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Big time: 9 apps that take advantage of the iPhone 6 Plus screen
Living large Image by Apple Feel like stretching out those fingers a little? The new iPhone 6 Plus stands 6.22 inches tall and uses a 5.5-inch display that can give your digits a nice workout. Fortunately, several new apps do … Continue reading
Samsung going all metal with A series, leaks reveal
Samsung may be cranking out more phones with an all-metal build, breaking free from its tradition of less-than-thrilling plastic design. A leaked video (available below) shows what may be three different cousins to the Galaxy Alpha, the company’s first phone with an … Continue reading
Three theories why iOS 8 adoption is slow on the uptake
Unlike previous versions of iOS, people are holding off on upgrading to iOS 8.
Internet TV from Dish and Sony isn’t looking so cheap anymore
Sony and Dish may have trouble appealing to cord cutters with their upcoming Internet TV plans, which will reportedly be more expensive than expected. Sony’s Web TV plan could cost $60 to $80 per month, unnamed sources told the New … Continue reading
How to watch tonight’s ‘celestially impossible’ blood moon lunar eclipse
Early tomorrow morning (Wednesday, October 8), a total lunar eclipse ‘blood moon’ will be visible from North America, East Asia, and some other countries that border the Pacific Ocean. Furthermore, if you’re lucky enough to be on the east coast … Continue reading
How to watch tonight’s blood moon lunar eclipse
Early tomorrow morning (Wednesday, October 8), a total lunar eclipse ‘blood moon’ will be visible from North America, East Asia, and some other countries that border the Pacific Ocean. Furthermore, if you’re lucky enough to be on the east coast … Continue reading
Mazda’s adaptive headlights let you keep your high-beams on without annoying everyone
They’re a scourge of nighttime driving: people who round a corner and forget to dip their headlights for oncoming cars. But thanks to efforts by Mazda, those concerns could soon be a thing of the past. Mazda is developing a … Continue reading
Nvidia launches GTX 980M, almost closing the laptop-desktop performance gap
Today, Nvidia is unveiling the GTX 980M and GTX 970M — the first high-end mobile parts based on the new GM204 Maxwell GPU core. With the Maxwell-based mobile GPUs, Nvidia is claiming that the 980M now has 75% the performance … Continue reading
Startup aims to be lord of the sensor-filled gesture control rings
If you don’t fancy a smartwatch-style wearable device on your wrist, how about on your finger? 16Lab is a small Japanese company that’s latched onto a potentially big idea—it wants sensor-equipped smart rings to be a new kind of gesture-control … Continue reading
Samsung Gear S smartwatch gets Opera Mini, adding to its list of big-name apps
Samsung’s Gear S watch looks pretty much like a smartphone shrunken down to fit a wrist, so it’s appropriate that Opera has made a shrunken browser to match. The Opera Mini Gear S app looks a lot like the smartphone … Continue reading
