Todd R. Weiss

Apple has acquired artificial intelligence and machine learning startup Turi for about $200 million, giving Apple more expertise in both technologies and adding to the company’s growing presence in the Seattle tech hub market. The acquisition was reported Aug. 5 by Geekwire, based on several reports from people with information about the transaction. Turi was […]

The latest iPhone 7 rumors, which come in advance of the expected September launches of the new devices, say the upcoming handsets could have pressure-sensitive “haptic” home buttons that respond to varying amounts of user pressure to control functions. Haptic touch capabilities already built into other Apple products, such as the MacBook Pro laptops, will […]

AT&T’s 8-Inch Trek 2 HD: An Android 6.0 Tablet for Less Than $1 The Trek 2 HD tablet, made by ZTE and built as an entertainment hub, is available from AT&T on a 20-month contract for 99 cents or without a contract for $150. The AT&T Trek 2 HD Tablet The Trek 2 HD features […]

Xiaomi has released its first virtual-reality viewer, the Mi VR Play, and an accompanying Mi VR app, for initial distribution in its native China as beta releases to explore the technology. The company announced the Mi VR Play beta release on Aug. 4 through a post on Facebook, describing it as “a lightweight VR headset […]

Social media and the internet connect people instantaneously, but those digital, on-screen messages disappear quickly. Now a new app from Pixinote is designed to change that pattern by giving users a means to capture a photo with a smartphone, add a brief text message and have the photo and message printed out and sent by […]

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Features Improved Stylus, Enterprise Security Samsung updates its latest Note smartphone with a better stylus, iris scanning capabilities and a number of security improvements. The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone The Note 7 has a 5.7-inch quad HD dual-edge Super AMOLED display (2,560-by-1,440 resolution, 518 pixels per inch) that’s covered with […]

Chinese mobile device maker ZTE is seeking help and direct input from mobile phone fanatics in the development of a new smartphone in 2017 by asking them to join a special program that will take user input to create a new device. Project CSX, which was unveiled by ZTE on Aug. 3, will allow mobile […]

BlackBerry is now offering its BlackBerry Hub+ productivity suite, which is part of the company’s BlackBerry 10 operating system, as a 99 cents-a-month subscription offering to all users of smartphones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The BlackBerry Hub+ productivity suite is already part of the company’s Priv smartphones and will be featured on the company’s upcoming […]

Worldwide shipments of tablet computers dropped another 12.3 percent in the second quarter, falling to 38.7 million from 44.1 million one year ago, as the segment continues its steady decline from being a growth marketplace just seven years ago. The preliminary figures, from research firm IDC’s latest worldwide quarterly tablet tracker, show that the decline […]

Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy Note 7 phablet at a special “Galaxy Unpacked” event in New York City on Aug. 2, featuring all-new iris scanning capabilities, a much-improved integrated S Pen stylus, a first-ever “Secure Folder” feature and other updates aimed at making users more productive and creative. The new Note 7 is slimmer and […]