Daily Archives: July 18, 2016





BoseBuild Every toy and electronics maker wants to get on the edutainment train. And understandably so. After all, who wouldn’t want to make the toy that kickstarts the lifelong fascination of the next Nikola Tesla or Ada Lovelace? But such a glut of products highlights a consistent issue with the space: educational toys are easy to do, but hard to do well. As the first entry in its planned… Read More

The BoseBUILD Speaker Cube educational kit isn’t quite fully formed


Screen Shot 2016-07-18 at 4.48.41 PM Star Wars engineering experts have tipped their hand regarding one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets: Exactly how BB-8 works in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While film-makers behind the movie have given some clues as to how the droid works, and people have engineered backwards from Sphero’s toy version of the rolling droid, this is the first time we’ve been told in no… Read More

The real story behind how BB-8 works in The Force ...



android-phone-shutterstock Google today released the fifth and last preview Android Nougat before the scheduled final release later this summer. According to the company, this preview includes the latest version of the Android Nougat emulator to do apps final testing, the final N APIs, the latest system behaviors and UI and the latest bug fixes and optimizations across the system and pre-installed apps. As far as… Read More

Google launches final Android Nougat Developer Preview


LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 08: (L-R) Recording Artists Taylor Swift, Jay Z and Kanye West and tv personality Kim Kardashian attend The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS) Not-so-breaking news from the world of celebrity gossip: Kimye and T-Swift are at it again! And with this particular stage of the celebrity feud, we are given an amazing opportunity to look at how social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat can be used as weapons. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Kim whipped out the big guns this weekend, posting a Snapchat Story of… Read More

Kim’s Snapchat Story, Taylor’s Instagram, and all the 1’s and ...




ZTE ZTE threw a fairly intimate party for itself today in Manhattan to announce the launch of its latest budget handset, a little under to months after announcing the $200 Grand X Max 2. Once again, the killer spec here is the price – the six-inch ZMAX PRO phablet runs an attractive $99, after rebate. The sub-$100 price tag actually brings with it some decent looking specs, including a… Read More

ZTE’s six-inch Android phablet runs $99 post-rebate



snapchat-plus Finally there’s a better way to gain followers on Snapchat. The app refuses to tell you who to watch. There are no suggested user lists, no leaderboards, no little buttons everywhere begging you to add someone new. You’ve had to go out and find your own people to follow. Until now. Alongside the recent launch of Memories, Snapchat quietly added a new feature it didn’t… Read More

Snapchat “Suggest” is the new way to get famous


iphone-7-iphone-7-plus-iphone-7-pro-back Welcome to rumorland, where we look at smoke from afar to figur out if there’s any fire. This time, signs point to a new iPhone 7 Pro. In addition to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the Pro model would feature a dual-camera system as well as a smart connector at the back. Two photos spotted by Nowhere Else shows the three models side by side. The iPhone 7 Plus looks like a bigger version… Read More

Apple could release an iPhone 7 Pro with a dual-camera ...