It came out much later in March than we expected, but yesterday Google launched the second developer preview for Android 11, the next big version of Android due out at the end of the year. Despite the coronavirus disrupting just about every part of normal life, Google posted the same schedule it did with Preview […]
The e-ink display is a bit grainy thanks to the 800×600 resolution. Waveshare Just hold your phone against the display for several seconds to power it and update it. Waveshare How it works. Waveshare NFC is usually only used to for quick text transfers, like a tap-and-pay transaction at a register or a quick data […]
Enlarge / The keyboard and trackpad attachment for the iPad Pro. Apple In the notes for its iPad Pro announcement earlier today, Apple announced a couple of major new features coming to the iWork suite that are specifically oriented around new offerings for the iPad. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote will all get full trackpad support […]
LG frames (pun not intended) the gallery series as inspired by art, or as works of art themselves. So you can pretentiously stare at them in an otherwise blank room, it seems. LG As with Samsung’s The Frame TVs, you can display art on them all the time, if you don’t mind a little burn-in… […]
Enlarge Google Google is stripping away a key feature from its best and most popular messaging platform. Google Hangouts users are no longer able to share their locations with one another. It’s not clear why Google is suddenly stripping away features from Google Hangouts, but an update to the Hangouts Android app, version 32, removes […]
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple has been fined $ 1.2 billion by a French antitrust watchdog for anticompetitive activities. It is the largest fine ever processed by France’s antitrust regulators, and it follows eight years of preparation […]
The current model U-2S aircraft features an all-glass digital cockpit, improved sensors, and propulsion systems. But its pilots still wear backup GPS/GLONASS-enabled watches, just in case. USAF The Garmin D2 Charlie pilot’s smartwatch. Garmin A U-2 Dragon Lady flies above the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California, Mar. 23, 2016. U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robert […]
The Nubia Red Magic 5G. Nubia Here’s the wild “Cyber Neon” color, which is definitely not colored after the Nintendo Switch. Nubia This version I’ll call “Not Iron Man.” Nubia Here is the limited edition “Transparent” version. Supposedly you’ll be able to see the fan spinning. Nubia The boring black model. Nubia Here’s how the […]
Enlarge / If re-envisioning Tux as the most lovable kaiju doesn’t improve your day, I don’t know what will. Biman Shreshtha / Larry Ewing / Aurich Lawson Back in December, Linux users were starting to notice that Ice Lake-equipped laptops were getting better framerates in powersave mode than in performance mode. This Tuesday, Intel developer […]
Jimmy Iovine announces Apple Music in 2015. For months, we’ve seen reports and rumors that Apple is on the brink of introducing its own answer to Amazon Prime: a bundled subscription service that would offer users access to Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple News+ for one flat fee. But a new article providing details […]
Enlarge / A user tries out features in Apple’s ARKit. Apple Citing a source with knowledge about Apple’s new iPhones, Fast Company writes that Apple will introduce a rear-facing 3D sensor array to new iPhone models. Apple plans to buy the laser components for this array from Lumentum, the California-based company from which it already buys […]
Enlarge / The iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13. Samuel Axon Over the past few days, two Apple rumor sites (MacRumors and 9to5Mac) have published exclusive details about new features and changes in iOS 14 and related software, services, and products. 9to5Mac alleges the info is based on […]
Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. Getty Images | zphotos The threat of the new coronavirus is making working from home a more and more popular option for tech companies, and yesterday Google expanded its work-from-home recommendation to all North American employees. […]
The Pixel 4a. It’s looking pretty good for a budget phone. TecnoLike Plus Let’s cut right to the good part. There’s a headphone jack on the top! TecnoLike Plus The back, featuring a single camera and a fingerprint reader. TecnoLike Plus Another picture of the back, presumably of a different unit. Why is this one […]
Enlarge / This is a Fossa. It appears to be focusing. (Cryptoprocta ferox is a small, catlike carnivore native to Madagascar.) Mathias Appel Last October, an experimental ZFS installer showed up in Eoan Ermine, the second interim Ubuntu release of 2019. Next month, Focal Fossa—Ubuntu’s next LTS (Long Term Support) release—is due to drop, and […]