Author Archives: Michael Crider

Amazon is getting into the fitness wearable game. The Halo is a small fabric band that doesn’t have a screen, and a monthly membership fee is required in order to use it. But don’t close the tab just yet: there’s some interesting tech… Continue reading →

Laptop computers are expensive, and with the ongoing pandemic and millions of people working and going to school online, they’re also getting very hard to find. So if your options for laptop selection or budget (or both) are constrained, should y… Continue reading →

As soon as front-facing camera notches became a thing, companies searched for a way to get rid of them. We’ve seen pop-up cameras, and even cameras that can shoot through a screen. ASUS is refreshing an older idea for its latest Zenfone: a module… Continue reading →

Apple fans have long lamented the loss of the AirPower, Apple’s self-branded wireless charger that could handle an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods, all placed anywhere on its surface. The gadget disappeared into development limbo, but several at… Continue reading →

Are you tired of hearing about Apple versus Epic yet? Too bad. In the first major development of Epic’s court battle against Apple, a California District Court judge ruled that while Apple can boot Fortnite from the App Store for violation of its… Continue reading →

Epic, the maker of worldwide gaming sensation Fortnite, and Apple, a company that recently passed $2 trillion in value, are fighting. The reasons are complicated, but to boil it down, Epic wants to pay less of a tithe to Apple for the skins kids buy on… Continue reading →

Last week’s biggest tech story was Apple and Google kicking Fortnite off of the App Store and Play Store on phones. But since Epic immediately launched a prepared social media campaign, complete with a parody of Apple’s iconic 1984 ad, it&#… Continue reading →

Twitch-style game streaming is still fairly young as a medium, so there are still lots of ways to innovate…and lots of ways that innovation can go wrong. Take a recent Burger King campaign, for example: it donated $3-5 to game streamers on Twitch… Continue reading →

A year ago, our editor Cam declared “I love you, little plastic phone” to the Pixel 3a. It took all the good parts of Google’s Pixel flagships, filtered out the bad (the awful screen notch, battery life, and price), chopped off whatev… Continue reading →

BlackBerry, once a staple and status symbol of board rooms across the world, is now a relic of the past. RIM tried and failed to match the blooming iPhone and Android platforms in the early 2010s, but eventually had to license the BlackBerry brand to T… Continue reading →