Huawei Hits 200 Million Smartphone Sales in 2018

From AnandTech: Huawei has announced today that shipments of its smartphones in 2018 have exceeded 200 million units. In recent months the company became the No. 2 supplier of smartphones, ahead of Apple and behind Samsung, marking a remarkable progress Huawei has made since it entered this market...

HQ Trivia becomes HQ Trivia & Words as second game exits beta

From The Verge: HQ Words, the new Wheel of Fortune-style game from HQ, launched out of beta last night with a debut round hosted by the company’s CEO Rus Yusupov, reports TechCrunch. Unlike the company’s first game, which has players answer 10 multiple-choice questions to win a share of the prize...

SilverStone Nightjar NJ450-SXL 450W (Page 1 of 4) | Reports

I was recently on my way to the doctor's office when I saw a message from my friend who was moving her sister's desktop computer. Things were going fine until she noticed a lot of dust at the back. She asked me what could be done to clean it out, so I started texting out a reply. However, the doctor came into the room so I quickly told her she could remove the side panel and get a can of compressed air for cleaning. Approximately two hours later...

Unauthorized Satellite Launch Costs Swarm $900K

From PC Mag: If you ask the FCC for permission to launch and operate four small satellites and your request is denied, what do you do? If you're Swarm Technologies, you launch them anyway and deal with the consequences later. Those consequences have now been decided upon, and they include payment of...

Intel Announces Major Manufacturing Expansion

From ExtremeTech: Intel has been on something of a tear of late. After its Architecture Day earlier this month, where the company debuted its plans for new CPUs, GPUs, 3D interconnects, and overall foundry strategy, it’s now announcing a new set of manufacturing expansions intended to serve growing...

WhatsApp under fire for failing to remove child porn

From CNET: Facebook-owned WhatsApp is being criticized for failing to curb the spread of child pornography on the messaging app.

A report by two Israeli online safety groups, Netivei Reshet and Screensaverz, concluded that it was easy to find WhatsApp groups in which people shared images and videos...

AMD Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE with Radeon Vega Graphics Launched

From AnandTech: AMD has announced availability of the Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE processors it announced back in September. Based on the Zen microarchitecture and featuring built-in Radeon Vega graphics, these parts are priced well below $100 per unit, focusing on the mass market, and the new...

AT&T will put a fake 5G logo on its 4G LTE phones

From The Verge: AT&T customers will start to see a 5G logo appear in the corner of their smartphone next year — not because they’re using a 5G phone connected to a 5G network, but because AT&T is going to start pretending its most advanced 4G LTE tech is 5G.

According to FierceWireless, AT&T will...

Apple Acknowledges iPad Pro Bending Issue: Report

From CRN: While Apple brought a number of enhancements to both sizes of its iPad Pro with refreshed models this fall, one change to the tablets isn't sitting as well with some buyers.

Some 2018 iPad Pro tablets, in both the 11-inch and 12.9-inch sizes, exhibit a "very slight bend," Apple confirmed...

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