Vertu and Bentley are repeating history with a new smartphone collaboration. While the firstVertu for Bentley device was based on the original Signature Touch from 2014, the new one presented today is actually just a rebranded second-gen Signature Touch. The Vertu Signature Touch for Bentley has two-tone Beluga and Hotspur Bentley leather, with Hotspur stitching. The phone features “knurled side keys, a unique pillow rail and sound bar and a 3D Bentley logo”. You can further personalize it choosing from eight leather colors and 16 stitching options. You also get a “unique Bentley app” with it, which will bring you…
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A group of widely owned stocks may be at risk of falling even further as investors unwind their exposure to equities amid increased volatility this year. In a note to clients Monday, analysts at Credit Suisse advised clients to sell highly concentrated names given expensive valuations, deteriorating trends and the risk of a snowball type of effect if the selling continues. “If the growth trade has peaked, heavily owned names — and those with particularly high growth expectations — may be most vulnerable to rotation away,” wrote Lori Calvasina, U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse. According to the report, there’s…
Seemingly wanting to confirm that “better late than never” saying, Verizon has only now decided to release the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update for its version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. The flagship phablet from 2014 has actually been on the receiving end of this update ever since August of 2015, but that’s for internationally sold unlocked units. As always, if you buy yours from a carrier you can wait a lot more. Case in point, here we are in January 2016, a few months after Google’s launched Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and Big Red is sending out Android 5.1.1 to…
With Facebook’s Oculus, Sony’s Morpheus and HTC’s Vive headsets getting ready to launch this year, expectations are high for virtual reality to shake up video games. But that’s not all; virtual and augmented reality technology is expected to disrupt a range of industries. “There’s architecture, there’s automotive,” said Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe to CNBC. “I think you’re going to see the [Oculus] Rift throughout a lot of automotive showcases. Different destinations are going to start featuring this, so yeah, there’s a huge range of applications.” At the recent CES event, a wide range of potential VR applications were unveiled. The…
Some people have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars for the privilege of playingStar Citizen early. Suckers. You? You get to try it for free, this entire week. Presumably because Chris Roberts and Co. hope to convince you to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars. Drug dealer rules, you know? The first hit is free. From the announcement: “On the fence about Star Citizen? For the next week, we’re enabling Free Fly access to all accounts…which means that anyone can jump in to Star Citizen Alpha 2.1.2 today!” If you don’t speak Star Citizenese, Alpha 2.1.2 is the less-fancy name…
ZTE has launched a new smartphone in its Blade series of affordable offerings. It’s called Blade D Lux, and so far it’s only been made available in Vietnam and Singapore. However, we assume it will be headed to other countries too in the near future. The D Lux is a lower-midrange product, as you’d expect from the Blade line. It comes with a 5.5-inch 720p touchscreen with 2.5D glass on top, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, an 8 MP selfie cam, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 chipset (with a 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU), 2GB of RAM, 16GB of…
In March, Microsoft said it would use its Bing technology to predict the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. On February 1, Microsoft said that Donald Trump would win the first four primaries by an even wider amount than before. Microsoft’s Bing predicts that Trump will win the Republican primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada relatively easily, topping Ted Cruz in all four states. Hillary Clinton is expected to win three out of the first four Democratic primaries—Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada—losing New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders. Microsoft said it used data from polls, prediction markets, and anonymized…
The recent plunge in oil prices should be — mostly — good for the U.S. economy. Cheaper fuel brings big savings for consumers and businesses — several hundred billion dollars since prices crashed from more than $100 a barrel to less than $30. Gasoline, diesel and heating oil make up about two-thirds of the roughly 20 million barrels of oil consumed in the U.S. every day. Lower oil prices are also helping cut the U.S. trade deficit by slashing the cost of imported oil. And they’ve brought lower operating costs for shippers and other transportation companies, which helps boost profits…
The new iOS 9.3 beta for developers isn’t the only thing Apple is releasing today. The company has also made the watchOS 2.2 beta available for developers. This latest iteration of the software running inside the Apple Watch comes with one big new feature. You can now pair multiple Apple Watches with one iPhone. This is only possible if all of those wearables are running the watchOS 2.2 beta release, and if that iPhone has the iOS 9.3 beta installed. The watchOS 2.2 beta also brings with it a new Nearby menu, which you can find in the Glances section…
Google’s Chrome browser will soon get a slightly new look, but users of the latest stable release needn’t wait. As spotted by The Next Web, Chrome now offers several optional tweaks in line withGoogle’s Material Design aesthetic. These include changes to the browser’s menu and bookmarks bars, downloads page, and PDF viewer. To enable the changes, visit the chrome://flags menu and select “Material” from the drop-down for the following items: “Material design in the browser’s top chrome,” “Enable material UI for PDF,” and “Enable Material Design downloads.” Additionally, users may preview a new Material Design settings menu by visiting chrome://md-settings. Compared…