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Jingjia Micro, short for Changsha Jingjia Microelectronics Co., Ltd, has allegedly commenced pre-researching the company’s next-generation JM9271 GPU that it claims will be as fast as an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. As Tom’s Hardware highlights, Jingjia Micro got its start in 2006 as a military-civilian integrated company specializing in electric component design and production. The firm is […]
Google Lens has a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) filter that can pull text from any image. Available in Google Photos, the backup service this month is adding the ability to search for text in images. The official Twitter account quietly announced the feature this afternoon after it was spotted by a user. Search in […]
YouTube said Thursday it had found and disabled 210 channels that were spreading disinformation about the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, at least the third such action by an American social media company since the street marches began months ago. YouTube said in a blog post that it took down the channels this week as […]
5G is the next big thing in mobile technology, but right now it comes at a high price from mobile carriers, has limited availability, and is tied to expensive smartphones 5G phones. The good news is that Nokia brand phone-maker HMD Global has plans to change one aspect of that equation with a more affordable […]
Apple this week has launched a new beta version of iCloud on the web with the overhauled Reminders app, a new launch screen, and more. The change was first pointed out by Federico Viticci on Twitter. The immediately noticeable changes, besides the white background, include the user’s photo and name with a greeting in the […]
Amazon has announced that it’ll be ending its practice of using customer tips to pay its Flex drivers’ wages, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times and emails sent out to drivers. The practice came under fire when it was revealed back in February that Amazon (along with other delivery services like Instacart […]
iFixit has gotten its hands, and tools, onto the new Note 10+ 5G. The thorough teardown has revealed some intriguing finds into the inner-workings of Samsung’s latest flagship. The Note 10+ 5G is an impressive phone, but you’ll want to be very careful with it as it was handed a 3 out of 10 repairability […]
Google has officially named the next version of Android, which is due to be released this fall: Android 10. Breaking the 10-year history of naming releases after desserts, the company is bailing on providing a codename beginning with a subsequent letter of the alphabet in this case, Q, which is the way we’ve been referring […]
OtterBox has a solution to limited battery life. Today, the company revealed OtterSpot, its Qi wireless charging power bank, and stackable batteries. The OtterSpot Charging Base looks a bit like a thin hockey puck. It’s designed to be stackable, meaning you can pile up to three puck-like OtterBox Wireless Charging Batteries and a device on […]
As we get closer to the much-awaited iPhone launch event, a new report from Bloomberg shows what to expect in terms of the hardware lineup that will reportedly debut on September 10. Apparently, Apple is looking to introduce three new iPhones that include an additional lens when compared to the current lineup. The two OLED […]
At the start of the month, Huawei unveiled what most people already knew it had long been working on an operating system of its own, called HarmonyOS. The news came after it filed trademarks for the system, and even though an executive had said it wasn’t designed for smartphones, it was reported that the firm […]
Apple’s new titanium Apple credit card launched to all US iPhone users, and now we’re learning all sorts of fun facts about the physical, titanium card the company is shipping to likely thousands of users at this very moment. Namely, that it can be easily damaged. Apple has posted a cleaning guide for the physical […]
Microsoft contractors reportedly listened to Xbox owners too. Earlier this month, we learned that contractors heard audio snippets from Skype calls and Cortana interactions. Now, Vice reports that Microsoft contractors also listened to audio picked up by Xbox consoles. The device was only supposed to capture audio after voice commands, like “Xbox” or “Hey Cortana,” […]
Movie ticket subscription service MoviePass inadvertently exposed thousands of customer card numbers due to lax security on a critical server. Mossab Hussein, a security researcher at Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk, found an exposed database on one of the company’s many subdomains. The database was massive, containing 161 million records at the time of writing and […]
Nintendo and Microsoft have shown some collaboration of late. It started with the two companies enabling cross-platform play in Fortnite, and then successfully applying pressure to Sony to do the same. The two also collaborated to bring Microsoft’s Banjo-Kazooie to Super Smash Bros. When Cuphead released on Switch earlier this year, many were surprised Microsoft […]