Browsing Category: Tech News

  • Motorola introduces four new phones

    Motorola’s phones aren’t always the flashiest, but there sure are a lot of them. And today, there are even more. The Lenovo-owned brand is launching not one, but four new handsets for your budget-phone-buying pleasure. The new handsets were launched at an event in São Paulo, Brazil. We, sadly, were not there. Instead, we played …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Facebook has a new job posting calling for chip designers

    Facebook has posted a job opening looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA, two custom silicon designs that companies can gear toward specific use cases — particularly in machine learning and artificial intelligence. There’s been a lot of speculation in the valley as to what Facebook’s interpretation of custom silicon might be, especially as …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Facebook gets even shadier, limits EU privacy law reach

    Facebook is quietly looking to limit the number of users that will be protected by Europe’s tough new data law, according to Reuters. Outside of the U.S. and Canada, Facebook’s users agree to terms and conditions that are tied with the social media company’s operation in Ireland.  SEE ALSO: War! Apple Vs. Facebook So, as …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Snapchat just proved why lenses are a bigger deal than Stories

    Quick, what’s Snapchat’s most important feature?  While you’d be forgiven for answering “Stories,” the most important feature to Snapchat’s business today might be something else entirely: lenses.  Yes, you read that right. The barfing rainbows and dog ears could end up being far more valuable to the company than the feature Facebook has worked so …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Some Chevy Bolts have battery problem that's every EV driver's worst nightmare

    General Motors isn’t calling it a recall, but Chevy Bolt electric vehicle owners are being notified about a battery problem that is affecting some of its cars on the road in what can only be described as an EV nightmare. For a “small percentage” of the 30,000 Bolt vehicles in use, the battery is not …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Tech conferences like RSA still have a diversity problem

    They may be trying, but that doesn’t mean it’s enough. The RSA Conference still has a diversity problem.  The lack of gender diversity in the tech industry as a whole has been highly criticized and making headlines for some time, ahem CES. And yet the 40,000-plus person yearly cybersecurity event taking place this week in …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Ford tries to catch up to Uber, Lyft with medical appointment rides

    Ford apparently wants to be much more than a carmaker. The company also wants to provide on-demand rides for people, whether it’s for work commutes or a drive to the doctor. Launched Wednesday, Ford’s GoRide service works with a Michigan healthcare network to provide patients with rides to medical appointments. For non-emergency trips, the on-demand …

    April 19, 2018 | by Raheel
  • SpaceX launches planet-hunting TESS to space before landing rocket back on Earth

    Have fun in space, TESS!  Our favorite new NASA mission — called TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite —  launched to space at 6:51 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite landed back on Earth on a drone ship in the Atlantic not long after.  …

    April 18, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Mysterious regulatory filing hints at new iPhone SE 2 models

    If you thought we’d seen the last of the iPhone SE, don’t be so sure.  Consomac (via MacRumors) has spotted a filing from Apple to the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) listing eleven never-before-seen model numbers. Each name refers to an iPhone running iOS 11, according to the filing.  SEE ALSO: The cutest use for the …

    April 18, 2018 | by Raheel