How about an app that lets you taste and smell things right on your iPhone? Yeah, I know April Fools’ Day is over, but apparently some people fell for this joke, including this news anchor who tricked her colleague into smelling and licking an iPad during live broadcast. “The creators have found the way to emit the odors and the flavors right out of a smartphone,” he told her. Piezzo-electrics is the name of a technology behind this magic, he convinced her....

One of the most memorable faces of Nintendo’s global marketing presence will be stepping out of the spotlight in just a few months. Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime has announced his retirement, and the familiar feature of Nintendo’s Direct presentations will transition out of his role as of April 15, 2019. Reggie Fils-Aime is notable for having cultivated a huge fan following during his 15 year tenure at Nintendo of America, 13 of which he spent as President and COO....

Here’s the latest for NOK from Google Finance. See Nokia’s current market valuation? It’s barely hovering at $25.54 billion. This means Wall Street is now valuing the #1 handset maker in the world at about the same as Apple’s last quarterly revenue of $24.67 billion. Apple’s market valuation? $321.81 billion. Another way of looking at it? Nokia’s phone business could be also worth less than Skype. Nokia yesterday issued profit warning, telling investors to brace for impact....

While a native Google Maps iOS app has yet to hit the App Store, Nokia said today it plans to release a new free maps for iOS under the “Here” brand in the coming weeks. “Here” is a cross platform effort for mapping applications that the company described as “the first location cloud to deliver the world’s best maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems.” The new HTML5-based iOS app, also called “Here”, will arrive in the App Store in the coming weeks and feature “offline capabilities, voice-guided walk navigation, and public transport directions....

The major advantage of using object repository is the segregation of objects from test cases. If the locator value of one webelement changes, only the object repository needs to be changed rather than making changes in all test cases in which the locator has been used. Maintaining an object repository increases the modularity of framework implementation. In this tutorial, you will learn- What is an Object Repository? Types of Object Repositories in Selenium Web Driver Selenium Web Driver Object repository using Properties file Selenium WebDriver Object Repository Using XML File...

Microtransactions are everywhere in today’s video games, but when The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s Horse Armor DLC caused controversy in the gaming community, microtransactions were a new concept. In 2006 - a year after the Xbox 360’s launch - the term “microtransaction” wasn’t even widely known. Instead, Oblivion’s Horse Armor was just called “bad DLC.” But it ended up kick-starting of one of gaming’s most hated and most lucrative business tactics....

Sebastian Stan is an American-Romanian actor who grew to fame during his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He plays Bucky Barnes, who later becomes the Winter Solider in Captain America: The First Avenger. Bucky was a friend of Steve’s that died in the war, but now he is so much more than that. Sebastian did not begin his acting career in Captain America, however. In fact, he was in multiple TV shows before and after that....

One-Punch Man has a variety of shocking characters, but two in particular have caused offense. Based on the crudely-drawn original webcomic by ONE, the story of One-Punch Man is now an internationally popular anime and manga series with art by Yusuke Murata. Subverting both traditional Shonen and superhero tropes, One-Punch Man’s lead character is Saitama, a superhero so strong he is yet to be seriously challenged, but who also rarely gets the credit and public adulation he deserves....

In an already crowded sea of reality TV dating shows, has Netflix’s new series Love Is Blind found a way to improve on the traditional format? With the feel of online dating minus the photoshopped pictures, is this the start of a new era of dating shows? After the buzz around the recent release of The Circle on Netflix, fans were cautiously optimistic about the announcement of yet another reality dating show....

Today’s best deals include a new Anker Gold Box, iPad Air Cellular returns to an all-time low, and iPhone 7 is free. Hit the jump for all that and more. A new Anker Gold Box starts at $13 iPhone 7 is FREE at Verizon when opening a new line One of Verizon’s best offers of the year is now available once again. With kids and grandparents in mind, you can pick up an iPhone 7 32GB for FREE when you open a new line....

New images shared on Twitter this week claim to show an early prototype of the first-generation iPad. While we’ve seen prototype images of the original iPad before, these images show that Apple had considered a docking system of some sort for the device… The images were shared on Twitter by the user Giulio Zompetti, who collects rare Apple devices. He shared a trio of images showcasing a prototype iPad 1, and elaborated on a mysterious port located on the left-hand side of the device....

A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, highlighted by Business Insider, aims to infer demographics based on consumer behavior and media consumption. According to the research, the iPhone is the most common status symbol of wealth… The paper comes from University of Chicago economists Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica: In their research, Bertrand and Kamenica found that no individual brand is as predictive of “high-income” as owning an iPhone....

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Nintendo has announced a new coral color for their Switch Lite that will release on April 3rd, 2020. This new hue comes as an addition to the three other preexisting colors from the initial launch of the Switch Lite, which include turquoise, grey, and yellow. The coral-colored console will retail for $199.99 when it is released later this year. The Switch Lite first hit store shelves on September 20, 2019 and boasted improved battery life, a redesigned featherweight shell with improved ergonomics, and a reduced purchase price....

Microsoft shared an Office 2019 for Mac preview last month. Now the company has announced that all the updates that come with the new software will be heading to Office 365 subscribers as long as they are running macOS Sierra or later. Detailed in a blog post, Microsoft said that to receive the latest features that come along with Office 365/Office 2019 for Mac next month, users will need to be running at least macOS Sierra 10....

Superseding the well-received OnePlus 9 Pro, the new 6.7-inch phone sports an aluminium frame with Gorilla Glass front and back, a second-generation Hasselblad camera system, a new ultra-wide angle camera, Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform and a large (5000mAh) battery with 80W SuperVOOC fast charging. Here’s how the OnePlus 10 Pro stacks up against its predecessor: The new OnePlus flagship is a similar size and shape to the 9 Pro, although it has a larger, squarer camera area at the back....

Mozilla has launched its latest privacy feature today with Firefox 86 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and more called “Total Cookie Protection.” The new privacy option creates separate cookie jars for every website you visit to prevent cross-site tracking. Mozilla detailed the new Firefox feature on its Security blog today: The new security feature is part of Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) Strict mode. But there is support for cross-site tracking exceptions:...

Disney releases a Mulan Super Bowl TV spot two days before the game, confirming a new trailer will drop on Sunday after the sneak peek airs. Since Walt Disney Studios found success with a handful of live-action adaptations of their animated classics, the Mouse House has continued to produce similar such films based on their popular properties. Last year, Disney released Dumbo, Aladdin and The Lion King theatrically as well as Lady and the Tramp on newly launched streaming service Disney+....

In iOS 13, Apple is introducing multi-cam support allowing apps to simultaneously capture photos, video, audio, metadata, and depth from multiple microphones and cameras on a single iPhone or iPad. Apple has long supported multi-camera capture on macOS since OS X Lion, but up until now, hardware limitations prevented it from rolling out APIs for iPhones and iPads. The new feature and APIs in iOS 13 will allow developers to offer apps that stream video, photos, or audio, for example, from the front-facing camera and rear cameras at the same time....

If you are trying to add music or soundtrack to a photo or a video on Instagram but it isn’t going through. Don’t worry as you aren’t alone. Facebook-owned Instagram launched the feature to add a soundtrack in an Instagram Story over a photo or video back in June 2018. Since Instagram Stories is one of the most widely used features, adding a soundtrack is something millions of people are doing every day but hey, a majority of them are facing trouble posting a soundtrack....