Enlarge / Waymo’s 5th-generation cars, based on the all-electric Jaguar I-Pace. (credit: Waymo) Waymo is finally thinking about expanding. The Alphabet self-driving car division has been running an impressive self-driving ride-hailing service for almost a year now, but only in a small suburb outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Now, the company will be expanding commercial service […]
Enlarge (credit: Fitbit) The Fitbit Charge fitness tracker is the company’s best-selling product line, and the latest model, the Charge 5, was just announced. Up for preorder now, the Charge 5 adds ECG (electrocardiogram), EDA (electrodermal activity) stress sensors, an AMOLED display, and a stainless steel facelift for $50 more than its predecessor, the Charge […]
Enlarge / Take the Google Messaging quiz! Can you name all the icons? (credit: Ron Amadeo) Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. But thanks […]
Enlarge / Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, now available in HDR on some devices. (credit: Hulu) HDR has been a standard feature of new TVs for years now, and you’d be hard-pressed to find many 4K TVs that don’t support HDR. But even as Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO Max, and others have rolled out HDR support […]
Enlarge / If there’s any single photo that better encapsulates the state of enterprise information security in 2021, we weren’t able to find it. (credit: Ian Dennis via Getty Images) Unnamed sources told Bloomberg that the White House will host a meeting between President Joe Biden and some of the country’s largest tech firms on Wednesday […]
Enlarge / The Galaxy Fold 3. Nice cameras! It would be a shame if anything happened to them… (credit: Samsung) If you try to mod your Samsung phone, Samsung will disable the camera?! That’s the report coming out of XDA Developers this morning. During the confirmation process to unlock the bootloader of the spiffy new […]
The Playdate on iFixit’s operating table. [credit: iFixit ] The teardown artists at iFixit have gotten their hands on the banana-yellow plastic Playdate, the be-cranked retro throwback handheld gaming system we previewed last month ahead of its launch later this year. And just as Game Boys of yore are simple to take apart, fix, and […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica ) Google Pay is apparently just as much a disaster internally as the app transition has been externally. That’s the big takeaway from a recent Business Insider article detailing an exodus of executives through Google’s payment division, lower-than-expected app adoption, and employees frustrated with the slow movement of […]
Enlarge / Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along the roadside in Kabul on August 16, 2021. (credit: Getty Images) As Kabul fell on Sunday, 20 young Afghan tech workers tracked the Taliban’s advance, broadcasting real-time reports of gunfire, explosions, and traffic jams across the city through a new app. Called Ehtesab, the app […]
Enlarge (credit: Vicki Been | Getty Images) Two months ago, Jacob Eiting closed the Series B for his startup RevenueCat, which makes a platform for managing in-app subscriptions. The $40 million investment was meant to grow the company and, crucially, to hire more people. The particular 35-person startup hopes to expand to 50 employees by […]