Interested in an Android Wear device with an extra bit of glamour attached? Your thirst might be quenched with the LG Watch Urbane Luxe, a premium, gold-plated version of the company's LG Watch Urbane smartwatch. … [Read more...]

Hopper offers real-time alerts on airfares to give users a head's up when a ticket is likely at it's cheapest, but until now the app sent travelers to airline and booking sites to actually buy a flight. Not anymore. … [Read more...]

Apple will play a part in helping the Pentagon develop stretchable electronic sensors that soldiers can wear, according to a Reuters report. Apple will be one 162 companies, universities and other groups in the FlexTech Alliance working with the U.S. Department of Defense on developing "high-end printing technologies," such as 3D printing. … [Read more...]

Microsoft is finally making screenshots in Windows way more manageable. The company introduced a new way to capture screenshots Thursday called Snip, a standalone app that lets you add your voice and doodles to screen grabs. … [Read more...]

The Holy Grail of mobile devices – long charge times – may be within reach, thanks to a British energy company that has developed an iPhone that stays charged for a week.  Remember when cell phones lasted for days on one charge?  Smartphones like the iPhone ended all of that.  The iPhone 6 is as powerful as a laptop once was and battery life has suffered as a consequence. … [Read more...]

Flash, it was nice knowing you. The demise of the once ever-present multimedia platform draws nearer with Google's decision to automatically pause "many" Flash ads in its web browser Chrome. … [Read more...]

Last year, we told you about Iowa's interest in launching digital driver's licenses, a move that might begin the phasing out of plastic licenses currently in use nationwide. On Wednesday, the state announced live testing of what it calls the Mobile Driver License (mDL) in a number of settings, but that testing will be limited to hundreds of Iowa Department of Transportation … [Read more...]

Pocket, a popular app for saving articles to read later, has added a recommendation feature to help users find what to read next, the company announced in a blog post Pocket 6.0 has added a tab to the top of its app that'll swap between your saved articles, and a steady stream of recommended articles, which you can then save for offline reading as well. … [Read more...]

You can't get to one billion devices without hitting 75 million first. Just a month after its release, Windows 10 has been installed on 75 million computers — well on its way to Microsoft's goal of eventually hitting one billion different devices, according to a tweetstorm on Wednesday by Microsoft VP of Windows and Devices Yusif Mehdi. … [Read more...]