[ad_1] President Obama awarded the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to a batch of 21 deserving recipients, among them computing pioneers Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, who died in 1992 and thus is awarded the medal posthumously, was a major figure in ...

[ad_1] Many an iPhone 6 Plus has been struck down by the scourge known as “Touch Disease,” but Apple has not acknowledged the problem was systematic or widespread — until now. In what we have to imagine is as close to a mea culpa as Apple is likely to offer, ...

[ad_1] Many an iPhone 6 Plus has been struck down by the scourge known as “Touch Disease,” but Apple has not acknowledged the problem was systematic or widespread — until now. In what we have to imagine is as close to a mea culpa as Apple is likely to offer, ...

[ad_1] Although it’s based on the same Fiat Chrysler Small Wide 4×4 Architecture that underpins the Jeep Renegade, Fiat 500X, and Fiat 500L, the new 2017 Jeep Compass is slightly larger than its brethren, competing more with Honda’s CRV, Toyota’s RAV4, Ford’s Escape, and Hyundai’s Santa Fe. Except, according to ...

[ad_1] (Image: File photo) AT&T on Thursday announced customers will be able to send text messages hands-free through Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, beginning on Friday. Alexa is the voice assistant powering Amazon’s widely-popular Echo line of speakers. With AT&T’s new Alexa skill, customers can ask to send a text, and ...

[ad_1] CNET/CBS Interactive The premium version of the iPhone 8 will have a 5.8-inch OLED panel when released in 2017, noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities said in a new research note. However, the active display area will be between 5.1 and 5.2 inches for “specific design purposes”. ...

[ad_1]  Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Open Whisper Systems (OWS), the not-for-profit software group behind the respected Signal Protocol crypto (and the eponymous Signal secure messaging app) has responded to criticism of how the group is developing its projects by calling for more contributions from the community to broaden implementations of ...

[ad_1] Barnes & Noble hopes its new $50 Nook Tablet 7-inch can compete with Amazon’s popular Kindle Fire tablets. A couple of weeks ago, I reported that a new Nook tablet had hit the FCC, but Barnes & Noble had stayed mum on its existence. As the holiday shopping season ...

[ad_1] While most people might know Niantic for building the hype-monster that is Pokémon GO, GO wasn’t the company’s first big release. That title goes to Ingress, an equally (if not more) location-centric game. Just days after Ingress’ fourth birthday, Niantic is shaking things up with the introduction of a ...

[ad_1] Electronics and water go together like, well, electronics and water. But how are you going to talk to your friends when you’re knee deep in snow or plunging down a mountainside on a bike? Bonx to the rescue. The Indiegogo-funded Bonx Grip brings group-chat to the masses. Shipping this ...