Samsung Galaxy Note 10 release is fast approaching, and rumours suggest it will have a host of significant updates to Samsung’s big-screened smartphone lineup. Expect three versions of the Note 10 to arrive in August; the Note 10, Note 10 Lite and Note 10 Pro, the latter two of which will reportedly be made available […]
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Facebook’s blood donation feature is now live in the US
Facebook says its blood donation feature in India, Bangladesh, Brazil and Pakistan has been doing so well, over 35 million users have signed up to be donors. In India and Brazil, over 20 percent of the people who go to blood banks say their decision was influenced by the social network. Now, the company has […]
Nintendo starts producing new Switch models outside China
Nintendo has begun producing two new variants of its Switch console, and some of them are being manufactured outside of China in order to evade new tariffs on US imports. The Wall Street Journal reports that sources within Nintendo’s supply chain have confirmed the movement of production to Southeast Asia, and that the company aims […]
Logitech’s G-series gaming mice get the HERO treatment with updated 16K DPI sensors
Logitech announced on Tuesday that it was refreshing three of its gaming mice with its latest high-precision sensor. The G903 Lightspeed, G703 Lightspeed, and the G403 Prodigy gaming mice are all being updated with Logitech’s HERO 16,000 DPI sensor. The sensor’s improved efficiency gives it a much longer 140 hours of claimed battery life versus […]
Google is moving US-bound Nest production out of China
Google is moving its production of US-bound Nest devices and server hardware out of China in order to avoid tariffs as high as 25 percent, reports Bloomberg. Production of motherboards heading to Google’s US data centers have moved to Taiwan, while Nest devices heading Stateside are now being produced in Taiwan and Malaysia. The moves […]
Huawei postpones planned laptop launch amid US trade war
Huawei has indefinitely postponed the imminent launch of a new Windows laptop, consumer division Richard Yu has confirmed to CNBC. The product was set for a reveal at the ongoing CES Asia show in Shanghai this week, but trade sanctions from the US government are restricting Huawei’s ability to use American products like Microsoft software […]
Konami’s TurboGrafx-16 mini is ready to ride the retro-gaming wave
At E3 Konami announced the TurboGrafx-16 mini, marking a return for the console that debuted in the US alongside the Sega Genesis in 1989, but never quite enjoyed the support or sales of its competitors. There’s no price or release date yet for this bit of late 80s / early 90s nostalgia, but when it […]
Gaming accounts for 74% of app store spending
We spend a good chunk of our time and money on mobile gaming, a new report says. Thanks to a report from App Annie, we can now more easily quantify the industry’s growth. According to the report, in the mobile app market, games account for a whopping 10 percent of the total time users spend […]
Apple and Microsoft made a new iCloud for Windows app
Apple and Microsoft teamed up to create an iCloud Drive experience that will hopefully resolve some compatibility issues. A brand new iCloud for Windows app is available today in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 users. The iCloud app will use the same technology as Microsoft’s OneDrive’s On-Demand feature a very rare collaboration from tech’s […]
Facebook is launching new Portal models later this year
Facebook has been busy designing new variants of its Portal video chatting devices. According to the company’s Vice President of AR/VR, Andrew Bosworth, Facebook plans to unveil new Portal models this fall. Bosworth has made the announcement on stage at the Code Conference in Phoenix, where he told the audience that the social network is […]
Atari re-opens pre-orders for VCS console starting at $249.99
Atari at E3 on Tuesday announced a distribution deal with GameStop and Walmart for the company’s upcoming VCS console. The Atari VCS first went up for pre-order more than a year ago on Indiegogo, raising roughly $3 million in the process. Those systems are still on track to be delivered in late 2019, we’re told. […]
Opera made a ‘gaming browser’ that lets you control CPU usage
Opera GX is an offshoot of the brand’s regular browser that adds in performance turning controls, which should be somewhat familiar to PC gamers. By popping open the sidebar, users can access GX control and limit how much memory and the CPU usage their system is allocating to the web browser. As we all know […]
Foxconn could make all US iPhones outside of China if needed
A senior Foxconn executive says that the company could move production of all iPhones destined for the US out of China if the current trade war demands it. In comments reported by Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, the head of Foxconn’s semiconductor business group, Young Liu, said, “25 percent of our production capacity is […]
First credible Google Pixel 4 renders surface online
Google’s launch of its next iteration of the Pixel series is a few months away and leaks around the development of the device have started surfacing on the web. New renders of the phone have appeared on Pricebaba, giving fans a taster of what to expect. Up to this point, the only credible bits of […]
Samsung will reveal the Galaxy Fold’s new release date “in the coming weeks”
Samsung has remained quiet about a relaunch of the Samsung Galaxy Fold since it was delayed back in April. Now, however, the company says it will announce a new release date “in the coming weeks.” After the Fold’s screen issues were discovered in early review units by tech journalists, Samsung took the wise decision to […]