Technology

At an event in San Francisco today (1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific, 6pm UK) Microsoft will unveil Windows 9 — or whatever Microsoft ends up calling it. The event is expected to focus on the Desktop and enterprise side of things, … Continue reading →

Netflix is taking on movie theaters with its first major feature film, a follow-up to 2000′s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”—and it’ll start streaming to Netflix subscribers the same day it lands in cinemas. According to Deadline, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: … Continue reading →

Rumors began surfacing this week that the 27-inch iMac will be receiving a massive boost in resolution from 2560×1440 (109 PPI) to 5120×2880 (218 PPI) — four times the raw number of pixels on screen. To help push nearly 15 … Continue reading →

It now seems likely that Google’s next Nexus smartphone will be the Motorola-made Nexus 6. Yes, as the numeral indicates, this will be a 6-inch device (or 5.9 inches to be exact, according to some sources). A recent photo of … Continue reading →

When Samsung introduced the Gear VR earlier in September the company said the virtual reality headset would hit store shelves this fall. Apparently, that meant sooner rather than later, as some eagle-eyed shoppers have already spotted Gear VR demo headsets … Continue reading →

There’s a new internet-crippling zero-vulnerability in town called Shellshock. It potentially affects around half of all websites on the internet (around 500 million), and millions or billions more internet-connected devices such as routers, smartphones. In simple terms, this means that … Continue reading →

Remember Project Ara? The modular, swap-as-you-see-fit smartphone coming out of Google’s Advanced Technologies and Products (ATAP) group? Paul Eremenko, the head of Project Ara, quietly announced that the devices will come loaded with a modified version of Android L that … Continue reading →

iOS power-users, the Android-envy can stop now: Third-party keyboards have arrived. While the majority of iOS users likely find the default iOS keyboard works just fine, other alternative keyboards have cropped up that offer some capabilities that many may find … Continue reading →

Ello is the name on everyone’s lips—at least this week. Led by drag queens who are fed up with Facebook, the new social network is fielding 31,000 requests an hour, and not just because Twitter users are offering up invites. … Continue reading →

Monitors that stretch the width of your desk are so last year. Rob Griffiths decided he wanted to try something new: a 4K high-density screen.