The OnePlus 8 Pro. Ron Amadeo The OnePlus always-on display options. Ron Amadeo The various clock types. Ron Amadeo New this year is the hole-punch camera. Ron Amadeo The back of this one is a VERY vibrant blue color. Ron Amadeo The camera arrangement looks like the OnePlus 7 Pro, but it’s bigger. There are […]
The new Nest thermostat is operated with a touch-sensitive ring interface. Google The thermostat comes in four different color options. Google Roughly five years have passed since the third-generation Nest thermostat was introduced, and a lot has happened since then—like an acquisition of Nest by Google. Today marks the first big overhaul to the Nest […]
Enlarge Milana Romazanova | Getty Images Though ransomware has been around for years, it poses an ever-increasing threat to hospitals, municipal governments, and basically any institution that can’t tolerate downtime. But along with the various types of PC malware that are typically used in these attacks, there’s another burgeoning platform for ransomware as well: Android […]
Enlarge / The 2014 Mac mini is pictured here alongside the 2012 Mac mini. They looked the same, but the insides were different in some key—and disappointing—ways. Andrew Cunningham A recently released tool is letting anyone exploit an unusual Mac vulnerability to bypass Apple’s trusted T2 security chip and gain deep system access. The flaw […]
Enlarge Getty Images The FBI and the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security said they have detected hackers exploiting a critical Windows vulnerability against state and local governments and that in some cases the attacks are being used to breach networks used to support elections. Members of unspecific APTs—the abbreviation for advanced persistent […]
Enlarge / The promotional key art graphic Apple sent out with its announcement about its October 13, 2020, product launch event. Apple Liveblog starts in: View Liveblog At 10:00am Pacific time (1pm Eastern) on Tuesday, October 13, Apple will hold its second live event in less than a month—almost certainly to announce new iPhones this […]
Enlarge Nick Wright. Used by permission. For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers, a security researcher said on Thursday. Sam Curry, a 20-year-old researcher who specializes in website security, said that, […]
AMD CEO Lisa Su holds up a Zen 3 CPU at today’s AMD Gaming event—most likely, a Ryzen 9 5900X or Ryzen 9 5950X. AMD At today’s AMD Gaming Event 2020, Team Red announced its next big thing in desktop CPUs—the Zen 3 powered Ryzen 5xxx series. The event was brief—only a half hour from […]
Enlarge / A trio of Wi-Fi 6 Eero devices like these should provide excellent Wi-Fi coverage and performance for nearly any home. Eero This Tuesday, Eero—one of the first and most popular Wi-Fi-mesh providers—announced a new hardware and software program that targets ISPs rather than retail customers. Ars spoke about the new program at length […]
Enlarge Apple Apple normally introduces each year’s new iPhone model at a September event, but the iPhone was conspicuously missing from Apple’s September 15 event this year. That event focused on other products, including a new iPad and a new Apple Watch. Now Apple has announced an October 13 event—that’s a week from today—with the tagline “Hi, […]
Google Workspace, the new name for G Suite. Google The new icons. Google New icons versus old icons. Ron Amadeo / Google There is also a new Google Chat logo. Ron Amadeo / Google Google Drive used to be colored for each of the main file editors: Docs (blue), Sheets (green), and Slides (Yellow). Ron […]
Enlarge YouTube Music YouTube Music is finally opening up Chromecast support to everyone. Google Play Music is actively winding down this month, leaving YouTube Music as Google’s only music app. A major feature gap between the two services that we’ve been complaining about has been the restrictive Chromecast support. On Google Music, casting just worked […]
The back of the 2020 iPad. Samuel Axon An angle of the front of the 2020 iPad. Samuel Axon Unlike the Pro and the new Air, it still has a Lightning port. Samuel Axon It has a headphone jack, too. Samuel Axon Here’s the camera—the same old camera. Samuel Axon The 2020 iPad Pro with […]
Toyota’s ceiling-mounted robot. Toyota Research Institute Let’s zoom in on the base. There is a HUGE aluminum cage holding this thing up. The base can move on one axis within the big beam it lives in, and the beam can move along the other axis along the cage. Note the cable chain on the right, […]