Facebook rolling out ability to take 360-degree photos in iOS app
Facebook today is bringing the option to take 360-degree photos with its iOS app without needing any extra hardware beyond your iPhone.
Apple engineers share behind-the-scenes evolution of Siri & more on Apple Machine Learning Journal
After first launching its new Machine Learning Journal for Apple engineers to share with the community, today the Siri team has shared three new blog posts based on research being presented at Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm this week.
Snapchat VP says more scripted content should arrive on the platform this year
The effort and innovation of social media services over the last year has been steadily ramping up. Snapchat in particular has been copied by Instagram and Facebook in several different instances as the competition heats up. Now, it looks like Snapchat is going to be launching more original scripted content by the end of the year.
Apple plans to build next U.S. data center in Iowa
Apple’s next plans to expand its data centers in the U.S. are for a facility to be built in Waukee, Iowa.
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Samsung announces Galaxy Note 8, claims better OIS & Portrait Mode than iPhone 7 Plus
Hands-on with Astropad’s new MacBook dongle that turns your iPad into a powerful second screen
Astropad, the company behind many popular and incredibly powerful iOS apps, has unveiled an all-new hardware product. Called Luna Display, Astropad explains that this accessory is the “first and only hardware solution that turns any iPad into a true, wireless second screen display.” Read on for our hands-on review…
As Apple Watch 3 expected to gain LTE, a quarter of owners already using ‘daily’ for phone calls, says survey
A survey of how U.S. consumers use their smartwatches produced mostly unsurprising results. Notifications and texts are of course the most frequent use, with activity-tracking number two …
NordVPN confirms that using a VPN will bypass Verizon’s throttling of all video streams
NordVPN has confirmed that Verizon’s plan to throttle all video streams on its unlimited data plans can be bypassed by using a VPN connection …
This Thunderbolt 3 hard drive/SSD enclosure looks like a mini cheese-grater Mac Pro
I always loved the design of the old ‘cheese-grater‘ Mac Pro, and computer storage company Akitio has used it as the inspiration for its new Thunderbolt 3 drive enclosure.
The company says that the Akitio Thunder3 Quad X was designed for use with the MacBook Pro. The previous version – which had a more generic design – did not support Macs …