From The Verge: Foxconn and TSMC, two Taiwanese giants of the international tech supply chain, have agreed to buy 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for the island in a move that dodges a standoff between Taipei and Beijing. The two companies will be paying up to $35 a dose of the BioNTech vaccine...
From PC Mag: Eight months after launching self-destructing posts on Android, WhatsApp is rolling out the same feature to iOS beta users.
As reported by WABetaInfo, the "view once" function lets folks send photos and videos that disappear after their first screening. To find out if the feature is...
From CNET: President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to spur more competition as the economy begins ramping up following the COVID-19 pandemic. The action will affect a wide range of industries -- in particular, the tech industry.
Biden's "Promoting Competition in the American Economy"...
Something I find companies have been doing more recently is remastering old and beloved games. While this is not a new practice by any means, I like to ask myself, "What is the point of simply remaking a game when you can just play the original?" To answer my own question, it is quite simple: Aside from newer graphics, a remastered game can bring new elements to the original to enhance the experience. The remastered Resident Evil brings a more...
With the lockdown starting to come to an end here in Alberta, I would like to thank the source that kept me going through online classes and prevented me from ever getting too bored from just sitting at my desk -- RGB LED lighting. In contrast with my discussion from the XPG Spectrix D50 DDR4-3600 2x8GB review introduction, I am actually being serious with today's comment. Having a rig with lots of beautiful colors gave me something to look at...
From ARCTIC Press Release: ARCTIC recently added lighting options to its popular water cooling series with the Liquid Freezer II 240 RGB & A-RGB. Now, the A-/RGB portfolio continues to grow with the Liquid Freezer II 360 also becoming available in two LED variants.
Formidable power plus a wealth...
From The Verge: The Pixel 5A 5G, Google’s midrange counterpart to last year’s Pixel 5, has been spotted in the FCC’s database, suggesting a release might not be far away. Android Police, which first saw the two listings, reports that none specifically mention the name “Pixel 5A” but that at least...
From PC Mag: All-electric rental car startup Halo this week announced plans for an autonomous vehicle service in Las Vegas, powered by T-Mobile 5G.
Halo, which has been test driving on Las Vegas public streets for months, hopes its on-demand electric vehicles will help address traffic congestion...
From CNET: Microsoft is giving employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus this year for the "unique and challenging fiscal year that Microsoft just completed," according to a report published Friday by the Verge.
The report, which cites an internal memo, says the bonuses will be disbursed to all employees...
From The Verge: Google Meet is getting new video filters, effects, and augmented reality masks for personal calls on iOS and Android, the search giant has announced. They’re available via the sparkle icon at the bottom right of your video feed during a call, which brings up a carousel of different...
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