Chinese technology giant Huawei is reportedly looking to enter the cutthroat television market. Huawei is planning to release an 8K 5G TV by the end of this year, a new report from Nikkei claims. According to sources familiar with the company’s plans, the set would include a 5G modem to allow it to stream remote […]
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Garmin launches Edge 530 & 830 GPS Cycling Computers
Garmin announced the Edge 530 and Edge 830 – its latest performance GPS cycling computers that combine new dynamic performance insights, cycling safety features* and advanced mapping capabilities into a lightweight design for use on all terrains. The Garmin 830 The new units are more compact than their predecessors, the Edge 520 and 820, with dimensions […]
Netflix rolls out high-quality audio support for 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos
Netflix is rolling out a new feature today that will offer a serious audio upgrade to some of your favorite shows. The feature, simply called high-quality audio, will upgrade 5.1 audio streams from 192 kbps up to 640 kbps, and Dolby Atmos streams from 448 kbps up to 768 kbps. Netflix determined that anything above […]
In The Handmaid’s Tale season 3 trailer, revolution comes to Gilead
https://youtu.be/RcTvQx1Wot0 Hulu has unveiled a new look at the upcoming third season of its dystopian series The Handmaid’s Tale, showing off the birth of a resistance movement. This new trailer opens with Offred (Elizabeth Moss) highlighting some of the changes that have come to the world. She opted not to leave Gilead during the show’s […]
Google is adding useful widgets called Tiles to Wear OS smartwatches
After five long years, Google has finally done what every other major smartwatch maker has already figured out: How to add widgets. The improvements have gone a long way in making Wear OS feel smoother and more useful. Today, Google is announcing another new addition: Tiles. Tiles are glanceable widgets that you can swipe between […]
iPhone 11 might have new Touch ID feature
We’re probably still a few months away from the iPhone 11’s release, but an Apple patent just gave us a hint about one of its features. The Cupertino, California, company is developing fingerprint sensor that’d let you unlock your phone by touching anywhere on the screen, as seen in a patent granted Tuesday and previously […]
Huawei’s phone sales are ballooning while Apple and Samsung’s slump
Huawei has now taking the position of world’s second-largest smartphone vendor for a while, having taken over from Apple for the first time in 2017, before switching back and forth in 2018. The company’s improvement in 2019, however, appears to set it up with a firmer control of the second spot: Huawei jumped from 39.3 […]
Oculus expands VR for enterprise with new bundles and subscription service
Oculus announced at F8, the new Oculus for Business, an enterprise solution designed to streamline and expand virtual reality in the workplace. Launching this fall, the expanded Oculus for Business will add Oculus Quest to the hardware lineup and provide a suite of tools designed to help companies reshape the way they do business through […]
The Valve Index headset will officially usher in VR 2.0 hardware on June 28
Following last months accidentally leaking images of the headset last month, Valve has officially announced how much the new Valve Index VR headset will cost and when it’ll go on sale. It will be available in a bundle with the new controllers starting on June 28 for $749 (around £575) with pre-orders opening up tomorrow. […]
Facebook Messenger will soon work with WhatsApp and Instagram
A Facebook insiders said the social media titan was working on making messaging work across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. This now it appears they’re about to be a reality. At F8, Messenger’s head of consumer product Asha Sharma said that in the future, users will soon be able to send messages across Facebook’s three different […]
Facebook rolls out massive redesign with a major focus on groups
Facebook announced an overhaul of its main mobile app today that puts more emphasis on two of its most critical features: events and groups. The company says it’s placing groups front and center as a cornerstone of how it wants users to think of the main Facebook app, while events is getting a fresh coat […]
Apple’s iPhone sales down 17% as it shifts to more services
iPhone sales continue to sharply decline, according to Apple’s earnings statement for its fiscal second quarter, though its stock and services business are up today. Apple reported its second quarter financial results, posting quarterly revenue of $58 billion down 5 percent from the same quarter a year ago earnings per share of $2.46. The company […]
Here’s everything Facebook announced at its biggest event of the year
Facebook’s F8 developer conference kicked off today. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that “the future is private.” After a year plagued by controversy over whether Facebook is invading its users’ privacy and encouraging social division, it’s pushing hard on helping people connect with close family and friends. Facebook announced updates to Instagram, Facebook Messenger, […]
Samsung unveils TV that can flip vertically for watching smartphone content
Samsung has unveiled “The Sero,” a 43-inch quantum-dot QLED TV with an attention-grabbing gimmick. It can be flipped around 90 degrees, letting you watch Instagram, Snap and other smartphone videos in their native vertical configurations. Samsung said it wanted to diversify its lineup and came up with the idea by studying the tastes of mobile-loving […]
Windows 10 now requires a minimum of 32GB storage space
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would begin using 7GB of user hard drive space for the application of future updates. The advantage of this system is intended to be that it doesn’t break the update process halfway through by a system running out of space. The disadvantage is that it would eliminate virtually […]