It would have been nice if Apple had made the iPhone 6 or 6S and the 6 or 6S Plus waterproof, or at least water resistant. One of the most common culprits for smartphone damage is liquids. Phones get dunked in the toilet, dropped in puddles, and have drinks spilled all over them. You can take your…
There are plenty of dystopian predictions about the Singularity: one definition of which is the point at which general AI and computer intelligence overtakes and replaces human cognition. However, a new report from telecoms provider Tata Communications paints a more positive picture: a future world of work based on collaboration, in which AI augments and diversifies…
E-commerce beauty startup founder, Glossier CEO Emily Weiss, dished on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 this morning about some of the company’s top competitors in the e-commerce space, including Amazon as well as the forthcoming threat from Instagram – which is building out its own standalone shopping app, according to reports. Glossier, founded in…
While the Adidas Futurecraft 4D shoes are cool looking sneakers, the story behind those shoes is even more interesting. The sportswear company has partnered with Carbon to design a new kind of sneakers. Behind the Futurecraft 4D, you can find a process that is not that new — 3D printing. Many companies promised an industrial…
Another day, another whopper of a tariff. The Trump administration has been busy finalizing the rulemaking process to put 25 percent tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, which will almost certainly affect the prices of many critical technology components and have on-going repercussions for Silicon Valley supply chains. That followed the implementation of tariffs…
A lot can change in a year. Not when you’re Equifax. The credit rating giant, one of the largest in the world, was trusted with some of the most sensitive data used by banks and financiers to determine who can be lent money. But the company failed to patch a web server it knew was…
Living in fear of losing your contacts, photos, messages, and notes on your iPhone? Fear no more — in this guide we’ll break down exactly how to back up your iPhone to your computer using Apple’s iTunes or to the cloud with iCloud. The post How to back up your iPhone appeared first on Digital…
Immersive technologies are moving from “hypothetical to pragmatic use” in industrial companies, with AR emerging as the early winner, says a new Capgemini report. Jessica Twentyman looks at its findings. Aerospace giant Boeing is using augmented reality (AR) to give technicians instructions for airplane wiring schematics. By putting them directly in workers’ fields of view…
Branch, the deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin’s Playground Ventures, will enter the unicorn club with an upcoming funding round. The four-year-old company, which helps brands create links between websites and mobile apps, has authorized the sale of $129 million in Series D shares, according to sources and confirmed by PitchBook, which tracks venture capital…
Peer into the future — or a future, at least. Having otherwise run out of things to improve on, Nokia brand licenser HMD is apparently bringing a five-camera phone to market (well, six, probably, if you count the other side). Because three or four would be taking the easy way out. The leaked image of…
