Apple's AR-ready iPhone 8 will know your face

Apple will announce stronger than anticipated iPhone 7 sales at next week's fiscal call, but as the smartphone category it created hits ten years old, we can't help speculating at what's coming in iPhone 8, "some form of facial/gesture recognitio…

New iPads Might Not Launch Until Sometime in the Second Half of 2017

Apple's new line of iPad models might not launch "until the second half of 2017," according to sources in the upstream supply chain speaking with DigiTimes. The new 9.7-inch iPad is predicted to enter mass production sometime in Q1 2017, while the 1…

Hulu App Now Supports Individual Profiles

The Hulu app for iOS has been updated with support for individual profiles bringing personalized watchlists and recommendations to each member of your household.Hulu brings you instant access to all of your favorite television shows, the hottest new…

NASA fires first shot in plan to bring a chunk of asteroid down to Earth

OSIRIS-REx completes initial big burn on the way to asteroid Bennu NASA's asteroid-exploration mission OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has taken the left turn at Albuquerque on its way to a near-Earth space rock called Bennu.…

Fujifilm’s Excellent Digital Cameras Just Got Even Excellenter

Our favorite compact camera gets a little bump for 2017. The post Fujifilm's Excellent Digital Cameras Just Got Even Excellenter appeared first on WIRED.

LG teases the G6's launch for February

Mobile World Congress is nearly upon us, allowing portions of the mobile world to show off the new devices that they've been working on. The smartphone world may be ossifying, but LG's undeterred, and is sending out teasers for the G6 that'…

China aims to build world’s first exascale supercomputer prototype by 2017

ProtonMail Launches Tor Onion Site to Evade State Censorship

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched its own onion address, allowing users to access the service over the Tor anonymizing network (via TechCrunch). The Swiss-based email account provider, which has more than 2 million users, said the …

Nintendo to Release Fire Emblem Heroes for iOS on February 2nd [Video]

Nintendo has announced that Fire Emblem Heroes will be its next game for iOS and that it will launch on February 2nd, 2017.Fire Emblem Heroes is an original strategy RPG about two warring kingdoms in a bitter clash. As a summoner, players build thei…

Insecure Hadoop installs next in 'net scum crosshairs

Because MongoDB, Elasticsearch ransomware attacks are sooo last week Rinse-and-repeat ransomware attacks on data services left unsecured by dozy sysadmins are now hitting Hadoop instances.…

Fujifilm's X-T20 is an affordable, compact take on the X-T2

Fujifilm has unveiled the X-T20, a successor to the popular X-T10 that improves on it in nearly every way. The old 16-megapixel sensor and processor have been updated to the 24.3-megapixel X-Trans III, the same as the one on the world-beati…

Fujifilm's X100F should be its best fixed-lens camera to date

The X100 has, since its inception, been for many the ultimate compact camera. Originally released in 2010, it was the first entry to Fujifilm's X-series of digital cameras, pairing classic aesthetics with a 23mm (35mm equivalent) prime lens…

Idiot Tasked With Maintaining America's Nukes Surprised to Learn What His Job Is

In December, Rick Perry enthusiastically accepted the nomination to be Donald Trump’s secretary of energy—unfortunately for both Perry and the American people, he had no idea what the fuck he was signing up for. According to a New York Times report,…

Reports: Aperture

Capture One as abandoned Aperture replacement

Reports: Displays

dual 5K displays and related issues/info; LG display USB ports

Reports: MacBook Pro

17-inch display vs. Retina 15-inch

Reports: macOS Sierra

Spotlight vs. VeraCrypt

Reports: Microsoft security

changes: security bulletin elimination

Reports: Privacy

crossing the creepy line

Reports: Security

text message crashes iOS devices

Reports: SSD performance

data compression vs. write speed