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Sony on Wednesday beat repair shops like iFixit to the punch by conducting a teardown of its upcoming PlayStation 5 game console. Masayasu Ito, EVP of hardware engineering and operation at Sony Interactive Entertainment, said on the official PlayStation blog that they’ve spent the last five years designing and developing the machine. you won’t have […]
Apple’s new Watches and iPads just had their turn in the spotlight now it’s time for the iPhone 12 to take the stage. The company has just sent out invites to an event on October 13th at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern with the tagline “Hi, Speed.” Apple was expected to unveil its new iPhone 12 line […]
Apple has quietly stopped selling competing headphones and wireless speakers from rivals Logitech, Bose and Sonos, a recent report from Bloomberg highlights. When you go to find a product like the Logtech Ultimate Ears Megaboom speaker or those Bose headphones, you’ll find messages like these instead: But Google’s cache shows these products were on sale […]
ChromeOS 85.0.4183.108 update had an unintentional effect on Google Play’s ‘com.android.vending:download_service’ service. Used to download the latest updates from Google’s store, it started utilizing 100 percent of the CPU. Not only did this cause affected devices to become incredibly hot, but it also crushed the Chromebooks’ performance and battery life. Google says it has now […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has landed a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon. SpaceX would build four satellites in its assembly plant in Redmond, Washington, the US Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, per Reuters. The plant is where SpaceX builds satellites for Starlink, a constellation of satellites designed to beam […]
Razer is launching a pre-paid Visa card
Venmo has launched its first credit card. It’s rolling out today to “select customers,” according to the company, but it will be available to everyone in the coming months. You can apply through the Venmo app, provided that you’re at least 18, live in the US, and have a Venmo account in good standing that’s […]
Twitch has updated its community guidelines, the rules that govern the site, to clarify its ban of terrorist and extremist content. The move appears to be in order to strengthen its language around that sort of material. Tackling extremist and terrorist content is a difficult problem for platforms such as Twitch and Facebook. An outright […]
The ongoing feature battle between Spotify and Apple Music continues. The two leading music services often add features seemingly inspired by their competition; the latest is lyric search. You can now search for songs by their lyrics on iOS and Android. The feature looks to be pretty straightforward type in some lyrics into Spotify’s search […]
Apple is suing former recycling partner GEEP Canada now a part of Quantum Lifecycle Partners for allegedly stealing and reselling at least 103,845 iPhones, iPads and Watches that it was hired to disassemble. Apple sent the recycling firm over 500,000 iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches between January 2015 and December 2017, according to The Logic’s […]
The New York Times reports that clinical trials slowed down after healthcare software provider eResearchTechnology suffered ransomware attacks starting two weeks ago. IQVIA and Bristol Myers Squibb were two of the largest targets. Both IQVIA and Bristol Myers Squibb said the effect of the attack was “limited,” thanks in part to data backups, but other eResearchTechnology […]
Twitter has referenced an “Abusive behavior” rule they implemented in April. It explicitly states: “we do not tolerate content that wishes, hopes or expresses a desire for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against an individual or group of people.” Twitter’s rationale ascribes the rule’s importance to the need to “facilitate healthy dialogue on […]
An Apple patent application published reveals an idea for a foldable smartphone that would include a “self-healing” display cover, allowing the device to repair dents or scratches covering the screen. The application, spotted by Patently Apple, was originally filed by Apple in January. The idea would solve one of the main problems found in early […]
Google just announced a new Chromecast and the company is already offering a good deal on one all you have to do is sign up for YouTube TV and pay for one month of the service. If you want to take advantage of the deal, you should be able to access it here. This “Try […]
Nvidia has delayed the launch of its upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card so there’s more stock available on launch day. In a blog post, the company admitted that the news “may be disappointing” to some, but said, “this shift will help our global partners get more graphics cards into the hands of gamers on […]