Month: July 2018

It’s been almost 15 years since Skype launched and soon you’ll be able record calls on the app. What a time to be alive. Skype used to be the monarch of video calls, but it has fallen behind its competitors in recent years. One reason for this is the shoddy updates and lack of features we now take for granted. Microsoft has announced some major feature updates for the app that will be rolled out o...

The Unicode Consortium went official with 157 new emoji in its Unicode 11.0 standard last month. Within the new set are things like bagels, cupcakes, salt, test tubes and a whole bunch of other little goodies. However, Apple has announced today that it will only carry through with 70 new emoji — at least for its initial launch of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave. Most of the early bunch will include trait ...

Co-founder of Google DeepMind and CEO of SpaceX among the 2,400 signatories of pledge to block lethal autonomous weapons Thousands of scientists who specialise in artificial intelligence (AI) have declared that they will not participate in the development or manufacture of robots that can identify and attack people without human oversight. Demis Hassabis at Google DeepMind and Elon Musk at the US ...

A Swedish startup has unveiled an all-electric, driverless logging truck. The announcement came at the UK’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, and it’s another sign of the increasing push toward automation across industries that rely on ground transportation. In this case, safety is the driving concern. Logging has the single highest fatality rate of any industry in America, and it’s on...

Leaked images reportedly show the Honor Note 10 and its enormous screen. The phone has tiny bezels and is noticeably smaller than a Nintendo Switch. Still, as the images are not official, they should be taken with a pinch of salt. Images have leaked that supposedly show the Honor Note 10 and its anticipated 6.9-inch 1440p display in all its glory. The pictures, leaked by Techtastic (via GSMArena),...

A new report suggests Samsung will unveil its next smartwatch alongside the Galaxy Note 9 on Aug. 9. Samsung is then expected to release the watch on Aug. 24. The upcoming smartwatch is expected to run Samsung’s Tizen operating system. Samsung will reportedly unveil the successor to the Galaxy Gear S3 smartwatch alongside the Galaxy Note 9 at the Samsung Unpacked Event on Aug. 9. According to ZDNe...

If you’ve ever been bored while waiting in line for a ride at a Disney theme park, the company has a solution – a kind of reverse augmented reality app … The new Play Disney Parks app offers a number of themed games you can play while you’re waiting in line. But it has several features aiming to make it a little different to just having your head stuck in your phone while you wait. First, the game...

Last week, Apple very quietly rolled out a bunch of changes to its MacBook range. The updates were a classic spec bump, with the big changes coming to the internal chips, and the only significant design change being a redesigned keyboard that is less vulnerable to errant grains of sand. There’s always a temptation to disregard spec bumps as insignificant because nothing really looks different. Swa...

In case you weren’t already sure that diamonds aren’t as unique or valuable as advertisers want us to believe, the next blow to Big Diamond might have just arrived. Using sound waves, geologists have discovered a gigantic stash of the so-called precious stones deep in the Earth’s interior, possibly to the tune of a quadrillion tons. The study began when an international team of r...

Apple has removed QDrops, a $0.99 paid app designed to promote a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton and a supposed child sex ring, from the App Store. Despite its pro-free speech position, Apple was clear to distance itself from apps which break its user guidelines. “The App Store has always supported all points of view being represented, as long as the apps are respectful to users with diffe...