Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

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Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition episodes

  • The next iPhone may take care of all your storage worries
    Get ready to say goodbye to those annoying "Storage Full" messages. The iPhone 8 with two different storage options—64GB and 256GB—according to a new report from Chinese research firm Trendforce. That means the basic model is double the 32GB offered as the lowest storage tier for the iPhone 7. Here's the huge downside: the cost. Normally, Apple prices the iPhone at $50 to $100 more for each successive storage level.
    2 min
  • The 5 best Star Wars Lego sets coming this spring
    These are Star Wars Lego sets you're looking for. Lego may be keeping upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII Lego sets under wraps — they literally had nothing to show for the upcoming film at New York Toy Fair — but that doesn't mean there aren't a whole bunch of new Star Wars sets on the horizon. Lego has dozens of new sets and character variations, even tiny Mini Figures.
    4 min
  • Google wants to know what you'd like to see in the Pixel 2
    Google's Pixel and Pixel XL are, without question, two of the best Android phones ever created. There's lots to love. Its "pure" Android software is fast and smooth, the camera is one of the best and sometimes even better than the iPhone's, battery life is excellent and it's Daydream-ready for mobile VR. But the phones are by no means perfect.
    3 min
  • Smart glasses are digital eyes for the legally blind
    Yvonne Felix is watching me. This would not be remarkable for most people I meet with, but Felix is legally blind. She smiles and tells me she can see me taking notes on my computer and every time I look up at her. I can’t see her eyes, but the special visor she’s wearing from eSight is pointed in my direction. Felix, who suffers from Stargardt Disease, a juvenile form of macular degeneration, was declared legally blind when she was 13.
    5 min
  • You can now apply and interview for a job entirely within Facebook
    The fear of a job recruiter stalking your Facebook account just got shook up. Starting Wednesday, Facebook users can apply to a job directly on the social network. So if you're browsing Facebook all day because your job is boring, you're really in luck with this new feature. Facebook Pages in the U.S. and Canada can now put up a job posting just as they would "a photo or a cat video," Facebook exec Andrew Bosworth said with a smile as he presented his pitch deck to Mashable.
    5 min
  • Legendary Nokia 3310 might be coming back this month
    Quick: What's the best phone you've ever used? For many, the answer is Nokia 3310, a nearly indestructible phone that predates the smartphone era by nearly a decade. Launched in 2000 by then-gigantic Finnish phone maker Nokia, the 3310 was compact, sturdy, reliable and its battery lasted forever. Now, according to a report by reliable leaker of all things mobile, Evan Blass, the Nokia 3310 is poised for a triumphant return.
    3 min
  • Confessions of a digital hoarder
    I have a confession to make: I am a digital hoarder and I don't want to stop. Emails, photos, files, screenshots, apps — I don't know why but I have an extreme aversion to removing things from my digital life. I have 48,183 emails in my work inbox and 32,060 in my personal Gmail. 56,991 of those are unread, according to my Mail app.
    5 min
  • iMessage is the only thing keeping me on an iPhone
    There once was a time I texted without fireworks. I'm never going back. Honestly, is there a better way to say you have a stomachache than with virtual pyrotechnics? Nope, and it doesn't even stop there. You communicate your malaise with fireworks and then toss in an animation of an obese cat eating pizza. And ice cream. This is what it's like to text with an iPhone in 2017.
    7 min
  • Facebook now has a built-in weather app
    Want to know if it'll rain tomorrow? You no longer have to leave Facebook to find out. Facebook started offering weather "greetings" to some users in April last year, but now it's rolling out a fully fledged weather app on both desktop and mobile. The app is still not available to everyone. For example, I can access it on Android — it's located in the hamburger More menu (upper right corner) in the app, and listed under "Apps." On desktop, however, it's nowhere to be found.
    3 min
  • Hacked Amazon Dash Button sends $5 to the ACLU whenever life demands it
    In what feels like the first good use for an Amazon Dash Button, a programmer hacked his button to donate $5 to the ACLU whenever he wishes. In a post published to Medium, Nathan Pryor detailed the process of building a custom charitable Dash Button, from writing a script that sends the money to designing its own official label. "It was my friend Katherine who made the comment 'I wish there was an ACLU Dash button I could push to donate any time I read about the latest offense from Trump.
    3 min

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Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, methods of organization, in order to solve a problem. A SpokenEdition transforms…