OnePlus 9 series launch in mid-March has been rumoured for a while. We have now received exclusive information from reliable tipster Ishan Agarwal that OnePlus plans to announce as many as four new products in March and at the same launch event. In addition to the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro, the company will […]
News
News
FCC authorizes $50 discounts for low-income households’ internet bills
The Federal Communications Fee voted unanimously on Thursday to undertake a program that gives emergency reductions of as much as $50 per 30 days towards broadband web service for low-income households. The Emergency Broadband Profit Program additionally gives as much as $75 per 30 days for households on Native American land and a one-time low […]
Virgin Galactic delays space tourism flights to early 2022
Virgin Galactic has announced that it is pushing its space tourism program launch date back to “early 2022,” abandoning hopes it would begin the program this year. The announcement came Thursday afternoon in an earnings call. The news follows problems with a disappointing December 2020 launch, when the rocket motor of SpaceShipTwo did not ignite. […]
Google offers improved sleep tracking tools for Android apps
Google Sleep API is being made publicly available, and this will allow sleep tracking apps on Android smartphones use less power to detect sleep patterns, the tech company said. The Sleep API will be built right into Google Play Services, and will centralise sleep detection processing. It is one the Activity Recognition APIs which, “with […]
Sony will reportedly enable PS5 SSD expansion this summer
Sony will allow the PlayStation 5 to make use of expanded SSD storage from this summer, according to a report in Bloomberg. The functionality is said to be coming in a firmware update that will activate the PS5’s M.2 expansion slot, which is currently disabled. The planned firmware is also expected to allow the PS5’s […]
Google’s undersea cables detects earthquakes
A 10,000-kilometre-long fibre-optic cable owned by Google that is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean can be used to detect deep-sea seismic activity and ocean waves. Zhongwen Zhan at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues, including researchers at Google, used traffic data from one of the tech giant’s optical […]
Twitter is working on a ‘Safety mode’ that will automatically block mean tweets
Twitter plans to introduce a way for you to automatically block and mute abusive accounts, the company announced at its Analyst Day presentation on Thursday. Twitter said during its recent 2021 Analyst Day presentation. Twitter didn’t provide a lot of details on the feature. However, two screenshots the company shared show a new “Safety mode” […]
Amazon Music lands on Google TV and Android TV devices
The Amazon Music app is now available on Google TV and Android TV OS, bringing easier access to the streaming music service from TVs, consoles, and set-top boxes. It joins the exiting Amazon Music apps for iOS and Android phones and tablets, as well as Fire tablets and the web-based player. The app supports Google’s […]
AMD is unveiling a new Radeon RX 6000 GPU in March
AMD is getting ready to launch the next part in their RDNA2/RX 6000 family of video cards. This afternoon the company sent out a save the date invitation to the press and public, announcing that the company will be holding a Radeon-related announcement next Wednesday, March the 3rd. And with a picture of a previously […]
The next Spider-Man movie will be titled Spider-Man No Way Home
The next Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland will be titled Spider-Man: No Way Home. The movie will be out only in theaters on December 17th, 2021. Holland’s Spider-Man sounds like he’s in trouble, well, he probably is. Not only is the sense of danger in line with what we’ve heard about the movie, it also […]
EA cancels Anthem’s big revamp but will keep the game running
Anthem Next, the retooled version of BioWare’s jetpack-fueled sci-fi action game, has been canceled. BioWare will continue running the Anthem live service as it stands. “While we continue to make progress against all our game projects at BioWare, working from home during the pandemic has had an impact on our productivity and not everything we […]
CD Projekt Red delays the ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ 1.2 patch until March
CD Projekt Red announced on Twitter today. The developer cites its recent ransomware hack as the major culprit it initially planned to launch the 1.2 patch in February. While I’m sure the news disappoints plenty of gamers, this issue is outside of the studio’s control. Dealing with the fallout of a massive hack is tough […]
Samsung will reportedly release an Exynos laptop with AMD graphics this year
Samsung will reportedly launch a Windows 10 laptop running on an Exynos processor and an AMD GPU. A report from ZDNet Korea says that Samsung will release a laptop in the second half of this year that runs on an Exynos processor and an AMD GPU. The rumored laptop will reportedly come out after the […]
Fry’s Electronics calls it quits after nearly 36 years in business
Fry’s Electronics, once considered by many to be the holy grail of electronics stores, is calling it quits. On Twitter, Wario64 pointed out a tweet by a former employee and AV store owner noting that employees found out Tuesday night that it was the last night the stores would be open and that the website […]
LinkedIn is down
LinkedIn users are reporting outages on the career networking website. According to LinkedIn’s status page, the company is investigating the issue. “We are currently experiencing an issue across the platform that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are investigating the issue and working on a resolution,” the page reads. It’s […]