Facebook’s new Rooms app is weird, and it isn’t long after installation that you figure out why. You don’t log in with your Facebook credentials. Facebook is based on getting people to share everything — their names, their faces, who their friends are, where they are right now. But Rooms, a new app the company…
DetailsFirst things first: Apple’s new iPads are perhaps the highest quality tablets on the market today. The newly released iPad Air 2, a top-of-the-line model, is faster than its predecessor, which was already more powerful than most rivals. The design is minimalist and extraordinarily thin, even thinner than last year’s iPad Air. Also, this new model and the iPad Mini 3 include TouchID and the…
DetailsMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — 10 years ago, Google took the wraps off Gmail, the popular email client used by many millions the world over. Since email is now vibrating in pockets as regularly as texts or phone calls, the Internet goliath is reevaluating how your inbox ought to look and work. The result is Inbox, a new application that Google…
DetailsNot content with face-to-face phone calls, Skype also wants to be the Snapchat of instant video. These days Skype is pretty much the de facto standard when it comes to consumer-grade VoIP and video calls, letting you talk to your friends in real time. Apple’s FaceTime has won over some iGadget users, but if you…
DetailsOrange, California — Gigi the robot looks like a skinny, harmless cousin of R2-D2, but the machine is a cold-blooded killer for hire, a germ zapper that could become an important weapon in the fight against Ebola. After being wheeled into patient rooms at St. Joseph Hospital, humans clear out, and Gigi begins popping and…
DetailsDisney’s upcoming animated film Big Hero 6, about a boy and his soft robot (and a gang of super-powered friends), is perhaps the largest big-budget mash-up you’ll ever see. Every aspect of the film’s production represents a virtual collision of worlds. The story, something co-director Don Hall calls “one of the more obscure titles in the…
DetailsApple’s unveiling of a new iMac With Retina 5K Display last week was perhaps muted a bit, coming as it did in the thick of a major product launch in Cupertino which also saw the curtain raised on two new iPads, including the Apple iPad Air 2. Those iPads won’t begin shipping until the end…
DetailsWith the roll out of Apple Pay next Monday, the checkout experience is expected to evolve at some of the biggest retailers and restaurants in the United States. Apple’s mobile payment product, which works on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for online and brick and mortar store purchase, could very well be a…
DetailsFacebook’s 1.32 billion users already update their friends and family on their jobs, vacations and clothing choices. Now, with a new feature launched by the social networking site Wednesday, users can update people about their safety during disasters. With “Safety Check,” users can let friends and family know whether they’re safe when an earthquake, hurricane…
DetailsThis year, Skype introduced three short stories that focus on family and friends keeping in touch over long distances. Their accounts are wildly different, heartfelt approaches to living apart from loved ones. The most remarkable was that of Sarah from Nappanee, Indiana, about her unique friendship with Paige from Auckland, New Zealand. When Sarah’s mother…
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