How to Perfectly Fake a Glowing Lightsaber in Photoshop

It’s time to face the facts: lightsabers aren’t real, and they’re simply not going to exist in your lifetime. The closest you can get to realizing your Jedi fantasies is through this excellent tutorial by Mathieu Stern showing you how to properly fa…

Everything You Need to Know About Rogue One

Let’s not kid ourselves here: You know what Rogue One is. You know it’s the first stand-alone Star Wars film, and you know it’s about the Rebels’ attempt to steal the plans to the Death Star. But we’ve been waiting for this movie for so long that we…

Spotify has gone cold on rumored SoundCloud deal

Tim Cook to deliver MIT’s 2017 Commencement address on June 9

Serenity's 2016 holiday wish list

The gifts — technology and otherwise — that I'm coveting this holiday season. 2016 has been a year of big purchases for me — new iPad, new iPhone, new Mac, new car — but despite everything I've picked up this year, there's still plenty on my wish…

Turn PDFs and Images Into Gorgeous Digital Magazines to Engage Any User [Deals Hub]

Spreadsheets and PowerPoints are boring and physical media is a pain. When you need to make your presentations look amazing and easy to take anywhere, you need Next FlipBook Maker for Mac. Get it on sale now from the iPhone Hacks Deals Hub. Co…

Spotify no Longer in Talks to Acquire SoundCloud

In late September, a report said that music streaming giant Spotify was in talks to acquire another giant, SoundCloud. Continue reading →

The SteelSeries Arctis 5 Is a Grown-Up, Good-Looking Gaming Headset

One of the confounding problems with a number of “gaming” headsets is that so many of them look like gaming headsets. Which is fine if you’re at home in front of the computer, but if you want to buy a headset that can also be the headphones you list…

Apple CEO Tim Cook to deliver MIT’s 2017 Commencement address on June 9th

pple CEO Tim Cook will deliver the address at MIT’s 2017 Commencement exercises

Samsung launches Jet Black iPhone 7 knockoff with glossy ‘Black Pearl’ Galaxy S7 Edge

Samsung as rumored last month has announced the Galaxy S7 edge will be available in a new...

How to View Song Lyrics in iTunes

If you have ever wanted to view song lyrics in iTunes, you’ll be pleased to know there are new means of achieving that feat in the latest versions of the iTunes app for Mac OS and Windows. So, fire up iTunes, start playing your favorite song, and se…

If your Xmas party expenses left you with a hangover, you should see Dell's spending

Costs more than double, lobbing Big Mike into the red If revenue growth is vanity but profits are sanity, then Dell EMC made something of an inauspicious start to life as one company: sales expansion was overshadowed by deepening losses.…

Trend Micro AV nukes innocent Sharepoint code, admins despair

Servers fall over after JavaScript file trashed by mistake Trend Micro's antivirus software has flagged benign Sharepoint code as potentially malign and nuked the files, causing the Microsoft package to fall over.…

AMD brengt Crimson ReLive-driverupdate uit

AMD heeft zoals verwacht een nieuwe Crimson-driver uitgebracht, onder de naam ReLive. De update brengt onder meer videocapturing en streaming voor games met zich mee, naast nog een groot aantal nieuwe functies en verbeteringen.

HTC opent eigen studio voor uitgeven van vr-spelletjes

HTC heeft bekendgemaakt een eigen gamestudio te hebben geopend voor de release van content voor virtual reality-brillen. Het zogenaamde Vive Studios heeft onder de naam Arcade Saga al zijn eerste game op de markt gebracht.

Secret's anonymous sharing app is now a publishing platform

Remember Secret? The standard bearer for the anonymous social app movement shuttered in 2015 before co-creator David Byttow teased a possible Version 2 in the wake of Donald Trump's election. While the old app-based Secret won't be coming b…

Magic Leap is actually way behind, like we always suspected it was

Apple shows enormity of rapidly progressing Campus 2 w/ interior shots ahead of move-in

Apple this week shared photos of its under construction Campus 2 with employees, including some of the first interior shots of the building that is now nearing completion. The photos don’t appear to be meant for public consumption, but were publish…

Hulu introduces profiles to create personalized experiences for multiple users on a single account

Hulu has announced today the official roll out of profiles to their 12 million subscribers. Profiles will allow multiple viewers to share a single Hulu account, while creating personalized experiences for each. The move to personalized profiles com…

Tim Cook to deliver MIT class of 2017 commencement address in June

Tim Cook is no stranger to delivering commencement addresses, and this June the Apple CEO will head to Cambridge to oversee the MIT class of 2017 graduation. The research university shared the announcement today: more…Filed under: Apple

13-inch Touch Bar MacBook Pro gets just over 8 hours battery life in Apple’s own iTunes movie playback test, how to test yours [Video]

I tested my MacBook Pro using a stringent version of Apple’s own iTunes movie playback test that the company uses in its official battery tests. I found that under more stringent conditions, the 13-inch MacBook Pro will last a hair over 8 hours, bu…