Google Assistant and Viv underscore how boring Siri has become
Though Siri is now more user-friendly and capable than ever, its functionality seems frustratingly limited when compared to competing intelligent assistants from the likes of …
Apps & Software
Apple is stealing another great feature from developers for the next OS X
Apple has a strong history of taking ideas from third-party and adding them into later releases of iOS and OS X — just ask F.lux, …
A tiny detail in Google’s new Assistant will make apps a lot smarter
Google is slowly building Her. In case you haven’t seen the 2013 sci-fi movie, it’s a disturbing love story about a regular guy falling for …
You can now use your phone to get cash from ATMs
There’s still a lot of places that can’t take mobile payments, but everyone likes cash. So it’s a big deal that starting today, select Bank …
10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time
Thursday’s list of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free might be the most diverse list of the week. We’ve got camera apps and photo …
Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 drops to $75 on Amazon for one day only
Amazon normally sells Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 14 as a digital download for $119, and that’s a very reasonable price for such a powerful …
Uber will let you track other people’s rides in real time
Uber is rolling out a new feature to its mobile app that can be quite helpful but also somewhat creepy: it will now let you track friends and …
In the future, you won’t even have to install Android apps to use them
Google’s I/O is a developer conference, which means we get a lot of technical, behind-the-scenes details. Most of them aren’t interesting to people who don’t …
Android Wear 2.0: Google’s biggest smartwatch update yet
Google’s annual developers conference is underway in California, and Google has just announced its biggest smartwatch update yet: here’s Android Wear 2.0.
Google unveils a new virtual reality platform called ‘Daydream’
Google I/O is well underway and the search giant has already revealed a number of compelling hardware and software announcements. Just a few moments ago, Google …
Google has two new apps, Allo for messaging and Duo for video calls
Google already has a messaging app, but good as Hangouts is, it isn’t “smart.” Google is changing all that, by launching another messaging app, named …
Meet Google Home, Google’s answer to Amazon’s Echo
Amazon’s Echo is already a popular tool that many of you may have already purchased, but Google isn’t going to sit idly by as Amazon …
11 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today
With all of the news focused on Google I/O 2016 today, Apple fans might be feeling a little left out. Don’t be jealous, iOS users, …
This app uses facial analysis to tell people’s personalities
There are many apps that have facial recognition capabilities, but most facial recognition software isn’t necessarily smart, or at least not as smart as Faception. …
This is the autopredict emoji keyboard you never knew you needed
I’m on a lifelong hunt for the perfect smartphone keyboard. Nothing out there is perfect — the right key layout always comes with the wrong …
Don’t blink, or your PC might upgrade itself to Windows 10
Microsoft is keen for you to upgrade to Windows 10. So keen, in fact, that it will give it away for free. And hey, Microsoft reckons …
Someone set out to make the world’s stupidest bot, and he definitely succeeded
An event taking place this week in San Francisco called the Stupid Hackathon is exactly what it sounds like. Programmers convene and try to outdo …
People are still driving into lakes because their GPS tells them to
We’ve seen the “GPS directions gone awry” scenario play out on TV shows any number of times, but perhaps the most well-known example comes from an old …
10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time
Do you have any room left in your phone after yesterday’s post on paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free? If not you had better …
Apple Pay can’t be beat as MCX delays launch of CurrentC yet again
When Apple originally introduced Apple Pay with the iPhone 6, it was widely assumed that mobile payments were finally poised to go mainstream. The harsh …
Video calling will be coming to WhatsApp sometime soon
Video calling has been the big capability missing from WhatsApp’s repertoire in the past, but it looks like that is all about to change. Over …
Apple ruined the dream of having Google take over my iPhone
Try though I might, there’s simply no way I can ditch my iPhone and switch to Android. Why? Because the software experience on Apple’s iPhones …
Apple releases iOS 9.3.2 update for iPhone and iPad
If you own an iPhone or an iPad that was released in the last few years, Apple just released an update that you should install …
11 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
If you have a 16GB iOS device you might want to immediately stop following our series on paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free. Why? Because …
Advertising and bloatware are about to invade your Start Menu in Windows 10
Microsoft has done a tremendous job with Windows 10 in so many ways, which is even more impressive when you consider that the company’s prior release …
Google is officially killing Flash in Chrome this year
The death of Flash is imminent; we’ve known that for a few years. A security threat and a battery hob, Flash is replaced with other …
ISIS launches an official Android app for kids (yes, really)
The sadistic Islamic fundamentalists who run Islamic State are some of the absolute worst people in the world… but that doesn’t mean they can’t have soft …
Next-level tracking addiction: UPS shows exact package locations on a map
Newsflash: people love stuff. They have tons of stuff and they want more stuff. They purchase stuff online all the time, like this 4K Ultra HD …
A computer science class didn’t notice one of its TAs was a chatbot
The Turing test has always been an approximate benchmark for good AI. In the test, a human is supposed to converse with a machine over …
11 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today
It’s the end of yet another long week, and there’s no better way to celebrate the upcoming weekend than by grabbing a bunch of paid …
