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Austin has declared a health emergency, and SXSW has been canceled on the advice of local health experts who have warned that it could cause coronavirus (COVID-19) to spread. The festival was scheduled to take place from March 13th to March 22nd, yet Austin Mayor Steve Adler festival today announced that, amid a increasing number […]
Rogers Communications has started rolling out the 5G network in some Canadian cities, becoming the country’s first cellphone provider to offer the super-fast telecom services. Canada’s first live 5G network in the downtown cores of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. You’ll unsurprisingly have to pick up one of Samsung’s Galaxy S20 phones and subscribe to […]
It looks like Google Messages will soon let users send iMessage-like reaction text messages to people without Rich Communication Services (RCS). While the feature hasn’t been rolled out to users yet, some have discovered a bunch of strings in the latest Messages beta v5.8 that suggest the app could soon support “reaction fallback texts” similar […]
The TurboGrafx-16 Mini, a retro revival of the classic Japanese gaming console originally set to be released on March 19th, has been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak, Konami announced today. Konami said in a statement on Twitter that “the manufacturing and shipping facilities in China have encountered an unavoidable suspension due to the current […]
Oppo’s first entry into the smartwatch space may have made us do a double take. The aptly-named Oppo Watch was announced alongside the Find X2 series in Beijing earlier today. It’s an Android-powered wearable that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2500 chipset, and for those who care, this comes with 1GB of RAM and 8GB […]
Security researchers have discovered a new security flaw on Intel CPUs that “jeopardizes” Intel’s root of trust. According to security researchers at Positive Technologies, the new vulnerability affects Intel CPUs released in the past five years. The vulnerability is within Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME), a part of the chip that controls system […]
SpaceX is planning to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. The trip is part of a partnership with the Houston-based start-up Axiom Space. Private citizens have flown to the ISS before, but they have all launched in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. This trip, which will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
Back in January, Sonos was the star of a juicy controversy. It announced that regular software updates would be ending for some of its older products, and while that on its own was enough to get people riled up, it also brought the company’s “Recycle Mode” under the spotlight. Recycle Mode was part of Sonos’s […]
Facebook said Thursday that it’s suing Namecheap and Whoisguard for providing website addresses that impersonate the social network and can be used for frauds and scams. According to Facebook, the latter registered 45 domains that were made explicitly to confuse people into thinking they were affiliated with its app and products. Some of the domains […]
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, announces it is the official phone partner for the 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die. The video advertisement, featuring Lashana Lynch as Agent Nomi, was inspired by the film and directed by BAFTA Award-winning director Amma Asante. The commercial is part of HMD Global’s largest ever […]
Samsung says its entire line of 2020 model year QLED TVs is now available for purchase or preorder, including an expanded 8K UHD lineup. The new sets feature mild improvements over the company’s already impressive quantum dot LED-backlit LCD technology. The latest Samsung 2020 TVs will start hitting the market in March and April, and […]
The enterprising team at Project Sandcastle managed to get Android working on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. Project Sandcastle is being developed by team members of cybersecurity startup Corellium, which is currently being sued by Apple. As Forbes notes, Apple sued Corellium last year, accusing it of breaching copyright laws by creating a software […]
TCL is ready to wow us with more folding phones. But don’t get too excited. It’s only showing us concept devices, not products it actually plans on launching yet. TCL has unveiled two prototypes the results of its experiments to see what’s possible with flexible screens. One of these is what TCL calls its tri-fold […]
Microsoft in a public bulletin recommended all employees in the King County area to work from home if their job allows for it through March 25. Those who are pregnant, have a compromised immune system, have an underlying health condition or are over 60 should also avoid interaction in large groups or public settings, Microsoft […]
Google is opening another Stadia studio to create originals for its game streaming service, and it’s once again tapping big-name talent to boost its chances of success. Today, Stadia Games & Entertainment is announcing its second development studio, headed up by the executive producer of Sony’s God of War. Last year, Stadia Games & Entertainment […]