Todd R. Weiss

iOS App Enhances Physical, Virtual Tours of Renovated L.A. Auto Museum The Petersen Automotive Museum now offers a mobile app that lets visitors “drive” through its vehicle collection with a personal guide. Start Here for the Petersen Automotive Museum Tour The Petersen app, which is available in a free version or a $2.99 premium version […]

Google is in the midst of designing a stand-alone virtual reality headset device that would not require it to be used with a smartphone, unlike its existing Google Cardboard viewer. The latest device would feature a screen, high-powered processors and outward-facing cameras, according to a Feb. 11 article in The Wall Street Journal. “Google plans […]

Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets are being bundled with specially-built PCs from several manufacturers and will be available for preorders starting Feb. 16 to give VR fans the right gear to get started in the world of virtual reality. The bundles, which will include an Oculus-ready PC and a Rift VR headset, were announced on […]

Sonos wireless speaker systems can now stream Apple Music any time following a two-month beta program that previewed the streaming music service for some Sonos owners. The new feature for Sonos users around the world allows users to now stream the entire Apple Music catalog, the speaker company announced on Feb. 9. Apple Music on […]

Verizon continues to be interested in potentially acquiring Yahoo for the 1 billion people who use its email, finance, sports and video services; its broad online content offerings and its heavy Web traffic. The mobile carrier upped its pursuit by recently enlisting the help of the CEO of its AOL unit to research its strategy, […]

When life threw me some curves just before Christmas, I hit the road and ran away from home, taking two smartphones, a tablet, a mobile WiFi hotspot and my love for travel and adventure. I rented a car, stopped my mail, made several Airbnb reservations across North Carolina and Tennessee and headed out, blasting the […]

Apple has open sourced its Swift Benchmarking Suite just two months after making the Swift programming language itself open source back in December. The company made the announcement in a Feb. 8 post on the Swift Blog. The benchmarking suite includes source code for benchmarks, libraries and utilities that are designed to help track Swift […]

Apple is advising owners of damaged iPhone 6 smartphones that have been repaired by third-party service centers to contact Apple Support if their phones are now displaying “Error 53” messages on their screens. The Error 53 messages, which were revealed in recent reports by The Guardian, apparently are generated on a late model iPhone if […]

Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset that works with a smartphone to provide users with expanded VR capabilities compared to the company’s original smartphone-based Google Cardboard viewers. The upcoming VR device, which will also include additional support for the Android operating system, is expected to be released this year and is […]

OnePlus has permanently lowered the price of its OnePlus 2 smartphone to $349, a $40 drop from its original price of $389 when it was launched in the United States in August 2015. The company announced the lower price in a Feb. 8 post on its Website, explaining that increasing production and sales figures inspired […]