From The Verge: Samsung will reportedly discontinue its Galaxy Note phone line in 2021, according to Reuters, as the company contends with falling demand for pricey smartphones caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the company is set to focus on its flagship Galaxy S lineup of phones...
From PC Mag: Apple has always ensured that if you want to use its software, apps, and services, then purchasing Apple hardware is the best, and in most cases, the only option. However, Amazon is now offering a way to bypass a purchase and rent a Mac in the cloud instead.
As TechCrunch reports...
From CNET: The chip that will power most high-end 5G phones next year is here: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. And for the first time in its ultra high-end lineup, Qualcomm has integrated its 5G modem on the same chip as the brains, AI and other processor features, likely giving 5G phones a boost in...
From The Verge: The Italian Competition Authority, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato or AGCM, has fined Apple €10 million (around $12 million) for making misleading claims about the waterproofing of its iPhones, Reuters reports. Affected iPhone models go back to 2017’s iPhone 8 and 8...
From PC Mag: If you want a tiny, yet very capable desktop PC, ASRock has just announced the world's thinnest AMD Mini PC, which takes advantage of the AMD Ryzen 4000 U-series processors.
The most impressive aspect of the ASRock Mars 4000U Series PC is its size, or lack thereof. It measures just 194...
From CNET: Online spending on Black Friday notched a record $9 billion this year, according to data from Adobe Analytics, as the pandemic forced deal-hungry consumers to avoid crowded stores on busy shopping day.
Consumer spending on the internet surged 21.6% on the day after Thanksgiving, turning...
Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday to our American friends and readers! It has been a difficult year as a whole, making it hard to find things to be thankful about, but I do believe it is still important to count our blessings and appreciate the people in our lives. Over this year, I cannot say I have been too negatively affected, but I have felt the impact. For example, I thought I was quite introverted, but I have really missed seeing people...
What has changed since last year? If you are reading this review years after it has been published, history will tell you a lot has changed between November 2019 and November 2020. November 2019 was still pre-COVID, and I will have to say I probably got my year's worth of traveling in the months immediately leading up to the pandemic. Between September and February, I went to Honolulu, San Francisco, Vancouver, San Antonio, and Houston, which I...
From The Verge: Spotify was down for nearly an hour today, after a widespread outage affected users in countries across Europe and beyond. The music streaming service stopped working for many at around 4:15AM ET, and Spotify rectified the issues after nearly an hour.
Spotify outages are rare, and...
From PC Mag: If spending $400 on an Apple Watch Series 6 is well beyond what you can afford, how about a budget smartwatch option that costs just $45 instead? That's what Xiaomi's brand Redmi is offering Chinese consumers next week.
As GSMArena reports, on Dec. 1 the Redmi Watch is set to launch in...
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