Best Buy highlights consumer life & wearable tech in Toronto

 

By Sonya Davidson

The exciting world of lifestyle related and wearable tech products is growing quickly and judging by the thousands who visited Best Buy's Life & Wearable Tech Expo last week in Toronto, consumers are definitely intrigued and ready to embrace it all. Yonge & Dundas Square was the location of the second annual showcase that offered the public an up close and interactive look at the latest lifestyle technology. 

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Crop-Size offers powerful resizing, cropping and editing for iOS users

Independent developer, Alexey Khutorschikov released  Crop-Size 2.5.5, an important update to his popular photo editing solution for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. The app offers iOS users the ability to quickly and easily crop, resize, and edit any photos stored on their device or in iCloud. In addition to its comprehensive cropping and resizing tools, Crop-Size offers a number of filters and effects that can be applied to any photo or group of photos, and the combination of filters can be saved as part of a program to be applied to other photos.

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Microsoft addresses battery issues with Surface Pro 3

For Surface Pro 3 users experiencing battery issues, Microsoft has issued a fix for those tablets that don’t seem to hold a full charge. Some owners of this model particular have been complaining that their machines couldn’t hold charge for more than an hour. Microsoft was able to determine that the issue with some units is they’ve been failing to correctly measure the full battery capacity of the tablet, which is preventing them from receiving a full charge. Microsoft likens the issue to a broken fuel gauge in a car: “If the fuel gauge isn’t working right, the car would also not be able to fill the tank—even though the tank is fine.”

Microsoft claims the batteries inside the units should be fine and should work properly after you install the update. But the changes might happen over a few charge and discharge cycles. Of course, with an older unit like the Surface Pro 3, the capacity of its battery might be less than the original at this point. But it should still be better than an hour’s use. For those who already replaced their battery thinking that was the issue. Microsoft is looking into the issue and trying to identify those who actually have a faulty battery or those who just ran the battery’s unit down. They intend to reach out to those affected by the bug and paid for a replacement within 30 days.

Source: The Verge

Facebook’s Trending Topics feature hits another snag over fake news story

After reducing the role of editors when it comes to curating Trending Topics, Facebook finds itself in another controversy over the feature. An erroneous story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly “backing Hillary” (referring to US Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton) gets promoted in the section. Fox News calls the incident “an egregious mistake.”

The story it seems was able to pass through the review team even though Facebook has said its team is working “to ensure that the topics that appear in Trending remain high-quality.” There were enough stories written over it that it got approved. But it was later found there were problems with accuracy about the supposed story. If there’s one lesson here, it reminds us to not believe everything you see online. And Facebook still has a lot of work to do when it comes to verifying stories before these get promoted.

 Source: CNET