Toshiba sticks to what it knows with new LED HDTV range
Toshiba’s already spilled the beans on its 4K TV line-up for this year, and right on cue, it’s just revealed the new range of 2014 LED sets that might interest us folk still clinging on to the regular HD era. The entry-level 3 series gains a number of new recruits, The new…
Windows XP countdown: 5 fun facts, a wish and a prayer
SAN FRANCISCO The end of Microsoft’s support for Windows XP is just three weeks away. Astonishingly, there are as many as 400 million or more PCs still running the operating system first launched by Microsoft in 2001. And, bizarre, but true: Its market share ticked upward the last couple of months. As…
Twitter’s dream for TV: You will never watch alone
Twitter’s head of television, Fred Graver, admits that his sister is completely baffled by the social network. “She still doesn’t get why you would open up Twitter and watch a TV show,” he told a packed audience at Quartz’s event on the future of television in New York on Tuesday…
Facebook’s New ‘DeepFace’ Program Is Just As Creepy As It Sounds
Facebook owns the world’s largest photo library, and it now has the technology to match almost all the faces within it. Yes, even the ones you don’t tag. Facebook announced last week that it has developed a program called “DeepFace,” which researchers say can determine whether two photographed faces are…
Google’s Android Wear’s secret sauce: The cloud
Google on Tuesday outlined its developer preview for Android Wear with an aim to power smartwatches and other wearable devices. But the real secret sauce of Android Wear may be the ability to bridge multiple screens via its cloud infrastructure. In a blog post, Android chief Sundar Pichai outlined Android…
Apple rumored to be readying iPhone 6
New rumors surrounding Apple (AAPL) illuminate an underlying truth about how the technology giant — and the broader consumer electronics industry — relates to consumers. One story making the rounds is that Apple will start producing the iPhone 6 in the next few months. Another is that, according to a How…
Apple Just Released Its Cheapest iPhone Ever
Brace yourselves, America: You may soon be able to buy an iPhone for less than $99. Apple released an 8GB iPhone 5C Tuesday, and it’s selling for roughly $712 on the company’s U.K. Apple stores. That’s around $66.40 less than the 16GB iPhone 5C. The phone is not currently available in the…
Firefox 28 released: Windows 8 Metro version removed at the last moment …
Firefox 28 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android has been released. For Android, version 28 adds a lot of cool features such as predictive lookup from the address (Awesome) bar, the addition of quick share buttons, and support for OpenSearch. On the desktop side of the equation, though, Firefox 28 Speaking on Mozilla’s…
First-Gen YotaPhone, The Dual-Screen E-Ink Hybrid Smartphone, Goes On Sale …
The dual-screen Android-powered e-ink hybrid YotaPhone smartphone, which bites its thumb at those that say there’s nothing new in smartphone hardware, has gone on sale in the U.K. The device is available to buy via Yota Device’s online store on its website costing 419 to U.K. buyers (which, incidentally,…
The one problem with that Jenny McCarthy Twitter backlash
This child was not vaccinated. (Universal Pictures, Laurie Sparham/Associated Press) Good news! The people of Twitter are preserving their herd immunity to nonsense non-science. Jenny McCarthy, a personality on “The View” best known on the Internet for her completely bogus and unscientific and harmful and problematic opposition to vaccinations,…
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