Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 review: A bite out of Apple “With LTE, an ECG sensor, and more apps and sensors, the Galaxy Watch Active 2 is among the best smartwatches you can buy.” Comprehensive and expansive exercise tracking Stainless-steel version looks watch-like Easy-to-read display in all lighting Two-day battery with light usage You can
Month: November 2019
With winter just around the corner, temperatures have already begun to drop in many parts of the country. With cold weather comes dry air from heaters and furnaces, which leads to dry skin, scratchy throats, and general dehydration. Breathing dry air is a potential health hazard that can also cause respiratory ailments such as asthma,
Amazon Echo Buds review: Alexa lays a smackdown “Serving up more value than any other true wireless earbuds, the Amazon Echo Buds are now the buds to beat.” Comfortable fit Excellent sound Very effective noise reduction Hands-free Alexa Great value Average battery life No touch-based volume control Amazon might be new to the audio hardware
Octopus Interactive, a startup bringing an interactive TV and ad experience into Uber and Lyft rides, has raised a $10.3 million funding round led by Sinclair Digital Group. Backseat TVs mixing show snippets and commercials have become a common part of the taxi experience in New York City and elsewhere. Octopus is offering something a
Wolves in the Walls final chapter explores family, friendships, and memories. The third chapter of Fable’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s Wolves in the Walls series titled, “They’re Everywhere” explores courage, friendship, and family during dire times as you and the main character, Lucy, work together to discover what is hiding inside the
Robotic arms can move fast enough to snatch thrown objects right out of the air… but should they? Not unless you want them to unnerve the humans they’re interacting with, according to work out of Disney Research. Roboticists there found that slowing a robot’s reaction time made it feel more normal to people. Disney has,
Veritas Genetics, a DNA testing startup, has said a data breach resulted in the theft of some customer information. The Danvers, MA-based company said its customer facing portal had “recently” been breached but did not say when. Although the portal did not contain test results or medical information, the company declined to say what information
Look out John Wick, there’s a clumsy new gunslinger in town. Every so often a VR game comes along that makes such great use of the technologies immersive capabilities that it’s hard to believe it didn’t already exist. One such example is the latest release from Cloudhead Games (The Gallery series, Aperture Hand Labs), Pistol
With a stunning 6.1-inch Dynamic AMOLED screen with a hole-punch camera at the top right and the slimmest of bezels, the Samsung Galaxy S10 boasts an elegant design, but this slippery glass and metal sandwich is also fragile. If you’re concerned about the possibility of drop damage or scratches, then you should invest in one
LogRocket is a startup on a mission to help companies root out and fix website app errors quickly and efficiently, and it seems to be going well. Today, the company announced a $15 million Series B investment led by Battery Ventures. The company also announced a new tool called LogRocket Metrics to help developers understand
tech2 News StaffNov 07, 2019 19:51:24 IST Twitter has released a statement in the form of a long thread to address the ongoing discussion of its rules and policy affecting Indian minority users on the platform. The thread tried to assure that the site is committed to inclusion and diversity as it is fundamental to the
Earlier this year, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced the second generation of its HoloLens augmented reality visor. Today, the $3,500 HoloLens 2 is going on sale in the United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order.
Hot on the heels of adding support for Samsung Pay, Curve, the London-based “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single card, has added support for Google Pay. The new integration — which we reported earlier this week was imminent, means that Android users can pay with Curve
Cockpits in large airplanes feature a dizzying array of buttons, levers, dials, and displays that would leave the head of most folks spinning if they were asked to identify each and every one of them (or indeed, just one of them). But as an incident at a Dutch airport showed this week, even the most
Twitter is about to roll out a new Topics feature to help users find a greater selection of content across a range of subjects. Following several months of testing, Topics will launch globally on November 13 and for the first time will give users a way to follow tweets on specific subjects, rather than just
[embedded content]Above: The Bloodhound supersonic car reaching 491 mph prior to its 501 mph run. The Bloodhound supersonic car project that appeared to be dead and buried a year ago is very much back on track — and gathering speed. On Wednesday the jet- and rocket-powered vehicle blasted through the 500-mph barrier in the latest
Peter and Wendy take flight. Well, “flight.”Image: Fox Searchlight Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you’re craving. It’s Peter Pan, but not as you know it. Nearly eight years after director Benh Zeitlin wowed the critical world with Beasts of the Southern Wild, we’ve finally got a
The Apple faithful have been waiting years for the AirPods Pro: Finally, a set of AirPods that have some degree of sweat- and water-resistance and active noise cancellation (ANC). But these extras come at a proportionately extra price. The AirPods Pro are $250, making them among the most expensive true wireless earbuds you can buy.
Emphasis on fluid movement sets this addictive experience apart from its contemporaries. Originally released in July of 2019, Kluge Interactive’s action rhythm experience Synth Riders has finally arrived on the Oculus Quest, bringing with it 31 individual tracks featuring varying levels of difficulty ranging from “Easy” to “Master.” [embedded content] Similar to Beat Saber —
Design and share custom-built puzzles in a dedicated sandbox-building environment. Resolution Games — developer behind popular VR titles including Acron: Attack of the Squirrels, Bait!, Angry Birds AR: Isle of Pigs, and Narrows, today announced a new level builder mode heading to Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, marking the first time in the history
Following the death of five people at a Halloween party hosted at a California Airbnb rental, and a scathing Vice report outlining Airbnb’s failure to prevent nation-wide scams, the company says it will begin verifying all seven million of its listings. Airbnb properties will soon be verified for accuracy of photos, addresses, listing details, cleanliness,
tech2 News StaffNov 06, 2019 22:06:53 IST In April, it was reported that Facebook’s executive team misused user data to control competitors by using the data as a bargaining chip. This was apparently done under the supervision of the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and there are thousands of leaked documents to support this claim. Facebook
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 05: DoorDash CEO Tony Xu speaks onstage during Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 5, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Photo: Kimberly White (Getty) Would you run an errand for just two bucks? How about $3? Maybe $4? These are the questions many delivery
Stealth fintech startup Digits, from the same team that built Crashlytics to scale then sold to Twitter for over $100 million, has raised a $10.5 million round of Series A funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Benchmark and has the backing of 72 angels, including founders and CEOs from companies
The Amazon Echo Buds are the best true wireless earbuds you can buy. They pack an incredible array of features with sound quality that is better than we’d expect given their low price. But they’re just one of nine selections we’ve highlighted in this roundup. If you’re ready to leave behind the wires — all
There are concerns over the future of Samsung’s Exynos processor after the company confirmed 290 employees will be laid off at its CPU research and development office in Austin, Texas. The news comes after rumors of the closure spread at the beginning of October, and raises questions over whether the Exynos processor will survive, or
AMD is on track for its major hardware launches in the next few months. With Threadripper 3000 CPUs and RX 5500 GPUs set to debut in the next few weeks, AMD has confirmed it will debut its first Ryzen 4000 CPUs in early 2020, followed on by Zen 3 powered processors later in the year.
Voters in San Francisco have resoundingly rejected an attempt to overturn a citywide ban on e-cigarettes by a margin of around 80:20. Reporting on the count in the Bay Area, CBS SF says at least 78 per cent of voters rejected the ballot measure, known as Proposition C. The measure had been heavily back by e-cigarette
The budget smart TV market in India is quite crowded with various brands vying to book a spot in your living room. The new UltraAndroid series of smart TVs from VU are looking to carve a niche in that segment too. For starters, despite the smart use of the word Ultra in the title, none
[embedded content] UPS is getting serious about drone delivery, in recent days completing what it claims were the first commercial drone deliveries of prescription meds in the U.S. under a program approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). nThe two trial flights, which took place on November 1, used a Matternet-built M2 drone to deliver