A couple months ago, some Surface Laptop 3 customers reported they were seeing hairline fractures in their screens that seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Microsoft is responding publicly as to what’s happening and what the company is planning to do for those affected. Microsoft started looking into the issue a few months ago, and now […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a nasty effect on the world’s economy so far, with many non-essential businesses temporarily closing up shop to keep their employees safe. Apple will reopen some stores the states include Idaho, South Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska, according to CNBC next week. The company closed all stores outside Greater China in […]
Google and Facebook join Amazon and Microsoft in allowing their employees to work from home for the foreseeable (where feasible). Last week Amazon announced its plans to let HQ staff work from home until “at least October 2nd,” while Microsoft said two days ago that staff had the option of working remotely until the end […]
Samsung announced on Tuesday that it has plans to expand Samsung Pay’s services to include both a debit card and a cash management account backing it. Samsung will launch the card, which will be backed by a cash management account, in partnership with personal finance company SoFi, Ahn said. Samsung is also developing a “mobile-first […]
Microsoft is hard at work getting Office for iPad up to speed with Apple’s latest iPadOS release, with plans to add cursor support for trackpad and mouse in the apps. Apple introduced the cursor to its iPad and iPad Pro line-up in iPadOS 13.4, alongside the new Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro that for the […]
Samsung is planning on improving upon this in its next premium flagship generation, Galaxy S21, as claimed by certain rumors. As reported by SamMobile, a leaker on Korean tech forum clien.net claims that Samsung is testing the camera specs for the 2021 iteration of its S-series handsets, which will either be called the S21 or […]
Nintendo Switch sales more than doubled in March compared to 2019’s numbers, according to research from NPD. Nintendo published its official earnings revealing that the Switch has now outsold the combined lifetime sales of the Nintendo 64 and the GameCube. Nintendo 64 sold 32.93 million units in the six or so years it was on […]
Microsoft is detailing the first games that will be optimized for its next-gen Xbox Series X console today. All of the games included in Microsoft’s Xbox 20/20 show will sport a new Xbox Series X Optimized badge, which signals that a game has been improved and optimized for the new console. Optimizations include 4K support […]
There’s a new glitch that allowed people post extra-long images onto their feeds. It’s attention-grabbing for pretty obvious reasons: they take a while to scroll past. Instagram normally limits portrait photos to roughly the size of your screen. The glitch appears to have only worked on iOS. To make it work, you basically just created […]
Mobile phone masts in the UK are still being attacked by arsonists on a daily basis because of a conspiracy theory linking 5G to the spread of coronavirus. Claims that 5G cell towers somehow cause Covid-19 or damage humans’ immune systems have been spreading on social media for a few months now, despite being called […]
Smartphones are already implementing bilateral charging. Samsung’s Galaxy S10 uses a technology it calls “Wireless PowerShare” that is based on the Qi standard to power other Qi-compatible devices. The iPhone 11 was supposed to have a similar capability, but Apple pulled the plug on it at the last minute. The problem with bilateral Qi charging […]
Microsoft launched its Surface Book 3 today, with a big promise of 50 percent more performance than its predecessor from more than two years ago. There are no big design changes this time around, and there will still be two size options: a 13.5-inch model or the larger 15-inch version. It’s disappointing to not see […]
Sonos is refreshing its home theater offerings with a new high-end soundbar, the Sonos Arc. The one-piece speaker system is the company’s first Dolby Atmos-compatible device with upward-firing drivers, and features the same voice assistant support found in the Sonos Beam. At a high level, Arc is a 45-inch-wide soundbar, which makes it notably bigger […]
Amid an ambitious push into the podcasting space following the $340 million acquisition of Gimlet Media and Anchor as well the subsequent purchases of Parcast ($56 million) and The Ringer ($200 million) Spotify is looking to bring a visual component to its audio endeavors. While Spotify hasn’t confirmed the tests, adding video to podcasts makes […]
Android 11 Beta Launch Show that’s taking place on June 3 at 11:00 AM ET. It’ll be a livestream where Google announces the beta, talks about the newest features, and more. The first public beta is when a new Android update usually starts to take shape and most new features are introduced, so it’ll be […]