When you’re working from home for the first time, you quickly realize that it requires more thought than plunking your laptop on the coffee table. Nailing down the tech is a large part of it. But we realize, too, that there’s a “softer” side: what hours you keep, how to stay in contact with coworkers …
Enlarge / The Huawei P40 Pro. Huawei is still using components made by US companies in its newest flagship smartphone, a Financial Times teardown has found, despite the US all but blacklisting the Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer. On Thursday, Huawei launched its P40 smartphone—one of the first flagship devices the company has launched since Washington’s …
An example of Dark Sky’s maps from the desktop Web version. Here’s a precipitation heatmap from the iOS version. This is the main view in the iOS app. Dark Sky And here’s the multi-day forecast in the app. Dark Sky This push notification went out to iOS users today. Popular weather app and data-collection service …
Apple has acquired the much-loved weather app Dark Sky. One of the first weather services to use machine learning to make very local and very timely weather predictions, Dark Sky has been a feature on just about every “best weather apps” list since its release back in 2012. What started as a successful Kickstarter project grew into …
Having just released iOS and iPadOS 13.4 on March 24, with big new features like trackpad and mouse support for iPads and iCloud folder sharing, Apple is moving on to its next minor release. For some reason, the company has skipped over iOS 13.4.1 through 13.4.4 and gone right to iOS 13.4.5. That doesn’t mean …
International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years. “At the end of February 2020, we identified that an unexpected amount of guest information may have been accessed using the login credentials of two employees at …
The Fitbit Charge 4. Fitbit There are a lot of band options. Fitbit You can make payments now. Fitbit The heart rate and SpO2 sensor. Fitbit There’s a button on the side. Fitbit The screen is still monochrome. Fitbit Fitbit is still out there living its life and launching products despite a looming acquisition by …
From Disney Junior and Mister Rogers to Billie Eilish and Beyoncé, the curated and ad-free Spotify Kids app comes loaded with thousands of tunes that’ll keep your kids bopping while they school from home, and the beta version is now available in the U.S. for download. Boasting more than 125 hand-picked playlists, the Spotify Kids …
In a world where I wasn’t confined to my home, this article would be filled with my impressions of Fitbit’s latest fitness tracker, the Charge 4. I would have written about the feel of it on my wrist, the responsiveness of the display, and tested the new Spotify integration that brings playback controls to a …
The MacBook Air is Apple’s best-loved and best-selling laptop. It’s thin, light, powerful enough for most people, and it’s the least expensive option in Apple’s laptop lineup. Apple finally brought the MacBook Air into the modern Mac era in 2018 with the addition of USB-C, Touch ID, a Retina display, and the removal of MagSafe …