Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook 2 seems like it will improve on the battery life and price of its predecessor, according to leaked Samsung slides (via 9to5Google). The previous Galaxy Chromebook was an attractively designed 2-in-1 that nonetheless faltered due to its battery life and high $999 price tag. The device will feature a 13.3-inch QLED screen […]
Department of Homeland Security is advising U.S. companies to cease business with Chinese companies. The D.H.S business advisory published yesterday says that US companies should avoid “data services and equipment” from Chinese companies. The report is 15 pages. Businesses are exposing “themselves and their customers to heightened risks” according to the report. This includes sharing […]
President Biden is going to need some Twitter followers. Twitter plans to wipe out all followers from the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts once Biden is sworn in on January 20th, rather than transferring the accounts’ existing followers over to the new administration, according to Rob Flaherty, Biden’s digital director. This is a reversal from what […]
CD Projekt Red estimates that Cyberpunk 2077 has sold over 13 million copies, even after taking into account refunds across various platforms. The news came from the company’s latest regulatory announcement, in an effort to relax investors and show that Cyberpunk 2077 is still off to a strong start – at least, as far as […]
A group made up of 19 security firms, tech companies, and non-profits, headlined by big names such as Microsoft and McAfee, have announced plans to form a new coalition to deal with the rising threat of ransomware. Named the Ransomware Task Force (RTF), the new group will focus on assessing existing technical solutions that provide […]
Following in the footsteps of earlier releases of Photoshop and Lightroom, Adobe Premiere Pro is now available in beta on the M1-based Macs. As with the Photoshop M1 beta, you won’t find every feature that’s available in Premiere Pro’s public release just yet, but it does include all of the app’s core editing and workflow […]
TikTok is tailoring its yearly recap to its users, for the first time in history. The next time you open the app, you’ll see a personalized collection of all your favorite clips from the past 12 months, in addition to a handful of top “vibes” based on the content you watched most. Once you’ve downloaded […]
YouTube wants to make video downloads easier to manage for Premium users. A cross device offline settings entry has popped up and subsequently disappeared in the most recent Android app versions for some. While the feature apparently wasn’t fully functional yet, it looks like it might allow you to download videos on your phone and […]
Tesla is narrowing the time frame for the Full Self-Driving subscription rollout. Elon Musk told Twitter followers that the pay-per-month package is now due to arrive “early next year.” In theory, you could add the autonomous features without a steep up-front cost in a matter of months. You might not want to plan your schedule […]
For the second time in two months, Apple is placing one of many corporations it hires to construct the iPhone on discover for violating labor legal guidelines. Reuters, Bloomberg and others are reporting that Apple has put Taiwanese manufacturing large Wistron on “probation” — that means it gained’t obtain any new enterprise from Apple till […]
In the wake of news of Russia’s massive cyber-intrusion into a swath of private and public networks, including, alarmingly, agencies controlling the nuclear stockpile, the main lacuna of the story, as it has been for four years, is the president’s subservient relationship with Russia. There is a sharp ongoing debate over just what sort of […]
Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, have banned today a root certificate that was being used by the Kazakhstan government to intercept and decrypt HTTPS traffic for residents in the country’s capital, the city of Nur-Sultan. The certificate had been in use since December 6, 2020, when Kazakh officials forced local internet service providers […]
Microsoft is designing its own ARM-based processors for servers and possibly a future Surface device, according to Bloomberg News. The processors will be used in servers for Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and be based around ARM designs, according to the report. Microsoft is also reportedly “exploring” using another chip for some of its Surface devices, […]
If you purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally on the Microsoft Store, you can get a full refund. This was already true on Xbox, but it didn’t apply to all situations. If you played the game for more than 2 hours, the refund system likely would have denied your request. But Microsoft is lifting those restrictions for […]
Drone maker DJI and chipmaker SMIC are the latest Chinese firms to be added to a US trade blacklist. In total, 77 firms were added to the list most of them Chinese. The Entity List is drawn up by the US Department of Commerce, and already includes more than 275 China-based firms, including telecoms giant […]