Facepalm: Researchers from the University of Alberta recently compared the responses of the four leading virtual digital assistants – Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Siri – when asked basic first aid and life support questions. The results may surprise you.

The team asked each of the assistants 123 questions spanning 39 first aid topics, arranging questions and statements with syntaxes like “How can I tell if …” or “I’m having a …” and providing three rephrasing attempts. Responses were rated based on whether or

Rumor mill: Samsung has never been great at keeping secrets. In fact, leaks on upcoming products are so common that some suggest it's an intentional marketing ploy to generate hype, which I find to be a sound argument. Its newest folding phone is no exception.

As we have reported previously, Samsung's next foldable is rumored to be a clamshell-type phone akin to Motorola's Razr. Those rumors appear to have been confirmed if a leaked video is to be believed.

Mobile tipster Ben Geskin

Bottom line: The total bill of materials for someone looking to build the Freedom Wing Adapter themselves is around $30 to $35, we’re told. Anyone capable of through-hole soldering should be able to build one – just make sure that your chair uses the 9-pin style connector for the joystick.

We’ve seen some pretty incredible creations come to life based on Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller but the latest may very well take the cake.

The Freedom Wing Adapter allows users to

Why it matters: Flash, the deprecated multimedia platform that added interactivity to websites in the early days of the internet, has been on life support for a long time. For those of us that have been computing that long, we know Flash as the former Macromedia product that got us through the late 90s and early 2000s, before Adobe acquired it in 2005. As old web technologies fade away, they often leave a vast amount of historical content worth preserving. Flashpoint has

What just happened? TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a research note published over the weekend slashed his first quarter iPhone shipment forecast by 10 percent due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in China.

In the note, seen by CNBC , Kuo said they are cutting their shipment forecast down to 36 million to 40 million units for Q2 2020. Apple no longer reveals how many phones it ships per quarter but Kuo estimates that the Cupertino-based company moved roughly 38 million handsets

What just happened? It appears that BlackBerry phones are dead. TCL Communication, the current manufacturer of the devices, has confirmed that it will no longer be selling BlackBerry-branded hardware from August 31 this year.

Back in 2016, BlackBerry announced that it would stop manufacturing its own phones, and instead concentrate on software and services while relying on partners to design and build future hardware. A few months later, it reached a “long-term” deal with TCL that would see the Chinese company

In a nutshell: If you always mean to get your favorite digital photos printed but usually forget, a new Google service could be for you. For a monthly fee, the company will automatically pick the best ten photos you’ve taken over the last 30 days and send them out as 4 x 6-inch prints.

9to5Google reports that the service is part of Google Photos and costs $7.99 per month. Rather than requiring users to choose which images they want printed, Google

In brief: Don’t have between $39,900 and $69,900 to buy one of Tesla’s Cybertrucks? Then you could always get a modded iPhone from Russia’s Caviar, which has a design inspired by the boxy vehicle.

The Cyberphone, as it’s called, is essentially just an iPhone 11 Pro inside a titanium protective case. Caviar says that “the design of the body is inspired by the geometry of Tesla's Cybertruck . At