Yesterday, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz and NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced plans to eventually bring Turner-owned NBA content to Magic Leap’s elusive AR goggles, by casting virtual screens in front of a wearer’s face through the goggles. It wasn’t an earth-shattering announcement, but it was an indication that...
Facebook is not a privacy company; it’s Big Brother on PCP. It does not want to anonymize and protect you; it wants to drain you of your privacy, sucking up every bit of personal data. You should resist the urge to let it, at every turn.
There’s a new menu...
Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection can detect ongoing attacks on corporate networks, investigate the attack or breach, and provide response recommendations. It will be added to Windows 7 and 8.1 by this summer.
Microsoft plans to extend support for its Windows Defender ATP service to devices running older operating systems,...
Facebook has silently added an option to its iOS app that pushes users to install a VPN client called Onavo Protect on their devices. The option, which comes under the title ‘Protect’, redirects users directly to the Onavo Protect app’s listing on the App Store. Interestingly, Facebook reportedly acquired...
Sometimes imitation is just a baffling form of flattery. Nowhere is that more often the case than with Android and iOS, dueling mobile operating systems that have been “borrowing” features from one another for years. Many of these moves have made sense: The iPhone slowly adopted popular Android phone...
Following an announcement of the Redmi Note 5, Xiaomi has just announced the Redmi Note 5 Pro as well. Both of these devices have been introduced during the company’s press conference in India, and the Redmi Note 5 Pro does resemble its sibling, but unlike the Redmi Note 5,...
BMW's "sports activity coupe" will be sold in xDrive30i and M40i variants.
Whether or not you agree with BMW's "sports activity coupe" nomenclature, the truth is, weirdo swoopy crossovers are a hit around the globe. BMW launched the X3-based X4 a couple years ago to compliment the larger X6, and...
While smartphones have always been tools for consumers to listen to, and speak through, their purpose in this respect has grown considerably over the last couple of years. As although basic speaker and microphone functionality has been enough in the past to make and receive calls, smartphones have now...
Essential knew it had a hard road ahead of it. Andy Rubin and company acknowledged as much when they launched a handset aimed at taking on the likes of Apple and Samsung. Given that the company hasn’t issued anything in the way of official numbers thus far, a new...
Some Snap (SNAP) users have taken to -- what else -- social media to voice their displeasure over the app's recent redesign.
The company, best known for its Snapchat video messages that are popular with teens and young adults, recently cleaved the app into two sections, with media content on...
