You may believe that with the advancements in facial recognition and its focus on eliminating the Home button that Touch ID is a dead issue with Apple, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The company is still working on ways to involve fingerprint-recognition technology on their future devices. What they’re working on would allow devices to still read your fingerprint, despite no appearance of a home button. Fingerprint Sensor Technology For a few years Touch ID was the hot thing with Apple’s iPhone and iPads. The home button was used to sign in to your device as well as your online accounts. But… Read more
One of the reasons Linux is great is because of how flexible it is. For example, it can run on everything from servers to your old laptop to a Raspberry Pi. For this reason, it’s also a fantastic platform for developers. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just using Linux to learn to program, you still have to choose a distribution. The reality is that you can pretty much be a developer with most Linux distros, but some have those little conveniences that make them head-and-shoulders above the crowd. Here are the best Linux distros for developers. Related: 8 of The Best Linux Distros in… Read more
The core version of WordPress was designed with search engines in mind. WordPress helps search engines crawl your content and offers SEO-friendly features such as permalinks, however it does lack support for sitemaps and rich snippets. Launched in 2009, rich snippets allow you to display more information about your web pages on Google. This can… View Article
These days a lot of phones come with wireless charging compatibility. This is where you place the phone on a dedicated charging pad and watch the battery fill up “by magic.” This new technology is very exciting, but it also raises a lot of questions. For example, how does wireless charging fare against wired charging? Is wireless charging just a gimmick, or is it time to throw out those five different USB cables you have around the home? Let’s take a look at both and where each one shines. Wired Charging Wired charging has a lot of positives, despite being the less “flashy” variant of… Read more
Virtual Reality is quietly on the rise, and while on major platforms like PC the price of entry is still too high for many people, on Android it’s flourishing. Headsets are relatively cheap, and there are plenty of great VR apps for you to lock around your head and zone out. Here we’ve picked out our favorite Virtual Reality apps for Android you can take for a spin. Related: 14 of the Best Augmented Reality Apps for Android and iOS 1. XR Gaming Something very new and very exciting for PC gamers, this app (still in development) has the ambitious goal of letting you play… Read more
