Technology

Circle Media, the company behind Circle with Disney – a device that helps parents enforce their home’s internet rules and restrictions – has raised $10 million in Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The round was led by early stage venture fund Relay Ventures. There was another private equity investment in …

Using stickers to decorate your photos is a common feature found in social apps like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and others. But today, stickers have started showing up in a more surprising place: Amazon’s mobile app. Following a recent update, Amazon has added support for stickers within its iOS app’s camera feed – …

AMD’s Financial Analyst Day last week answered some questions about the company’s long-term roadmap and plans for projects like Vega, Ryzen, and its new server platform, Epyc. Many of you still had questions, however, about the timing and nature of some of the updates we would see later on this …

Most of the time, when mobile companies offer you a deal, it comes with a mountain of strings attached. In this case, Samsung and T-Mobile are teaming up to offer customers an option that’s refreshingly free of gotchas. Here’s how the deal works: You buy two new Galaxy S8 phones, …

Over the last few years, we’ve seen helium-filled hard drives go from an out-there idea to a shipping solution. Until now, however, these drives were effectively confined to the enterprise market, where high capacities and reliability are paramount. The high storage capacity of helium drives has helped differentiate them from …

Over the last decade, solid state drives (SSDs) have moved from extremely rare (and expensive) alternatives to hard drives to being the storage option of choice for enthusiasts and mobile users alike. An SSD is one of the best ways to improve the performance of an older system with a …

Amazon’s odd foray into the world of selfie cameras via the Echo Look is now complete with the launch of a companion application for iOS and Android devices that works with the new connected camera. The app allows Echo Look owners to view live previews from the Look’s camera, take a picture, survey …

A few weeks ago, we covered statements from Panos Panay, Microsoft’s VP of Devices, that there was no such thing as a Surface Pro 5, and that the company wouldn’t build such a device until it could deliver some more significant improvements than just updating the CPU or a few …

For years I’ve struggled with the tradeoff between using high-performance, locally attached storage arrays to store my photographs, and the convenience of having them on a Network Attached Server (NAS). I’ve even tried various caching and syncing solutions to get the best of both. Until recently, though, affordable NAS solutions …

Photo editing pushes laptop capabilities right to the edge. Top-quality work demands a high-resolution, color-accurate display, and a fast processor. But the rigors of traveling with photo gear plus a computer make small, lightweight machines with long battery lives a real plus. Similarly, storing thousands of high-resolutions calls for a …