Friday morning at around 10:30 local time, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake popped three miles below Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Though nowhere near the magnitude of the West Coast’s monster quakes, the seismic waves traveled hundreds of miles, jostling not just nearby New York City, but Philadelphia and Boston and Washington, DC. The United States Geological […]
Read MoreUpdate 4/1/2024 at 11:10 a.m. PT / 2:10 p.m. ET: As I covered originally in the text below, the Helldivers 2 fought for and eventually captured Malevelon Creek this morning for the first time since the co-op shooter’s launch. Now, though, there’s a new Major Order: one to hold the line on the Creek — […]
Read MoreWednesday February 28, 2024 10:58 am PST by Juli Clover Apple today held its annual shareholders meeting, and during the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again commented on Apple’s AI plans. Cook said that the company will “break new ground” in generative AI in 2024. “We believe it will unlock transformative opportunities for our […]
Read MoreCanalys posted a report on smartphone sales in China for the last quarter and the full calendar year of 2023. According to the analysis, companies shipped 5% fewer devices compared with 2022, which was already the worst year in a decade. The Q4 period showed signs of recovery with only a 1% decline, or 73.9 […]
Read MoreIn addition to burying solid carbon or sprinkling it on fields, researchers are also turning waste biomass into liquid carbon—oil, essentially, that they pump back into the ground instead of pumping the fossil variety up. “What we do at the highest level is we make barbecue sauce—or liquid smoke for barbecue sauce—and then we inject […]
Read MoreApple appears to be facing an uphill battle to reverse falling iPhone sales in China, with last year’s double-digit decline projected to deepen through 2024 owing to strong interest in Huawei’s latest home-grown lineup, according to analyst expectations (via Bloomberg). Huawei Mate 60 Pro In an investor note on Sunday citing industry checks, Jeffries analyst […]
Read MoreIt’s no secret that iPhone owners tend to look down on Android users, regardless of the brand. Anybody who’s been ribbed for their blue bubbles in iMessage knows all too well how iPhone owners make fun of their chat bubbles. It’s the stuff of countless memes on social media as well, particularly in North America, […]
Read MoreUnless you’re running around barefoot, you experience heat waves through air temperature. For the most part, that’s how scientists track them too. “Heat extremes have been always studied based on air temperature, in part because we have a lot of observations of air temperatures,” such as from meteorological stations, says Almudena García-García, an Earth system […]
Read MoreThe smartphone market analysis for Q2 2023 is in (via Counterpoint Research). The papers show that Samsung led market share figures in the 2nd quarter, followed by Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo. Although the global smartphone market’s sell-through dropped 5% quarter-on-quarter and 8% year-on-year in the April-June period, the market shares of the five largest […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know A new Overwatch 2 patch has gone live, nerfing Roadhog, Orisa, Kiriko, and Sojourn. The biggest change is the death of Roadhog’s infamous Chain Hook and Scrap Gun one-shot combo, as Blizzard has reduced the Chain Hook’s pull distance and the damage of both the hook and the Scrap Gun […]
Read MoreKane McKenna is wearables analyst at CCS Insight. In this series, he shares his research on the wearables industry. We’ve seen wearables tackle heart rate tracking, recovery metrics, and sleep scores – but what we eat could be the next focus. Nutrition is an area where wearables still have some space to develop. While smartwatches […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Intel broke ground today on its “Silicon Heartland” chipmaking factories near New Albany, Ohio. Intel executives, federal, state, and local officials, and Ohio governor Mike DeWine were joined by U.S. President Joe Biden for the groundbreaking ceremony. Intel also announced $17.7 million in funding for eight proposals spread out over […]
Read MoreThere are a plethora of smart bands available on the market that are being sold as “smartwatches.” In reality, these are just fitness bands with some locked-in features. A smartwatch, such as the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5, or an Apple Watch, allows the user to install apps from the App Store or Play Store, and […]
Read MoreAccording to newly compiled Canalys report, the global smart wearable market recorded a 2% increase in shipments in Q2 2022, compared to Q1. The total global shipments of smart wearables – basic bands and smartwatches – stood at 41.7 million units. Of them, basic watches recorded a big 46.6% increase in shipments, while smartwatches (those […]
Read MoreAccording to research done by StockApps, Apple’s iOS has been gaining ground for the last four years and has eaten a good chunk of Android’s global OS market share. However, Google’s OS still dominates the market. In 2018, Android had a 77.32% market share while this year, it is estimated that about 69.74% of all […]
Read MoreSource: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Microsoft Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are constantly vying for the attention of cloud decision-makers, and a new annual report release offers a window of insight into what said decision-makers are choosing for their organizations. Flexera, a company focused on technology value optimization, has released its Flexera 2022 […]
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