TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE

Wireless charging on the iPhone 8 is just as slow as the included charger, but that could change with an upcoming iOS 11 update Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Android phones have had wireless charging for years, but Apple only now introduced the feature for its new iPhone 8 and iPhone X models. Better late than never, I suppose. Wireless charging is a nice, if not essential, feature to have. It's slightly more convenient than reaching for your charging cable; just place your iPhone on a wireless charging pad as if it were resting on a table. No plugging or unplugging necessary. But that's the only benefit to going wireless, at least for now.  In theory, wireless charging with Belkin and Mophie's 7.5W wireless chargers sold from the Apple store should also mean faster charging, so that you can replenish you phone's battery in less time. But as we can see from this chart from Apple Insider, the difference between charging your iPhone 8 wit...

Huawei Mate 10 Pro vs Mate 9 Image Shows Design Changes The Huawei Mate 10 series are slated to get unveiled in the third week of this month. Speculations have revealed that the Mate 10 series will include four smartphones such as Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, Mate 10 Lite and Mate 10 Porsche Design. A new image of the Mate 10 Pro that compares it with Mate 9 from last year has surfaced. The image shows the design changes that the Chinese manufacturer has introduced on Mate 10 Pro. Even though the dimensions of the Mate 10 Pro are not available, the above image does reveal that the handset is slightly slimmer and shorter than the predecessor model. This could be because the Mate 10 Pro is speculated to feature a 6-inch display with an aspect ratio of 18:9. The Mate 9 features a 5.9-inch display with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The Huawei Mate 9 has a metallic unibody chassis. However, the Mate 10 Pro is speculated to come with a glass back. The design of the dual rear cameras has been mod...

Review: 5 Features That Convinced Me To Get The Samsung Galaxy Note8 Alas, the Samsung Galaxy Note8 is finally here. As a gadget lover and Samsung electronics liker (see the newly purchased television screen sitting in my comfy living room), I was pretty excited to get my hands on the new cellular phone from the Korean brand’s mobile device family. I must admit, like many stylus lovers, I was pretty bummed about having to send back the Note7 during last year’s massive and unfortunate recall. Although I only experienced the Note7’s dopeness for a short span of 19 days,  I missed using one of my many useful tools of productivity. I wanted to go back to the time when I could whip out my faux pen and doodle endlessly on my phone. But when I heard Samsung had plans to come back with a new Note device, I was ecstatic. My short-lived happy moment that was shipped back to the manufacturer over a year ago finally returned in the form of the black and metallic blu...

Why Did Facebook Promote Fake News About the Las Vegas Massacre? Tech giants aren’t doing enough to police their platforms. Is Facebook having a Frankenstein moment when it comes to news aggregation—has it created something it can’t fully control? The company’s executives might tell you that it has, but this is absolutely not the case. The reality is that Facebook needs to hire humans to edit and review the content it promotes as news—and it needs to hire a lot of them. Facebook argues that it has just too much content to moderate and that new algorithms and artificial intelligence are what we need to stop the spread of false stories. Clearly, they are not. Shortly after the massacre in Las Vegas, a story from 4chan, a popular alt-right message board, blaming an innocent man for the shooting was being displayed on Google’s top stories module and the Facebook trends box and safety check page. The companies defended themselves by blaming their algorithms and said that the fak...