Skagen revamps its slick-looking Falster smartwatch

Skagen’s Falster has been one of the darlings among Wear OS smartwatches thanks to its posh yet minimalist look, but it was hard to recommend to everyone when there were no standout features besides the design. The Fossil-owned brand is fixing that today with the Falster 2. It still maintains the Danish brand’s aesthetic but […]

Android P Preview 4 tweaks gesture navigation, revamps system icons

Enlarge / Google’s logo for the Android P Developer Preview. (credit: Google) The latest Android P Preview (Preview #4, Beta #3) is out. It’s a few days late given that it was supposed to launch in June, but now the Google Pixel 1 and Pixel 2 are free to update to the latest build. This […]

IHG Revamps PointBreaks Program, Creating Three Discounted Price Levels

IHG Revamps PointBreaks, Creating 3 Discounted Price Levels Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include […]

Alienware revamps its Command Center app with a centralized game hub

Enlarge / The revamped Alienware Command Center’s home screen, with its game library on the right. (credit: Jeff Dunn) Another quick update out of CES: Gaming PC maker Alienware is refreshing the Command Center software that comes paired with its line of notebooks and desktops. The overhauled settings app will first arrive in February on […]

Facebook revamps political-ad rules after discovering Russian ad buys

Faebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Facebook) Two weeks ago, Facebook admitted that a “shadowy Russian company” spent $ 100,000 on political ads targeting US Facebook users during the 2016 election campaign. At the time, Facebook turned information about these ad buys to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the election. Today, Facebook announced that […]

T-Mobile’s “Digits” program revamps the phone number

Enlarge T-Mobile has announced the launch of its “Digits” program, coming May 31. Digits is a revamp of how T-Mobile phone numbers work, virtualizing customer numbers so they can work across multiple devices. It sounds a lot like Google Voice—rather than having a phone number tied to a single SIM card or a device, numbers are now account-based, […]

Duma revamps hooliganism law, criminalizing acts committed on transport

Published time: 17 Mar, 2017 15:01 The Russian lower house has passed the bill making various hooliganism connected with transport – from brawls on trains to blinding aircraft pilots with laser pointers – a criminal offense punishable by up to eight years in prison. The bill was originally drafted in 2011 by parliamentary majority United […]

California Revamps Its Rulebook for Autonomous Cars; Totally Driverless Tests May Start Soon

– California residents could be traveling in fully autonomous cars by the end of the year. And by that we mean people who aren’t just test engineers from the more than two dozen companies currently testing self-driving vehicles in the state, but regular members of the public. These folks could soon get their first experience with a […]