From The Verge: British satellite broadcaster Sky is launching a Sky Stream puck next month that will let people access TV content over Wi-Fi instead of a satellite dish. While Sky launched its Glass platform in the UK last year, you had to buy a whole new TV to get access to Sky TV over the...
From PC Mag: Apple has already stated that Apple Watch Ultra repairs will cost $499, and a teardown has revealed the most likely reason why.
iFixit got their hands on Apple's $800 smartwatch and spared no time taking it apart. The good news is, the watch casing can easily be opened at the rear...
From CNET: Virtual private network provider ExpressVPN announced the launch of its first router with a built-in VPN. On Thursday, the British Virgin Islands company said the Wi-Fi 6 router, called Aircove, has undergone testing from security audit firm Cure53 and is designed to offer users easier...
From PC Mag: Google completed its acquisition of Fitbit last year, and is now preparing to make all Fitbit users require a Google account in order to continue using their fitness trackers.
As The Verge reports, Google updated a Fitbit support page to confirm that, at some point in 2023, "Google...
From CNET: Samsung is adding yet another phone to its US lineup. The Galaxy XCover6Pro is a rugged device designed primarily for industrial and enterprise use, unlike Samsung's flagship Galaxy S22 family or premium foldable Galaxy Z phones. It will launch in the US on Oct. 22 after first debuting in...
From The Verge: Intel took the desktop CPU performance crown last year with its Core i9-12900K processor. And now, nearly a year later, AMD is ready to trade blows again with its next-generation Ryzen Zen 4 CPUs. Fabbed on TSMC’s 5nm process node, AMD has promised big gains for its latest Ryzen 7000...
I have always been really intrigued with the combination of pen-like hardware with a tablet. Back in my first year of university, every student either had an Apple MacBook or a Microsoft Surface. Everyone with a Surface had the accompanying stylus as well, and since we were taking many mathematics courses, they all easily and quickly wrote out equations on their laptop. This made me quite jealous to be honest, particularly since I felt fairly...
Sometimes I have really random questions that come across my mind like, “Where did the word 'toilet' come from?” The word urinal is very obvious, but toilets are another story. It turns out the words "toilet" and "toil" share a common ancestor being “toile”, which means cloth in French. This made more sense for toilet paper, so I proceeded to look into the history on the word "toilet". There was an evolution of this word going from cloth to...
From The Verge: The French government has announced it will introduce a minimum charge for book deliveries of €3 (about $2.92) in order to help small booksellers compete with retailing giant Amazon, reports Reuters. The minimum fee will only apply to orders under €35 (about $34.12).
It’s the latest...
From PC Mag: Tesla is recalling more than 1 million vehicles due to a power window defect that "may exert excessive force by pinching" a passenger before retracting, though in this case, a "recall" means fixing the problem via an over-the-air (OTA) software update.
According to the National Highway...
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