Instagram just launched a new direct messaging walkie-talkie feature, so now you can send personalized messages, reminders, love notes, to friends, family, really anyone with open DMs on Instagram, that strikes your fancy. The voice messages can be recorded for up to one minute and are stored permanently in both one-on-one or group direct messages. […]
Google announced that it is going to terminate its “social media app,” Google+, in 2019. While Google claims this decision is in response to increasingly poor use and uptake of Google+ among individuals, it might have a little something to do with a potentially large-scale vulnerability in the app’s API (Application Program Interface) that may […]
One of the ironies of headphones is that we often end up owning multiple pairs while busily pursuing a single idealized set of cans that will suit all our needs and circumstances. Never mind that the perfect headphones don’t exist; we still want them. The closest thing to that do-everything pair of headphones can be […]
Movie buff better pay attention, because your TV may be messing with your favorite flicks. Motion smoothing (also known as video interpolation or the “soap opera effect”) could be changing the quality of your picture. Meant to reduce motion blur, smoothing is useful when you’re watching the quick action in sports, but it’s not great […]
Epic Games, the company that launched the free, multi-user game “Fortnite,” wants to take on Apple and Google with a new “Epic Games Store.” Since it’s launch in September of 2017, Fortnite has skyrocketed in popularity to become an international household name. Epic Games says that more than 200 million accounts have been registered in […]
Dec. 10 is the deadline for Congress to vote on the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which has the potential to reverse the FCC’s repeal and preserve net neutrality. A CRA resolution passed the Senate in May. If it passes both houses of Congress, it still has to be signed into law by President Trump to […]
It appears that Amazon Music is making its way to Android TV. A listing for the TV version of the app has shown up in the Google Play Store with an option to pre-register for the service. There are a few screenshots of Amazon Music on the app listing that give a preview of how […]
There was much talk of the impact of artificial intelligence on everything from washing machines to ovens, but it was a QLED 8K TV which was the only standout new product to be unveiled. “Open your mind to innovation” was the order from the stage at the Samsung press conference in Berlin. As ever, […]
Nintendo has relaxed its rules for video-makers who share their gameplay on websites such as Twitch and YouTube. Unlike Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo had restricted what it let video-makers share online and took a slice of advertising revenue from YouTuber, but its new guidelines lift most of the restrictions and no longer ask gaming […]
Tablets and other mobile computing devices are part of everyday life, but using them can be difficult for people with paralysis. New research from the BrainGate consortium published November 21 in PLOS ONE, shows that a brain-computer interface (BCI) can enable people with paralysis to directly operate an off-the-shelf tablet device just by thinking about […]