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- Category: Computing
- Microsoft Releases First Windows 11 Beta Build
- Facebook warns of ‘headwinds’ to its ad business from regulators and Apple
- What Kind of Performance Should We Expect from Intel’s Alder Lake?
- Why Latency Impacts SSD Performance More Than Bandwidth Does
- How to Choose the Best Mechanical Keyboard in 2021
- USB-C vs. USB 3: What’s the Difference?
- How to Upgrade From a Smaller SSD to a Larger One
- AMD Reports Excellent Q2 2021 Results, Revenue Up 99 Percent
- Alienware Claims It Can’t Sell High-End Desktop PCs in 6 US States
- Intel Rebrands Its Future Process Nodes, Updates Roadmap
- Snap had its best quarter in four years
- Why You Can’t Future-Proof Your Gaming PC
- How to Boost Your Wi-Fi Speed by Choosing the Right Channel
- How USB Charging Works, or How to Avoid Blowing Up Your Phone
- Clubhouse is now out of beta and open to everyone
- 4K vs. UHD: What’s the Difference?
- GlobalFoundries CEO Dismisses Intel Buyout Rumors, IPO Moves Ahead
- How to Download and Install Windows 8.1 for Free (Updated)
- The Worst CPUs Ever Made
- Intel in Talks to Buy GlobalFoundries for $30 Billion: Report
- Alder Lake Leak: Intel Core i9-12900K Offers 5.3GHz Boost Clock, Lower PL2
- Streamlabs launches Crossclip, a new tool for sharing Twitch clips to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
- Russia to Build 8-Core RISC-V CPUs for Laptops, Government Systems
- The Worst Storage Mediums of All Time
- Microsoft Brings Windows to the Cloud With Windows 365
- TSMC Mulls On-Chip Water-Cooling for Future High-Performance Silicon
- How to Upscale Video to 4K, 8K, and Beyond
- Why Is Microsoft Launching Windows 11 Now?
- Asrock Unveils New List of Windows 11-Compatible Motherboards
- Android Antivirus Apps Are Useless — Here’s What to Do Instead
- Intel Discontinues Lakefield, Its First x86 Hybrid CPU
- TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig
- Raylo nabs $11.5M to get more mobile users to lease and reuse
- Microsoft’s Cloud PC Promises to Put Your PC in Your Pocket
- Google faces a major multi-state antitrust lawsuit over Google Play fees
- Bitcoin and Ethereum Both Show Signs of Cooling Off
- Newegg Won’t Sell You Certain Components Unless You Pay for Its PC-Building Service
- Server Supplies Tighten Thanks to Silicon Shortages, Tight CPU Supply
- Microsoft Wants Steam, Other Services in the Microsoft Store
- Microsoft ‘Clarifies’ Windows 11 Requirements, Pulls PC Health Check App
- Western Digital Removed Code That Would Have Prevented Widespread Hard Drive Hacks
- Chinese CPU Designer Loongson Wants to Raise $544 Million With IPO
- How You Can Still Make Money Mining Cryptocurrency
- Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Slips a Bit, but Ramp Still Planned for Q2 2022
- Reusing Your Current Intel Heatsink for Alder Lake May Be a Bad Idea
- Some TPM 2.0-Capable Systems Are Still Ineligible for Windows 11
- I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC
- Windows 11 May Not Run on Early Ryzen, Threadripper, Skylake-X, or Any Pre-2016 Intel PCs
- On TikTok, Black creators’ dance strike calls out creative exploitation
- TPM Trouble: Which PC Enthusiasts Are Allowed to Upgrade to Windows 11?
- Intel Will Offer SiFive RISC-V CPUs on 7nm, Plans Own Dev Platform
- Tesla Built a Supercomputer to Develop Camera-Only Self-Driving Tech
- Report: German State of Bavaria May Partner With Intel to Build Chip Factory
- Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces are coming to Twitter
- Facebook adds Shops to WhatsApp, among other e-commerce updates
- Adobe Begins a Much-Needed Overhaul of Premiere Pro’s UI
- GPU Prices Fall in China Following Government Mining Crackdown
- Windows 11 Boosts Hybrid x86 CPU Performance Over Windows 10
- Microsoft Would Like You to Stop Downloading Leaked Windows 11
- AMD Is Working on Its Own Hybrid x86 CPU: Patent Filing
- We’ve Tested Windows 11 Ahead of Next Week’s Launch
- IBM Ships Its First Quantum Computer Outside the United States
- Knee-Deep in the LED: Hackers Get Doom Running on Ikea Smart Bulb
- Analysts Predict Rapid DDR5 Adoption by 2023
- Chia Demand Is Driving HDD Sales, Keeping Seagate’s Factories Full
- Apple Accidentally Outed Upcoming M1X-Powered MacBook Pro
- IBM Sues GlobalFoundries for $2.5B Over Wrecked Process Node Transitions
- Microsoft Will Drop Support for Windows 10 by 2025
- Google Deploys AI to Build Better AI Hardware Accelerators
- Rumor: Intel May Buy RISC-V CPU Designer SiFive to Fend off ARM
- Microsoft plans to launch dedicated Xbox cloud gaming hardware
- Windows Upcoming Redesign May Finally Include a New Settings App
- GDDR6, Other GPU VRAM Pricing Expected to Jump Next Quarter
- Graphene Could Radically Improve Hard Drives, If We Could Only Make the Stuff
- AMD’s Steam CPU Share Skyrockets Over 12 Months
- Report: AMD May Not Launch Zen 4, RDNA3 Until Q4 2022
- Review: AMD Radeon Pro W6800 Workstation GPU
- CPU Manufacturers Are Pushing the Boundaries of CMOS and Starting to Pay For It
- Apple’s macOS 11.4 Update Fixed SSD Wear Reporting on M1 Macs
- Microsoft Will Unveil New Version of Windows on June 24
- Micron Ships First DRAM Manufactured on Its 1 Alpha Node
- Alienware Sued For False Advertising Over Upgradeable Laptop That Wasn’t
- Norton Adds Crypto-Mining to Norton 360 for Some Reason
- Twitter starts rolling out Birdwatch fact checks inside tweets
- AMD Demos 3D Stacked Ryzen 9 5900X: 192MB of L3 Cache at 2TB/s
- Twitter to begin pilot testing Fleet ads starting today
- RISC vs. CISC Is the Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86, ARM CPUs
- New ‘Morpheus’ CPU Design Defeats Hundreds of Hackers in DARPA Tests
- Microsoft CEO Teases ‘Next Generation’ Windows Update
- AMD Prioritizes High-End CPUs During Shortages, Just Like Intel
- Rumor: AMD Working on ‘Milan-X’ With 3D Die Stacking, Onboard HBM
- PSA: Mining Chia on an SSD Will Absolutely Wreck It in No Time Flat
- New ARMv9 Cortex X-2, A710 CPUs Deliver Major Efficiency Gains
- Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 Platform, Windows on ARM Dev Kits
- Report: Consumer SSD Adoption Accelerates
- Seagate Specs the Mach.2, the World’s Fastest Hard Drive
- Ampere Will Launch 128-Core ARM CPUs by the End of 2021
- Semiconductor Shortage Enters ‘Danger Zone’ as Lead Times Rise
- Apple May Build 40-Core ARM-Based Mac Pro, Plans 10-Core MacBook Pro
- Noctua’s Massive, Passive CPU Cooler Is Shipping Soon
- Intel’s 8-Core Tiger Lake H Pours on the Performance, Power Consumption
- Clever OS Scheduling Partly Explains Apple M1’s Responsiveness
- Google, Seagate AI Identifies Problem Hard Drives Before They Fail
- TSMC Mulls 3nm Foundry, Additional Investment at Future Arizona Fab
- AMD’s Market Share Surges on Steam and in Servers, Shrinks Overall
- Foundry Freedom: AMD Loosens Wafer Agreement With GlobalFoundries
- New Intel AI Turns GTA V Into a Photorealistic Game
- South Korea Commits $450 Billion to Dominate Semiconductor Market
- Tesla Stops Accepting Bitcoin Due to Potential Environmental Harm
- HTC Announces New Vive Pro 2: Upgraded Specs, Higher Prices
- AMD’s Ryzen 6000 APUs May Feature RDNA2 GPUs
- SSD Prices Headed Up Amid Cryptocurrency Demand, Supply Constraints
- YouTube announces a $100M fund to reward top YouTube Shorts creators over 2021-2022
- Why We Can’t Build Our Way Out of the Semiconductor Shortage
- State AGs tell Facebook to scrap Instagram for kids plans
- FTC Blasts Manufacturer Excuses in Right-to-Repair Report
- Microsoft’s Windows 10X Woes Show Why Apple Won’t Unify macOS, iOS
- Microsoft Reportedly Cancels Window 10X Launch
- IBM Creates World’s First 2nm CPU Using Nanosheets
- How to Download Windows 10 for Free
- Introducing TRACBench, a New AI-Powered Transcoding Benchmark
- Windows 10 Will Make Flash Removal Mandatory This Summer
- Intel, Researchers Debate Whether New Spectre-Type Vulnerabilities Exist
- If You’re Seeing High CPU Usage in Windows 10, Grab This Update
- For Trump and Facebook, judgment day is around the corner
- Intel Wants $9.7B for European Fab, Will Invest $3.5B in New Mexico Foundry
- ARM Founder Claims Nvidia Will Compete Unfairly, Fails to Explain Why
- Social networking app for women, Peanut, adds live audio rooms
- Taiwan Dismisses EU Effort to Build Leading Edge Semiconductor Capacity
- Sapphire Rapids Could Feature 72-80 Cores Based on New Die Shots
- Microsoft Matches Epic, Reduces Windows Store Gaming Cut to 12 Percent
- New Motherboard for Chia Mining Includes 32 SATA Ports
- Apple’s M2 SoC Enters Production, Could Ship in Higher-End Macs by July
- Windows 10 Now Active on 1.3 Billion Devices, Says Microsoft
- AMD Reports Monstrous Q1 2021, With Revenue Up 93 Percent Year on Year
- Acer to Enter the SSD, DRAM Business With New Storage Hardware
- Microsoft Deploys Silent Patch to Fix Gaming Performance After April Updates
- Intel’s Q1 Laptop Shipments Set World Record as PC Demand Boomed
- Cryptocurrency Manipulation Is Causing Short-Term HDD, SDD Shortages
- YouTube Designed Its Own Video Transcoding Hardware
- Apple Announces Array of Brightly Colored, M1-Powered iMacs
- Microsoft’s DirectStorage Will Support PCIe 3.0, All DX12-Capable Hardware
- Intel’s CEO Travels to Europe to Talk Foundries as Silicon Nationalism Rises
- Cerebras Unveils 2nd Gen Wafer Scale Engine: 850,000 Cores, 2.6 Trillion Transistors
- Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
- A New Windows 10 Update Is Wrecking Game Performance
- RAM Prices Could Jump 25 Percent in Q2 Across Desktop, Mobile, Server
- Facebook is expanding Spotify partnership with new ‘Boombox’ project
- New Cryptocurrency Could Kick off an SSD Shortage
- UK Forces Delay in Nvidia’s ARM Takeover, Citing National Security Concerns
- Alienware Really Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC
- AMD Launches New Ryzen 5000 8-Core APUs
- Windows Timeline Is About to Lose Cross-Device Sync
- Nvidia Confirms GPUs Will Remain Scarce Through End of 2021
- Intel in Talks to Start Producing Automotive Chips in Just 6-9 Months
- Nvidia Unveils ‘Grace’ Deep-Learning CPU for Supercomputing Applications
- AMD Roadmap Leak: Major Platform, Graphics Changes Coming in Zen 4
- PC Sales Soared in Q1 Amid Pandemic-Driven Demand
- Apple Mac, iPad Production May Be Slowed by Ongoing Chip Shortages
- Sapphire Rapids CPU Leak: Up to 56 Cores, 64GB of Onboard HBM2
- AMD Discloses a Spectre-Like Vulnerability in Zen 3 CPUs
- New Surface Laptop 4 Leak Suggests AMD, Intel Models Launch Next Week
- Intel Unleashes 3rd Generation Xeon CPUs Based on Ice Lake SP
- Microsoft Dunks Servers Into Boiling Fluid to Cool Them Off
- Sonos delivers a near-perfect portable speaker with the new Sonos Roam
- What Is Speculative Execution?
- Supreme Court Sides With Google, Rules Java API Copying Was Fair Use
- TSMC Commits $100 Billion to 3-Year Manufacturing Expansion
- Rocket Lake Was Finalized Before AMD’s Ryzen Kicked Into High Gear
- Intel May Change Its Process Node Numbering to Align With TSMC, Samsung
- Intel Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake Review: 14nm’s Final Burn
- ARM Unveils New ARMv9 ISA for Improved Security, Boosted Performance
- Intel’s Rocket Lake Roars to Life
- Samsung Unveils First High-K Metal Gate 512GB DDR5, at up to 7200Mbps
- Intel CEO: Reliance on Asia for Semiconductor Manufacturing Isn’t ‘Palatable’
- Intel Unleashed: New Fabs, Tick-Tock Returns, Biggest Overhaul in Decades
- Intel Pits x86 vs. M1 in Latest Anti-Apple Salvo
- Windows 10X, Microsoft’s Chromebook Competitor, Supposedly Coming Later This Year
- AMD Radeon 6700 XT vs. 5700 XT: Putting RDNA2 to the Test
- Intel’s Tiger Lake-H Leaks, With 8-Core, 6-Core Mobile Chips
- AMD May Soon Become TSMC’s Second-Largest Customer by Revenue
- AMD Will Not Limit Cryptocurrency Mining on RDNA2 GPUs
- Intel Reveals Rocket Lake Price, Positioning, and Overclocking Features
- Micron Ends 3D XPoint Development, Will Sell Its Optane Fab
- Qualcomm Completes Nuvia Acquisition, Aims for Laptops
- MIPS, China’s Loongson CPU Are Both Going All-in on RISC-V
- AMD’s Milan Brings Zen 3 to Epyc, With Mostly Positive Results
- AMD Has Fixed Its USB Connectivity Issues, Updates Arrive in Early April
- MSI Is Promoting Crypto Mining on Its Gaming Laptops
- A New Windows 10 Update Is Causing Blue Screen Crashes, Surprising Exactly Nobody
- Google Celebrates 10 Years of Chrome OS With New Features
- Silicon Is the New Toilet Paper as Chip Shortage Hits Industrial Manufacturing
- DARPA Chooses Intel, Microsoft to Quest for Cryptography’s Holy Grail
- AMD Will Support Smart Access Memory on Ryzen 3000 CPUs for Gaming
- EU Wants 20 Percent of Semiconductor Manufacturing by 2030
- Pentagon May Dump $10 Billion JEDI Program Over Microsoft, Amazon Fight
- Samsung’s Austin Foundry Is Still Offline, More Than 2 Weeks Later
- Cryptocurrency Miners Are Reportedly Ruining the Laptop Market, Too
- Intel Ordered to Pay $2.2 Billion in Patent Infringement Case
- Intel Discontinues Overclocking Warranties as Hobby Continues to Die
- Apple, TSMC On Track to Move 3nm Into Risk Production by the End of 2021
- Intel Rocket Lake Leaks Claim the Core i9-11900K Will Be a $600 CPU
- Framework Unveils Modular Laptop Coming This Summer 2021
- Chip Demand Outstrips Supply by 30 Percent, Shortages Could Last a Year
- Taiwanese Chipmakers Told to Cut Water Usage Due to Ongoing Shortages
- AMD Investigating USB Issues in 500-Series Motherboards
- Apple M1 Macs May Be Writing Far More Data Than They Should
- Are AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs Failing at Higher-Than-Usual Rates?
- Samsung, Infineon, and NXP Shut Down Fabs During Texas Power Crisis
- Microsoft Bleeds Market Share as Chromebooks Outsell Macs for the First Time
- Google Told Stadia Developers They Were Making ‘Great Progress,’ Then Fired Them
- Samsung Stuffs 1.2TFLOP AI Processor Into HBM2 to Boost Efficiency, Speed
- Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm Don’t Want Nvidia to Buy ARM
- PlayStation 5 Scalpers Think They’re Being Demonized Unfairly
- The Biden Administration Pledges to Address the Semiconductor Shortage
- Samsung Files Documents to Build New, $17 Billion Fab in the United States
- AMD’s Reliance on TSMC Isn’t Harming the Company’s Growth Prospects
- Intel’s 10nm Sapphire Rapids CPU Delidded, Photographed
- If You Want a Mobile 10nm CPU in Your Desktop, This Might Be Your Shot
- L2 vs. L3 cache: What’s the Difference?
- Report: Nvidia RTX 3000 GPUs Are Going to Get Even Harder to Find
- Intel Hits Back at Apple M1 with Questionable Benchmarks
- The Aurora 7 Is an Amazing 26-Pound Laptop With 7 Displays, Zero Purpose
- AMD Shipped Almost 1M Ryzen 5000 CPUs, Still Couldn’t Meet Demand
- IBM Promises 100x Faster Quantum Computing in 2021
- We Now Know How Much Scalpers Warped PS5, Xbox, Zen 3, Ampere Markets
- Intel Claws Back Market Share From AMD in Desktop, Mobile
- Facebook Messenger lands on Oculus Quest
- Apple: Mac Mini M1 Uses One-Third the Electricity of Intel CPU
- Tested: HP’s ZBook Fury 15 G7 Is a Goldilocks of a Portable Workstation
- Report: Intel’s Rocket Lake Runs as Hot as 98C, Draws Up to 250W
- AMD Warns Xbox, PS5, PC Component Shortages Could Persist Into Summer
- AMD Launches New Ryzen 5000 Mobile Processors
- Treadly’s next-gen compact treadmill is ideal for small spaces and features app-based social workouts
- Mobile RTX 3070 Reviews Show Performance Variations in Gaming
- What to Expect From Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake
- Intel’s Desktop TDPs No Longer Useful to Predict CPU Power Consumption
- Report: Intel Will Outsource Core i3 Production to TSMC’s 5nm Node
- Intel Rehires Nehalem’s Chief Architect to Build a New High-Performance CPU
- Intel Records Record-Breaking 2020, Will Build ‘Most’ 7nm in Its Own Fabs
- Apple reportedly planning thinner and lighter MacBook Air with MagSafe charging
- Samsung May Build $10B Foundry in Austin, Texas
- Intel, Nvidia Deny Blocking AMD From High-End Mobile Gaming
- Newegg Debuts Lottery System to Sell Scarce CPUs and GPUs
- Hardware Accelerators May Dramatically Improve Robot Response Times
- Arctic Is Planning to Launch First New Thermal Paste in Almost a Decade
- PC Display Ratios Other Than 16:9 Creep Toward the Mainstream
- Intel Kills Its Consumer-Facing Optane Products
- TSMC Will Spend an Extra $10B on Chip Production in 2021
- Twitter’s decentralized future
- AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile APUs, Previews 3rd Gen Epyc
- AMD Is Bringing Threadripper Pro, 8-Channel Motherboards to Market
- Apple said to be planning new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with MagSafe and Apple processors
- New Beagle Board Offers Dual-Core RISC-V, Targets AI Applications
- Intel May Postpone Manufacturing Decision, Emphasizes Beating Apple
- Asus Announces Two New Dual-Display Laptops
- Intel Tosses CEO Bob Swan, Appoints Pat Gelsinger to Top Job
- Report: Intel Will Build DG2 at TSMC on ‘Enhanced’ 7nm Node
- Qualcomm to Acquire Nuvia, Head Back Into Custom CPU Development
- The Semiconductor Shortage Has Come for the Auto Industry
- PC Sales Up 26 Percent in Q4, 13 Percent Year-on-Year
- Intel at CES 2021: 8-Core Tiger Lake, 35W 11th Gen Mobile CPUs, Rocket Lake
- Nvidia’s Purchase of ARM Is Being Investigated by UK Watchdog
- AMD’s Retail Market Share Surges Based on European Reseller Data
- Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Will Launch in March, Gigabyte Confirms
- Report: Packaging Issues, PS5 Demand May Be Hurting TSMC Production
- GPU, Motherboard Prices Will Jump Thanks to US-China Trade War
- Intel Announces End-of-Life for Its 300 Series Chipsets
- AMD Files Patent for Its Own GPU Chiplet Implementation
- Linus Tovalds Blames Intel for Killing ECC RAM in Consumer Systems
- There Are Still 100 Million PCs Running Windows 7
- Is the Turing Test Obsolete?
- Report: Microsoft Plans ‘Sweeping Visual Rejuvenation’ of Windows 10
- Activist Firm Urges Intel to ‘Explore Alternatives’ to Manufacturing Its Own Chips
- Core i7-11700K Beats Ryzen 7 5800X in Leaked Geekbench 5 Results
- Comparison of Apple M1, A14 Shows Differences in SoC Design
- Microsoft Is Building Its Own ARM CPUs for Servers, Surface PCs
- A Massive Chip Shortage Is Hitting the Entire Semiconductor Industry
- Security Researcher: ‘solarwinds123’ Password Left Firm Vulnerable in 2019
- Sony Pulls Cyberpunk 2077 and Offers Refunds; CDPR Misled Investors in October
- Intel’s Iris Xe Max Discrete GPU Is Slower Than the Integrated Version
- Intel Announces New Optane Drives, 3D NAND SSDs
- Apple’s M1 Crushes Windows on ARM in 64-bit Benchmarks
- Google Will Officially Support Installing Chrome OS on Your Old Computer
- Pinterest adds favorites, notes and a new toolbar after increased use of boards during pandemic
- AMD, ARM Both Increased Their Server Market Share in Q3 2020
- Twitter acquires screen-sharing social app Squad
- Seagate Announces Its Own RISC-V Cores for Future Storage Controllers
- Microsoft Adds 64-bit x86 Emulation to Windows on ARM
- Snap launches a native Twitter integration
- COVID-19 made our tech addiction worse: It’s time to do something about it
- Report: Apple Ignored its Partners’ Repeated Violations of Chinese Labor Laws
- Google CEO Promises to Investigate Exit of Top AI Researcher
- Apple reportedly testing Intel-beating high core count Apple Silicon chips for high-end Macs
- Every CPU, GPU, and Console Debut This Fall Was Effectively a Paper Launch
- This Is a Bad Time to Build a High-End Gaming PC
- Leaked Benchmarks Paint Conflicting Picture of Intel’s Rocket Lake
- The mikme pocket is a fantastic mobile audio solution for podcasters, reporters and creators
- Current x86 vs. Apple M1 Performance Measurements Are Flawed
- Apple Is Working on CPUs With 32 High-Performance Cores: Report
- Looking Glass’s next product is a holographic digital photo frame
- The Best Web Hosting Services for Creative Pros
- Intel Tops Semiconductor Revenue, as TSMC, Nvidia, and AMD Vault Upwards
- Early Adopters of Apple M1 Macs Should Be Cautious About Compatibility
- New Mac Teardowns Show Apple’s M1 Engineering Under the Hood
- Intel Is Spreading FUD About Supposedly Huge Ryzen 4000 Performance Drops on Battery
- Apple: ‘It’s Up to Microsoft’ to Get Windows Running on New ARM Macs
- Twitter rolls out Stories, aka ‘Fleets,’ to all users; will also test a Clubhouse rival
- Instagram expands new ‘Guides’ feature to all users, upgrades Search
- Asus Announces Chromebox 4 With Support for 10th Gen Core Processors
- Facebook sues operator of Instagram clone sites
- Why Apple’s M1 Chip Could be a Real Threat to Intel and AMD
- Microsoft: Pluton Chip Will Bring Xbox-Like Security to Windows PCs
- Apple’s M1 Continues to Impress in Cinebench R23, Affinity Photo
- The New Apple M1 Reviews Put AMD, Intel Officially on Notice
- How Apple Is Collecting Your Data in macOS Big Sur
- Nvidia Unveils Ampere A100 80GB GPU With 2TB/s of Memory Bandwidth
- AMD Has No Near-Term Plan For Hybrid Big, Little Cores on Same Silicon
- Apple’s New M1 SoC Looks Great, Is Not Faster Than 98 Percent of PC Laptops
- Google Kills Free Photo Storage, Changes What Counts Toward Storage Caps
- Benchmark Results Show Apple M1 Beating Every Intel-Powered MacBook Pro
- What Does It Mean for the PC Market If Apple Makes the Fastest CPU?
- The Best Smart Home Security Systems
- Josh.ai launches a ‘nearly invisible’ Amazon Echo competitor that’s the size of a coin
- EKWB Launches Peltier Cooler Powered by Intel Cryo Cooling Technology
- In Massive Shift, Apple Announces New Macs With ARM-Based M1 Chip
- How to Build a Face Mask Detector With a Jetson Nano 2GB and AlwaysAI
- The Xbox Series S Is Handicapped by Its Storage Capacity
- Aveine’s Smart Wine Aerator is a huge upgrade for wine lovers — and could create some new ones, too
- ARMing for War: New Cortex-A78C Will Challenge x86 in the Laptop Market
- Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X Review: AMD Unleashes Zen 3 Against Intel’s Last Performance Bastions
- Intel Launches New Xe Max Mobile GPUs for Entry-Level Content Creators
- AMD Is Hitting Market Share It Hasn’t Held in a Decade
- The Freewrite Traveler is an outstanding, but expensive, dedicated portable writing laptop
- Category: Gadgets
- Swarm debuts $499 Evaluation Kit for consumers and tinkerers
- FTC puts hardware makers on warning for potential ‘unlawful repair restrictions’
- Kobo Elipsa review: A sized-up e-reading companion with clever note taking
- Nothing founder Carl Pei on Ear (1) and building a hardware startup from scratch
- Facebook and Matterport collaborate on realistic virtual training environments for AI
- Apple just released the first iOS 15 beta to everyone
- Watch Apple’s WWDC keynote live right here
- Nixie’s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money
- Kai-Fu Lee’s Sinovation bets on Linux tablet maker Jingling in $10M round
- Nintendo teases 2022 release for Breath of the Wild sequel and releases Zelda Game & Watch to tide us over
- Apple’s latest accessibility features are for those with limb and vocal differences
- Voice AIs are raising competition concerns, EU finds
- Apple unveils iOS 15 with new features for FaceTime and better notifications
- Tiny handheld Playdate preorders open next month for $179, with 24 charming monochrome games to start
- Apple announces iCloud+ with privacy-focused features
- Apple releases torrent of updates, and Wall Street yawns
- Kabuto releases a larger version of its smart suitcase
- Huawei officially launches Android alternative HarmonyOS for smartphones
- US removes Xiaomi’s designation as a Communist Chinese military company
- Deep Science: Robots, meet world
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- Liquid Instruments raises $13.7M to bring its education-focused 8-in-1 engineering gadget to market
- Apple Watch gets a motion-controlled cursor with ‘Assistive Touch’
- Watch Google I/O keynote live right here
- Google is making a 3D, life-size video calling booth
- Alba Orbital’s mission to image the Earth every 15 minutes brings in $3.4M seed round
- Xbox teams up with Tencent’s Honor of Kings maker TiMi Studios
- Exeger takes $38M to ramp up production of its flexible solar cells for self-powered gadgets
- CMU researchers show potential of privacy-preserving activity tracking using radar
- The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform
- Someone already turned Apple’s AirTag into a slim, wallet-friendly card
- Oculii looks to supercharge radar for autonomy with $55M round B
- Lightmatter’s photonic AI ambitions light up an $80M B round
- Peloton’s leaky API let anyone grab riders’ private account data
- Sony announces investment and partnership with Discord to bring the chat app to PlayStation
- Cognixion’s brain-monitoring headset enables fluid communication for people with severe disabilities
- Facebook is buying the developer behind VR shooter ‘Onward’
- Apple sales bounce back in China as Huawei loses smartphone crown
- Apple brings Touch ID to the Magic Keyboard
- UK’s IoT ‘security by design’ law will cover smartphones too
- Watch Apple’s Spring Loaded event light right here
- Deep Science: Introspective, detail-oriented and disaster-chasing AIs
- Popl tops $2.7M in sales for its technology that replaces business cards
- Grover raises $71M to grow its consumer electronics subscription business
- Willo launches its tooth-brushing robot for kids
- Google denies Pixel 5a 5G cancelation, confirming it’s coming this year
- Chinese hardware makers turn to crowdfunding as they look to go global
- Cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain tech startup imToken raises $30 million Series B
- Australian lidar maker Baraja collects $31M B round to illuminate the future of autonomy
- H3X rethinks the electric motor to power the next phase of mobility
- Quest for prosthetic retinas progresses toward human trials, with a VR assist
- Apple to invest $1.2 billion in silicon design center in Germany
- SkyMul’s drones secure rebar on the fly to speed up construction
- The keyboards of TechCrunch’s editorial staff
- Tonal triples its physical stores with Nordstrom partnership
- Xiaomi further localizes India supply chain via BYD, DBG partnerships
- Stoke Space aims to take reusable rockets to new heights with $9M seed
- Orca wants to give boating navigation its ‘iPhone moment’
- Rode’s Wireless Go II delivers key upgrades to the best mobile mic for creators
- Hasselblad X1D II 50C: out of the studio and into the streets
- Tovala, the smart oven and meal kit service, heats up with $30M more in funding
- Metalenz reimagines the camera in 2D and raises $10M to ship it
- Canon takes tentative step towards eliminating photographers with robotic PICK camera
- Xiaomi teases over-the-air wireless charging, but it’s not coming to its devices this year
- Huawei’s struggles hurt overall smartphone shipments in China, but rivals like Apple found new opportunities
- Nomad’s charcoal grill suitcase is modern ingenuity combined with classic cooking
- The Tula Mic is a powerful portable recorder that doubles as a great USB-C microphone
- Sony tempts professionals with the top-shelf, top-tier Alpha 1
- Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip
- Elon Musk said it was ‘Not a Flamethrower’
- Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now are coming to LG TVs
- Weber acquires smart cooking startup June
- Winnoz’s vacuum-assisted Haiim makes finger prick blood draws more efficient
- Origami Labs’ OFLO is a smart walkie talkie for frontline workers
- Startups look beyond lidar for autonomous vehicle perception
- Samsung unveils its newest Tile competitor, the Galaxy SmartTag
- Thimble teaches kids STEM skills with robotics kits combined with live Zoom classes
- This new module keeps Philips Hue bulbs connected even when the wall switch gets flipped
- Dell’s 40-inch curved monitor is perfect for a home office command center
- GoPro makes stopping and starting simpler with motion, power, QR triggers
- Nobi’s smart lamp alerts caregivers when a fall is detected
- Yo-Kai Express introduces Takumi, a smart home cooking appliance
- Noopl’s iPhone plug-in is designed to improve hearing in noisy environments
- PopSockets announces its MagSafe-compatible iPhone 12 accessories
- Meet the 7 winners of the Taiwan Excellence awards, presented by ShowStoppers and TAITRA
- Dell monitors embrace video calls with pop-up webcams and Teams buttons built in
- Any San Francisco teacher who needs a second monitor can get one, via Two Screens for Teachers
- Video: TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020
- Amazon launches a Live Translation feature for Echo devices
- Europe urged to block Google-Fitbit ahead of major digital policy overhaul
- Here comes the Faraday fabric
- SpaceX snags $885M from FCC to serve rural areas with Starlink
- Apple announces $549 over-ear headphones, the AirPods Max
- This tiny drone uses an actual moth antenna to sniff out target chemicals
- Review: Wireless headsets from Logitech, Audio-Technica, SteelSeries, HyperX and more
- Gift Guide: 9+ caffeinated gift ideas for your favorite coffee lovers
- ANYbotics, Swiss company behind quadrupedal ANYmal robot, announces $22M A round
- Gift Guide: Games on every platform to get you through the long, COVID winter
- Amazon’s Fire TV Cube adds support for two-way video calls via a connected TV
- Raspberry Pi Foundation releases case fan to prevent overheating
- A tween tries Apple’s new ‘Family Setup’ system for Apple Watch
- Foxconn could move some iPad and MacBook production to Vietnam
- Gift Guide: Which next-gen console is the one your kid wants?
- Gift Guide: 7 smart home gift ideas that go beyond the usual Google/Amazon smart speakers
- Gift Guide: Smart exercise gear to hunker down and get fit with
- Gift Guide: Smart cooking gadgets for the smart cookies on your list
- Gift Guide: 7 great gifts for anyone working from home
- Gift Guide: 22 STEM toy gift ideas for every little builder
- How China’s Realme sold 50 million phones in just over 2 years
- Interlocking AIs let robots pick and place faster than ever
- Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors
- Charge, please: Apple will pay $113M to settle 34-state ‘batterygate’ lawsuit
- This $99 gadget helps you make music, no skill required
- Lego expands its Super Mario world with customization tools, new Mario power-ups and more characters
- China’s smartphone giant Oppo ratchets up AR push
- Despite global headwinds, Chinese hardware startups remain to take on the world
- Pioneers of in-space refueling and manufacturing join TC Sessions: Space 2020
- Watch Apple unveil the first Arm-based Mac live right here
- Nintendo’s Mario Game & Watch is a choice gaming stocking stuffer
- Demon’s Souls: The first truly next-gen game is a lopsided but impressive showcase
- Apple will release macOS Big Sur on November 12
- Gifting a gadget? Check its creep factor on Mozilla’s ‘Privacy not included’ list of shame
- Apple updates Mac Mini with Apple-designed M1 chip
- Amazon’s new ‘Care Hub’ lets Alexa owners keep tabs on aging family members
- Mirror founder Brynn Putnam on life with Lululemon — and whether or not she sold too soon
- The Boox Poke 3 is my new favorite e-reader
- Apple MagSafe Duo Charger Review: Useful, but expensive and underwhelming
- Sony prepares to enter the drone game with Airpeak
- Review: Sony’s PlayStation 5 is here, but next-generation gaming is still on its way
- Apple releases iOS 14.2 with new emojis and an accessibility feature that locates people with lidar
- Revolution Cooking’s R180 Smart Toaster delivers smarter, faster toasting — for a price
- Hands-on with Mophie’s new modular smartphone battery case
- DJI’s pint-sized Mavic Mini gets camera and connection upgrades
- Raspberry Pi Foundation announces the cute little Raspberry Pi 400
- Rocket Lab’s next launch will deliver 30 satellites to orbit — and a 3D-printed gnome from Gabe Newell
- Hands-on: Sony’s DualSense PS5 controller could be a game changer
- Category: Gaming
- AMD’s New Radeon RX 6600 XT Puts a Premium on 1080p Performance
- Read the Fine Print: Sony Details PlayStation 5 SSD Upgrade Specs
- Buyer Beware: Crypto Mining GPUs Lose 10 Percent Performance Every Year
- Valve Shuffles Steam Deck Availability, Nudges Base Model Backward
- New PC Power Rules Only Apply to Idle, as Alienware Squawks Alone
- GPU Prices Are Stuck Well Above MSRP
- Valve Will Replace Big Picture Mode With New Steam Deck UI
- Report: Blizzard Knew Warcraft 3 Was a Mess and Launched It Anyway
- EA Announces Dead Space Remake
- Laptop Integrated Graphics Are Still Marginal for Modern Gaming
- The Amazon MMO New Worlds Beta Is Frying RTX 3090 GPUs
- Microsoft Won’t Restrict DirectStorage Support to Windows 11
- Nvidia’s ARM-Powered Linux RTX Demo Is a Warning Shot to x86, Microsoft
- A Piece of Paper Might Fix JoyCon Drift
- PC Gaming Hardware Sales May Be Poised to Explode
- Steam Deck Faces Compatibility Problems With Major Titles
- Valve Launches Steam Deck, a New PC Gaming Handheld Shipping in December
- Patching DRM Out of Resident Evil Village Boosts Performance
- Nintendo Announces Updated Switch With OLED Screen
- Microsoft Is Developing an AI Upscaling Engine to Improve Xbox Visuals
- China’s Tencent Adds Face Scanning to Monitor Children Gaming
- GPU Prices May Finally Be Headed in the Right Direction
- Samsung’s New Radeon-Powered Exynos Looks Like It Packs a Punch
- EA Signs Deal to Put TV-Style Commercials in Video Games
- Intel’s DG2 Gaming GPU Is Now Sampling to Developers
- AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution Boosts Performance Across All GPUs, but Quality Can Take a Hit
- Samsung Announces New, Less Curvy Odyssey Gaming Monitors
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosts first test of Live Audio Rooms in US
- Asrock Reports Weakening GPU Demand, Lower Prices as Cryptocurrency Drops Off
- Cyberpunk 2077 Is Coming Back to PlayStation Store, Even Though It’s Still Busted
- Cryptocurrency Miners Bought 700,000 GPUs in Q1 2021
- Razer Updates Raptor 27 Gaming Monitor: Higher Refresh Rate, Price
- Nvidia Will Drop Support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Kepler GPUs Soon
- Diablo II: Resurrected Will Launch on Sept. 23, Pre-Orders Now Open
- Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti: Mixed Reviews, Low VRAM a Long-Term Problem
- GPU Shipments Soared in Q1 2021, to Nvidia’s Benefit
- Nvidia: Phones Aren’t Ready for Ray Tracing
- AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution Includes Broad Cross-Family GPU Support
- AMD Unveils Radeon RX 6000M GPUs for Next-Gen Gaming Notebooks
- New Joint AMD-Samsung Radeon GPU: Ray Tracing, Variable Rate Shading
- Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Replaces 3090 for Many Gamers, 3070 Ti Coming Soon
- Happy 5th Birthday to Pascal and the Ongoing Disaster of GPU Availability
- Valve Could Launch a Portable Gaming PC by Year’s End
- PlayStation 5 Hits Game Data Compression Ratios the Xbox Doesn’t Touch
- Nvidia’s New DLSS Support in VR Could Lower Barriers to Adoption
- 20 Percent of Switch Sales Are to Customers Who Already Own One
- Nvidia Will Limit Crypto Mining on Newly Manufactured RTX GPUs
- Nvidia Unveils RTX 3050, 3050 Ti for Gaming Laptops as Little as $799
- Apple Seeks Sensitive Financial Data on Xbox Sales in Epic Trial
- Sony Expects PS5 Shortages to Continue Well Into 2022
- Nintendo Sold Nearly 30 Million Switches Last Year, but Supply Constraints Persist
- Apple Booted Microsoft’s Shadow From App Store in xCloud Row
- Sony Rumored to Tap 6nm AMD Chip for New 2022 PlayStation 5
- Microsoft Says It Has Never Made a Profit on Xbox Hardware Sales
- Epic Thinks It Could Take Half the PC Gaming Market From Steam by 2024
- Sony Loathed the Idea of Crossplay on the PS4, Leaked Docs Show
- Sony Ships 7.8 Million PlayStation 5s in First 4 Months, Just Not to You
- Apple Likely Planning to Use AMD RDNA2 GPUs in Future Macs
- Sony Patents AI That Plays Games for You
- Even Renting a Scalping Bot Doesn’t Guarantee You’ll Land a GPU
- Memory Vendor Hints at DDR5-10000 DIMMs
- There’s a Ticking Time Bomb Inside Older PlayStation Consoles
- Nvidia May Reissue RTX 3060, Other Ampere GPUs to Fight Crypto Mining
- 300 Nvidia GPUs Seized After High Speed Boat Chase
- Alienware Launches Its First AMD Laptop Since 2007
- Steam Data Shows Ampere GPUs Barely Trickling Into Market
- Cryptocurrency Mining Could Destroy PC Gaming as We’ve Known It
- Boutique PC Builder Launches ‘No GPU’ Boxes to Cope With Video Card Shortage
- AMD Radeon 6700 XT Review: A Great GPU at a Tough Price
- This Copy of Super Mario Bros. Is About to Sell for a Record-Setting Sum
- Here Are Your Options for an Affordable GPU in 2021
- MSI Expects GPU Shipments to Continue Dropping, May Raise Prices in 2021
- Qualcomm May Release a Nintendo Switch Clone Running Android
- Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti Possibly Pushed Back Until May, Ampere in Short Supply
- GPUs Prices Are the Worst We’ve Ever Tracked
- Report: Nintendo ‘Switch Pro’ Will Feature DLSS, New Nvidia Silicon
- GTX 1050 Ti Rides Again: 2016 Budget GPU Returns With Zero Improvements, Elevated Price
- Microsoft Now Testing Dual-Screen Gaming in Xbox Game Pass on Surface Duo
- Nvidia Doubles GeForce Now Subscription Price to $10 Per Month
- Microsoft Will Bring Its Excellent Xbox Auto HDR Feature to PC Gaming
- AMD Launches the Radeon RX 6700 XT
- Sony’s PlayStation 5 Is Now the Fastest-Selling Platform in US History
- Nvidia Accidentally Releases RTX 3060 Driver With No Mining Limiter
- Nvidia Reportedly Ending Production of Nintendo Switch Processor
- Microsoft Just Added 20 Bethesda Games to Xbox Game Pass
- AMD’s Discrete GPU Sales Bottomed Out in Q4
- Star Citizen Devs Angry, Forced to Work Through Life-Threatening Texas Storm
- Aya Neo AMD Ryzen-Powered Gaming Handheld Is Up for Pre-Order
- Microsoft Admits Some Bethesda Games Will Be Xbox Exclusives
- Could Nvidia’s DLSS Help the Nintendo Switch Hit 4K Resolutions?
- Nvidia Wins Billion-Dollar Crypto Mining Lawsuit
- Blizzard’s Diablo II Remaster Will Support 20-Year-Old Save Files
- New Nintendo Switch With Larger Samsung OLED Rumored for This Year
- Nvidia’s RTX 3000 Prices Have Gone From Bad to Brutal
- AMD Announces New Radeon 6700 XT, Theoretically Priced at $479
- Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Picks up a 10 Percent FPS Boost
- GPUs Used For Crypto Mining Might Lose Game Performance, Long-Term
- Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Delayed Because CDPR Employees Can’t Use Their PCs
- EA Will ‘Allow’ BioWare to Pull Dragon Age 4’s Unnecessary Multiplayer
- Sony Will Unlock the PS5’s Expandable Storage by This Summer
- Report: Stadia Missed Active User Targets by Hundreds of Thousands
- BioWare Axes Anthem Overhaul, Will Keep Game Running in Current State
- Nvidia Hints at More GPU Mining Restrictions
- Sony Will Ship New VR Hardware for PS5, but Not in 2021
- Google Struggled to Patch New Stadia Game After Closing Development Studio
- Diablo II: Resurrected Arrives on PCs and Consoles This Year
- Pretty Sure We’re Prepared This Time: Blizzard Confirms Burning Crusade Classic
- The PlayStation 5 DualSense’s Joystick Drift Is Only Going to Get Worse
- Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Crypto Speeds, Tells Miners to Buy New CMP Cards
- Nvidia Says It Won’t Nerf Crypto Mining on Existing GPUs
- Microsoft’s FPS Boost Will Massively Speed Up Older Xbox Titles
- Source Code Stolen from Cyberpunk 2077 Developer Reportedly Sold
- PlayStation 5 Controllers are Suffering from Drift
- Epic’s New MetaHuman Creator Generates Digital Characters that Avoid the Uncanny Valley
- Cyberpunk Developer Hit with Ransomware Attack
- Terraria Dev Cancels Stadia Version After Getting Locked Out of Google Account
- Despite Reports, Sony Probably Isn’t Losing Money on Every PlayStation 5
- Google Shuts Down Stadia Games Studio, Plans to License Tech
- Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Remaster Debuts on May 14
- Nintendo Switch Sales Blow Past 3DS, Animal Crossing Moves 31M Copies
- Intel Launches Iris Xe, Its First Desktop GPUs in More Than 20 Years
- Rumors Suggest Nvidia Might Re-Launch RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super
- CDPR Apologizes for Cyberpunk 2077 Launch, but Explains Very Little
- Lenovo’s New Legion Gaming Laptops Sport Latest AMD, Nvidia Hardware
- Nvidia Announces RTX 3060 Graphics Card, Launching in February for $329
- Microsoft Denies Cutting Secret Deal With Duracell Over Xbox Controllers
- One Developer Is Fixing SNES Game Lag After 30 Years
- Cyberpunk 2077’s PC Player Base Has Shrunk 79 Percent Since Launch
- 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities
- Microsoft Has Asked AMD to Boost Xbox Series S, Series X Production
- Goodbye Flash, goodbye FarmVille
- Star Citizen Developer Unveils New Roadmap, Cancels Squadron 42 Beta
- Report: Nvidia’s Next-Gen GPU Could Pack 18,432 CUDA Cores, 64TFLOPS
- Stadia Could Have a Huge 2021 If Google Can Just Focus for Once
- How Niantic evolved Pokémon GO for the year no one could go anywhere
- Unreleased Nintendo Game Boy Keyboard Brought Back to Life
- DOSBox Pure Launches to Make Classic Games Easier to Play
- Gaming Laptop With Ryzen 7 5800H, Mobile RTX 3080 Leaked
- Cyberpunk 2077 Save Files Will Break Forever If You Collect Too Many Items
- Someone Hacked Ray Tracing Into the SNES
- Microsoft Picks Up Ark II as an Xbox Exclusive
- Daily Crunch: Discord raises $100M
- Stadia Is Now Playable on iPhone Thanks to Google’s New Web App
- Sony Is Refusing Refunds for Cyberpunk 2077
- Quake II RTX Now Runs on AMD GPUs Thanks to Vulkan Ray Tracing
- CD Projekt Red Denies Any Plan to Offer Refunds for Cyberpunk 2077
- Cyberpunked 2077: CDPR ‘Apologizes’ for Releasing Broken Game, Offers Refunds
- Facebook hit with antitrust probe for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
- Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks Show Even the Fastest GPU in the World Can’t Play at 4K
- Cyberpunk 2077 Has a 43GB Pre-Launch Patch, With More to Come
- Cyberpunk 2077 Is a Wreck on the Original Xbox One, PS4
- $340K Worth of MSI RTX 3090 GPUs Stolen in Factory Heist
- Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to iOS, PC in 2021
- Biggest Navi: AMD Launches the Radeon RX 6900 XT, at $999
- Minecraft With Ray Tracing Now Available for All Windows 10 Players
- Razer’s Tomahawk Ultra-Compact Desktop PC Goes on Sale This Month
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Launches Dec. 2, but Good Luck Getting One
- PS5 Outperforms Xbox Series X in Tests as Sony Promises More Consoles
- Nvidia: RTX 3000 GPUs Will Remain Hard to Find Into 2021
- AMD Will Bring Smart Access Memory Support to Intel, Nvidia Hardware
- PS5, Xbox Series X Thin on the Ground, Along with Everything Else
- Nvidia, Google to Support Cloud Gaming on iPhone Via Web Apps
- AMD Radeon 6800 XT Review: Big Navi Battles the RTX 3080
- Microsoft: Bethesda Games ‘Either First or Better’ on Xbox, Not Exclusive
- Nvidia Will Mimic AMD’s Smart Access Memory on Ampere: Report
- Which Is Faster, the Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5? Early Data Says It’s Complicated
- Sony May Let Users Move Games Off PS5, Xbox Series X SSD Is User-Replaceable
- Sony’s PlayStation 5 Debuts to Strong Reviews
- Xbox Series X Review: The Living Room Gaming PC I’ve (Mostly) Always Wanted
- The PlayStation 5 Will Only Be Available Online for Launch Day
- AMD May Allow Custom RX 6900 XT Cards, Launch Stock May Be Limited
- Category: Mobile
- Spotify’s clone of Clubhouse tops 140K installs on iOS, 100K on Android
- 25 Best Android Tips to Make Your Phone More Useful
- New Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 Leak Reveals Screen Sizes, Water Resistance
- Surface Duo 2 Leaks With Huge Triple Camera
- VOCHI raises additional $2.4 million for its computer vision-powered video editing app
- Why You Should (Or Shouldn’t) Root Your Android Device
- Xiaomi Overtakes Apple to Become World’s Number Two Smartphone Maker
- OnePlus Caught Manipulating Smartphone Performance Benchmarks
- Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under different personas and more
- Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 Classic Leaks in Full
- Instagram is developing its own version of Twitter’s Super Follow with ‘Exclusive Stories’
- With AT&T Deal, Google Has Almost Won the RCS Messaging Wars
- Samsung Unveils One UI Design and Features for Wear OS
- Instagram’s TikTok rival, Reels, rolls out ads worldwide
- Cook: Sideloading iPhone Apps Is ‘Not In the Best Interests of the User’
- Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom
- OnePlus Is Merging With Oppo
- Uberall raises $115M, acquires MomentFeed to scale up its location marketing services
- Tinder tested group video chat ahead of Match’s move into social discovery with Hyperconnect deal
- Apple Will Let iPhone Owners Skip iOS 15 Update
- Apple Might Bring Wireless Charging to the Next iPad Pro
- Not on Nextdoor? You can still grab your neighbors’ stuff on Free Finds
- Facebook and Instagram will now allow users to hide ‘Like’ counts on posts
- Instagram launches a new section for shopping product drops
- iFixit: Samsung ‘Ruined’ Its Smartphone Upcycling Program
- Snap announces Story Studio, a new standalone app to edit stories
- You Can See the Pixel 6 From Every Angle in New Leak
- Android 12 Beta Now Available With Major Visual Redesign
- Samsung Shows Off New Foldable OLED Tech
- Evidence Mounts Samsung Will Return to Google Wear OS, Ditch Tizen
- New Leak Points to Huge Google Pixel 6 Redesign
- The Microsoft Surface Duo Fire Sale Is Here, and It’s Still Not Worth Buying
- TikTok launches a Green Screen Duet feature, tests dedicated ‘Topics’ feeds
- Apple AirTags, Now Jailbroken, Could Become Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare
- Samsung’s Exynos 2200 Could Ship With AMD Graphics Later in 2021
- Snap to launch a new Creator Marketplace this month, initially focused on Lens Creators
- BigBrain aims to bring live mobile trivia back to glory
- Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets
- Instagram adds a captions option for Stories and soon, Reels
- Dating app S’More bets on celebrity content with S’More TV
- Signia Active Hearing Aids Review: For People Who Love Earbuds
- Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app
- Engineered earworms on TikTok aren’t that far off from disinfo campaigns
- Signal Founder Hacks Cellebrite’s Phone Hacking Tools
- Google Releases Third and Final Android 12 Developer Preview
- Apple’s M1 iPad Pros Make It Even Harder to Justify an Android Tablet
- Daily Crunch: Facebook announces new audio products
- Facebook to test new business discovery features in U.S. News Feed
- DJI Air 2S Review: Big Improvements for a Mid-Cycle Upgrade
- Google Says Upcoming Pixel 5a Will Only Launch in US and Japan
- Samsung Reveals 5 New A-Series Budget Phones Coming to the US
- LG Mobile’s Demise Was Inevitable
- The Pixel 6 Might Come With Google’s Custom ARM Processor
- Report: LG Will Kill its Smartphone Business on April 5th
- Man Blames Apple After iPhone Scam App Steals $1 Million in Bitcoin
- New 3D-Printed Antenna Can Harvest Power From 5G Signals
- AT&T Believes 10Mbps Upload Ought to Be Enough for Everybody
- Nokia Is Developing a 4G Network on the Moon With 5 KM Range
- Report: LG Can’t Find Anyone to Buy Its Smartphone Business
- Daily Crunch: YouTube’s TikTok rival launches in the US
- Samsung Says It Might Not Release a Galaxy Note This Year
- Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
- Google Slashes Play Store Fees for Developers Making Less Than $1 Million
- Songclip raises $11M to bring more licensed music to social media
- T-Mobile Will Start Selling Your Personal Data on April 26 Unless You Opt Out
- Even Apple Can’t Sell Tiny Phones, Cuts iPhone 12 Mini Production 70 Percent
- Verizon’s New 4G Network Is Faster Than Its 5G
- Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ for live broadcasts with up to four creators
- TikTok launches ‘TikTok Q&A,’ a new feature for creators to engage with viewers’ questions
- Field-Tested: DJI’s New FPV Drone Brings VR to the Real World
- Recent iPhone Security Hole Becomes Universal Jailbreak
- Facebook launches BARS, a TikTok-like app for creating and sharing raps
- Daily Crunch: Facebook launches rap app
- Samsung Extends Foldable Return Period to 100 Days
- Apple Overtakes Samsung in Global Phone Sales for First Time in Years
- Samsung Promises to Update Its Android Phones Even Longer Than Google
- Google Releases First Android 12 Developer Preview
- A File Sharing App With 1 Billion Downloads Has a Major Security Flaw
- New Xiaomi Phone Has a Secondary Display in the Camera Hump
- OnePlus Founder’s New Startup Bought the Husk of Andy Rubin’s Essential
- Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips
- Daily Crunch: TikTok becomes a political battleground in Russia
- Google Will Use Pixel’s Camera to Measure Heart Rate and Breathing
- It Turns Out Huawei’s HarmonyOS Is Still Just Android
- Samsung Believes the Automotive Chip Shortage Could Impact Phones
- Xiaomi Says Its New Product Can Charge a Phone From Across the Room
- Apple Urges Immediate iPhone Update to Block Active Online Hacks
- Apple Warns Customers Against Using the iPhone 12 Near a Pacemaker
- Sony’s New Xperia Pro Smartphone Is a $2,500 Camera Accessory
- Qualcomm Revamps Snapdragon 865 Again, Calls It Snapdragon 870
- In Leaked Memo, LG Proposes Withdrawing From Smartphone Market
- Daily Crunch: WhatsApp responds to privacy backlash
- Samsung Reveals Galaxy S21 Family With Snapdragon 888, $200 Price Cut
- TikTok bans videos of Trump inciting mob, blocks #stormthecapital and other hashtags
- Samsung Will Reveal S21 Family at Unpacked on January 14
- Honk introduces a real-time, ephemeral messaging app aimed at Gen Z
- Daily Crunch: Telegram prepares to monetize
- Unfold launches lightweight, link-centric profiles called Bio Sites
- Microsoft Promises Big Improvements for the Surface Duo in 2021
- Apple Is Building Its Own 5G Modem
- Leak Shows Off Samsung’s Redesigned Galaxy S21 Family
- Samsung Starts Rolling Out Galaxy S20 Android 11 Update on Verizon
- Google Uncovers iPhone Exploit That Can Steal Data Over Wi-Fi
- Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 888 Will Power Flagship Android Phones in 2021
- Android 12 Could Include Major App Compatibility Improvements
- Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators
- Report: Samsung May Kill Galaxy Note Series, Add Stylus to Galaxy Z Fold3
- Daily Crunch: Snapchat adds Spotlight
- Yubo could be the next big social app as it raises $47.5 million
- The crowd goes wild for Yiming
- Oppo Shows Off Concept Phone With Stretchable OLED Screen
- Apple Cuts Fees in Half for App Store Developers Earning Less Than $1 Million
- Huawei Sells Honor Brand Amid Tightening Trade Restrictions
- Review: DJI’s New Mini 2 May Be the Perfect Travel Drone
- Third-Party Repair Shops May Be Blocked From Servicing iPhone 12 Camera
- Google Pixel Slate Owners Report Failing Flash Storage
- Category: Science
- Scientists Trace Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
- Astronomers Directly Image Planet Just 35 Light Years Away
- Nearly 14,000 Scientists Warn Against Ignoring Climate Change
- Harvard-Backed ‘Galileo Project’ Will Search for Signs of Alien Technology
- NASA Ditches SLS for SpaceX to Launch Europa Clipper
- Event Horizon Telescope Captures Never-Before-Seen Detail of Black Hole Jets
- Mysterious Record-Breaking Comet Has Now Grown a Tail
- Astronomers Detect Moon-Forming Disc Around an Alien Planet
- Mars Rover Prepares to Collect First Sample for Return to Earth
- NASA Releases Stunning First Images From Repaired Hubble Telescope
- New Study Predicts Teeny Tiny Mountains on Neutron Stars
- Scientists Detect Isotopes on Exoplanet for the First Time
- NASA Fixes Iconic Hubble Space Telescope and Brings It Back Online
- Astronomers Successfully Measure the Motion of 66 Nearby Galaxies
- An Earth-Like Axial Tilt Might Be Necessary for Complex Life to Arise
- We Might Be Able to Deflect an Asteroid by Sacrificing Satellites
- Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes Ninth and Toughest Flight
- Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Theorem Confirmed by Gravitational Waves
- NASA: Binary Star Systems Could Be Hiding Earth-Like Worlds
- The First Stars Formed 200 to 300 Million Years After the Big Bang
- Hubble Telescope Still Offline as NASA Troubleshoots Baffling Memory Error
- Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Aces Eighth Flight
- Mysterious Space Object Could Be Record-Breaking Comet
- NASA Still Trying to Revive Hubble Telescope After Memory Swap Fails
- Dark Matter Could Solve the Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Formation
- Boeing’s Second Starliner Test Flight to Launch in July, NASA Says
- Hubble In Safe Mode Again After Computer Failure
- Rogue Planets’ Moons Could Harbor Life, Says New Study
- New EnVision Mission Will Study Venus Alongside NASA Probes
- China’s Mars Rover Snaps Incredible Selfie While Exploring
- More Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Detected, With Possible Answer in Sight
- NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Snaps First Close-Ups of Ganymede in 20 years
- MIT Develops New Method of Generating Power With Carbon Nanotubes
- NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 7th Flight
- New Simulation Sheds Light on the Sun’s Mysterious Cometary Cloud
- NASA’s Mars Lander Cleaned Sand Off Its Solar Panels Using More Sand
- SpaceX Plans Floating Ocean Spaceport for 2022
- NASA Delays James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again
- Space Junk Collided With the International Space Station’s Robotic Arm
- Europa May Have Underwater Volcanoes at Its Poles
- Astronomers Trace Fast Radio Bursts Back to Their Home Galaxies
- The Milky Way Might Have a Core of Dark Matter Instead of a Black Hole
- Stunning New Model Simulates Star Formation in Highest-Ever Resolution
- China’s Mars Rover Sends Back First Images
- China Successfully Lands on Mars, Preps Rover for Deployment
- Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Isotopes on Ocean Floor
- Chernobyl Is Heating Up Again, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
- NASA Completes Final Test on Webb Telescope’s Winged Mirror
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is Headed Home With a Huge Asteroid Sample
- Mars Helicopter Completes First One-Way Flight
- Breakthrough Listen Project Scans 60 Million Stars, Finds Zero Aliens
- Hubble Watches Young Planet Grow With New Imaging Technique
- Parker Solar Probe Detects Radio Emission in Venus’s Atmosphere
- Computer vision inches toward ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research
- Rate of Glacial Melting Is Accelerating, Comprehensive Study Finds
- Software Bug Delays Ingenuity Helicopter’s 4th Mars Flight
- NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Snaps Aerial Photo of Perseverance Rover
- NASA’s Gigantic SLS Rocket Arrives in Florida on Equally Gigantic Barge
- Hubble, Now 31, Snaps Stunning Photo of Volatile Star
- Astronomers Want to Design Quantum Telescopes That Span the Globe
- NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes Its Third and Most Impressive Flight
- Perseverance Rover Extracts Breathable Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere
- Researchers: 2.5 Billion Tyrannosaurus Rexes Walked the Earth
- NASA Chooses SpaceX Starship for Human Lunar Landing
- New Horizons Reaches Deep-Space Milestone, Snaps Photo
- NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Takes Flight on Mars
- Researchers Develop Whitest Paint Ever to Combat Climate Change
- Fast-Spinning Black Holes May Narrow Search for Dark Matter
- Astronomers Discover Cluster of Rare Explosive Stars
- NASA’s Mars Helicopter Remains Grounded Awaiting Software Fix
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows Off a Monkey Playing Pong With Its Mind
- Fermilab Experiment Hints at New Fundamental Force of Nature
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Completes Last Asteroid Flyby Before Heading Home
- Musk Blames Starship SN11 Failure on Methane Fuel Leak
- ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Actually Is Impossible, Comprehensive Test Shows
- NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Major Marsquakes
- MIT Robot Sees Hidden Objects with Radio Waves
- Facebook launches profile frames that help you encourage friends to get the Covid-19 vaccine
- NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Beams Back Stunning Selfie
- SpaceX Starship SN11 Blows Itself Apart During High-Altitude Test
- Europe Plans 20,000 GPU Supercomputer to Create ‘Digital Twin’ of Earth
- The Remnants of Theia May Still Exist Deep Inside the Earth
- New Image of Supermassive Black Hole Reveals Swirling Magnetic Fields
- New Spherical Robot Could Explore Lunar Caves
- NASA Prepares to Deploy Mars Helicopter
- New Spacecraft, Now In Orbit, Will Demo Space Junk Cleanup
- IBM Built an AI Capable of Holding Its Own Against Humans in a Debate
- NASA’s Artemis Rocket Aces Its Second Hot Fire Test
- Perseverance Rover Records the Sounds of Driving on Mars
- Interstellar Visitor May Be a Fragment of a Pluto-Like Planet
- Perseverance Rover Spots a Dust Devil on Mars
- What If Mars Never Lost Its Water?
- Astronomers Find Supermassive Black Hole Wandering Around Distant Galaxy
- New Study Proposes Warp Drive That Might Actually Work
- Perseverance Takes Its First Drive on Mars
- NASA Awards Contract for Mars Sample Return Rocket
- SpaceX Starship Prototype Explodes Following Perfect Landing
- Earth Will Lose Its Oxygen in a Billion Years, Killing Most Living Organisms
- Rocket Lab’s Upcoming Reusable Rocket Is Designed for Deploying Mega-Constellations
- Mars Orbiter Spots New Perseverance Lander on Surface
- NASA’s Perseverance Has a Mars Rover Family Portrait
- NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Asteroid Impact on Jupiter
- NASA’s Super-Fast Solar Probe Returns Amazing Image of Venus
- MIT Creates Zoomable Lens Without Any Moving Parts
- The First Black Hole Ever Discovered Might Be Even Larger
- NASA Releases Incredible Perseverance Rover Landing Video
- Planet Nine Hypothesis Takes a Major Hit in New Study
- WATCH: Perseverance Lands on Mars Today in ‘7 Minutes of Terror’
- NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Lands on Mars
- Interview: NASA’s Adam Steltzner Talks Perseverance and Why We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars
- Astronomers Detect Another Possible Exoplanet Right Next Door
- China’s Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Arrives in Orbit of Mars
- NASA Picks SpaceX to Launch SPHEREx Space Telescope
- Scientists Can Finally Study Einsteinium 69 Years After Its Discovery
- SpaceX Plans First All-Civilian Spaceflight This Year
- Earth’s ‘Minimoon’ Is About to Leave Us Forever
- A 15-Minute Smartphone COVID Test Is Coming to the US
- NASA Begins Building Orion Spacecraft that Will Return Humans to Moon
- Phosphine Detected in Venus’s Atmosphere May Have Just Been Sulfur
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampler Will Head Back to Earth on May 10
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- Facebook, Instagram users can now ask ‘oversight’ panel to review decisions not to remove content
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- Social media CEOs hedge on whether they’d boot the 12 anti-vax ‘super-spreaders’ cited by states’ attorneys general
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey busted for tweeting during congressional hearing
- Twitter acqui-hires team from Reshuffle to work on its API platform
- Twitter is exploring the use of Facebook-style emoji reactions
- Clubhouse UX teardown: A closer look at homepage curation, follow hooks and other features
- Indian social network Public App raises $41 million
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- Update: Telegram raises $1BN+, including $150M from Mubadala and Abu Dhabi CP via pre-IPO convertible bonds
- France’s privacy watchdog probes Clubhouse after complaint and petition
- Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS
- Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features
- Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage
- Facebook showcases wrist-worn AR interface concept
- Daily Crunch: Facebook shows off a wrist-based interface
- India asks court to block WhatsApp’s policy update, says new change violates laws
- In expanded crackdown, Facebook increases penalties for rule-breaking groups and their members
- Snap acquires Fit Analytics, a fitting technology startup, to double down on fashion and e-commerce
- Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media
- Rising encrypted app Signal is down in China
- Instagram adds new teen safety tools as competition with TikTok heats up
- Facebook to label all COVID-19 vaccine posts with pointer to official info
- TikTok rolls out new commenting features aimed at preventing bullying
- Twitter is testing better image previews and fewer cropped photos
- Big Tech companies cannot be trusted to self-regulate: We need Congress to act
- Tiger Global in talks to invest in young Indian social network at $170M valuation
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- Pakistan bans TikTok again over ‘immoral and objectionable’ videos
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- Facebook is bringing ads to shorter videos and Stories
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- Reddit ups Series E round by another $116 million
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- Facebook applies overly broad content block in flex against Australia’s planned news reuse law
- South Korea’s prime minister has joined Clubhouse
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- Daily Crunch: Parler is back online
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- Twitter says Trump is banned forever — even if he runs for president again
- Daily Crunch: Facebook tests a News Feed with less politics
- Twitter suspends over 500 accounts in India after government warning
- Snap partners with ShareChat’s Moj to roll out Camera Kit
- Facebook says it will remove more COVID-19 conspiracies that discourage vaccination
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- Instagram confirms it’s working on a ‘Vertical Stories’ feed
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- Facebook’s ‘oversight’ body overturns four takedowns and issues a slew of policy suggestions
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- Twitter acquires newsletter platform Revue
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- Walmart to pilot test livestreamed video shopping on TikTok
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- Discord will be able to screen share from iOS and Android devices starting today
- Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
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- Daily Crunch: Goodbye, Periscope
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- Snap announces $3.5M fund directed toward AR Lens creation
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- YouTube introduces new feature to address toxic comments
- Twitter finally shuts down its abandoned prototype app twttr
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- Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2%
- Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month
- Twitter brings its Stories feature, Fleets, to Japan
- ‘Free speech’ social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win
- Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
- WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days
- TikTok tests a Learn tab to showcase education and how-to videos
- Facebook blocks hashtags for #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal election conspiracies
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- TikTok takes down some hashtags related to election misinformation, ignores others
- Facebook takes down ‘Stop the Steal 2020’ group organizing around false claims of election chicanery
- Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence
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- Twitter hides Trump tweet attacking Supreme Court’s decision on Pennsylvania ballots
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