By Darrell Etherington Self-driving car testing in California is becoming a badge of progress for companies working in the space. Only 17 companies in total have the honor, including two just added to the list: Wheego Electric Cars, and Valeo North America. The Wall Street Journal reports that both these new companies now have approval…

The Galaxy Note 7 has turned out to be a huge problem for Samsung, one that will not go away any time soon. Because of this, Samsung should simply call it quits before serious damage is taken by the brand. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington Self-driving cars of the future won’t need to be configured on the inside the way they are now, since things like steering columns won’t be required. Electric drive trains will also help maximize available interior space, so it makes sense that cars will look dramatically different inside and out when the two…

By John Biggs When its government isn’t cracking down on the reproductive rights of women, Poland can do some cool stuff. To wit: this cool bike path in a town called Pruszków. The path is made of a light-emitting material that charges in the sun and can glow for up to 10 hours in the…

By Matt Hanson Features and performance Is it possible to have too much storage space? Not so long ago, we were carrying everything that mattered to us on 1.44MB floppy disks, and yet here we are reviewing Seagate’s latest internal hard drive that offers a tremendous 10TB of storage space. While hard drive capacities of…

Sprint customers can now exchange their replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after investigations regarding an alleged replacement exploding on a plane launches. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Jon Porter Pokemon Go has been out for several months now, and while the app has progressed a lot in this time – just remember how unstable the servers when it launched – there’s still lots more work to be done. Some of these features are ones that developer Niantic spoke about prior to…

By Darrell Etherington Yesterday, Facebook revealed that it’s working on a standalone headset with inside-out tracking, which would mean that a user could jump into a full virtual reality experience with only the head-mounted display itself, without needing cumbersome cables attached to a big, expensive PC – and without base stations, too, to bounce IR…

T-Mobile will begin shipping the LG V20 on Oct. 28 in the United States. There is no pricing information yet but the AT&T version will be sold for an outrageous price. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Sprint will now allow replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 units to be exchanged for other devices. The move comes after a recent incident where a Galaxy Note 7 allegedly exploded aboard a Southwest Airlines flight, which caused the flight to be canceled. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The HTC Bolt may come running on Android 7.0 Nougat straight out of the box. The smartphone is expected to be Sprint-exclusive in the U.S. and may launch later this month. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington Google’s new hardware is getting a Google-owned physical retail experience – temporarily. The search giant is opening a popup shop in Google at 96 Sprint St. in New York beginning on October 20 called “Made by Google.” This is the same tagline the tech titan uses to market its own-brand hardware, which…

Asus is about to unleash the Snapdragon 821-powered Deluxe Special Edition ZenFone 3, the ZenWatch 3 and the ZenPad 3s 10 in the United States. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

A new report reveals that Google’s new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones receive lower benchmark scores than Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. iPhone SE and last year’s iPhone 6s also top Google’s new handsets. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Wacom announced brand-new tablets under its MobileStudio Pro brand, and they will come in six configurations and two sizes. The company said that these devices are huge leaps from its previous tablet called Cintiq Companion. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones