The full teardown of the 2020 iPad Pro. iFixit Here’s the camera array with lidar sensor. iFixit And here’s an infrared view of the dots projected by that lidar sensor. iFixit For comparison, the dots projected by the TrueDepth array on the front used for Face ID. iFixit As expected, iFixit has published a teardown […]
Enlarge / WireGuard will be in tree for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (pictured), as well as the upcoming 5.6 kernel. WireGuard We’ve been anticipating WireGuard’s inclusion into the mainline Linux kernel for quite some time—but as of Sunday afternoon, it’s official. Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.6 kernel, which includes (among other things) an in-tree WireGuard. Phoronix […]
The 2020 Retina MacBook Air. This is the new Magic Keyboard, sans Touch Bar but with Touch ID. Samuel Axon Unfortunately, this computer only has two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and they’re only on one side. Samuel Axon It still has a headphone jack, though. Samuel Axon The lid looks the same. Samuel Axon That glossy […]
Enlarge / The camera assembly of the OnePlus 8 Pro. OnLeaks OnePlus has been regularly pumping out the best Android phones for several years now, so soon all eyes will be on the OnePlus 8 Pro, the company’s upcoming flagship smartphone for 2020. A pair of recent leaks gives us a look at the official […]
Inside the MacBook Air. iFixit It’s the same new/old keyboard design we saw in the 16-inch MacBook Pro. iFixit Peeking underneath the trackpad and getting a glimpse at that cabling. iFixit The full teardown of the MacBook Air. iFixit iFixit, a company that sells gadget-repair parts and publishes regular teardowns of popular devices, dug into […]
Enlarge Qualcomm Qualcomm is introducing a new slate of chips for truly wireless Bluetooth earbuds. You might not have realized it, but these Bluetooth earbuds are tiny computers now, and just as Qualcomm makes smartphone SoCs that end up in most smartphones, it also makes “Bluetooth Audio SoCs” that end up in a host of Bluetooth […]
The 12.9-inch 2020 iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Magic Trackpad peripherals. Samuel Axon The camera and sensor array on the 2020 iPad Pro includes two lenses and a lidar sensor. It’s still as thin as before, but that camera bump is a change. And it still uses USB-C instead of Lightning as its […]
Enlarge / This kind of perspective? Yeah, it’s ideal but not available to the admirals of WWI and WWII. Samuel Axon “Network-centric warfare” is the hot concept in modern military thinking—soldiers fighting not just with weapons but within a web of sensors and computation, giving them and their commanders superior awareness of the battlefield. But the […]
Enlarge / Proprietary filesystem vendor Paragon Software seems to feel threatened by the pending inclusion of a Microsoft-sanctioned exFAT in the Linux 5.7 kernel. MTV / Geffen / Paramount Pictures When software and operating system giant Microsoft announced its support for inclusion of the exFAT filesystem directly into the Linux kernel back in August, it didn’t […]
Enlarge / From left to right: iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max. Samuel Axon Earlier today, Apple continued its tradition of updating all of its operating systems at once. The day brought major new feature releases to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS updates are numbered 13.4, […]
The Xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro. Xiaomi Whoa! It has a pop-up camera. Neat. Xiaomi It comes in many colors. Xiaomi The sides. Xiaomi There’s a USB-C port at the bottom. On top there’s a headphone jack and IR blaster. Xiaomi The insides! The pop-up camera looks just like the OnePlus 7 Pro. Xiaomi Chinese OEM […]
Enlarge / The Snapdragon 865. Qualcomm Qualcomm really threw a wrench into the flagship SoC market for 2020 with the Snapdragon 865. The new chip was a big departure from previous years thanks to Qualcomm’s aggressive push for 5G, which comes with design requirements that make phones bigger, hotter, and more expensive than previous years. […]
Enlarge / A treadmill desk at the Google offices in Washington, DC. Bloomberg/Andrew Harrer/Getty Some years back, not content with sitting at a computer all day for work and not happy just to stand in one spot, I embarked upon a quest to walk while working. Since then, I built two of my own “treadmill […]
The Nokia 8.3 5G. HMD The front and back of the device. You can see the fingerprint reader location on the right side. The back. That camera bump is something else. HMD A close-up of the camera bump and its four lenses. HMD The fingerprint reader. HMD Nokia is taking the wraps off its first […]
Enlarge / The new design does at least include a dark mode. I generally prefer bright layouts, but if you have a bad habit of Facebooking in bed late at night, this is less likely to prevent sleepiness. Jim Salter Sometime last night, Facebook’s new design layout rolled out to my personal account. It assured […]