Amazon’s Spring sale brings great discounts on smartphones old and new. We picked out a few flagships, but some of the mid-rangers offer value for money that is hard beat. The OnePlus 12 flexes its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 muscles on the 6.82” 120Hz LTPO AMOLED display with QHD+ resolution. The chip also handles processing […]
Read MoreSpring has come and you know what that means – the weather is nice, the birds are chirping and Amazon is running its annual Spring Deals. There is some spring cleaning going on with some older models getting hefty discounts, but there is no shortage of 2024 models on offer either. Samsung’s foldables have dropped […]
Read MoreSpotify, Epic Games, Deezer, Paddle, and several other developers and EU associations today sent a joint letter to the European Commission to complain about Apple’s “proposed scheme for compliance” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The 34 companies and associations do not believe Apple’s plans “meet the law’s requirements.” Apple’s changes “disregard both the spirit […]
Read MoreAccording to a post on Reddit, the latest beta version of the Apple Music app for Android (version 4.7.0, build 1359) comes with a feature that allows you to transfer songs from other music streaming platforms to Apple Music. For example, if you have a playlist on Spotify or YouTube Music, this version of the […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Two months after Microsoft successfully completed its $69b acquisition of Activision Blizzard King, CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down from ABK on December 29, 2023. A new internal memo from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer reveals that moving forward, top Activision Blizzard King executives will report to Microsoft Gaming president […]
Read MoreWe may sound like a broken record, but one can’t praise Samsung enough for how it handles updates for Galaxy smartphones. Yes, the company is lacking in some ways, but for the most part, no Android manufacturer is as good as Samsung at software updates, especially when you take into account the insane number of […]
Read MoreWhile PlayStation long required any prospective players of its games to pick up a new console, those days are over…well, kind of. Since 2020, PlayStation has been more regularly putting games on Windows PC. If you’ve been holding out for some good deals before grabbing them, you can take advantage of some major discounts on […]
Read MoreWith all the deals going on at the moment it can be tough to manage your spending but a good pair of headphones or earbuds is always a good investment. We’ve taken the liberty to scour the depths of Amazon for the best headphones and earbuds deals and are presenting them in no particular order. […]
Read MoreWhether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not, Black Friday has turned into a global event. Here’s an early look at what this year has in store for us. Motorola launched the Edge 40 Neo a few months after the regular Edge 40. Strangely, the price of the newer model is falling quicker – not that we’re […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy S22 lineup is getting the November 2023 update in the US today. The new update is rolling out to unlocked Galaxy S22, S22+, and S22 Ultra units in the country, is accompanied by a firmware version ending in CWK1, and includes the November 2023 security patch. In case you’re wondering, this update does not bring […]
Read MoreThis story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as evidenced by a recent trend on TikTok. Women started filming the men in their lives to document their answers to a […]
Read MoreSamsung announced its redesigned Galaxy SmartTag 2 today, and there’s more to this gadget than meets the eye. Samsung didn’t stop at overhauling the exterior of the SmartTag 2 but also improved the internal hardware and the user experience in a few areas. One addition to the SmartTag 2 is Lost Mode, which can be […]
Read MoreChip designer ARM filed for an IPO last month and insiders speaking to Reuters report that many major tech companies are interested. The initial public offering will be at a valuation between $50 billion and $55 billion, 10% of shares have been set aside for partners (SoftBank will keep the other 90%). The list of […]
Read MoreSamsung PENUP has a relatively unusual combination of features, from social media-like tools to coloring books. But PENUP is also supposed to be a platform where aspiring artists can learn how to draw by watching others do it. Meet the Live Drawing feature in Samsung PENUP. It combines the social aspect of the app with […]
Read MoreWeb browsers like Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox may be forced to block websites at a software level if the French government has its way. In a blog post penned by Firefox’s parent company Mozilla, the firm warned on the potential chilling effects the so-called SREN Bill currently travelling through the French regulatory system could […]
Read MoreApple today announced that it is working with Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, NVIDIA, and Linux to promote and develop Pixar’s 3D Universal Scene Description technology. Open Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) was created by Pixar Animation Studios as a 3D scene depiction technology that promises significant interoperability among tools, data, and workflows. It is widely recognized for […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy A-series straddles the line between premium and mid-range – the A54 and A34, for example, get the class-leading software support of 4 OS updates and 5 years of security patches. This is as good as the flagship S-series gets and better than any mid-ranger (including Pixels) not named “iPhone SE”. With that in […]
Read MoreEarlier this year, Samsung revealed that it is working on an XR (Extended Reality) device in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. It is expected that Samsung’s upcoming XR device will feature a processor from Qualcomm and run a version of Android developed by Google for AR/VR/XR devices. Now, more information about Google’s AR ambitions has […]
Read MoreThe Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023 is now available to watch on YouTube. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber discussed the Vision Pro and other WWDC announcements with Apple’s software engineering chief Craig Federighi, hardware engineering chief John Ternus, AR/VR chief Mike Rockwell, and marketing chief Greg Joswiak. [embedded content] The staged interview took place on […]
Read MoreSamsung releases regular security updates, in addition to new Android and One UI updates, for a huge number of devices. Flagships and popular mid-range devices usually start with monthly security updates before being downgraded to a quarterly schedule. Not-so-popular Galaxy devices, meanwhile, often start out on a quarterly schedule and are then limited to two […]
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