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Google has been working on its Project Tango augmented reality platform since at least 2014, but that’s just when it was unveiled. A lot of work has gone into improving the way phones analyze their environments, but does that translate well into consumer products? In the case of the first …

Mobile applications from Facebook and Google dominated the new list of the year’s top apps released today by Nielsen. Not surprisingly, Facebook again grabbed the number one spot on the list, with more than 146 million average unique users per month, and 14 percent growth over last year. In fact, …

Photoshop has never been inexpensive, but historically casual users could simply stick with a version and not spend money on updates. With the advent of Raw processing – that needs to be updated when new cameras are released – and Adobe’s move to a subscription model, many long-time users pushed back and …

Apple has announced, via Twitter, that it’s working with Consumer Reports to nail down what happened to its MacBook and MacBook Pro hardware. The announcement came from Phil Schiller, who reports the company is “Working with CR to understand their battery tests. Results do not match our extensive lab tests …

There’s a new leaked benchmark for AMD’s Ryzen (née Zen), and it shows a CPU core that’s capable of slugging it out with the upper-end of Intel’s product line in a way that no AMD chip has in nearly five years. This is the closest we’ve come to third-party metrics …

Photo: luizamonari_arquiteta on Instagram  While blush pink and soft yellow may have enjoyed their moment in the spotlight during 2016, the upcoming year is set to feature green décor as a key look. If you’ve previously shied away from verdant shades, it’s officially time to bring luscious shades of green into …

Update: An earlier version of this story reported that Capossela was interviewed by Softpedia. While Softpedia was reported elsewhere as originating the story, the actual interview was done by Windows Weekly. ExtremeTech regrets the error. From mid-2015 to 2016, Microsoft ran two simultaneous experiments. First, it made Windows 10 free …

Apple’s new MacBook Pro isn’t having an easy time in the market. It’s been panned for its reliance on dongles, criticized for using older Intel chips, and a significant number of users have reported decidedly substandard battery life when using the system. Apple has responded to these complaints by cutting …

Uber responded today to reports that its app continues to check users’ locations even when they hadn’t used the ride-hailing service for days or weeks. The company explained that the issue is being caused by the iOS operating system itself, not direct tracking by its app. Many users had realized that Uber’s app …

Uber launched a new version of its ridesharing application with two new features. The first, and the one we’re frankly less concerned with, is that the app now has custom Snapchat filters. You unlock said filters by riding around in an Uber, and they apparently fill some previously unmet need …