Anyone who has ever tried Carrot Fit at least once can tell you how delightfully annoying the fitness app is. It’ll make fun of you while it trains you, and make you laugh when you least expect it during a gruesome seven-minute workout from hell. And Carrot Fit users who plan on also purchasing the Apple Watch should know that Carrot Fit now has Apple Watch support.
Long gone are the days when HBO seemingly paid little mind to piracy. Following the leak of the first four episodes of season 5 of Game of Thrones, TorrentFreak is reporting that HBO is now dead serious about thwarting individuals from illegally downloading the world's most pirated show.
Specifically, HBO is now putting individual pirates on notice. HBO has already issued "thousands of warnings to Internet subscribers whose connections were used to share leaked Game of Thrones episodes." The warning messages, naturally, are being relayed through each individual user's ISP.
One of the most exciting Android phones released in 2014 has been available only to consumers who have received invites and those who jumped on limited sales events since its launch, but on Monday, OnePlus finally announced open sales for its CyanogenMod smartphone: the OnePlus One.
Believe it or not, the release of the second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was not the finale of Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim last week. In fact, that was just the highlight of the first day. In the succeeding days, there were more announcements, more interviews and more trailers, including an early teaser for Rogue One, the first film of the Star Wars Anthology Series.
For a long time, Apple has made ungodly sums of money from the iPhone, which has traditionally been its most profitable product. However, the launch of the Apple Watch may be about to give Apple an even more lucrative cash cow. 9to5Mac points us to a new research note from Think Big Analytics principal analyst Carl Howe, who believes that the Apple Watch is on track to be the most profitable Apple product ever with average gross margins of more than 60%.
With a share price that's consistently hovering in the $200 range and an award-winning car, Tesla these days is sitting pretty. But before Tesla began selling Model S cars faster than it could make them, there were a lot of questions surrounding the company's ability to turn a profit, let alone thrive as a viable entity.
In a bombshell revelation posted by by Bloomberg, and excerpted from the upcoming book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, we learn that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was extremely close to finalizing a deal to sell the entire company to Google.
Samsung has a lot to be proud of with the Galaxy S6 and a new video from the company highlights three key Galaxy S6 features it believes will make it stand apart from the competition.
In addition to worrying about when their preordered unit will ship in a reasonable time frame, some Apple Watch buyers might also be wondering whether the device will give them any allergic skin reactions. After all, this wouldn’t be the first time that a wearable device has caused skin rashes. To address the matter, Apple has put together a help page that details the kind of materials used to make the Watch body and bands that might cause skin reactions.
You might not be able to buy an Apple Watch in Apple retail stores until June and the device you preordered may not arrive for many more weeks to come. But at least you can now check out a virtual teardown of the device, even before the gadget is available to early buyers.
It’ll cost you $32 to visit the One World Observatory beginning in late May when it opens to the public atop the new 1 World Trade Center. And when you do, you’ll travel at around 23 miles per hour in the new elevators. But if you want to see what the trip will be like right now, there's a magnificent 47-second time-lapse video of Manhattan’s history as seen from that vantage point, including the tragedy that took place on 9/11.
Ahead of Earth Day, Apple on Monday published its annual Environmental Responsibility Report covering the company's ongoing commitment to "leave the world better than we found it." The new environmental report comes hot on the heels of last week's announcement that Apple will be purchasing 36,000 acres of forest land in order to responsibly and sustainably manage its paper supply chain for items such as packaging and marketing materials.
The full report underscores Apple's seemingly unrivaled commitment to being as environmentally friendly and conscious as possible. Apple today is one of the few tech company's willing to address head on some of today's more pressing environmental issues. What's more, the level of transparency and the depth of information Apple provides in its environmental report is rarely, if ever, seen in Silicon Valley, with Google and Facebook being the lone exceptions.
Give McDonald's credit: It knows exactly what people are looking for on April 20th. Per Nasdaq, it seems McDonald's has picked the infamous stoners' holiday as the day to start trying out its all-day breakfast program at certain locations in San Diego. This means that everyone who's celebrating 4/20 on Monday in San Diego will be able to buy Egg McMuffins, Hotcakes and Sausage McGriddles no matter what time of day it is. Dude, what could be better?
With all the hype surrounding the Apple Watch, you may have forgotten that Google has a smartwatch software platform of its own called Android Wear. To remind us of this, Google on Monday took the wraps off a hugely ambitious Android Wear update that adds three important features that the platform had been sorely missing.
A number of notable apps have been updated with Apple Watch support to start off the week, including Shazam, Microsoft OneDrive, Porsche Car Connect, FIFA 15 Ultimate Team by EA SPORTS, Epicurious, Nick Jr, ESPN, Avea, JetBlue and Letterpad. The updates should be rolling out on the App Store today prior to the Apple Watch launch on April 24.
Elgato today launched one of the first Apple Watch apps that can control a piece of hardware. The updated version of the Avea app is built for Apple Watch and allows users to pick their favorite dynamic light moods right from their wrists. Elgato Avea is free on the App Store.
By raising your wrist you can see which Avea light mood is currently on. Tap the Glance to switch to the selection menu of scenes and solid colors. By applying a Force Touch, users can bring up a scene's settings. You can even program Avea's Wake-Up light directly on Apple Watch.JetBlue also became the latest airline to update their app with Apple Watch support, alongside American Airlines, Delta, British Airways, Air Canada, WestJet, Qantas Airways, Ryanair and several others. JetBlue for Apple Watch provides flyers with flight statuses in Glances, travel countdowns and access to their smart mobile boarding pass on the wrist. JetBlue is free on the App Store.
The world’s most obnoxious fitness app is coming to the Apple Watch