Apple is readying some big changes to watchOS 7. 9to5Mac reports that the next major Apple Watch update, watchOS 7, will finally include sleep tracking. The reports are based on leaked iOS 14 code, and watchOS 7 is said to include a new personalized sleep goal in the Health app on an iPhone that will […]
Apple Watch might detect more health trouble than an irregular heartbeat. Tipsters talking to 9to5Mac claim that Apple is working on the ability to detect blood oxygen levels through its wristwear. If your blood’s oxygen saturation fell below a certain threshold, you’d receive a notification much like you do now for unusual heart rates. It’s […]
Google’s next Pixel phone is a near-certainty and gadget fans may have just been given a sneak peek at it ahead of time. Leaked images, allegedly showing the Pixel 4a, have been circulated online ahead of a rumoured official revealing in May. The original Pixel 4 was launched back in October last year and the […]
A sneak peek of the product page for the upcoming Ring Video Doorbell 3 shows some upgrades over the Video Doorbell 2 was briefly available. Dave Zatz at Zatz Not Funny discovered the product page, which included a “pre-roll” feature for the doorbell’s Plus model that captures four seconds of black-and-white video before a motion […]
AMD processors released since 2013 are vulnerable to a pair of new side-channel attacks, “Collide + Probe” and “Load + Reload.” Both exploit weaknesses in AMD’s L1D cache way predictor, a tool that predicts where data is stored in the processor, to detect when that data is accessed. By combining the new exploits with existing […]
In the latest Windows 10 Insider Build announcement, Microsoft revealed some changes it’s making to the Settings app and the Group Policy editor. First of all, Microsoft is tweaking the way it labels its diagnostic data collection settings. The basic diagnostic data option, which includes information like your IP address and what type of device […]
Late last night, SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on the company’s 20th cargo mission to the International Space Station, sending more than 4,500 pounds of supplies and science experiments to the three crew members living in orbit. While it was a fairly routine launch for the company, it was also a significant one: […]
Austin has declared a health emergency, and SXSW has been canceled on the advice of local health experts who have warned that it could cause coronavirus (COVID-19) to spread. The festival was scheduled to take place from March 13th to March 22nd, yet Austin Mayor Steve Adler festival today announced that, amid a increasing number […]
Rogers Communications has started rolling out the 5G network in some Canadian cities, becoming the country’s first cellphone provider to offer the super-fast telecom services. Canada’s first live 5G network in the downtown cores of Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. You’ll unsurprisingly have to pick up one of Samsung’s Galaxy S20 phones and subscribe to […]
It looks like Google Messages will soon let users send iMessage-like reaction text messages to people without Rich Communication Services (RCS). While the feature hasn’t been rolled out to users yet, some have discovered a bunch of strings in the latest Messages beta v5.8 that suggest the app could soon support “reaction fallback texts” similar […]
The TurboGrafx-16 Mini, a retro revival of the classic Japanese gaming console originally set to be released on March 19th, has been delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak, Konami announced today. Konami said in a statement on Twitter that “the manufacturing and shipping facilities in China have encountered an unavoidable suspension due to the current […]
Oppo’s first entry into the smartwatch space may have made us do a double take. The aptly-named Oppo Watch was announced alongside the Find X2 series in Beijing earlier today. It’s an Android-powered wearable that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2500 chipset, and for those who care, this comes with 1GB of RAM and 8GB […]
Security researchers have discovered a new security flaw on Intel CPUs that “jeopardizes” Intel’s root of trust. According to security researchers at Positive Technologies, the new vulnerability affects Intel CPUs released in the past five years. The vulnerability is within Intel’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME), a part of the chip that controls system […]
SpaceX is planning to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. The trip is part of a partnership with the Houston-based start-up Axiom Space. Private citizens have flown to the ISS before, but they have all launched in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. This trip, which will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]
Back in January, Sonos was the star of a juicy controversy. It announced that regular software updates would be ending for some of its older products, and while that on its own was enough to get people riled up, it also brought the company’s “Recycle Mode” under the spotlight. Recycle Mode was part of Sonos’s […]