By Darren Allan Intel has revealed that there will be a considerable delay in the arrival of 3D XPoint memory, and the blazingly fast modules apparently won’t pitch up until late 2018 at the earliest. This news comes courtesy of The Motley Fool, which reports that in Intel’s latest earnings call, CEO Brian Krzanich said…

By Darrell Etherington Controlling your home theater setup with your voice just got a lot easier: Alexa now has an official Logitech Harmony skill, letting you issue simple commands like “Alexa, turn on the TV” or Alexa, turn on Netflix” to start Harmony activities. This is far simpler than existing third-party skills, which can give…

The Samsung Galaxy S5 mini is finally getting the Android Marshmallow update, months after the Galaxy S5 was updated. The last upgrade came in 2015, but after this, fans shouldn’t look for another since the handset has aged. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

This early, some LG V20 owners are reporting that the glass panel that covers the handset’s camera easily shatters. LG has not issued a statement yet, but the company did not use sapphire glass for the covering component. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Samsung is said to launch a new exchange program where Galaxy Note 7 owners who turned in their phablet for a Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge can get a free Galaxy S8 when it launches. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Matt Burns The MLB just made it a bit easier to listen to the Indians destroy the Cubs during the World Series. After enabling the skill, subscribers to MLB products just need to tell an Echo to ask MLB to play the Indians. And like that, the Echo turns into your personal Bob Uecker,…

By Matthew Lynley A lot of the industry watchers that follow Twitter are out here on the West Coast, where the company is based. And for good reason! The Twitter diaspora exists in a large force out here and are great to keep in touch with in order to keep context, and it’s important to…

Samsung Galaxy S8 development is facing serious problems and delays as engineers struggle to find the root cause of the exploding Galaxy Note 7. If things fail to change, we could be looking at a delayed announcement and release of the device. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The third case of a Galaxy S7 edge catching fire has been reported, amid Samsung’s cleanup efforts after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle. Should owners of the company’s previous flagship smartphone start to panic? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By James Root Playing a new Civ game is like driving a new car in a foreign country. Lots of things feel familiar, you sort of know what you’re doing, and the end goals are broadly the same. But there are a lot of new buttons to learn, things aren’t necessarily where they are supposed…

Ever wondered what the Taptic engine in the iPhone 7 Plus and the vibration motor in both the Google Pixel XL look like? A video on YouTube shows them in action, and while they do the same thing, the designs are obviously different. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Yashad Kulkarni,Romain Dillet Apple has just released iOS 10.1 with a Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. This feature takes advantage of the two lenses to generate background blur and make your photos look more like photos coming from a DSLR camera. While the feature is still in beta even after the release…

By Romain Dillet Apple has just released the first significant update for iOS 10. As expected, the main focus of iOS 10.1 is that insane Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. The update is currently rolling out and is available both over-the-air in the Settings app, and by plugging your device into iTunes for…

By Alessandro Fillari It’s not often we see games set in Northern California, particularly the San Francisco Bay Area. With such an expansive population and a deep history encompassing the artistic and counter-culture movement, you’d think there’d be more games mining the history of the tech capital of the world. And yet, besides Driver: San…

By Darrell Etherington Connected thermostat maker ecobee is launching a new program that lets users of its devices opt-in to sharing their anonymized usage data as part of a large-scale study regarding home energy efficiency. The program will share info like home age, size and occupancy numbers as well as temperature outside the home and…