Gadgetory

it's time to squint at rectangles and bend your screens I'm Bridget Carey and this is your Seanad update yahoo has officially bought the popular blogging site tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars yahoo wrote a tumblr post about the news with its own animated gif and i wrote in the post we promise not to screw it up over the weekend many tumblr users were writing about how they were worried yahoo was going to change the site for the worse not only is yahoo trying to buy up a slice of internet cool since tumblr is popular with a younger demographic but it also wants to drive tumblr users to visit yahoo content and as for making money off tumblr yahoo CEO marissa meyer told investors in a conference call that yahoo will look into new ways to introduce ads tumblr is massive there are more than a million blogs with about 900 new posts a second right before microsoft unveils the next xbox console sony released this teaser video with blurry shots of the new playstation 4 and if you look quickly there's this rectangle and there's something circular and another sheep k well sony says it'll finally show us the system on jun 10th at e3 in los angeles there is some speculation that Apple will be rolling out a new version of the macbook air that's because several official apple resellers are listing the 13-inch laptop as being at a stock that's according to the blog AppleInsider if there's low inventory at authorized Apple outlets that usually means Apple's holding off on shipping more because the new model is about to be revealed Apple has a developer's conference in June so maybe we'll have to wait three weeks to know more the future just got more flexible LG says it has a bendable and unbreakable smartphone screen and it's going to show it off this week at a tech exhibit in Vancouver Canada LG's OLED screen is apparently thinner lighter and more flexible than conventional LCD displays and last month LG said it's going to launch a smartphone with this flexible screen at the end of the year LG is not the only one testing out this technology samsung demoed a bendable and roll will display during CES in January if you visit Pinterest you'll notice there are new types of pins with more details if you pin a recipe from a magazine you don't just see the photo it also has details on ingredients needed pins shared about a movie could include names of the cast and a rating but it only works with third-party websites that are working with Pinterest to include this extra data you could also come across the pin button in some mobile apps as a new way to share something that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey