Qualcomm's New Cheap Chip Is for Smartphones, Not Flip Phones

From PC Mag: Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 215 chipset, announced today, brings a bunch of cutting-edge features to low-cost smartphones. But Qualcomm's ambition here seems to stop a little short: while this new chipset could be absolutely great for the next generation of flip phones, the company doesn...

Apple cuts MacBook Air price by $100, gives MacBook Pro chip upgrade

From CNET: Apple will get ready for the school season as the MacBook Air is getting a discount college students and a display upgrade. The company will also update its MacBook Pro and give it the same education discount.

Apple will cut the price of the MacBook Air to $999, which is $100 lower than...

GIGABYTE Unveils Radeon RX 5700 Series Graphics Card

From Gigabyte Press Release: GIGABYTE today announced the launch of Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G and Radeon RX 5700 8G, the latest Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards built upon the 7nm processor technology with new RDNA architecture and the world’s first GPU to support PCI Express 4.0. With RDNA gaming...

British Airways faces record-breaking GDPR fine after data breach

From The Verge: The UK’s data watchdog has announced plans to fine the airline British Airways a record £183 million over last year’s data breach. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that “poor security arrangements” at the company lead to the breach of credit card information, names...

Mozilla Is Testing a $5/Month Ad-Free News Subscription

From PC Mag: Mozilla is testing a new $5/month subscription service for news in partnership with advert-free news subscription startup Scroll.

The upcoming service will give subscribers access to advert-free versions of articles from publications that are already working with Scroll. They include...

Google denies report it's in talks to help create 4th US mobile carrier

From CNET: Google shot down a report that it's in talks to help create a fourth US wireless carrier with TV provider Dish Network, using assets acquired from T-Mobile. The New York Post reported Sunday that Alphabet director Alan Mulally has been part of the talks.

"These claims are simply false,"...

LaCie Mobile SSD 500GB Review (Page 1 of 8)

Have you noticed a city's east side tend to be cheaper and shadier compared to the west? While there are certainly exceptions to this observation, take a look at where you live and see if that is the case. This is certainly true here in Calgary, and it holds true for many cities in the world such as London, Paris, New York, and Toronto as well. Although there are many explanations to this phenomenon, researchers generally agree on one factor...

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