But a new upgrade to the SIM card means life can even simpler. Called an electronic SIM or eSIM, it is a way of linking your phone, using software, to a SIM (usually in a server rack at the service provider). The new iPhone Xs, which I am using, has an eSIM built in.
When artificial intelligence systems start getting creative, they can create great things – and scary ones. Take, for instance, an AI program that let web users compose music along with a virtual Johann Sebastian Bach by entering notes into a program that generates Bach-like harmonies to match them.
The good news is Facebook has shut down white supremacists and hate speech. The bad news was that it happened after the live streaming of the horror Christchurch massacre in March. The even worse news is that Facebook’s notoriously lax policies around data privacy were confirmed when it was revealed that hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords were stored in an unencrypted plain text format.
First SpaceX, and now Amazon plans to send 3,236 satellites into low earth orbit in a bid to beam internet to humans on the ground.
Fuji’s Instax models are firmly rooted in the Polaroid days of yore but Canon’s got something a little more modern on the way. Called the Canon Ivy Cliq (or the Ivy Cliq+, if you’re feeling wealthy), these little image-spitting snappers are officially billed as “instant camera printers”.
Broadcast yourself into social media stardom with Stuff’s selection of speedy video apps – they’ll make you look like a proper director with minimal effort.
Google’s email service launched 15 years ago… and today it’s finally adding the option to schedule emails.
Who needs a GPS in this day and age? Not many folks, really. Just about everyone has a smartphone and smartphones have Google Maps. And other options. A standalone GPS doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, except in very specific cases. TomTom disagrees, though, and to that end it’s come up with something a little different: The TomTom Go Premium.
The December 2018 premiere of Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch offered consumers a new way to influence the entertainment they’re watching. Netflix has a growing list of choose-your-own-adventure movies.
Google has started rolling out a major Gmail update that will let you interact with dynamic emails inside the inbox ecosystem.