If you're new to Amazon Echo — hey! Welcome. Amazon Echo fans can be a fanatical bunch when it comes to the part-speaker, part-smart home device. We'll teach you the secret handshake later. … [Read more...]

On the heels of the success of its Discover Weekly feature, Spotify is adding another curated service so that users can find new music. Called Fresh Finds, the new weekly Wednesday feature, available through to all Spotify users in its “Browse” tool, will uncover new artists for listeners. … [Read more...]

Nobody likes being monitored. But even if you suspected your company is following your activities on the iPhone, would you know where to check? In the next iteration of its smartphone operating system, iOS 9.3, Apple is looking to make this an easier task. According to Reddit user MaGNeTiX, the latest beta of iOS 9.3 has a message telling users their iPhone is being … [Read more...]

Pouring gas on the bonfire of news tech, Google recently announced that it has invested more than €27 million ($30 million) into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal is to ‘help stimulate innovation in digital journalism’ over the next three years, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said at an event in Paris last week. This batch of investments is the first … [Read more...]

Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup CornerJob has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. The app, which launched in Italy in September last year and has since expanded to France, Spain and Mexico, focuses on low skill, high turnover recruitment, and aims to streamline the hiring and … [Read more...]

You've probably seen the picture: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walking down the aisle with a huge satisfied smile on his face as a sea of seated people wearing Samsung Gear VR headsets are completely unaware of his appearance. … [Read more...]

Two days removed from the other big smartphone announcements at the Mobile World Congress was Xiaomi’s Mi 5, the company’s first truly global flagship smartphone. … [Read more...]

Hoverboards, also known as self-balancing scooters, have been effectively declared unsafe. To date, no hoverboard with UL certification has been sold in the U.S., which means the ones you already own are on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's hit list. They are dangerous and you need to know what to do with them. … [Read more...]