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Countries around the world are scrambling to create contact-tracing apps that will help track the spread of COVID-19. But a beta app launched by the UK this week shows the huge challenges they face and, crucially, the difficulty in designing an effective app without the help of the tech giants that make our phones. The […]
Microsoft is confirming today that it’s planning to refocus Windows 10X on single-screen devices. “The world is a very different place than it was last October when we shared our vision for a new category of dual-screen Windows devices,” explains Panos Panay, Microsoft’s Windows and devices chief. “With Windows 10X, we designed for flexibility, and […]
Apple has banished the butterfly keyboard once and for all. Apple has introduced a refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pro with the same basic Magic Keyboard and Touch Bar combo you’d find in its 16-inch counterpart. You can also expect 10th-generation Intel Core processors with boost speeds up to 4.1GHz, a minimum 256GB SSD (with a max […]
Apple and Google have stipulated how public health authorities around the world can use their upcoming coronavirus tracking system in an effort to preserve user privacy. Representatives from the two companies announced today that, in addition to standard reviews on Apple and Google’s app stores, public health authorities will have to sign legal addendums to […]
The Financial Times sources say the owners of the owners of Virgin Media and O2 are in talks to create a new TV and mobile power player to challenge BT and Sky in the UK. Billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media and a 10% stake in ITV, is understood to be in […]
According to Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Microsoft Teams is not a competitor to Slack. He feels that the larger corporation has not proven that customers want to use Teams. He cites the app’s bundling with Office 365 as evidence of this. “What we’ve seen over the past couple of months is that Teams is not […]
Twitter usage has spiked just like it did for other big platforms, as more people are flocking to it to keep up with news updates. Twitter says it now has 166 million daily active users, a healthy 24 percent increase from the 134 million it was touting a year ago. CEO Jack Dorsey told investors […]
The Sonos Playbar may finally, at long last, be getting an upgrade, according to an image discovered by Dave Zatz over at Zatz Not Funny. The renders don’t show a power outlet or HDMI ports, which Zatz speculates may mean ports and any buttons are either recessed within the ledge or elsewhere along the sound […]
Virgin Galactic’s space tourism has flown SpaceShipTwo from Spaceport America for the first time. It was just a glide test from 50,000 feet up, but the flight let the spaceport fulfill its intended purpose and gave pilots familiarity with the New Mexico airspace. This will also help Virgin compare performance against similar maneuvers from earlier […]
Samsung’s $399 Galaxy A51 which is the successor to the incredibly popular Galaxy A50, launched on Verizon and Sprint in April. Although Samsung plans to release a 5G version of the handset in the US later this summer, for now only the LTE-variant is available now on AT&T and Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile. There’s a lot […]
It took roughly 24 hours for Reddit to rethink its latest move and ultimately roll back the new chat room feature it debuted earlier this week. In a statement issued to The Verge, Reddit confirmed that it has indeed disabled the Start Chatting feature in order to reassess its rollout plan and evolve the product […]
With the Covid-19 pandemic disrupting the world economy and stopping product releases, concerns remain that the PS5 and Xbox Series X will be delayed beyond their “holidays 2020” launch dates. February and March brought predictions from analyst firms that the PS5 and Xbox Series X would be delayed due to the Covid-19 impact in China, […]
SpaceX and Amazon’s Blue Origin received some very positive news today. NASA has awarded both corporations lucrative contracts in exchange for their promise to design and develop human landing systems for the space agency’s “Artemis” program.As part of the program, one of these human landing systems (HLS) will be used to deliver the “first woman […]
Apple expects to start reopening more of its stores in May, after shutting down locations outside of China due to the coronavirus pandemic. Stores in Australia and Austria could reopen in the next two weeks, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Bloomberg. “A few” stores could reopen in the US in the first half of May […]
Amazon expects to spend $4 billion or more the predicted operating profit for the company’s entire coming quarter just on COVID-19-related expenses. Amazon reported a big jump in sales for the first quarter in 2020. But that also equated to a sharp increase in costs, which unfortunately resulted in lower profits, and a dip in […]