October 3, 2018 Amazon’s latest Fire Stick finally puts the volume buttons on the remote If you thought Amazon was done with new hardware announcements for the year, think again: there’s now an updated version of the Amazon Fire…
October 3, 2018 Wi-Fi now has version numbers, and Wi-Fi 6 comes out next year If you’ve ever bought a Wi-Fi router, you may have had to sort through specs that read like complete gibberish — like “802.11ac” or…
October 3, 2018 Windows 10 October 2018 Update: the 10 best new features Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 October 2018 Update is being made available to existing machines today. All you have to do is visit Windows Update…
October 3, 2018 ‘The Witcher’ author demands $16m in royalties from CD Projekt Red Andrzej Sapkowski, author of The Witcher series of novels, is pressing Polish games studio CD Projekt Red for more than $16 million in royalties,…
October 3, 2018 HyperloopTT unveils its first passenger capsule Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has unveiled the first of its full-scale capsules that it hopes will one day be used to transport passengers at…
October 3, 2018 The Morning After: All Surface everything Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to Wednesday! If you like Surface devices, you've got a lot of choices now. And maybe you'll…
October 3, 2018 Microsoft is dragging its feet on helping USB-C go mainstream One of the more perplexing announcements to come out of Microsoft’s Surface hardware event in New York City yesterday was the port choice across…
October 3, 2018 Kobo’s latest e-reader is big, durable and waterproof Like Amazon's Kindle range, Kobo's e-readers run the gamut from affordable devices to premium products. The company's latest falls firmly in the high-end category….
October 3, 2018 How Lady Gaga’s fans are using Twitter to bend reality One of our core concerns around here is the way social networks are vulnerable to coordinated influence campaigns that can distort the nature of…
October 3, 2018 Glove-controlled robot arm is soft enough to pet jellyfish Remote-controlled robot arms allow submersible operators to perform tasks underwater. But can you imagine a rigid metal limb interacting with something as fragile as…