Consumer & Gadgets

Sony PlayStation’s online services came back online on Saturday, the Japanese group said, after a 24-hour outage frustrated gamers around the world.This post was originally published on this site

Immersive film using virtual reality (VR) or 360-degree video is being used increasingly as a tool for eliciting empathy and emotional identification in fact-based stories. Unlike traditional flat film, immersive films allow viewers to look […]

Science fiction film and television has long been fascinated by robots. But stories that show us uncannily human cyborgs have often tended to veer towards either comedy or horror. Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927) and Ridley […]

Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they’re privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you’ve been—if you let them.This post was originally published on this site

Ever notice that batteries in electronics don’t last as long as they did when they were brand new?This post was originally published on this site

Katy Perry is in a recording booth. She turns to the camera, smiles and begins to sing: “Badipsa frooby noop.” As if to confirm that we didn’t mishear her, she repeats “Badipsa frooby noop” and […]

Apple on Thursday disclosed its iPhone sales dipped slightly during the holiday-season quarter, signaling a sluggish start to the trendsetting company’s effort to catch up to the rest of Big Tech in the race to […]

Even though digitalization is in full swing, most Norwegians are now ambivalent about life online, according to media researchers at the University of Oslo.This post was originally published on this site

Johan Michalove is nearly 3,000 miles from the Los Angeles wildfires, but that didn’t stop him from pitching in.This post was originally published on this site

Wearable devices have become a big part of modern health care, helping track a patient’s heart rate, stress levels and brain activity. These devices rely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up […]