There’s really only so much you can do with your analog fitness watch before it turns into something else. Withings already has one of the nicer offerings in the space in the form of the Steel — a solid time-keeping device with step and sleep tracking baked in. As the name implies, the Steel HR brings heart-rate (not human resources) monitoring to the equation. It accomplishes… Read More
Granted, it’s not a desktop that looks like a piece of IKEA furniture, but at least HP is trying something moderately interesting — or is it “modularly interesting?” The company’s certainly not the first to attempt a desktop modular PC along these lines. See also: Acer Revo and the Lenovo ThinkPad Stack. The execution looks to be a little better here, however, even… Read More
Amazon’s latest perk — discounted student loans, aimed at Amazon Prime Student customers — is no more, according to a report from Bloomberg, and confirmed by both companies. The partnership between the online retailer and Wells Fargo was announced this July, and saw the lender offering a 0.50 percent interest rate discount to students who joined Amazon Prime’s… Read More
Turning your good old radiator into a connected, smart radiator could be a dream of yours. Imagine being able to control the temperature of each radiator individually without having to move from the couch! If that’s your thing, Netatmo just announced Netatmo Valves. As the name suggest, these devices replace the existing valves on your radiator.
Netatmo has already released a smart… Read More
Pokémon Sun and Moon are closer than ever to their November 18 launch, and Nintendo revealed a few new details about the game today. The most significant, especially for rabid fans, is that early purchasers (who buy between launch and January 11, 2017) will get Munchlax over their 3DS device internet collection as part of their purchase. The exclusive new Pokémon is a pre-evolved format… Read More
Facebook can’t stop copying Snapchat, it seems. Remember how Instagram shamelessly injected Snapchat Stories into its service last month? Well now Messenger is getting a very Snapchat-like new feature: instant video. Read More
DraftKings has closed $150M in new funding this morning, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The round was led by Washington D.C-based Revolution Capital, the venture firm helmed by AOL founder Steve Case and Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis. As part of the deal, Revolution Growth’s Steve Murray will be joining DraftKings’ board. DraftKings hasn’t said how… Read More
French startup Molotov has been available in France for a couple of months already, and it is rolling out new platforms. After launching on the iPad, the Apple TV and computers, the company is launching its iPhone app. Android devices and recent connected TVs from Samsung and LG are up next. Compared to the iPad app that I reviewed extensively, Molotov provides the same feature on the iPhone,… Read More
Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has officially opened its doors to projects in Asia after it announced its availability in Hong Kong and Singapore this week. The service is available in 18 countries, including Australia, but these are its first in Asia. Read More
As far as smartphone gimmicks go, CSX is a pretty fun one. The project takes the sort of community driven creation brought to space courtesy of startups like OnePlus and takes it to the next level, asking customers to help design the next device in the ZTE portfolio.
Phase one revolved around those initial solicitations. Users were asked to offer suggestion not limited to a smarthphone… Read More
We apparently live in a world now where a company can get away with calling a 5.2-inch phone a “mini.” Keep in mind that when the first Galaxy Note was introduced at IFA five years back, many were convinced that the phone was way to large to be destined for any sort of mainstream success. That model was a mind-boggling 5.3-inches. Of course, phone companies have gotten much better… Read More
Another day, another VR headset that you will never be able to buy.
Today at the IFA conference in Berlin, Qualcomm unveiled a reference design for an all-in-one headset built on the company’s new Snapdragon VR820 architecture.
The company’s Snapdragon 820 is already one of the most popular smartphone SoC’s on the market, but Qualcomm believes that mobile VR’s full… Read More
Nintendo’s more portable version of its Super Mario Maker game-building game (that’s not a typo) is available on December 2, the company announced today. The scaled down game offers much of what you get in the Nintendo Wii version, the company shared today, and will be able to play many (but not all) of the games created on the Wii U version. The new game is focused on being able… Read More
If you used to make in-car navigation devices, odds are pretty good you make wearables now. That’s just the way things are. Now that everyone has turn-by-turn driving directions on their phone, those kinds of standalone mapping products have really lost their luster. TomTom’s on-board with the pivot. Granted, the company’s products haven’t earned the same sort of press… Read More
When it comes to funding for startups, marketing tech is seeing a boom at the moment, and one company that is reaping the fruits of that is Zeta Interactive. The marketing technology company — co-founded by the ex-CEO of Apple and Pepsi John Sculley and David Steinberg (who is the CEO) and valued at over $1 billion — today announced that it raised $45 million. In an interview… Read More
Lego has pulled back the curtain on the official Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sets we all new had to be coming, and as usual, details of the sets reveal some very minor imaginary tech spoilers from the film, which is set to premiere December 16. The sets include three large characters from the movie, as well as five vehicle kits that come with minifig versions of the heroes and villains.… Read More
Today, Apple is previewing of some of the first apps that will integrate with Siri in the upcoming release of iOS 10. Announced at WWDC earlier this year, one of the biggest changes in Apple’s new mobile operating system is the ability to interact with your apps using your voice. Soon, you’ll be able to ask Siri to do things like compose and read your texts, search your… Read More
Huawei wasn’t wrong. The Nova Plus feels like a premium phone, in spite of its mid-tier price point. The brushed metal back and glossy display meet at rounded sides, alongside front glass that curves slightly around the sides, similar to the Galaxy Edge, only relegated solely to the bezel. The company made a point to note all it had down to shrink down the device’s display to… Read More
Global mobile payments company Boku announced a $13.75 million funding round today led by a consortium of UK investors. The company had previously raised approximately $77.25 million from Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz among others. The relatively small round, within the greater context of the company’s past… Read More
