insert_link Tech Made Simple Ring in the New Year with Pokemon GO! Pokemon Go is capping off 2021 with a New Year's event. The festivities kick off on Dec. 31 and include costumed Pokemon, new avatar items and various other in-game bonuses. As they put it in their official pokemongolive.com site: Happy 2020 from Slowpoke! Wait, no—it’s about to be 2022! Why is Slowpoke still wearing those glasses? At least Slowking got the memo! That’s right—our New Year’s celebration event is right […] todayDecember 27, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Looks like CES 2022 might be imploding as T-Mobile, Amazon, and others bow out over COVID-19 concerns In a case of pandemic deja vu, another gigantic tech tradeshow that looks like it may be falling apart as the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, and on, and on. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert, one of the Consumer Electronics Show’s featured speakers, has publicly announced that his company won’t be attending the world’s largest electronics show next month. And according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Amazon has also decided not to attend the show […] todayDecember 23, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Twitter confirms it’s testing an ‘undo tweet’ feature — but you’ll have to pay The evidence is mounting that Twitter will be adding an “undo tweet” feature, but that those who want it will have to pay: app researcher Jane Manchun Wong has discovered a subscription screen tied to the feature. The Verge reports that the ability to take back tweets has also shown up on a survey asking Twitter users about features they’d be willing to pay for, as well as in the […] todayMarch 24, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Ring’s Traffic Stop feature is about bringing more accountability to policing but could it lead to invasions of privacy Last Thursday, Ring, the home security subsidiary of Amazon, released a new dashcam embedded with a novel feature called “Traffic Stop” that could help bring more accountability to policing. That could be a powerful thing, especially as tens of millions of people have poured onto the streets in cities across the country to demonstrate against systemic racism, white supremacy, and police brutality. But, it could also be a privacy nightmare. The Ring […] todaySeptember 30, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple The new Engage Game Boy is an experiment in “Sustainable Gaming” The original Game Boy from 1989 was an iconic handheld console but, as anyone who owned one will tell you, it required a steady stream of batteries to keep running. Now, a team of researchers at Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology have developed a new take on the classic console, replacing its array of four AA batteries with a set of five rows of solar panels and buttons that harvest power […] todaySeptember 9, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit acquisition is getting closer scrutiny from EU regulators Antitrust regulators and consumer advocacy groups are increasing their scrutiny of Google’s planned acquisition of fitness tracker firm Fitbit. Google announced it was buying Fitbit last year for $2.1 billion and said it hoped to complete the deal some time in 2020. But it’s possible the acquisition will be delayed over fears about the search giant’s increased access to sensitive data from Fitbit’s hardware, including users’ heart rates, their fitness […] todayJuly 7, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Snapchat Set to Launch Gaming Program Cheddar reports that Snap may be launching a new gaming platform for Snapchat as early as next month at the company’s Snap Partner Summit in Los Angeles on April 4th. Then The Information reported last Summer that Snap was working on a gaming program. And CNET reported that Snap also bought an Australian game studio named Prettygreat back in January. Essentially, all signs point to yes, this is happening. This […] todayMarch 18, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Adobe Makes a Patch for a Speaker-Blowing Premiere Pro CC Issue Earlier this month, both CNet and 9to5Mac reported that a number of Adobe Premiere CC users experienced a worrying problem with the program: a bug seemed to be blowing the speakers on their late-model MacBook Pros in some instances. This week, Adobe released a patch for the program that corrected the issue. One user reported a “really loud screatching [sic] noise,” that wouldn’t let them turn it off. “After […] todayFebruary 26, 2019
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