OnLeaks’ Pixel 4 XL render. The notch is gone, and so is the bottom front speaker. @OnLeaks x Pricebaba Another angle of the render. @OnLeaks x Pricebaba This shows the bottom edge, which has no headphone jack, and two speaker grills. Most likely there is one speaker, and one is just there for symmetry. @OnLeaks […]
Enlarge / A different band can change the entire look of the Inspire HR. Valentina Palladino Update: Our Fitness Tracker Guidemaster was originally published in January 2018, but we’ve been testing new devices to prepare for the beaches and pools of summer 2019. Our recommendations now include some of the best and newest devices available […]
Inside this concrete slab hides the biggest collection of the rarest pinball and electromechanical games ever made. Sam Machkovech This was taken by standing on a chair in one corner of the venue. You can get a sense of the machine variety here: mostly pinball and electromechanical, with about one-fifth of the space dedicated to […]
Enlarge Valentina Palladino Dell’s Inspiron line doesn’t make as many headlines as the XPS line does, but that could change quickly. Over the past year or so, Dell has taken premium features that come standard in XPS machines and translated them for the Inspiron line. The company knows it can’t rely on the XPS family […]
Sony’s latest attempt at making good noise-cancelling true wireless headphones: the WF-1000XM3. Sony They come in black and this silver-ish tone. Sony Sony says they’ll get up to 6-8 hours of battery life on their own depending on if you use noise cancelling. With the included charging case, that bumps up to 24-32 hours. Sony […]
You know something’s wrong right away on the first page. Why does this button say “NO” instead of “YES”? And one thing you can’t tell here: hovering on the thing you actually have to click (“here”) doesn’t change the cursor as expected. Bagaar Things get really nasty on the next page. Lots of people at […]
Enlarge / The cameras on iPhones are getting (selectively) smarter. Samuel Axon Apple introduced several of the headlining features of its upcoming iOS 13 during WWDC, but people playing with the closed beta version have uncovered some additional tools. One newly found addition is FaceTime Attention Correction, which adjusts the image during a FaceTime video […]
Enlarge / Android Development: It can be a messy process. Google As has become tradition for Ars at Google I/O, we recently sat down with some of the people who make Android to learn more about Google’s latest OS. For 2019, the talk was all about Android Q and this year’s big engineering effort, Project […]
Enlarge / Windows got the ’80s treatment, but we’re not sure what’s actually being promoted. Aurich Lawson Either Microsoft is gearing up for a very odd promotional effort or somebody on the Windows team has hijacked a functioning time machine. Yesterday, the company posted a video boasting an “all-new Windows 1.0” to its social channels. […]
The Nvidia RTX 2070 Super. Coming July 9 for $ 499. Another peek, from head-on. You can’t see here that it requires both an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector to your PC’s power supply. That’s a leap from the 8-pin-only requirement of the original RTX 2070. Nvidia The Nvidia RTX 2060 Super. Coming July 9 […]
Samsung’s invitation. Samsung The Galaxy Note 10, in the “Pro” and non-pro versions. Onleaks and Pricebaba The sharper body and display corners give it a very rectangular look. The Pro version has four rear cameras on the back (three in the vertical strip, one next to the strip), which are flush with the body. Onleaks […]
You can see the book-like “spine” of the Fold here. Samsung And here’s the Galaxy Fold unfolded. It was supposed to be so beautiful. Samsung Steve Kovach of CNBC had his Galaxy Fold die right along the display crease. Steve Kovach The Verge’s Galaxy Fold review unit had something press against the back side of […]
WireGuard 0.0.14 pre-alpha, running on an x1.small machine at packet.net. It’s uploading across a WireGuard tunnel at 1.2Gbps to a Linux machine, also at packet. Jim Salter Here, it’s downloading across a WireGuard tunnel at 348Mbps from a Linux machine, also at packet. Jim Salter WireGuard is a new peer-to-peer VPN technology that has the […]
Enlarge / Jony Ive speaks onstage during the 2017 New Yorker TechFest in New York City. Brian Ach/Getty Images Jony Ive, Apple’s longtime design chief, will depart Apple to form his own independent design company, according to a press release distributed by Apple today. While he will no longer be an employee, he will count […]
Enlarge Google Google is locking down API access to Gmail data (and later, Drive data) soon, and some of your favorite third-party apps might find themselves locked out of your Google account data. The new API policy was announced back in October, but this week Google started emailing individual users of these apps, telling them […]