Todd R. Weiss

Roku announced on Sept 26 that it has added five new streaming video players to its product lineup, giving customers a wide array of options beyond the company’s original Roku Streaming Stick and its Roku TV models. The latest streaming players, which range from $30 to $130, are aimed at customers who want to stream […]

Virtual reality fans will soon be able to go into private online VR rooms, where they will be able to share and view a wide range of content with friends anywhere in the world, while talking and laughing as if they were actually in the same room. MyVR, which bills itself as a virtual reality […]

Snapchat has changed its name to Snap and unveiled its first physical product—Snap Spectacles—which include a small integrated video camera that lets users capture short daily video clips that can be shared with others. Snap announced Spectacles in a Sept. 24 post on the company’s website and also unveiled its new name to reflect that […]

Apple is apparently stocking up on machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, having bought machine learning vendor Tuplejump Software in June for an undisclosed price. In August, Apple acquired artificial intelligence and machine learning startup Turi for about $200 million. The Tuplejump acquisition, which was reported in a Sept. 22 report by Bloomberg, was revealed […]

Paid subscription revenue for streaming music is up 57 percent in the first half of 2016 in the United States compared with a year ago, giving a lift to the music industry as it continues its transformation away from the sales of CDs, digital downloads and vinyl albums. Streaming music revenue in the first half […]

BlackBerry has announced a $250 discount on the regular prices of its Passport smartphones and $224 off its Priv handsets through Oct. 19 in a special sale being held on its BlackBerry.com website. The sale brings the price of a black Passport phone to $249, down from the regular $499, while the Passport Silver Edition […]

Apple has released the public beta version 10.1 of its iOS 10 mobile operating system, just nine days after the company made the full version of the latest iOS 10 system available to users on Sept. 13. The public beta of iOS 10.1 allows registered users to download and test out the code, though Apple […]

Two weeks after launching its latest Moto Z Play Droid Edition smartphone with Verizon on Sept. 8, Moto.com has begun taking preorders for the unlocked version of the Moto Z. The unlocked Moto Z, which sells for $699.99, is compatible with AT&T, T-Mobile and other GSM networks and allows owners to switch carriers, will be […]

GoPro Hero5 Action Cams, Karma Drone Slated for October Delivery Go Pro’s Hero5 Black and the Hero5 Session feature new voice-control capabilities and other improvements. The company is also launching its first drone, GoPro Karma. The GoPro Hero5 Black Action Camera The new $399.99 GoPro Hero5 Black action camera has a 2-inch touch-screen display, a […]

Continuing to map out its direction in the electric vehicle industry, Apple reportedly has been in acquisition talks with luxury supercar maker McLaren Technology Group and with San Francisco electric motorbike startup Lit Motors. The talks between McLaren and Apple were reported Sept. 21 by The (London) Financial Times, which said the companies have been […]