News
HMD Global will soon offer a 5G-ready smartphone in the US. Today, the Finnish company which has been making handsets with the Nokia name since 2016 confirmed that its Nokia 8.3 5G ‘flagship’ will be offered Stateside sometime “this autumn.” For now, the smartphone maker is staying tight-lipped about the exact launch date, the various […]
The first two models to carry this designation are already available: the X900H 4K HDR Full Array LED and the Z8H 8K HDR Full Array LED. The X900H offers 4K resolution, which is becoming standard on most high-end TVs, alongside a 120Hz refresh rate. Sony says it also has a “very low” input lag of […]
In a new survey, 84 percent of people said they were most excited about the PlayStation 5, while just 15 percent chose the Xbox Series X. These results come thanks to a wide-ranging survey conducted by pop culture agency Experience12 (thanks, MCV). The agency pilled over 3,000 “pop culture fans” in the UK through MCM […]
Google One, Google’s subscription program for buying additional storage and live support, is getting an update today that will bring free phone backups for Android and iOS devices to anybody who installs the app even if they don’t have a paid membership. The catch: While the feature is free, the backups count against your free […]
Spotify on Wednesday said its monthly active user count reached 299 million in the most recent quarter ending June 30. Spotify beat analysts’ forecasts on both sales they had on average been expecting revenues of $1.86 billion and EPS, which had been forecast to be -$0.49 but came in at -$0.20 on a diluted basis […]
Apple could be getting ready to reveal the first of its Arm-based laptops. Cupertino already refreshed its Intel-powered laptops earlier this year. An unveiling of a new laptop equipped with Apple silicon would confirm what noted analyst Ming Chi-Kuo predicted earlier this month. Kuo said that the company was ready to release two new laptops […]
A German electric startup called Electric Brands has developed a new concept vehicle called the eBussy. It is underpinned by an electric modular platform and will be offered in 10 different body styles. The way this EV transforms, it deserves to be in the next Transformers movie! The eBussy is an electric vehicle that is […]
Space Camp and its home, the US Space and Rocket Center museum in Alabama, are in danger of shutting down permanently due to the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center Education Foundation needs your help. The organization, which oversees the Space Camp program for young people in Huntsville, Alabama, will have to close […]
Disney+’s flagship streaming series wowed this morning, with a surprise best drama Primetime Emmy nomination this morning out of a stellar 15, technically repping the first Emmy nominations for a Star Wars live-action IP since the 1985 ABC movie Ewoks: The Battle for Endor which was then nominated for three Emmys Outstanding Children’s Programming, Sound […]
VIRGIN Galactic has unveiled the sci-fi cabin where passengers will one day gaze at Earth after paying $250,000 (£175,000) for a ticket to space. “Ultimately, the interior of the spaceship was designed with one primary goal in mind, and that is to get the perfect view of Earth from space,” the company said in a […]
The Consumer Technology Association has announced that CES will no longer go ahead in January 2021 as previously planned. CES is the world’s biggest consumer technology show, dominating much of the news agenda at the start of the year. As recently as last month, the CTA said it was planning to host CES 2021 as […]
Spotify today announced that its paying users can now simultaneously stream music or podcasts to up to five people even if they live far away. The new feature is dubbed Group Session and requires Spotify Premium. The first beta version of Group Session appeared back in May, but now is way more developed than before. […]
Google on announced it is building a new private subsea cable to link the US with other parts of the world. Google is partnering with subsea cable provider SubCom on the project, which is named Grace Hopper after the American computer scientist by the same name. Hopper, who died in 1992, was a pioneer in […]
Amazon’s Alexa app is getting a much-needed revamp. Starting today, the Alexa app will have a whole new home screen with updated navigation that highlights Alexa-centric skills and a more personalized experience. Third-party skills have also been moved off the main screen in favor of more first-party features. The redesigned Home screen in the Alexa […]
With Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 5.0, upcoming phones will be able to get from an empty battery to 50 percent in just five minutes, which is ten times faster than the first generation of Quick Charge technology. Qualcomm announced the latest iteration of its fast charging tech called Quick Charge 5, offering the most significant improvements […]