Twitter tries to demystify service with new homepage

Not quite sure what to make of Twitter? The microblogging site/social network hopes to address that with its revamped homepage. Right away you’ll see actual tweets and what they consider as “high value” ones. It’s a move seen to get people to check out the service since it is host to great stuff like those tweets. The new homepage is rolling out widely today. You should be seeing it soon on Twitter.com.

Source: Buzzfeed

Best Buy Canada to start selling Apple Watch on August 14

Best Buy’s retail stores in Canada will be carrying Apple’s wearable starting next month. The retail company will be offering 16 Apple Watch and Apple Watch Sport models both at its retail stores and online. According to Tony Sandhu, senior VP for merchandising at Best Buy Canada, they intend to have the Apple Watch available at over 50 Best Buy stores in the country. Customers who visit the retail stores will be able to “feel and try-on” the wearable.

Source: 9to5Mac

Cameras and photo quality are the new proving ground for flagship smartphones

The sincerest form of flattery: Motorola 'borrows' Apple's Shot on iPhone 6 campaign to show its new Moto X is a worthy competitor to Apple's camera phone

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Over 1.5bn new photos are shared every day on Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat alone, which equates to about 550bn a year

Forget processor speeds, performance or screen resolution. The battleground for flagship smartphones today is camera and picture quality. We're taking an insane amount of pictures on our devices, everything from baby and pet shots, to selfies and food shots and our smartphones are the best devices for this sort of manic snap-happy photography fest.

Most smartphone users don't even take calls anymore, they may message or text and even play games and use apps and social media services, but you can be certain almost everyone takes pictures and video. Smartphone makers have responded by packing in the megapixels and improving the aperture for better low-light photography.

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Clarkson, Hammond and May take their talents to Amazon Prime for Top Gear-styled show

The power-trio of motoring journalism Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have agreed to a three-season deal with Amazon Prime which will begin shooting this Fall for launch in 2016. Controversial Clarkson was sacked by the BBC after punching a Top Gear producer, as a result the season of Top Gear was cancelled and Hammond and May decided to quit the show.

Rumoured to be in talks with Netflix (which carries various seasons of Top Gear) but it looks like Amazon Prime offered the team a better deal. 

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