en apple news

Apple is expanding the capacity of its iCloud Drive storage service. CNET Apple has doubled the maximum amount of data users can store on iCloud Drive, now offering 2 terabytes to customers of its online storage service.Apple's new storage capacity will run customers $19.99 per month, twice the $9.99 monthly cost of its previous 1TB storage max. Consumers still have the option of getting 5GBs of storage for free. ...

Nobody likes getting socked with a charge for going over a monthly wireless data cap. And thanks to changes made by the nation's two largest carriers, those days may be over forever.Earlier this summer AT&T and Verizon said they'd eliminate charges for customers who bust their data caps, in exchange for slowing service to 2G speeds. It's a policy competitors T-Mobile and Sprint have offered for years. And it's likely to be a welcome change for many customers, who cringe every month when the ...

AT&T's latest deal will make it easier for mobile customers to connect while traveling in Cuba. CNET/Marguerite Reardon AT&T mobile customers visiting Cuba should be able to connect there more easily, thanks to a roaming and interconnection deal with telecom provider Empresa De Telecomunicaciones De Cuba, known as ETECSA. The company said Monday it would specify wireless roaming availability and pricing ...

Close Let's build: Lego City airport, featuring an 18-inch Lego plane Drag It's the end of the working week, so grab a coffee a...

This robot spends its time in the sewer looking for problems with pipes. KC Water Services Urban legends tell of all kinds of creatures in city sewers -- giant rats, alligators, even talking, anthropomorphic turtles.What's living in the sewers in Kansas City, Missouri, sounds equally fantastic, though it's totally real. Kansas City's Water Services has a fleet of robots in its sewer system.The robots, which are e...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla and SolarCity confirm merger in $2.6BN stock deal Close Tesla Gigafactory Tour Drag Tesla and SolarC...

Enlarge Image Fujifilm Joining its kin in Tokyo, Barcelona, Bogata, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore, Fujifilm's Wonder Photo Shop gets its US debut this Friday, July 22, in New York City at 176th Fifth Avenue. As with many manufacturers, the company's brick-and-mortar stores will show off the company's imaging product lines -- these include the Instax print digital cameras and various enthusiast-targeted camera mo...

Getty Images/EyeEm A new 50-turbine wind farm in Norway has yet to be constructed, but Google has already bought up its entire 12-year supply of energy. The farm, due to be completed in 2017, will be used to power Google's European data centres, Reuters reports. The search giant has also bought the entire power output of a second wind farm in Sweden, which is due to be built in 2018. The two power plants will su...

The high-capacity, high-speed miniSD cards from Weste Digital. Weste Digital If you're in the market for high-capacity and superfast miniSD cards, Weste Digital has something to offer. The company announced today two new 256GB miniSD cards, the SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I and the SanDisk UltramicroSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition. According to Weste Digital, the SanDisk Extreme card (MSRP $199.99) is for pro user...

Solar Impulse, the sun-powered plane, has completed the Atlantic stage of its historic circumnavigation.The aircraft landed in Seville, Spain on Thursday moing, having set off on its jouey across the Atlantic ocean from New York three days ago. Spain is the penultimate stop on the vehicle's epic quest to travel around the globe without buing any fuel. The plane weighs 5,500 pounds, travels about 47 miles per hour and is powered by 17,248 solar cells built into the wings. ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryThirty Helens agree: Smart-city technology can change our lives for the betterAnything to save us from clusterf$%&s like this will be welcome. USDOT The US Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge is almost over, as a winner is to be revealed in the very near future. But it's not really over. In fact, it's started a great conversation about using data and technology to fix s...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryTesla adds solar to its portfolio through SolarCity acquisitionTesla Motors announced its intention to acquire solar panel installer SolarCity today, in what Tesla CEO Elon Musk described as a "no-brainer" deal. If the acquisition goes through, Tesla would add solar panel installation services to its current business lines selling electric cars and battery storage devices.It might seem like a "no-brainer" to Musk, but his investors must be wonder where the brains are. In ...

See ya, New York, I'm off to Spain Solar Impulse The Solar Impulse 2 soared back into the the air early this moing on the last oceanic hurdle of its global flight, the Atlantic. The pokey but tough solar-powered plane took off from New York's John F. Kennedy Inteational Airport at 2:30 a.m. local time and headed toward Seville, Spain, on a trip that should last four days.Six hours later, Captain Bertrand Piccard ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageTim Cook. Leading Apple in a complex world. Screenshot by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho/CNET Apple's different these days.But is today's different better than yesterday's? There's a certain feeling that, as the company releases more products and more software, there are more problems. The Apple Watch may (or may not) ...

A Dell-branded wireless charging mat and laptops featuring WiTricity's wireless charging technology made an appearance at Computex, Taipei. Aloysius Low/CNET Wireless charging company WiTricity may not yet be a household name, but that's soon to change once Dell's laptops start launching with its technology.Making an appearance at WiTricity's show suite at Computex here in Taipei were Dell laptops that started ch...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryCeci n'est pas une autoroute: Paris bans pre-1997 cars in city centerGetting a clear view of the Eiffel Tower is apparently quite difficult during the day, thanks largely to Paris' air pollution problem. The rest is due to annoying tourists trying to get that "Oh, look, I have my finger atop the Eiffel Tower" pose. Wieslawa Hoummada/Getty Images If there's one city that's attempted more th...

The MAREA cable will have the highest capacity of any undersea cable in the Atlantic, the companies say.Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up to build an undersea cable across the Atlantic Ocean to meet growing demand for high-speed online and cloud services.The new "MAREA" cable is designed to have an estimated initial capacity of 160 terabits of data per second, the highest-capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic, the companies said in a statement Thursday. The cable will stretch 4,10...

RoadshowCar IndustryNissan's latest battery breakthrough should boost lithium ion capacity, EV rangeWorkers at Nissan's battery plant in Smya, Tennessee. Nissan Charge cycles will be the death of us all. As batteries are continually charged and depleted, its overall capacity begins to diminish, and eventually the battery will need to be replaced. It's one of many issues conceing electric vehicles, but Nissan thin...

A 15-year-old has been credited with discovering a lost Mayan city, buried deep in the Mexican jungle.Québécois teen William Gadoury hunted down the lost settlement by looking at 22 Mayan constellations, Yahoo News reports, citing the French-language Joual De Montréal. Gadoury then reportedly compared those star maps with actual known Mayan sites, and found a link.Next Gadoury went a step further, looking at a 23rd constellation containing three stars. Only two of those corresponded to known cit...

Enlarge ImageThe abandoned city of Pripyat lies still and silent under the deadly radioactive dust of the Cheobyl nuclear disaster. Reality 51 When Wojciech Pazdur was 8 or 9 years old, his father, a Polish nuclear physician, came home from work and said all their equipment had gone crazy. He said that meant "something bad had happened".It was 26 April 1986 in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic...