From CNET: Months after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai reiterated his support for plans to allocate more than 1,200 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum on the 6GHz band for Wi-Fi usage, the Wi-Fi industry is moving to hit the ground running with the additional real estate in 2020. To start, the Wi-Fi Alliance...

From PC World: AMD’s blockbuster CES keynote doesn’t happen until next week, but it appears we already know one of the products ready to be announced: The Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card. On Friday, Videocardz found a staging page for the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro on XFX’s webpage...

From Anandtech: Dell has introduced its new 25-inch and 27-inch displays that are aimed at artists and designers with color-critical workloads. The new UltraSharp U2520Q and U2720Q monitors feature a 3H anti-glare coating and are factory calibrated to a Delta-E<2 accuracy to ensure correct reproduction of colors in different conditions.

Dell’s UltraSharp U2520Q and UltraSharp U2720Q displays are built upon IPS panels of a 2560×1440 and a 3840×2160 resolution (respectively), 350 nits typical brightness, a 1000:1 and 1300:1 contrast ratio (respectively), a 8 ms GtG response time in normal mode, and a 60 Hz refresh rate. The 25-incher can display 16.78 million colors, whereas the 27-incher can display 1.07 billion colors. Also, both LCDs can reproduce a 95% of the DCI-P3 color gamut and a 99% of the sRGB color space.

Apart from dimensions and specifications of the IPS panels, Dell’s UltraSharp U2520Q and UltraSharp U2720Q monitors are very similar. The displays feature the same design with ultra-thin bezels to make it easier for owners to use multi-display configurations (which is particularly important for 25-inch LCDs these days as in many cases they are bought to work in pairs) and the same adjustable stands that can regulate tilt, pivot, and swivel.

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From TechCrunch: After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat — arguably changing the filters game for all social video and photo apps — Snap has made another acquisition with roots in the country, co-founded by one of Looksery’s founders, to...

From Forbes: Kohler is making a splash (sorry) at CES today with the announcement of everything from smart faucets, to showers that sing along with you, to a toilet that looks like it's from the set of Star Trek. All in an effort to bring useful tech to the bathroom and kitchen.

The most...

From TechCrunch: According to newly released third-party data, TikTok has reason to dance.

The famous, short-video application saw its in-app purchase revenue rise 310% on a year-over-year basis according to Apptopia, a startup that tracks mobile app revenue and usage. (The Boston-based startup has...

From ExtremeTech: You can, for the first time, go out and buy a 5G-enabled phone on all the major US carriers. Whether or not you should is an open question, but a surprising number of people took the plunge in 2019, according to Samsung. The company says it shipped more than 6.7 million 5G phones...

From Tom's Hardware: AMD has broken its previous closing stock price record during today's intra-day trading. The previous closing record was set at $47.50, which was set on June 21, 2000. Of course, factors like inflation do apply, but regardless, this is an important hallmark for the company...

From CNET: LG's rollable OLED TV R was a big hit at last year's CES, even though it never quite hit the 2019 release window that was promised. That hasn't stopped LG Display from announcing Thursday that it will be bringing a host of new OLED displays to this year's CES next week.

As part of a...

From PC Mag: Lawmakers know how much we despise robocalls—nearly 48 billion robocalls were made in 2018—and a new bill just signed into law by President Trump increases possible fines up to $10,000.

The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act requires wireless...