon IVY REC, the shooter looks more like a USB flash drive with a built-in carabiner than a traditional camera. The Ivy Rec has a 13-megapixel 1/3-inch CMOS sensor that can record 1080p / 60 fps […]
Facebook had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps yesterday, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed, view stories on Instagram, or send messages in WhatsApp. Facebook said it was aware of the issues and was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.” […]
President Donald Trump called for a tariff on Chinese-produced goods back in May, and the Chinese government threatened to put a tariff on US goods in retaliation. At the G20 summit in Japan last week, Trump made interesting comments on partially reversing the Huawei ban, and a possible truce in the ongoing trade war. According to […]
Microsoft’s Your Phone app can now mirror notifications from your Android phone. The feature is now rolling out broadly to all Your Phone users, allowing you to keep your phone firmly on your desk and deal with notifications on your PC. Once you sync an Android phone with the app, you can read and reply […]
Facebook isn’t the only social media suffering from serious downtime. As of mid-day on July 3rd, Twitter is experiencing “some issues” with direct message delivery and notifications. The website Down Detector, which regularly tracks outages on various platforms and websites, listed 122 reports of outages on Twitter. Users also expressed their frustration with their Twitter […]
Apple’s latest iPhone update could fix perhaps the most awkward thing about video calls. Apple appears to be working on a new feature in iOS 13 that subtly adjusts your gaze during video calls, so it appears as if you’re looking into the camera when you’re actually looking at the screen. A new feature found […]
Users across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have reported issues with parts of the social media giant’s suite of apps. Many took to rival platform Twitter to highlight the problem, which seems to be preventing images and videos from loading properly. Facebook said it was working to resolve the error as the hashtag #instagramdown began to […]
A filing for an unreleased MacBook Pro was briefly available on the Federal Communication Commission site. The filing is no longer accessible, but sites were still able to comb through the FCC documentation. Reportedly, it concerned a device with the model number A2159, which matches up with other MacBook filings Apple submitted to the Eurasian […]
Bloomberg anonymous sources saying that Samsung has completed a redesign of the Galaxy Fold in just two months. Samsung still isn’t able to confirm a release date, however, and one person told Bloomberg that the phone is unlikely to resurface at next month’s Galaxy Note 10 event. Samsung is said to have made the screen’s […]
Instagram is introducing a new feature that will let users start private group messages around specific Stories. The new feature, called the chat sticker, joins a bunch of other stickers Instagram has introduced to Stories, including polls, question boxes, mentions, locations, hashtags, and countdowns, among others. The chat sticker is relatively straightforward, and Instagram is […]
Nvidia’s unveiled not one, but three “Super” variants of its existing GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards, along with a new FrameView tool intended to give enthusiasts and reviewers deeper insight into the performance and power consumption of GPUs. And the new cards don’t really cost more than their slower, older counterparts. As detailed in numerous […]
A second Cloudflare outage in two weeks has taken multiple sites and services down, including Zendesk, OKCupid, Peloton and even our own site. Affected apps and websites were either unable to properly load or showed a “502 Gateway Error.” Ironically, even the site DownDetector, which is commonly used to check web service disruptions, was affected. […]
Microsoft this week took to social media to share a teaser for the “all-new Windows 1.0” complete with MS-DOS executive and clock. https://twitter.com/windows/status/1145731141695168512?s=21 Accompanying the teaser is short 13-second video that spans through the Windows logos in reverse chronological order, from Windows 10 back through Windows 1.0. Microsoft hasn’t mentioned much else about the teaser […]
LG’s Mobile World Congress 2019 event brought us the LG G8S ThinQ flagship smartphone back in February. Now, it is finally ready for release in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. LG says the G8S ThinQ was created for users “seeking a more bespoke smartphone experience,” although in practice that seems to mostly […]