The Pixel 3A XL. Ron Amadeo The back is plastic, with hard, shiny plastic up top and soft-touch plastic below. Ron Amadeo A headphone jack! Ron Amadeo A speaker and a USB-C port on the bottom. Ron Amadeo The pre-installed app list is very small. Ron Amadeo After the black and white colors is “Purple-ish,” […]
The Mac Pro. Samuel Axon And here’s a rear view. Samuel Axon Let’s zoom in to see some of the ports in this configuration. Samuel Axon There’s more to see at the bottom. Samuel Axon On top, you’ll notice a couple more ports, a power button, and this handle. When you grab it, you can […]
Enlarge / “Listen—do you smell something?” QAI Publishing If you ask a US Navy submariner the most visceral part of the underwater and underway experience, you’ll get the same answer almost every time—it’s the smell. “Eau de Boat,” as we sailors called it, is a unique combination of diesel fuel, machine oil, laundry hamper, and […]
A product shot of Vizio’s new OLED set. Vizio Here’s the P-Series Quantum X, the top-of-the-line LED set. Vizio Just one step down takes us to the P-Series. You probably can’t tell the difference from the pictures alone at this point. Vizio Here’s the M-Series M8. Vizio And the M-Series M7! So many product lines! […]
Enlarge Microsoft Microsoft has published unscheduled fixes for two critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for attackers to execute malicious code on computers running any version of Windows 10. Unlike the vast majority of Windows patches, the ones released on Tuesday were delivered through the Microsoft Store. The normal channel for operating System security fixes […]
Enlarge / macOS Big Sur. Apple An update to Safari in the macOS Big Sur developer release brings a long-absent, much-requested feature: support for 4K HDR streams from Netflix. Further, Apple TV is getting support for the VP9 video codec, meaning Apple TV 4K owners will finally be able to watch 4K YouTube videos in […]
Enlarge Ivan Radic Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government are likely to exploit a critical vulnerability in a host and VPN and firewall products sold by Palo Alto Networks, officials in the US federal government warned on Tuesday. In worst-case scenarios, the security vendor said in a post, the flaw allows unauthorized people to […]
Enlarge / Developers are wasting no time getting their hands dirty with the new A12Z ARM Developer Transition Kits. Axel Roest As reported by MacRumors, eager Apple developers are already posting benchmarks on the developer transition kits for Macs with Apple silicon. These kits are based on the Mac mini chassis but include ARM-derived Apple […]
Enlarge / Although an undeletion utility may occasionally save your bacon, it’s never been a good idea to rely on one. AFP via Getty Images / Benjamin Esham / Jim Salter Although it isn’t yet built into Windows, Microsoft has finally released its own file undelete tool—it’s called Windows File Recovery, and it works with […]
Enlarge Wiyre Media / Flickr In March, researchers uncovered a troubling privacy grab by more than four dozen iOS apps including TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media and video-sharing phenomenon that has taken the Internet by storm. Despite TikTok vowing to curb the practice, it continues to access some of Apple users’ most sensitive data, which […]
Enlarge / One upside of Windows 10 2004: You won’t find old install CDs all over the office two decades from now. Ramzi Haidar/AFP via Getty Images The Internet may have fun trying to guess the next natural feature of California or animal alliteration name for the other major operating systems, but Windows build naming […]
Enlarge / The 2020 Retina MacBook Air. Apple has acquired device-management startup Fleetsmith. The technology and personnel that will join Apple as part of the acquisition could help Apple expand upon device enrollment and introduce better ways to set up new devices like iPads and Macs within organizations. Fleetsmith’s proposition to customers (and Apple) seems […]
Google’s Depth API in action. This whole gallery is gifs. Google The depth map. Google You get real physics simulations, where virtual objects can interact with real geometry. Google Dominoes crash into a wall. Google Samsung’s Quick Measure app can instantly measure something. Google The latest version of ARCore, Google’s augmented reality developer platform for […]
Just a tiny amount of the $ 15 billion dollars YouTube made last year. Jericho / Ron Amadeo Music casting and downloading music costs money. Ron Amadeo Once you get to the actual interface, things are mostly fine. It’s a music player. Ron Amadeo Getting to the right interface is terrible though. I have no […]