From The Verge: In December, Apple said that it would begin selling its HomePod smart speaker in China “early next year.” Today, the company revealed that the device will go on sale in China and in Hong Kong on Friday, January 18th.
The company began selling the HomePod a year ago in the US, and...
"At what speed will a reindeer's antlers generate enough lift for it to take off and fly?" asks a guy who was hosting the trivia section of a Christmas party I attended last month. I was a little confused by this question, even though I have taken exactly zero classes on aerodynamics. Regardless of whether you have a background in aerospace engineering, it is pretty obvious the antlers of a reindeer have no aerodynamic properties that will allow...
I still remember years and years ago when I first got glasses. I do not remember if my eyes slowly got worse and worse, but I do remember suddenly not being able to see what was being written on the board at the front of the classroom. In the front row, I could squint and mostly figure out what was going on. I went to an optometrist and got my first prescription and first set of frames. At the beginning, I only wore my glasses in class. Quickly...
From The Verge: Polish authorities have arrested two individuals and accused them of conducting espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, the Polish TV channel TVP has reported (via BBC). One is a Chinese man who is the head of Huawei’s sales in the country, according to The New York Times...
From Forbes: Ring, a major player in the smart home security world – the company was acquired by Amazon for $1 billion last year – has come under fire from a damning report which claims that video feeds and files were made accessible to employees who had no right, nor any need, for access.
The...
From Recode: A Google shareholder sued the board of the search giant’s parent company, Alphabet, accusing the company’s co-founders of mishandling sexual misconduct claims against several high-powered former executives.
The suit filed by shareholder James Martin alleges that company leadership “had...
From The Verge: Canon has said that it will develop a new full-frame mirrorless camera capable of shooting 8K video. In an interview with Imaging Resource, top product planning executive Yoshiyuki Mizoguchi confirmed that “an 8K video-capable camera is already in our EOS R-series roadmap,” referring...
From CNET: Apple will reportedly launch a trio of new iPhones in 2019, despite a recent sales warning to investors and hints of production cuts for its 2018 models
The 2019 models will include a successor to the well-received iPhone XR and new camera features, The Wall Street Journal reported...
From PC Mag: Laptops with OLED screens, which offer vivid colors, razor-sharp text, and deep, deep blacks, are few and far between. Following the introduction of two new such laptops at CES this week, though, people who mourned their apparent extinction have reason to get excited.
OLED, short for...
From TechCrunch: In a government shutdown, everything deemed non-essential stops. As we found out, renewing the certificates on its websites is considered non-essential.
Several government sites are currently inaccessible or blocked by most browsers after their HTTPS certificate expired. With...
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