While speaking with Wall Street Journal editor Gerry Baker last night as part of the WSJDLive conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook touched on a number of interesting topics. Though notoriously tight-lipped, Cook spoke candidly on a few issues, and even dropped a release date for the highly anticipated fourth-gen Apple TV. … [Read more...]
Nexus 6P, Google’s Best Android Phone to Date
I had an extremely difficult time deciding whether I liked the smaller Nexus 5X or bigger Nexus 6P more. In the end, I couldn't pick one over the other because both are the best Nexus phones Google's ever released. … [Read more...]
MacBooks Affected by Staingate Will Be Replaced by Apple Free of Charge
Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro owners have been reporting stained screens for quite some time, and now Apple has acknowledged the issue. Thousands of Apple customers have expressed their discontent at the failure of the anti-reflective coating on the screens of their devices. Now the tech giant has offered to replace affected devices free of charge, reports MacRumors. … [Read more...]
Google Nexus 5X Offers Solid Android Experience at Reasonable Price
Google sells Nexus phones with the intention of providing a blueprint for other phone makers to follow. As such, they function more like prototypes, created to highlight new hardware and software features for Android, than as devices put out to crush phones made by hardware partners like Samsung. … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Install Sneaks Into Regular Windows Updates
Are you running Windows 7 or 8, but aren't quite ready to upgrade to Windows 10? If you're not careful, you could make the switch by simply OK-ing the latest bundle of Windows updates. The Windows 10 upgrade is appearing as a pre-checked, optional update for some users, Ars Technica reported Thursday. … [Read more...]
Anyone Can Chat on Skype Now – Even Without an Account
Skype is working to make is service more broadly accessible, Microsoft announced today, detailing a new feature that will allow users to invite anyone – even those who don’t have a Skype account – to use the service via the Skype for Web interface. Invitees won’t have to create an account or download an app, but can instead join a chat as a guest simply by clicking a link. … [Read more...]
Apple Guilty of Infringing on University of Wisconsin Patents
Apple loses yet another court battle. In the latest in a string of legal defeats for the iPhone maker, a federal court ruled earlier this week that Apple had illegally used technology patented by Indian-born engineers Gurindar Sohi, Terani Vijaykumar and two others in the processors of several recent iPhones and iPads. … [Read more...]
Pluto Has Revealed 100 Surprises to NASA Over the Last 3 Months
Pluto is full of surprises — about 100 of them and counting, to be exact. Scientists working with the New Horizons mission — which make its close flyby of Pluto in July — have been sifting through the data beamed back to Earth from the spacecraft that is now more than 3 billion miles from our planet. … [Read more...]