Toshiba today said it will sell its camera chip unit to as part of a bid to overhaul its finances. The deal is worth about $166 million, according to Reuters, and will shore up Sony’s imaging business. Sony will gain Toshiba’s plants in Oita along with its 1,100 workers. Sony’s imaging sensor unit is one […]
Nintendo said on Wednesday its six-month sales jumped on upbeat demand for its 3DS handheld console and games for its Wii U system, but net profit tumbled. The Japanese videogame giant’s revenue was 204.1 billion yen (S$2.4 billion), up 19 percent from a year ago, but its bottom line shrank nearly 20 percent owing to […]
Google said it will soon make podcasts available within the Play Music app. Google has already opened a portal for podcasters to upload their shows. Google will use the uploads to populate a podcast section in the Play Music app, with support for searching and browsing. Google said it hopes users will be able to […]
JPMorgan Chase plans to launch a competitor to Apple Pay and Android Pay that will allow cardholders to make payments with their smartphones. Chase Pay is expected to debut on devices soon, though the company won’t market it aggressively until next year. In its favor, Chase has signed a deal with the Merchant Customer […]
Apple has updated its Maps applications for iOS and OS X to activate new “Nearby” search options for Australia, Canada, France, and Germany, as well as adding additional Flyover views for parts of Hawaii and a number of European and other cities. The “Nearby” function overlays some local business or point-of-interest information to Maps destinations, […]
FirmTek announced last week the availability of a new SSD PCIe card that allows for the mounting of two 2.5-inch HDD, SSD, or SSHD SATA drives on a single half-length PCIe card, which can be bundled inexpensively with FirmTek’s Thunderbolt expansion chassis. The company’s new SeriTek/i6G card is aimed at saving space by cutting down […]
Gymkhana is a small subset of motorsport, and Ken Block is its biggest proponent. Block’s Gymkhana video series on YouTube amasses millions upon millions of views, and it’s not hard to see why — the professional racing driver dances delicately along a tight, complicated course, using every trick in the book to execute flawless figure-eights, […]
Following on from today’s release of the first betas of iOS 9.2 and Xcode 7.2, Apple has also seeded the first beta of OS X 10.11.2 to developers. The release comes just a week after the final 10.11.1 update was issued to help resolves problems with Office 2016, Mail, and VoiceOver, but there are still […]
Barbara Hershey will return to Once Upon a Time for the upcoming 100th episode. Hershey will reprise her role as Regina’s (Lana Parrilla) mother, Cora, otherwise known as the Queen of Hearts. The last we saw of Hershey’s Cora in present day — Rose McGowan plays a younger version of the character — she had […]
Nissan Motor Co. is highlighting its Teatro for Dayz, an innovative concept that signals a new direction in mobile technology at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show 2015. Designed especially for the digital native generation, this vision of near-future vehicles departs from convention and marks a shift in perception. Nissan describes the generation that was born into […]
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