Author: News Room
After selling their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, where some of its core features were incorporated into Apple Weather, the creators of Dark Sky have left Apple to create yet another alternative. Their new app, called Acme Weather, embraces the fact that forecasts will never be entirely accurate by providing both a main prediction of the day’s conditions and several alternate predictions.Acme Weather is currently only available for iOS. An Android version is planned, but there’s no release timeline yet. You can try it out for two weeks for free, but a $25 annual subscription is needed…
You may remember that Sony recently announced a partnership with TCL to produce its Bravia TV lineup. Now Panasonic has got in the act, teaming up with Chinese brand Skyworth to produce its next-gen TVs as part of a trend towards fewer companies making all our TVs. It’s been rumored for a while that Panasonic was looking for an alternative arrangement for its TVs. This announcement applies to Panasonic TVs made in Europe – it’s not yet clear what is happening with Panasonic TVs produced elsewhere, though there is certainly the potential for it to roll out elsewhere. Panasonic’s press…
Less than a month after making their debut, Apple’s second-gen AirTags are already receiving their first discount. Right now, Costco members can buy five location trackers for $99.99 ($29 off) either online or in-store, bringing the price of each tracker down to about $20 a pop. If you don’t already belong to Costco, you can still take advantage of the discount if you’re willing to pay a $5 surcharge or sign up for an annual membership, which currently starts at $65 a year.Apple’s original AirTag has been our favorite tracker for iPhone users for years, and the newest version builds…
As 2025 drew to a close, Instagram head Adam Mosseri ended the year by doom-posting about AI. “Authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible,” Mosseri lamented. “Everything that made creators matter — the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn’t be faked — is now accessible to anyone with the right tools.” But people, Mosseri insisted, still wanted “content that feels real.” His proposed solution was finding a way to label real media. “Camera manufacturers will cryptographically sign images at capture, creating a chain of custody,” he said. The result would be a trustworthy system for determining…
Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company in the process.That’s some of the purest Decoder bait that ever was, because it’s all about how you structure a company and how you make decisions about changing that structure. So of course I had to bring Hank back on to talk all about it.But…
After teasing the upcoming launch of its midrange Phone 4A last week, Nothing has now revealed what the rear of the device looks like. An official render of the Phone 4A shared on X shows off the brand’s familiar transparent-industrial stylings, alongside a new “Glyph Bar” lighting feature located to the right of the triple camera island.This Glyph Bar features nine individually controllable mini-LEDs that appear as a line of seven square lights — six white, and one red — replacing the three LED light strips that surround the camera on Nothing’s 3A devices. Nothing says that the Glyph Bar…
If you’re after a great iPhone selfie, Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max, along with its 17 Pro sibling, won’t let you down. But, thanks to the laws of lens and sensor physics, they can’t hold a candle to the main rear cameras. Trouble is, unless you’ve dialled in your blind framing, or stuck a mirror on the back like the good old cameras from the early 2000s, you’re better off sticking with the dedicated selfie cam for perfectly composed shots. Or, you could consider snapping up Dockcase’s upcoming Selfix iPhone 17 phone case. The case for the iPhone 17 Pro…
Light-based internet provider Taara, which spun out of Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator last year, just launched Taara Beam to provide 25Gbps connectivity within cities over invisible beams of light — line of sight permitting.Unlike last year’s Taara Lightbridge, which connects communities separated by water and mountains at distances up to 20km (over 12 miles), the shoebox-sized Beam can be mounted to street poles and roof tops for city-wide connectivity at distances up to 10km. The 8kg (less than 20 pounds) device typically consumes about 90W.Taara’s big advantage is speed. It rivals fiber in terms of throughput and can also be deployed…
Apple could be lining up a much bolder look for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro, if the latest rumours are to be believed. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is currently testing a new flagship “deep red” finish for the iPhone 18 Pro, carrying on the momentum from the current iPhone 17 Pro’s striking orange finish. Gurman also states that the current orange colour has been extremely popular, particularly in China. If his report is true, it’s unclear whether Apple will be replacing the orange option, or adding red to the roster. For what it’s worth, Gurman marks that he…
If you’re in the market for the best tablet, it’s worth considering a few options beyond the popular models from Apple and Samsung. One of those is, of course, Amazon, which has emerged as a major player at the cheaper end of the tablet market. Amazon offers a pretty diverse range of tablets under the Fire branded lineup, so we’ve rated the best Fire tablets to make your decision easier. As they all derive from Camp Bezos, Amazon Fire tablets come with a certain seal of approval that other retailers may not provide. Much like the Echo, Fire tablets are…
It’s rare that technology circles back to old-school tools, but here we are using styluses to jot down notes on tablets. Of course, today’s versions swap ink and paper for pixels. If you’re shopping for a new tablet for work or leisure, this buying guide has you covered. Tablets aren’t just oversized phones anymore. They’ve grown into versatile tools that can slot into almost any part of your life. You might use one to sketch out a design, check your bank account, catch up on a book, or even replace your laptop for occasional work. The market now covers just…
If you’ve owned an iMac, iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, or Apple Watch, you’ve already experienced the design handiwork of Sir Jony Ive. Now the former Apple design chief is working on a smart speaker and other hardware for OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT. On paper, it sounds like a formidable pairing – the designer behind Apple’s most iconic products teaming up with the company that dominates consumer AI. Together, they’re said to be building a camera-equipped, screenless ChatGPT smart speaker capable of observing its surroundings and even making purchases. But standalone AI hardware hasn’t exactly had a smooth run…