In celebration of the game’s one year anniversary, Microsoft has made all three of Titanfall’s DLC expansions free to download on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
Category Archives: Technology
Jony Ive insisted on making a $10,000 Apple Watch over objections from others at Apple
The idea of paying $10,000 for an Apple Watch Edition is ridiculous to most people… but don’t tell that to Jony Ive. Via Fusion, last month’s big New Yorker profile of Ive revealed that he was the force within the company who really pushed to have Apple release a luxury watch that would only appeal to the sort of people who show up to the Davos World Economic Forum every year.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
Apple Watch knockoffs for $40 are already for sale in China
The Apple Watch hasn’t even been released yet but that hasn’t stopped Chinese manufacturers from flooding the market with cheap knockoffs. The knockoff industry has gotten quite advanced over the years, and a few of Apple Watch knockoffs we’ve seen thus far bear a remarkable similarity to the real thing.
As one would expect, the Apple Watch knockoffs we’ve seen are much cheaper than what one would otherwise pay in an Apple retail store, to the tune of about $40 in some cases.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
HBO Now is already getting competition from Showtime
That didn’t take long.
Deadline reports that CBS CEO Les Moonves announced at an investors conference on Wednesday that Showtime is also preparing a paid streaming service its premium network to launch in the “not-too-distant future.”
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
Can a cheaper Apple TV hold off Google’s Chromecast?
Apple might be losing its grip on this living room. That’s not to say it ever had a stranglehold over our television sets, but when the Apple TV launched, there wasn’t much else like it. Now every vendor on the planet is selling a set-top box or a dongle with the same functionality, often at a cheaper price point.
So will the $30 discount on the Apple TV announced this Monday be enough to keep Apple in the conversation?
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
Are even better versions of the Apple Watch coming later this year?
If you aren’t impressed with the aluminum, stainless steel or gold options with the Apple Watch, then you might want to wait a few more months before buying one. 9to5Mac flags an interesting detail in the latest research note from KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo, who says that Apple is working with three new kinds of casing materials for the Apple Watch that it could release in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
Forget Uber, this newer on-demand car service will save you a fortune
Technology blogs toss around the word “disruption” so frequently that in most cases, it has lost all meaning. Where Uber is concerned, however, the company’s on-demand car service is nothing short of disruptive. It’s a complete game-changer that has taxi companies up in arms, and for good reason: Uber is better and smarter.
As is always the case with true disruption, plenty of companies are chasing Uber in an effort to get in near the ground floor. Some will flourish and others will ultimately fail, but consumers stand to benefit along the way. Case in point: Gett.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
Here are some awesome iPhone tricks you’ve probably never heard of
Even if you think you know everything about the iPhone, there’s a good chance you don’t know these five tricks. Business Insider has put together a video of five “hard-to-find” iPhone tricks that it says are known only to “power users.” While this may or may not be the case, we’d never heard of these tricks ourselves and we imagine that you’ll find them useful as well.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
WATCH THIS NOW: This is the best ad Samsung has ever made, but you’ll never see it on TV
Samsung spends more money on marketing and advertising than any of its competitors, and that includes Apple. In fact, it’s not even close — the company’s budget is in the double-digit billions, which actually tops many of the Samsung’s rivals’ annual revenue.
The ads Samsung’s various agencies around the world come up with vary pretty dramatically in terms of theme and style. Sometimes Samsung focuses on bashing Apple, other times it touts the merits of its own products.
This time, Samsung struck gold with an ad that very well may move you to tears.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report
FEATURED: My dream of having Google take over my iPhone is almost a reality
If you would have told me a few years ago that Google would be the company behind some of the best mobile software in the world – across all mobile platforms — I would have laughed in your face. Google has been the search king for more than a decade and there’s no question that its advertising products are gold, but early versions of Android were… not great.
Fast forward to 2015, however, and Google is the brains behind some of the most beautiful and useful apps on the planet.
Read more here:: Boy Genius Report