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A big push for Apple this year is recycling, as it uses fancy new robots to make sure that valuable parts from the millions of iPhones sold per year don’t end up in landfills. The company released its annual environmental report on Thursday, and it included some information about just how much it can recover from its […]

New details have emerged concerning the specs of Samsung’s upcoming release of its Galaxy Note 6 phablet. The new flagship is expected earlier than usual this year, and will feature IP68 waterproofing as well as a possible iris scanner on board. Complete article: New Samsung Galaxy Note 6 details

End-to-end encryption has just gone massively mainstream. In an update on March 31st, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp quietly pushed an update adding end-to-end encryption enabled by default to its chat and call functionality. They announced the change publicly on Tuesday, allowing the app’s over 1 billion monthly active users to message each other with […]

Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will pay a working visit to the German state of Bavaria on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 April 2016. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen ties between the Netherlands and Bavaria. The second day of the working visit will begin with a visit to Siemens Healthcare in […]

Tesla blamed its own “hubris” for stuffing its Model X crossover with too much technology, making it difficult to produce in volume, according to a Tesla statement. The company was able to ship just 2,400 Model X cars in the first quarter. In a surprisingly frank statement that reads like Elon Musk himself wrote it, Tesla stated […]

Your iPhone’s bright blue display doesn’t have to hurt your eyes at night anymore. Apple has introduced a new feature called Night Shift for the iPhone and iPad that automatically makes the display’s color palette warmer as the sun sets. It’s available in iOS 9.3, a software update Apple is releasing for everyone on Monday. Apple has a new […]

Apple just announced a new, 9.7-inch iPad Pro — smaller than the original, gigantic 12.9″ iPad Pro model, but with the same support for the Apple Pencil stylus and with a better camera.  The new iPad Pro starts at $599 for a model with 32GB of storage, and $749 for 128GB. It starts shipping on […]

Apple unveiled its latest iPhone, the iPhone SE, at an event on its Cupertino, California, campus on Monday. It’s going to cost $399 without a contract, or free with a two-year contract — significantly less expensive than other new iPhones were when they first launched. Complete article: Here is the new iPhone SE

Despite Sony saying last week that its $400 PlayStation Virtual Realityheadset wouldn’t go up for pre-order, here we are hours before the $500“Launch” bundle’s pre-orders go live with news of when the cheaper, headline-grabbing bundle will be available for reservation. Phew. Come Tuesday, March 29th at 10 AM Eastern Sony says you can put your […]

The writing probably appeared on the wall when WhatsApp announced its disinterest in BlackBerry APIs: Facebook has followed the lead of its subsidiary, and dumped native support for the ailing smartphone-maker. Complete article: Is this the end for BlackBerry?

AliveCor, a startup that builds heart-monitoring sensors for smartphones, is building sensors for another mobile device: The Apple Watch. AliveCor is also putting out a new app replete with speech-recognition features that, paired with the watch sensor, the startup hopes will replace the cumbersome, expensive devices for patients with pressing heart conditions. Complete article: Heart Monitor […]

Google today announced a number of new services for game developers at its annualDeveloper Day at the Game Developers Conference. They include tools for managing virtual goods and currencies, the launch of the Video Recording API so developers can make it easier for players to stream and share videos to YouTube, and a new ad type that allows new […]