At some time, we’ve probably all seen a photo of some great-looking place and thought “If I knew where that was, I’d go there.” Well, the new Look&Book iOS/Android app can reportedly figure out where such photos were taken (within Europe, at least), and it proceeds to plan your flights. Designed via a partnership between British airline easyJet and mobile […]

When Google launched the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL on October 9, it announced a number of new features coming to Assistant — but only on Pixel phones. Now, however, it’s revealing a few new features coming to Google Assistant as a whole, meaning all Assistant-enabled phones will get them. Perhaps the most interesting new feature is the […]

When we first caught up with BandLab – a cloud-based music creation and collaboration platform – the project was in its infancy. A lot has happened since early 2013, so a catchup is long overdue. One notable change during the last 5 years has been the closure of JamHub, which originally developed BandLab with Singaporean agribusiness heir Kuok Meng Ru. […]

A recent internal hackathon at Google has resulted in a new captioning feature for its G Suite presentation app, Slides. The creation of Google software engineers Laura D’Aquila and Abigail Klein, the feature uses a computer’s built-in microphone to transcribe the words of a speaker in real-time, displaying them for everyone to see. While especially useful for the deaf or […]

If you’re not already reeling from the baker’s dozen of devices and breakthroughs that Amazon unleashed on Thursday, September 20, here’s one more bulletin. SideChef, the all-in-one home cooking platform, is going to help Amazon with its new expansion into the smart kitchen by integrating with Alexa to help Echo owners cook via interactive recipes. The big news included the […]

The launch of Karma in Sweden has brought about a new way of fighting food waste. Since 2016, more than 1,500 businesses such as restaurants, bakeries, cafes and hotels as well as the three largest supermarket chains in Sweden have joined the battle to reduce the amount of perfectly edible food that is thrown away daily. The mobile app offers […]

It was just last year that we heard about how scientists from Michigan State University had developed a smartphone case/app combo that could measure users’ blood pressure. Now, they’ve created an app that does the job using nothing but an unadorned iPhone. The prototype app utilizes Apple’s 3D Touch feature, which premiered in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus (similar […]

Whether you’ve come to say “Hola!” or “Bienvenue” or “Auf Wiedersehen,” Google Assistant is ready to answer you right back as the smart assistant becomes the first of its kind to go fully bilingual.  Users can now speak two languages interchangeably with the Google Assistant on smart speakers and phones and the Assistant will respond in kind. As of right […]

While most parents don’t want their kids spending too much time on their smartphones or tablets, it can be difficult to monitor how long they’ve been using such a device, and to keep it out of temptation’s way when it’s not in use. Well, that’s why the TechDen was created. Unveiled this week at the IFA 2018 consumer electronics show […]

With Datally, Google’s mobile data-monitoring app, users can monitor and understand their usage, control which apps are using it, and suggest ways to save data while on the go. In a blog post, the company revealed it has added some new tools to Datally: Emergency bank and Bedtime mode. Emergency bank saves some of your data, just in case you need […]