Are you curious about Pokemon Go and just too afraid to ask what it is, or how to play at this point? WVEC has put together a list of everything you could ever want to know about Pokemon Go, along with some tricks and tips. What are Pokemon? Pokemon, or Pocket Monsters, were created in Japan in 1995. The concept is that people, commonly referred to as Pokemon Trainers, catch […]
As automakers and technology companies race to get driverless cars onto the market, one expert is warning that the technology is nowhere near ready to hit America's roads. The recent crash involving Tesla's Model S is a tragic example that even semi-automated programs like autopilot have risks, said Mary Cummings, Duke University Robotics director. "These accidents are inevitable because the technology really has not been tested across the wide span […]
It’s becoming less and less apparent why high-end smartphones need to cost so much. A brand new, unlocked, iPhone 6S starts at $649, and a Samsung Galaxy S7 starts at$700. They’re both great phones, but other than brand names, it’s not entirely clear what you’re getting for your money, at least when compared to what else is on the market. Much like the new Sprint commercials that question why it’s […]
Nine years and a few days ago, Apple released the iPhone, and the world was never the same. With the iPhone's decade mark in sight, the tech world is starting to get a little restless for the next big shift in computing, even as theiPhone itself starts to look a little boring. Smartphones have revolutionized everything from retail to banking to education. Aren't we due for some new, big, world-changing […]
In 2015, a group of Amazon employees kicked around ideas for a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding site. The idea didn't get very far, as they soon learned that the market was already crowded. Instead, they discovered that every retail startup was looking for someone to solve the same problem: how to get their products exposed to a wider audience. It was a problem Amazon knew how to fix. And so the team that initially thought about a […]
Apple has hit a new snag in China: Beijing's intellectual property agency has ruled that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus violate a design patent by one of China's own smartphone-makers. Authorities found that this older generation of iPhones looks too similar to a phone, the 100C, made by a company called Shenzhen Baili. As a result, Apple was ordered to stop selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus […]
Facebook introduced the ability to post 360-degree photos to the site. To celebrate, the social media giant has recruited Paul McCartney to share one of Facebook’s first 360 photos. It was taken during his stop in Córdoba, Argentina on his ongoing “One on One Tour.” Check it out below. McCartney plans to post more 360 photos beginning with his June 10 show at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. Recently, McCartney shared a 360 video in […]
Facebook has decided on quite the way to convince people to download Moments: by threatening to delete thousands of photos if they don't. The notice has to do with a photo syncing feature that was recently removed from Facebook's main mobile app. Starting in 2012, the core Facebook app was able toautomatically upload photos from a phone's local camera roll to a private album on Facebook. They were kept there […]
If it’s not already painfully obvious, people’s passwords are being sold in the murky corners of the web en masse. This week, as many as 32 million Twitter TWTR -2.14% passwords were reportedly on sale for 10 Bitcoin ($5,775), as Leaked Source, a search engine for stolen data, claimed it had been passed a humongous dataset by an anonymous party. Twitter doesn’t believe it was hacked. Leaked Source thinks usernames […]
