From The Verge: At a press conference today, Apple and Seattle’s mayor, Jenny Durkan, announced that the company would bring 2,000 employees to the city over the next five years. That’s double the number of employees Apple had originally planned when it announced Seattle was part of a major US...
From CNET: Amazon's Prime Day sale started off rocky last year, with the world's biggest online retailer offering customers a crashing website and app. The company aims to do better this year with a supersized fifth annual Prime Day, coming next month.
The sale will start on July 15 just after...
From The Verge: Popular chat service Discord is experiencing issues today due to network problems at Cloudflare and a wider internet issue. The app is currently inaccessible for its millions of users, and even Discord’s website and status pages are struggling. Discord’s problems can be traced to an...
From PC Mag: When Eben Upton, co-founder of Raspberry Pi, started talking about the Raspberry Pi 4 in February, it sounded like a huge performance leap over what had come before. He also promised it would still only cost $35. Today, the Raspberry Pi 4 launched for $35, boasting 3x the processing...
From CNET: Samsung's SmartThings line of devices is expanding, the company announced in a press release Monday. In addition to a SmartThings app redesign that launched with the S10 line of mobile phones, SmartThings is adding three new smart home products. Here's what we know.
This is Samsung's...
I remember watching an episode in the sixteenth season of BBC's Top Gear when they brought over the Australians for a series of challenges. In the first event of a drag race using a "typical commercial vehicle", the Australians appeared to have an advantage at first with their 6.0L V8-equipped 380hp Holden Maloo pickup. The British trio, pretending to be in trouble, sent along a run-of-the-mill Ford Transit minivan. Soon after the race began, the...
From The Verge: Huawei has announced three new devices, the Nova 5, Nova 5 Pro, and Nova 5i, alongside a brand new 7nm Kirin 810 chipset, reports GizmoChina. The launch comes as Huawei continues to face an uncertain future outside of China after Google suspended its Android license last month...
From PC Mag: Last year, it became clear that Microsoft was planning to launch not one, but two very different next-gen consoles. However, now that the mist is clearing and hardware is being locked down, Microsoft is focusing in on just one new Xbox for 2020.
As Thurrott reports, Microsoft's...
From CNET: Google is abandoning its tablet-making efforts, confirming that no sequel to the Pixel Slate is coming. The tech giant will instead focus on making laptops, it said Thursday.
The company announced the Google Pixel Slate in October 2018 and launched it that November, starting at $599. But...
From The Verge: Signify, the company formerly known as Philips Lighting that produces Hue-branded smart lights, has announced a new range of internet-transmitting Li-Fi lights called Truelifi. They’re capable of transmitting data to devices like laptops at speeds of up to 150 Mbps using light waves...
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