A report from Korea is suggesting that Apple may be planning to use “fan-out” packaging technology for the iPhone 7, according to AppleInsider. This technology would allow Apple to use the space inside the iPhone 7 carriage to it’s maximum capacity.
Split over two nights in New York City, the first night of the ‘The Music of David Bowie’, a tribute concert series to the late pop singer went off to a smashing success.
Despite the catastrophic failure that was the Gmail April Fools prank, the Google Maps prank isn’t so professionally destructive. This year, Google has outfitted the Google Maps street view avatar in 70s disco gear and if users know where to look, they can make the little guy take them straight to funky town.
The Apple Watch may be able to read a user’s hand gestures if the technology included in a recent patent application by Apple — spotted by Patently Apple and aggregated by 9to5Mac — ever makes it to market.
The iPhone SE is available for purchase today, and if you’re not one of those people who enjoy an uncomfortably large iPhone in your hands — and giving your thumb carpal tunnel syndrome just to text your grandmother — then Apple’s 4-inch iPhone is for you.
Apple has just released iOS 9.3.1 for the iPhone and iPad, and the update seems to fix the link crashing bug that’s been affecting users who updated to iOS 9.3 as early adopters.
A new iPhone 7 concept photo has leaked on Weibo, the Chinese social media site, according to 9to5Mac. The photo shows Chinese lettering stamped over the leaked photo, but nobody is sure about the veracity of the photo.
Apple may be dropping the X from Mac OS X, according to a report from Cult of Mac. Developer Guilherme Rambo was apparently poking around in the interface files included in Mac OS X and found a couple file names with a new macOS terminology.
Supercell has released an update addressing some of the bugs and issues Clash of Clans players have complained about online after the Clash of Clans March update, but it seems that it hasn’t resolved most of the issues.
Apple has been granted a patent that may mean that the MagSafe power connector concept, a mainstay of Apple design for the past ten years that was discontinued with the 12-inch MacBook, may be returning.
iPhone users who have upgraded to iOS 9.3 are reporting that clicking on links inside Mobile Safari, Mail, Messages, Notes or Chrome will freeze and cause the app to crash. The issue extends to other Apple apps as well numerous third-party apps, and apparently is an iOS problem, meaning that the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 are affected in addition to the iPhone 6s.
A redditor by the name of /u/ZeroInformation — who claims to work closely with the three major VR players in software — has been breaking his NDA in the run-up to the Oculus Rift’s arrival on doorsteps America over. /u/ZeroInformation’s latest leak says two undisclosed and exclusive games will be available on the Oculus Rift for free: Farlands and Dreamdeck.
It’s finally happening, it’s finally happening: Consumer models of virtual reality headsets are coming to market. Pre-orders are open for both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive currently, with an expected ship date of March 28 and early April respectively, while the PlayStation VR will be released sometime during October 2016.
Apple introduced the iPhone 5se today during the Apple Special Event March 2016 at their Infinite loop. The event marked Apple’s fortieth anniversary according to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Humans have lived for thousands of years without understanding the rules of physics, safe in the knowledge they wouldn’t float to the moon if they jumped off the ground. For David Mace, a researcher at Caltech who has worked at Facebook, IBM Watson and NASA’s JPL, the laws of war and human nature are the same as the laws of physics. And even though they’re not understood just yet, the answer to how to stop war lies somewhere in the data.
John Hanke, the CEO and founder of Niantic, spoke about the future of real world gaming as augmented reality begins to take root with the help of smartphones. Niantic are the developers behind the AR mobile game Ingress and recently partnered with Nintendo to help create Pokemon Go.
The musical highlights from day four of SXSW music. Featuring: Crystal Castles, Misterwives, Bleachers, Monk Parker, Jimi Tents, Prateek Kuhad, Savoir Adore & Everything Everything
Batman: A Telltale Game Series will be released sometime this summer according to a recent SXSW panel that several key employees of Telltale Games attended. This includes Kevin Bruner, a executive producer and CEO, TQ Jefferson, an executive producer, Job Stauffer, the head of creative communications, Pierre Shorette, a writer, and Nick Herman, a director and senior cinematic artist.
The best ideas, like a mobile game that will one day be worth billions, always come to you in the shower. Or bath. Or at least Candy Crush Saga did according to Philipp Lanik, the head of studio at King. The Swedish mobile and web game studio behind the Candy Crush Saga franchise was recently acquired by Activision Blizzard for almost $6 billion.
If Mars One, the private enterprise to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars, could just successfully land something on the red planet, then the dominoes would start falling according to Mars One founder and CEO Bas Lansdorp.
Virtual reality was a hit at SXSW, with apps like Splash, which lets you record 360-degree videos with your mobile phone, demonstrating VR’s capabilities for the world outside of gaming. Here are seven other firms who showcased their non-gaming related VR ideas at SXSW.
Babies born today will not understand how their parents could have ever enjoyed a fairy tale without being inside one. Oculus Story Studio, the immersive film arm of Oculus, is leading the effort to unlock the storytelling possibilities of virtual reality.
The feeling of presence that virtual reality gives a user is the most important thing about the media’s medium. However, 360-degree video, which places a user inside a spherical ball, is often not considered to be real VR.
Angel Say, the co-founder of InsiteVR, got into the architecture VR game after seeing how the newly-constructed Northwest Corner Building at Columbia University blocked almost a third of the sky for the university’s night observatory. That type of mishap won’t happen in the future according to Say, not with the power of design VR.
Bas Lansdorp, co-founder and CEO of Mars One, the private venture to establish an outpost on Mars, revealed the general crew training timeline of the expedition during a presentation at SXSW. Lansdorp plans to expand the outpost by sending multiple teams on one-way trips to Mars.
You can expect to see the App Store’s health apps category get a lot more interesting within the next year, according to President Obama’s original Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, as the Argonaut Project finishes its last two sprints in establishing an industry standard for electronic health data.
SXSW Comedy's Completely Official Showcase of Comedy went off spectacularly for its eighth consecutive year, with an appropriately intoxicated crowd shutting down a front row heckler who refused to follow her friends' quieter leads.
The Sunlight Foundation and The University of Chicago’s Center for Data Science and Public Policy showcased three tools that can be used to sift through open government data at a SXSW panel: Open States, which tracks bills and voting records for legislators in all 50 states; the Legislative Influence Detector (LID), which checks how much of a bill has been plagiarized from another source; and DSSG’s Earmarks Tracker, which is a series of scripts that searches through congressional texts.
