By Parker Wilhelm A six-year-old lawsuit between Sony and Linux users has finally come to a close, resulting in Sony agreeing to pay PlayStation 3 owners a sum for removing the open-source OS from its console. The hubbub started back in March of 2010, when Sony removed the ability to install outside operating systems on…

By Matt Swider The LG X Style is determined prove that just because an Android phone is logged in the mid-tier doesn’t mean it has to be a chunky plastic eyesore. It can have class too. Okay, the LG X Style that I tested in Seoul, Korea is still made of plastic, but it remains…

By Brian Heater Here’s a neat little add-on for folks looking to get a little more out of their GoPro. The Vitrima is a big metal add-on created by Chicago-based startup Fantem that brings 3D video capture to the action camera. The device features a plastic GoPro case affixed to a big lens with mirrors…

By Brian Heater WowWee, the Hong Kong-based manufacturer behind that old RadioShack stalwart, RoboSapien, showed off a couple of promising high tech toys due out in the fall. COJI is one of the company’s more compelling products in a while. The little robot, which made its first public appearance at ToyFair earlier this year, is…

By Devin Coldewey Space fiends who are also couch potatoes, rejoice! NASA’s all-purpose app for finding and watching content from the cosmos has arrived on Apple TV. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Stefan Etienne Hasselblad picked a rather unique location — the Absolut Elyx house — in the Meatpacking District for me to meet their reps and play with the new X1D. For a quick refresher, it’s the world’s first compact medium format camera which was announced just this morning. Given that the X1D is still…

By Devin Coldewey If you’ve got more than a handful 3D printers or other devices running at a time, it’s a full time job keeping them going — removing and packaging products, tweaking settings, pushing “OK” after minor errors, that sort of thing. Why not have a robot do it for you? Read More …read…

By Ben Dickson The Internet of Things genie is out of the bottle and growing at an accelerating pace. According to Gartner, 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015. This number will soar to more than 20 billion by 2020. Here are some of the changes…

By Romain Dillet [macOS Sierra](https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/apple-announces-ios-10/) is Apple’s latest version of its operating system for the Mac. While the final version will only be available in the fall, I’ve been playing around with the first beta for the past few days. In addition to changing the operating system’s name from OS X to macOS, Apple is…

By Brian Heater Samsung keeps pulling back the old football for Stateside consumers when it comes to the Gear 360. Shortly after it was first introduced back in February at Mobile World Congress, the company noted that the US would not be among the first markets to get their hands on the VR camera. Several…

Huawei’s newest device dubbed Huawei MateBook is slated to hit store shelves in July. How does it compare with Microsoft Surface 3, which arrived last year? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Brian Heater It looked like Roost when getting ready to go full-on Nest when the company made the leap from connected batteries to smoke alarms, but its latest product represents a different approach to a connected home strategy. The Smart Water and Freeze Detector is, dare I say, not as sexy as a smoke…

By Brian Heater It’s a little late for Father’s Day, but at least there’s plenty of summer vacationing time left to take full advantage of Amazon’s newly refreshed Kindle. The entry-level e-reader has slimmed down and dropped a little weight in time for swimsuit season – 16-percent, for those counting, now down to 5.7 ounces.…

Google gave details on the window of life of each Nexus phones and tablets. Users can do the math on their own, but this chart should give them a good idea about when Google will give up on a given Nexus device. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

A new report claims Apple is planning to address the removal of the standard headphone port in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus/Pro. The company is said to include 3.5mm EarPods and a Lightning adapter that will allow users to connect them or their favorite headphones to their new iPhones. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com…