The new Black Shark 3 Pro takes things off the screen with physical pop-up shoulder buttons. In game mode, users can choose to use the two, 21-millimeter-wide buttons that raise 1.5 millimeters from the body of the phone. The buttons can supposedly withstand over 300,000 lifts and more than one million clicks. The Black Shark […]
According to Reuters, its team has obtained proof that Chinese tech giant Huawei engaged in a trade deal with Iran in 2010. That deal involved the sale of computer parts and other technology that originated in the United States, which violates US trade sanctions. The proof of this deal is two packing lists and other […]
Last year AT&T announced plans to launch yet another TV streaming service, AT&T TV, to its already crowded lineup. The new service will offer largely the same channels as the existing DirecTV, but it’ll come over the internet via an Android streaming-TV box, rather than a satellite dish. AT&T calls it a “TV service that […]
Apple has tentatively agreed to a $500 million settlement after admitting to slowing down older phones. The deal would provide small payouts for many iPhone owners in the US, plus greater compensation for named class members and attorneys. It covers people who bought any product in the iPhone 6 and 7 lineup which Apple secretly […]
Samsung might not save its Lite label for budget versions of its Galaxy flagships. Android Headlines has shared what it says are leaked details of the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, a cut-down version of last year’s high-end tablet. It’ll reportedly resemble the original Tab S6 in shape and possibly size, but switch to decidedly mid-range […]
NASA is enlisting whatever help it can get to make sure its crewed Moon and Mars missions go smoothly, and that might include help from schools. The agency is running a new round of its Moon to Mars Exploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innovation Challenge that encourages university students to study and develop spacefaring tech. […]
Game Developers Conference has followed Mobile World Congress and Facebook’s F8 developer conference as the third technology expo to be canceled. Hopefully it’ll be the last. The Game Developers Conference advisory board had no option other than to cancel the event. With EA, Kojima Productions, Microsoft, Epic Games, Sony, Facebook, Unity and Amazon withdrawing and […]
YouTube TV, Google’s internet pay-TV service, said it will drop the Fox regional sports networks and the YES Network from customer lineups this Saturday, Feb. 29 citing an impasse in negotiations with Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns the RSNs. “We purchase rights from Sinclair to distribute content to you,” the YouTube TV account said in […]
SpaceX has won the launch contract for NASA’s 2022 mission to explore the mineral-rich asteroid known as Psyche, the space agency announced, including launch services and other mission-related costs valued at $117 million remarkably low for a mission of this scale. The Psyche mission will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, which will launch from Launch […]
Starting this spring, Microsoft said it plans to make productivity the focus of the digital assistant. As part of the shift, Cortana will lose some of its more consumer-facing features, such as the ability to play music and control smart home devices. More significantly, the company plans to remove the digital assistant from its Launcher […]
Netflix has taken an aggressive step in its fight with publishing company Chooseco. It’s asking a court to cancel the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark, arguing that it’s a generic descriptor rather than a meaningful brand. Last year, the Netflix got into hot water with its previous interactive show Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Chooseco filed an […]
Google’s Stadia streaming service hasn’t had the smoothest launch. Between missing features and less than stellar performance, the platform is, at the moment, more about future promise than current potential. The latest update to the Stadia app hints that some of those features might be coming soon, including the highly anticipated free tier, YouTube streaming, […]
Amazon this week told Reuters that it has banned the sale of more than a million products in recent weeks that claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus. Tens of thousands of additional listings attempting to price-gouge customers have also been taken down, the online retailer added. “There is no place for price gouging […]
Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea because of outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, Business Insider reported. Amazon is asking employees to defer all nonessential travel. Both companies had already halted employee travel to China, and Google temporarily closed down its offices in China at the end of January. […]
Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 phones went on sale in its home region of South Korea yesterday, and things have got off to a slow start. According to the South Korea Herald, sales of the Galaxy S20 phones were down 50 percent compared to their predecessors a year earlier. While the latest devices sold around 70,800 […]