Quantcast
Channel: WackyTechTips
Browsing all 5067 articles
Browse latest View live

Adobe Lightroom CC for iOS just added the shortcut Apple promised

Last October, when we first got our hands on the new iPad Pro, we saw a frustration coming a mile away: though this tablet is supposedly built for pros, you can’t do something as simple as import...

View Article


Smart homes got fancier this year at CES

The smart home market is still up for grabs. Unlike PCs or phones, which, for the most part, are dominated by a few well-known names, smart home gadgets can come from wherever and whatever brand. As...

View Article


Watch the first teaser for the final season of Game of Thrones

We finally know when the beginning of the end for Game of Thrones will come: April 14th, 2019. HBO revealed the premiere date for the final season of the fantasy epic just before the premiere of the...

View Article

Anker is making USB-C to Lightning cables

CES saw the first third-party USB-C to Lightning cables break cover from companies like Griffin and Belkin, and now popular purveyor of ion-stimulating apparatus Anker has confirmed it’s getting in on...

View Article

EA has reportedly cancelled its story-driven Star Wars game

Electronic Arts has finally given the axe to its story-driven, single-player-focused Star Wars game, reports Kotaku. The game, which was once in development under the now-shuttered EA studio Visceral...

View Article


Google Pixel 3 ‘Lite’ leaks in extensive video

At this point it may be a tradition that new Google phones show up in unboxing videos from Eastern Europe before they’ve even been announced. So it is with the so-called “Pixel 3 Lite,” a midrange...

View Article

Xiaomi’s new in-display fingerprint sensors have a much bigger active area

Xiaomi has been slower to adopt in-display fingerprint sensors than some of its Chinese rivals, only including the feature on certain high-end variants of last year’s Mi 8 flagship phone. But...

View Article

Alphabet’s health division gets FDA clearance to test EKG smartwatch feature

Alphabet’s health division, Verily, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Study smart watch for an “on-demand ECG feature.” The Study Watch, announced in April 2017, is not a consumer smartwatch,...

View Article


Apple is once again selling its iPhone SE — for now

Last September, Apple officially stopped selling its iPhone X, iPhone SE, and iPhone 6s models, following the release of the iPhone XS and XR. This weekend, MacRumors noticed that Apple has quietly...

View Article


Tesla raised prices at its Supercharger stations

Tesla drivers will have to spend a little more at the charger. The electric automaker has raised prices at its Supercharger stations, according to Electrek (via Engadget), after implementing a new...

View Article

Amazon’s waterproof Kindle Paperwhite is on sale for $90 today, its lowest...

Amazon’s 2018 update to the Paperwhite turned it into the best Kindle for most people, and today only, the company is offering $40 off the new, waterproof model, marking the lowest price we’ve seen on...

View Article

Amazon pulls its Echo Wall Clock due to connectivity issues

Just a little over a month after shipping its first Echo Wall Clocks, Amazon is pulling the product over connectivity issues. The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern first tweeted about the delisting...

View Article

Wildfires take a toll on students’ test scores years after the smoke clears

Children who survived the worst of the 2009 wildfires in Victoria, Australia performed more poorly than expected on standardized tests years later, particularly compared to their peers in regions that...

View Article


Apple changes its iPhone photo contest page to say it will pay winners

For the past two days, Apple faced criticism from artists and creators over its new “Shot on iPhone Challenge,” which will use photos from 10 photographers in a series of marketing campaigns without...

View Article

Moog’s new analog synth is more than just a growling bass machine

Iconic synth maker Moog is technically showing at this year’s NAMM show, but in true Moog style, there’s no actual booth. Instead, the North Carolina-based company opted to create an off-site pop-up...

View Article


Hail Satan? puts the fun in Satanic fundamentalism

Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases. This review comes from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, an...

View Article

Vizio opens signups for Smartcast 3.0 beta ahead of Apple support

Vizio has announced (via Engadget) that smart TV owners can sign up for a beta for its SmartCast 3.0 update, which it will roll out this spring, bringing with it Apple Airplay 2 and HomeKit support to...

View Article


Jaybird’s updated Run XT add waterproofing to the truly wireless headphones

Jaybird is back with a second generation of its truly wireless Run headphones, the Run XT, which offer an improvement over the originals by adding full IPX7 waterproofing and some new colors options....

View Article

Samsung is making 1TB storage chips for phones

Samsung has announced that it’ll start offering the world’s first 1TB eUFS (embedded Universal Flash Storage) solution for phone manufacturers, with mass production already underway. This means that...

View Article

Nintendo delays Mario Kart mobile game until summer

We’ve heard basically nothing about Mario Kart Tour, the upcoming smartphone entry in the banana-flinging racing game series, since Nintendo announced it exactly a year ago. The game was pegged for a...

View Article
Browsing all 5067 articles
Browse latest View live