Super Mario Run continued building on its 200 million global downloads recorded in October, Nintendo revealed as part of its consolidated financial report for the final quarter of the calendar year 2017, i.e. the third quarter of its current fiscal year. The first official Mario mobile game in the history of the company still boasts […]
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2019 Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a 21st-century hatch
Whether it’s the headlights or the infotainment, the A-Class is loaded with cutting-edge tech. While the US won’t be getting the hatchback variant of the A-Class, its debut nevertheless gives us an idea of what’s to come Stateside. Mercedes-Benz unveiled the 2019 A-Class hatchback today. Destined for European markets, the A-Class piles on the tech. […]
Downgraded Apple faces ‘saturated market’ for iPhones — analysts react to earnings
IPhone unit sales fell short in the last quarter, but Apple Inc. thinks investors should look beyond that stumble. Analysts, though, aren’t totally convinced. In its earnings report late Thursday, Apple AAPL, -0.26% delivered better-than-expected, record sales of $88.3 billion and net income of slightly over $20 billion for the fiscal first quarter. But unit […]
Windows 10 shows users what data it collects and phones in
With Windows Insider build 17083, Microsoft responded to criticism about transparency by adding a ‘Diagnostic Data Viewer’ app to the OS for beta users to try out. Microsoft last week gave Windows 10 testers a peek at an app that shows exactly what diagnostic data the company collects from customers and transmits to its own […]
Owl’s web-connected, voice-activated dashcam looks pretty sweet
The Owl dual cameras look like a pretty darn good dashcam, but there’s so much more to it than that. Dashboard cameras are a great way to protect yourself with video evidence from all sorts of trouble while driving — everything from fender benders to insurance fraud and more. They can also be fun when […]
YouTube’s live TV service is now available for Apple TV devices
YouTube’s streaming live TV service is now available on Apple TV devices, the Google-owned video site revealed in a surprise announcement this afternoon. In a tweet telling Apple TV owners to check the App Store, the official YouTube TV account disclosed that its app is now available on tvOS devices. This follows news earlier today […]
How Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri Gave Apple a $50 Billion Boost
Apple had a tremendous quarter of holiday sales at the end of 2017, as revenue jumped 13% to an all-time record of $88.3 billion and earnings per share rose 16% to $3.89, also a record. Both numbers were slightly better than Wall Street expected. But amid growing reports of slowing demand for iPhones, Apple also […]
Why the lack of an iPhone X ‘super cycle’ might actually be a good thing
Amid a slew of reports that Apple recently decided to cut iPhone X production in half, shares of Apple have predictably taken a beating over the past few days. While the idea that Apple has opted to reduce iPhone X production from 40 million units down to 20 million units seems absurd on its face, […]
Oops! Don’t say ‘Google’ in your Alexa voice app, Amazon said
The competition between Alexa and Google Assistant is fierce. How fierce? Cover all of Las Vegas in Google Assistant ads for CES fierce? Put voice assistance in weird things like a light switch or a fridge fierce? How about “don’t dare utter our competitor’s name in your voice app” fierce? Yep, Amazon has banned Alexa […]
Facebook survives Q4 despite slowest daily user growth ever
Despite worries about Russia and that passive News Feed scrolling hurts us, Facebook beat expectations again in its Q4 2017 earnings report. Facebook now has 1.4 billion daily users, up 2.18% compared to growing 3.8% to 1.37 billion users in Q3. That’s a sizeable slow down, and the lowest quarter-over-quarter percentage daily user growth ever […]
Apple offers free repairs for iPhone 7 devices that refuse to connect to cellular service
Apple has confirmed that a “ small percentage” of iPhone 7 devices are affected by a bug that prevents the phone from connecting to a cellular network, instead displaying “No Service” on the status bar. Typically, this occurs after the iPhone switches off Airplane Mode, and is unable to re-connect to service. The company says […]
There may not be an iPhone SE 2 after all
There have been rumors swirling about the iPhone SE getting an update sometime in 2018, but KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thrown some cold water on those fires. A new research note claims that Apple might not have an updated SE in the cards at all — or if there is one, customers can […]