The Rubik's cube is well-known as being a very tricky puzzle, and before the Digital Age brought us Flappy Bird et al, many would kill some time trying to match up all of the colors on each face of the legendary puzzle. Now, to commemorate the Rubik's Cube's 40th birthday, you can try your hand at this classic challenge from right within your browser thanks to Google Doodle.
In preparing for a major new product release, most companies will outline several suppliers to take care of each element, which ensures that if one supplier isn't delivering to its quota or there's a hitch, the overall production machine isn't ground to a halt. When it comes to preparing new displays for the iOS device range, Apple has several companies in the running, but whilst it has leant heavily on Samsung and Sharp in this key area over the past couple of years, it now appears that both have been dropped for the production of the iPhone 6.
Over the course of the weekend, Apple and Google reached a landmark deal that saw both parties agree to settle any patent disputes in a manner that wouldn't involve continued litigation, and now, it is being reported that Apple and Samsung are currently holding talks on a similar agreement.
Facebook may be the world's largest social network, but that doesn't mean that it hasn’t been plagued with issues and privacy concerns. Rarely an year passes by and the company faces intense questioning over the security of its users’ data as well as scrutiny surrounding a number of feature additions. After a period of calm, that scrutiny looks set to re-emerge when Facebook took the decision to add an "Ask" button onto profiles, allowing us all to query the different aspects of people we're connected with, including their relationship.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg isn't one to take no for an answer, so when his company's attempts to buy messaging service Snapchat fell on deaf ears last year along with the failure of the Poke app, it was never going to be the end of the story. Now it's being reported that with Snapchat going from strength to strength without Facebook's involvement, the social network is hard at work bringing its own video and instant messaging app to the masses.
Some times things seem too good to be true. Equally, other times things seem so awful that they just can't be accurate. Thankfully, the latter is the case today.
Earlier today, well known iOS security researcher i0n1c posted a photo of iPhone 5c jailbroken on iOS 7.1.1 running Cydia version 1.1.9.
We already know that Samsung isn't averse to launching multiple versions of the same phone, whether the differences be screen sizes, shock or water resistance or horsepower, but the rumored Galaxy S5 Prime still has us interested. What appears to be a Galaxy S5 on steroids, the unannounced product has been gathering some traction in the leak stakes of late, and now one appears to have popped up on YouTube.
The Oxford Dictionary has not only recognized selfie as an official word, but also went as far as making the abbreviation for capturing a self-portrait its word of the year in 2013. If further proof was needed that we aren't getting away from the phenomenon anytime soon then it's surely provided by fact that there is also a song titled #SELFIE that has manage to hang around the most popular charts with its accompanying music video. So, if the relatively recent trend of capturing a selfie isn't going to subside, we may as well embrace it by using an app like oSnap to simplify the whole process.
After what seems like an eternity of constantly battling one another in a courtroom, Apple and Google have come to a mutual agreement that will see the two technology giants ending all current patent litigations against each another. In an effort to avoid an escalation of the situation, and to prevent any additional bad blood from developing between two of Silicon Valley's most important companies, Apple and Google are understood to have thrashed out a ceasefire that is mutually suitable to all involved.
