Apple Brings Innovation Back to Television with All-New Apple TV
Watch the films TV is a major part of our lives. We gather together around our big screens to watch big shows and big events. Yet somehow, the overall experience of TV has continued to stagnate. Until now. It all starts by recognizing that apps are the future of television. HBO NOW, WatchESPN, Netflix, Hulu, iTunes — apps are quickly becoming how we watch today. So we built a foundation around this vision — with an operating system...
Apple won’t have to pay a patent troll $625 million after all
VirnetX did have the right to bring up the November, 2012 case in an effort to prove that Apple willfully infringed its patents. However, the judge said the company brought it up when it shouldn’t have. He cited one example: “At [the November 2012] trial Apple said those same remarks about not using the patent. And you know, the jury didn’t believe them and agreed with us,” VirnetX’s lawyer said. That...
Apple Introduces iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
Innovation isn’t always obvious to the eye, but look a little closer at iPhone 6s and you’ll find it’s been fundamentally improved. The enclosure is made from a new alloy of 7000 Series aluminum — the same grade used in the aerospace industry. The cover glass is the strongest, most durable glass used in any smartphone. And a new rose gold finish joins space gray, silver, and gold. Learn more about iPhone 6s design See the article...
Barclays swaps passwords for voice IDs for telephone banking
Naturally, Barclays is using Nuance’s crème de la crème voice-verification tech, which can recognise more than 100 unique identifiers in speech. These include speed, emphasis and pronunciation, as well as vocal tract, nasal passage and larynx shape. Customers don’t have to do anything to enable the new security measure, as such. Over the course of two or three calls, Barclays will capture your individual voiceprint and use...
Xbox One S review: A worthy successor — to the Xbox 360
The benefits of upgrading from 2005’s launch Xbox 360 to the Xbox 360 S in 2010 were pretty clear-cut. That isn’t the case this time around, though: Microsoft didn’t have to fix a loud console with an incredibly high failure rate. No, thanks to a slew of software updates, the Xbox One’s most serious issues have already been mostly addressed. And that makes the Xbox One S’ value proposition...
