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

Fujifilm is releasing a Nintendo-themed Instax printer

Fujifilm and Nintendo have announced a new collaboration. The camera company is releasing a new Switch-themed version of its Instax Mini Link photo printer, as well as a new app that’s designed to let...

View Article


New Siri Remote waves goodbye to Apple TV games that require motion control

Image: Apple Apple’s new Siri Remote doesn’t come equipped with an accelerometer or gyroscope, which means it won’t work as a motion controller in certain Apple TV games. The omission was initially...

View Article


Google’s Guacamole may be premature, but it sounds ripe to become an Android...

Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Google probably wasn’t planning to reveal this until the company’s I/O developer conference on May 18th, but it looks like a cat may be out of...

View Article

The Pentagon reportedly gave a small company control of its IP addresses to...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As part of an apparent effort to find holes in its network, the US Department of Defense has given a tiny Florida company control over about 175 million of its...

View Article

Video game industry wins first Oscar with documentary short Colette

Colette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Presented by Oculus Studios and...

View Article


Amazon is making in-garage delivery an option for all grocery delivery orders

Image: Amazon Amazon is expanding its in-garage delivery option today to every city where it offers grocery deliveries. According to the company, that’s now over 5,000 US cities where Key by Amazon...

View Article

Sony has sold 7.8 million PS5 consoles

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony has sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31st, the company says in its latest earnings report. The number of PlayStation Plus subscribers is now...

View Article

PS5 preorders begin in China, almost six months after US launch

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The PS5 will be available to buy in China on May 15th, a little over six months after its original release in the US last year, Sony announced today. The disc version...

View Article


Coinbase now lets you buy cryptocurrency with your PayPal account

PayPal is now available as a payment method for US Coinbase users. | Image: Coinbase Coinbase has added the option for users to buy cryptocurrency using their PayPal accounts in the US, the company...

View Article


Today I learned that card grading companies are drowning in Pokémon cards

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images A report from Vice has opened my eyes to just how big the Pokémon trading card collecting market is getting — apparently to the point where card rating...

View Article

As Epic v. Apple approaches the courtroom, Valve is getting sued over Steam too

Just two days before Apple gets dragged into a California court to justify its 30 percent App Store fee — and two days after Microsoft axed its 30 percent cut on PC — we’re learning that gaming giant...

View Article

New trailers: Castlevania, West Side Story, Sweet Tooth, Luca, and more

Castlevania | Netflix Just started watching season four of The Handmaid’s Tale and I remember why I prefer the weekly release schedule for this show: Bingeing it is utterly draining (Monica Hesse...

View Article

Apple antitrust trial kicks off with Tim Sweeney’s metaverse dreams

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Epic Games launched its courtroom war against Apple in an extremely on-brand way: with CEO Tim Sweeney describing the metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow...

View Article


Epic says there’s an App Store payment lockout — but Apple just sees friction

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the Epic v. Apple trial’s big keywords is “cross-wallet play.” In Epic’s Fortnite, “cross-wallet” means you can buy in-game currency (known as V-Bucks)...

View Article

The Nintendo Switch can’t be stopped

Nintendo Switch sales fuel full year profits. | Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo Switch sales were up 44 percent percent from January to March compared to the same pandemic-impaired quarter...

View Article


Epic needs to tarnish Apple’s App Store halo

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At the beginning of this week’s Epic v. Apple trial, Apple described Epic’s lawsuit as an “assault” on the entire iOS philosophy. One of the iPhone and iPad’s...

View Article

TiVo’s first Android TV dongle also appears to be its last

Last May, TiVo attempted to muscle in on Roku and Amazon with an HDMI streaming dongle of its own — the $70 TiVo Stream 4K, which traded in the company’s traditional live TV + DVR functionality for...

View Article


Dogecoin is crashing while Elon Musk is on Saturday Night Live 

While Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live, Dogecoin investors sold. When SNL first went live, the cryptocurrency hovered around 69 cents (nice). But as the show wore on, the price dropped. As of this...

View Article

Sony expects PS5 supply issues to continue into next year

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony doesn’t expect the PlayStation 5 supply situation to improve any time soon, according to comments its CFO reportedly made to analysts following the company’s...

View Article

Oppo Find X3 Pro review: the Chinese phone to beat

A legit flagship from one of China’s biggest brands Continue reading… Source: TheVerge

View Article
Browsing all 5067 articles
Browse latest View live