Western Digital Joins the Huawei Drop Party

From Tom's Hardware: Western Digital today announced that it's severing ties with Huawei following the company's blacklisting by the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to Nikkei, which reported that the storage company might reverse that decision if it's given the go-ahead from the U.S...

Warning: Google Researcher Drops Windows 10 Zero-Day Security Bomb

From Forbes: A security researcher who is part of Google's "Project Zero" team tasked with hunting down zero-day vulnerabilities, has gone public with an exploitable Windows vulnerability that Microsoft is still in the process of fixing.

Tavis Ormandy has tweeted that he had uncovered a security...

NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13

From TechCrunch: NFC — the technology that helps power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro’s tappable stickers — is getting a big upgrade with the launch of iOS 13, due out this fall. Instead of only allowing iPhone apps to read NFC tags, apps will be able to...

Pixel 4 confirmed by Google with first official photo on Twitter

From CNET: After dozens of Google Pixel 4 leaks over the past weeks, Made by Google has tweeted the first picture confirming the upcoming flagship phone. The image seems to confirm that the device will have a square camera module on the back with three rear cameras.

"Well, since there seems to be...

Apple Accidentally Leaks Radical iPhone Upgrade

From Forbes: At this point, you probably have every reason to skip the new iPhone 11 and iPhone XR2 - they don’t look good. But wait. Apple itself has now ‘accidentally’ revealed a shock new iPhone upgrade which might just change your mind.

Look closely at Apple’s first beta of iOS 13 and you will...

AMD 16-Core Ryzen 9 3950X: Up to 4.7 GHz, 105W, Coming September

From AnandTech: One of the questions that was left over from AMD’s Computex reveal of the new Ryzen 3000 family was why a 16-core version of the dual-chiplet Matisse design was not announced. Today, AMD is announcing its first 16 core CPU into the Ryzen 9 family. AMD stated that they’re not...

Apple can reportedly make enough iPhones outside China

From CNET: Apple is reportedly prepared if the US-China trade war forces it to move production outside China.

Its Taiwanese manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry (better known as Foxconn) can make enough iPhones to meet the needs of Apple's US market outside China if needed, according to...

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