Activision will release the second DLC pack for its hit first person shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare first on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles March 31. The pack, titled Ascendance, will include four new multplayer maps and the second chapter of the Exo Zombies co-op campaign, among other things.

Motorola Droid Turbo owners will be skipping Android 5.0 in-favor of Android 5.1 according to a Motorola software engineer.

In January Motorola announced that 2013 and 2014 Motorola devices would be updated “very soon”, but that promised update has yet to hit for all devices two months later. Late last night saw Luciano Carvalho, a software engineer at Motorola, posted on a Google+ thread giving a little more insight behind the delay of the Lollipop update for the Droid Turbo.

A small update is now available for users who pair their Pebble with an iPhone. This update bumps the watch up to firmware version 2.9.1 which includes to bug fixes. After the iOS 8.2 update some users experienced issues with SMS and Mail notifications and both have been corrected in this update.

Much of the attention lately has been on Pebble’s upcoming Pebble Time device, and the new features that it brings along with it, but that doesn’t mean current generation hardware is left behind.

The update is available now through the Pebble App. To grab the update; tap on menu then support and finally “check for update.” Be sure to let us know if you experienced the issues mentioned, and if this update fixes them for you.

Source: Pebble

Information broker. Health tracker. Digital wallet and keys. Communicator. Remote Control. We might not have gotten it presented on stage like that, but we still got it — it’s all one product. It’s the Apple Watch.

Just like the iPhone and iPad, different people will find each of those features compelling to a greater or lesser degree, and which ones they find compelling can change over time. The Watch as remote control is a great example: Apple hasn’t spent a lot of time on it yet, but it could become much more important as time passes.

Camera Remote

With the Apple Watch, you can remotely access the viewfinder on your iPhone’s iSight camera. That means you can put your iPhone somewhere, see what it sees, and take the perfect picture — even from afar. That could be for a selfie, group photo, or just to get what would otherwise be an impossible shot. You can even set a time lapse, right from your wrist.

I can see Martin Reisch — Instagram’s safesolvent able to take his renowned “stance” shots with just a few taps, no matter how insane his positioning.

Music + Audio

The Apple Watch can store up to 2GB locally and play it as well as any iPod ever could. It can also control your iPhone’s music playback, both locally stored music and from iTunes Match. If your iPhone is streaming to AirPlay-enabled speakers, whether you’re in your office or at the lake, you can control all of that as well, right from your wrist.

Right now headphone remotes are like iPod shuffles — they let you do basic actions. With Apple Watch, it’ll be more like an iPod nano. A small window that really lets you see into your audio.

Apple TV + iTunes Remote

Similar to the Remote app for iOS, the Remote app for the Apple Watch lets you connect to any Apple TV you own, at home or at work, along with any iTunes library on your Mac or Windows PC. Whether you’re in the family room or the board room, alone or in a group, there’s no more reaching for the hardware remote and no more reaching for the iPhone or iPad — There’s just a few taps and twists of your wrist.

Best of all, if you need to quickly pause at any time, you don’t have to find the controller or scramble for the phone — you can just tap what’s always on your wrist.

Siri + HomeKit

As cool as media remotes could to be, the bigger promise is home automation. With Siri, Apple’s personal digital assistant, and HomeKit, the company’s accessory interface framework, you’ll be able to do everything from opening and closing doors to setting lights to changing the temperature and more. And all with a word.

There’s already a BMW car remote, Pacemaker DJ, and an AMPLIFi remote for speakers and and guitar amps on Apple’s App Store for Watch page, and Apple demonstrated a garage door opener and closer with remote monitoring on stage.

HomeKit was announced last year for developers, but we’ll probably only start seeing an influx of HomeKit-enabled accessories for this year’s round of winter holidays. The Apple Watch will have been out for months by then, and my dream of lifting my wrist and saying “Siri, crash the compound!” could well be fulfilled.

The future of remote control

The big caveat here is that we don’t yet know how well any of this will work. It could be utterly seamless to the point where it’s transformative, or it could get off to a slow, glitchy start. After having seen the Apple Watch and HomeKit in person, I’m enthusiastic to say the least.

I can see a future where homes, toys, gear, and more is all easily controlled, at least at the simplest and most convenient level, by the device on my wrist.

The PayPal Here credit card transaction app is now available for Windows 8.1 users, and PayPal and Microsoft are offering a special promotional discount for US swipe transactions while using the app to celebrate its launch.

Google Docs for Android grabbed an update today that brings a couple of new features that make it easier to review a document before you dive in to make edits.

The latest, 10041 build of the Windows 10 technical preview hasn’t been in hand long, but already there’s a few things that stand out. There are some nice new features present in the build and visually the UI is beginning to come together.

There’s still a lot of work to be done on it before that summer launch timeframe, but from the new look login screen through to the translucent start menu and everything in between, it’s starting to get somewhere.

While we’re picking through everything, check out a whole bunch of images below.

Microsoft are one of the most prolific patent holders in the US. The Redmond firm are well and truly raking it in from licenses relating to the Android OS, and are not shy to slap a patent on just about anything, from augmented reality bananas to emotion sensing smart bras.

Many of these inventions may never see the light of day and are simply intended to fend off rivals, but these latest patents when combined with recent comments from Lumia marketing VP Tuula Rytilä create an intriguing possibility.

For those of you rocking one of Amazon’s Fire TV Sticks, today may be your lucky day. HBO GO has finally made its way to the streaming dongle.

Fans of Fruit Ninja rejoice: Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 has arrived on the Xbox One, bringing with it a whole new cast of characters and game modes.