Ericsson is rolling out 5G right now, CEO Ekholm says at MWC

Wondering about the status of 5G? This is no pipe dream, Ericsson's CEO Börje Ekholm explained during a press event on Monday morning< february 25, at Mobile World Congress 2019. It's real. And it's happening now.

Mobile         January 16, 2020

Exclusive: Google reveals 2,000-person diversity and inclusion product team

Google has built a 2,000-person strong team of what it calls Inclusion Champions over the last three years to help test out prototypes of new devices and services to ensure that everything the company releases is built from the ground up to address people of all shapes, sizes, and colors.

Trash         January 9, 2020

High-tech toothbrushes and digital diapers: P&G brings innovation to CES 2020

P&G’s brands are household names like Oral-B, Pampers, Tide, and Gillette. And just as much research and passion go into those devices as into the latest flat panel. To underscore that point, P&G hit CES with its “LifeLab,” where consumers can see how everyday products are improved via tech.

Smart Home News         January 8, 2020

4 tech trends we’re going to see blow up at CES 2015

The 2015 CES, the biggest gadget show of the year, is mere weeks away. From wearables to the Internet of Things to smartphone cases galore, here's what we expect to see.

Car News         January 7, 2020

Change from within: How the CTA could bring diversity to the tech industry

With a sea of white, male faces as homogeneous as Wonder Bread, tech has an inclusivity problem -- and the trade group behind CES has answers. This week, it unveiled a variety of new initiatives and policies to foster diversity, including the first investments in a planned $10 million diversity fund.

Trash         January 7, 2020

Qualcomm Ride platform aims to make self-driving cars simpler

Snapdragon Ride is a platform for autonomous vehicles, a handful of chips and software that fits into a box no bigger than your backpack and can tie together radar of all ranges, LIDAR, CV2X communication systems, and front and rear cameras via software that knows where the car is and what’s coming up.

Car News         January 6, 2020

Samsung Unpacked — and the Galaxy S11? and a new Fold? — is coming Feb. 11

It's official: The next Samsung Unpacked event is scheduled for February 11 in San Francisco, where the company is expected to announce its latest consumer electronic devices -- notably the Galaxy S11 smartphone. Will there be a new foldable smartphone there?

Android         January 5, 2020

These 3 transformative technologies will have the biggest impact on 2020

Three fields hold the most promise for the tech world in 2020: The Internet of Things (IoT); artificial intelligence (especially the most visible face of A.I., voice assistants); and 5G connections and devices. Here’s what it all means.

Features         January 2, 2020

Web 4.0? With a new Edge beta, Microsoft is rethinking the browser

At Ignite, Microsoft unveiled a new version of the Edge browser and Bing search engine, a new green-and-blue swirl logo, a suite of new tools for site builders, and a new vision for the internet: An end to static sites, better access to information, and a way to integrate disparate office applications.

News         November 3, 2019

How much does it cost Apple to make an iPhone?

You’re about to plunk down $699 on that new iPhone 11 – or *gasp* $1,449 on the 512GB iPhone Pro Max without a trade-in. That’s quite a few nights out on the town, you think to yourself, or as much as a used car. How much does it cost Apple to make these darn things?

Apple         October 17, 2019

Digital Trends Hires Two New Editors to Expand Coverage of Smart Homes and Wearables

Digital Trends today announced the hiring of two new editors, John Velasco and Corey Gaskin, to handle the publication’s coverage of smart homes and wearables -- growing areas of how technology plays a role in every aspect of our lives.

Press Releases         October 15, 2019

Silicon Valley needs to grow a backbone and stand up to China

Tech titans like Apple, Google, and others like to position themselves as champions of human rights and supporters of democratic values -- but their responses to the ongoing Hong Kong protests show that they'll quickly abandon those ideals in order to keep China happy.

Web         October 12, 2019

Tile Sticker, Slim, and Pro hands-on review: A Tile for your tech (and more)

Tile has unveiled an all-new hardware lineup for 2019, including new form factors and functionality – and at last, an adhesive version of the tracking tech. Meet Tile Sticker, Tile Slim, Tile Pro, and Tile Mate, versatile tracking devices to ensure you don't lose anything.

Reviews         October 8, 2019

Microsoft Surface Earbuds hands-on review

Microsoft's got a brand new bag with its own pair of fully wireless earbuds, dubbed the Surface Earbuds. Ostensibly AirPods competitors, the Earbuds put their own spin on wireless sound, including a new way to interact with Microsoft software, translation, and touch controls, all at a hefty price.

Reviews         October 6, 2019

Microsoft Surface Neo hands-on review: Touch the future

The Microsoft Surface Neo is a new dual-screen laptop that envisions a new path of mobile PCs. Instead of a physical keyboard, it has two screens that fold together like a book. The bottom half can be used with a small accessory keyboard. It can also be held as a tablet, like a book, and more.

Reviews         October 2, 2019

At IFA, Qualcomm and BMW unveil the world’s first 5G connected car — almost

At a keynote presentation during IFA 2019, Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon and Christoph Grote, BMW's senior vice president of electronics, announced plans to evolve future vehicles with 5G, which will push next-generation connected cars even futher. Digital Trends sat down with the pair for a deeper dive.

Cars         September 7, 2019

What is IFA anyway? A.I., autos, and the future at Europe’s biggest tech show

You don’t need to know how to spell Internationale Funkausstellung to know that IFA is the world’s largest technology show, and it’s happening in Berlin next week. Here's what the show is all about, from innovation to ideas to gadgets and gizmos (no sex robots, however).

Trash         August 29, 2019

Qualcomm draws a road map to the self-driving car of the future

Qualcomm has unveiled its 2nd-gen Connected Car Reference Platform and the QCA6696 chip, which brings next-gen Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and 5G to autos and enables an array of technologies to bridge the gap between the cars of today and the self-driving entertainment centers of the future.

Car News         August 27, 2019

5G will herald a new invention age, Qualcomm says at Mobile World Congress

Unlimited data consumption, more like electricity than data, and the analytics and A.I. to study that vast flood of data, will enable billions of things to be connected. It's a huge transformation for the industry, and if the promised changes come true, a vast change to society, too.

Business         August 27, 2019

Ericsson wants to make 5G networking easier with packing tape

To simplify deployments of 5g networks, Ericsson researchers invented “Radio Stripes” – essentially packing tape with serialized radios every foot or so and linked by flexible wire. To deploy, simply unroll and affix. The company unveiled the tech at MWC, the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona.

News         August 27, 2019

Dyson DC59 Motorhead review

The Dyson DC59 Motorhead has remarkable good looks and can practically pull the fibers out of your carpets, let alone the dirt. If only the battery lasted longer…

Reviews         August 23, 2019

Microsoft Band review

The Microsoft Band wearable fitness device and smartwatch packs 10 different sensors into one amazing package, a technology feat to be sure. But Microsoft lost sight of function somewhere along the way -- and ended up building an unwearable wearable.

Health & Fitness         August 23, 2019

Motorola Droid Turbo review

The ancient Romans had a saying: After three days, a guest like a fish begins to smell. (They said it in Latin, of course.) The point being, time can take the luster off a good thing, whether it’s the fun of visiting family or what felt like smartphone of the year. Updated on 3-16-2015 by […]

Mobile         August 23, 2019

Microsoft Band 2 review

With the Microsoft Band 2 wearable -- a smartwatch with strong fitness tracking and health monitoring features -- the company has fixed the design flaws that made the first Band so hard to wear. But design dings and downright disasters leave this product dead in the water.

Health & Fitness         August 23, 2019

HP Envy x360 15 hands-on review

Stylish, powerful, and refined, the Envy x360 15 could be a dream. It’s convertible 2-in-1 design that supports inking and and has powerful internal components including support for either standard Intel CPUs or an AMD solution with Radeon graphics. But a quirk or two have us worried it’s a nightmare instead.

Reviews         August 23, 2019

Welcome to the all-new Digital Trends

Digital Trends has had the same look for over half a decade. We can do better. You demanded more from us. So over the last half a year, we’ve built a new site, rethinking what we do from the inside out to ensure that every widget works, every slider slides, every text box wraps flawlessly.

Trash         August 22, 2019

Enough is enough: It’s time to break up big tech companies

The Justice Department is starting an antitrust review of Big Tech companies. Antitrust investigations are needed when a business’ sheer bulk is abused, when innovative smaller companies are squashed, and when consumers are impacted. And frankly, that’s a very real problem in the tech world today.

Web         July 25, 2019

CES 2020 will allow sex toys but crack down on inappropriate clothing

For the 2020 CES show, sex toys will come to Vegas -- but skintight clothing that "hugs genitalia" is a no-no, the group organizing the enormous consumer tech-fest announced Tuesday. The news comes after a sex toy won a prize in 2019 only to have it revoked

Trash         July 24, 2019

Orwell’s 1984 was nothing like actual 1984. But it’s exactly like 2019

70 years ago today, George Orwell published 1984: a dystopian novel that sat squarely in the realm of fiction at the time it was published. Today, however, the book is an astonishingly accurate depiction of the world we live in now -- and somehow everyone seems to be okay with it.

Features         June 8, 2019

Facebook gets a bad rap, former exec says, but we should break it up anyway

The rise of hate speech, the trolling, the comment on Facebook? Not Facebook's fault, says Alex Stamos, former chief security officer, in a fireside chat with Kara Swisher at the Collision conference. But the site should still be broken up. And Google too.

News         May 21, 2019

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams still wants to save the world

Social media has led to a mental health crisis in Gen Z and a rise in hate speech. But there’s light at the end of the tunnel, according to Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and Medium. But weaning ourselves off today's social media won't be easy, he told Kara Swisher at the Collision conference.

News         May 21, 2019

Microsoft unveils $3,500 HoloLens 2 at MWC 2019. Here’s what you need to know

The HoloLens 2 is Microsoft's upcoming next generation augmented reality headset. The company announced the new HoloLens at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 in Barcelona. Here's everything we know so far.

News         May 11, 2019

CES is coming! 9 themes to watch for as the blockbuster tech show unfolds

It may not be the biggest, but CES is easily the most important tech show of the year. What will 2017’s monstrous tech fest hold? Here’s my list of the 9 biggest trends to watch for --what you’ll see in the year ahead -- as well as a few tips about companies to keep your eye on.

Features         May 11, 2019

George Clooney and Microsoft’s TrialWatch hopes to put a spotlight on injustice

Microsoft and The Clooney Foundation for Justice unveiled the TrialWatch app Thursday during an event at Columbia University — a new tool in CFJ’s ongoing effort to shine a light on injustice in courts around the globe.

News         April 30, 2019