Nearly two years after the United States launched a broad attack on Chinese tech giant Huawei, the campaign is showing signs of working. Huawei’s smartphone sales have collapsed outside of China, hurt by a U.S. export ban that prevents new Huawei phones from carrying the Google Play app store, which means many of the most […]
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Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism
Facebook is conducting a vast behind-the-scenes study of doubts expressed by U.S. users about vaccines, a major project that attempts to probe and teach software to identify the medical attitudes of millions of Americans, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The research is a large-scale attempt to understand the spread of ideas that […]
Android 12 leak appears to show major redesign with color-changing UI
Check out these colors! It looks like they are all driven by the wallpaper selection. A beige-colored wallpaper leads to a beige notification panel, widgets, icons, and more. XDA Developers The privacy screen shows kill switches for the camera and microphone. It looks like we’re also getting a new design for the settings page, with […]
macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs
Enlarge / A promotional image for macOS Big Sur. Apple Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues that included apps taking minutes to launch, stuttering and non-responsiveness throughout macOS, and other problems. The issues seemed to begin close to the time when Apple began rolling out the new version of macOS, Big Sur—but it affected […]
Apple Store appears to leak new, iPhone 8-like iPhone SE
The last time the iPhone SE appeared in an Apple presentation was in this 2018 slide showing it being scrapped for materials. Valentina Palladino An apparent leak on the Apple Store suggests that a new phone carrying the iPhone SE name is coming soon. A product title for a Belkin screen protector in Apple’s online […]
The mid-range Google Pixel appears in pictures—complete with headphone jack
The mid-range Pixel 3. Rozetked The back has this strange “C” logo. Rozetked A headphone jack! Rozetked These slots on the bottom edge are new. With the missing bottom front speaker grill, at least one of these is probably a speaker. Rozetked A neon power button. Rozetked Rumors of a cheaper mid-range smartphone from Google […]
Facebook appears set on crafting custom silicon for augmented reality devices
Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014 as a part of its development dive into the worlds of augmented reality and virtual reality. Facebook is recruiting — and it’s seeking to hire engineers and designers to assist its Silicon team with the process of crafting custom chips for augmented reality (AR) devices and applications. With speculation that […]
PC market appears to have grown for the first time since 2012
Enlarge Thomas Claveirole PC sales were up year-on-year in the second quarter of 2018, the first such increase since the first quarter of 2012. Market research firms Gartner and IDC both reported growth in the market, of 1.4 and 2.7 percent, respectively. The two companies track numbers differently: Gartner includes Windows-based tablets but excludes Chromebooks […]