From PC Mag: Disney+ has surpassed 100 million subscribers, company CEO Bob Chapek announced at Tuesday's virtual shareholder's meeting.
Chapek stepped into the CEO role in late February 2020—just in time for a global pandemic. "None of us could have imagined how profoundly the virus would change...
From CNET: Apple is cutting component orders for the iPhone 12 Mini for the first half of the year, Nikkei reported Wednesday. It may reduce production of the 5G device by more than 70% until the end of June, it noted.
The company has apparently reduced orders for all iPhones in that period by...
From The Verge: Samsung has announced its newest SSD, a follow-up to the 970 Evo called the 980. The drive is a NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 drive, and it’s an affordable one, too. It costs up to $129.99 for the 1TB version and as little as $49.99 for the 250GB model.
There’s a reason for the low price — it’s...
From PC Mag: The latest smartphone models are set to get a major boost, both in terms of the amount of RAM they have available and how fast that memory is, thanks to SK Hynix.
Volume production of the industry's largest capacity LPDDR5 mobile DRAM modules is underway, the South Korean memory...
From CNET: Thunderbolt, Intel's super-speedy connection technology, isn't widely used. But that may change in the coming year, as more computer makers incorporate the USB competitor into their new models.
Intel has hoped Thunderbolt, which debuted in 2011 on Apple's 2011 MacBook Pro, would become...
From PC Mag: The pandemic has meant Apple's new product reveals aren't done in front of a live audience, instead relying on video to show off the latest iDevices. The next one of those, in whatever form it takes, is thought to be happening on March 23.
As 9To5Mac reports, if this Apple event does...
From CNET: It's been a long road for Tesla's long-promised Full Self-Driving Mode, even though the system is hardly worthy of its name if you go by the SAE's definition. But those who paid thousands of dollars for the system are starting to see it in their car. Most recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk...
From The Verge: Google today announced that it’s adding a popular customer request to its Google TV software: separate profiles for kids. Kid profiles will let you choose which apps are available to young viewers. If a Google account for the child already exists, you can add that as a kid profile —...
A few months ago, I was listening to a lecture on commercial network communications technology. For the most part, the presentation was very informative and well-researched, but the presenter made some errors when in his discussion of wireless channel conditions. I talked to him after the presentation complimenting him on a great lecture and also let him know how some of these wireless channel conditions actually worked. Usually, from my...
"My sister got a bleeding nose while picking her nose with her toe". This was said out of the blue in a Discord group chat with a few of my friends while playing a game. You may be wondering why I would bring this up in a review of a keyboard. There is a popular quote that says that truth is stranger than fiction. This quote is attributed to multiple people with Mark Twain being the most prominent one. However, I am not convinced this is always...
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