From The Verge: Google’s $1.1 billion deal to acquire most of HTC’s smartphone design division has officially closed. Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh announced the news in a blog post, hailing the arrival of an “incredibly talented team to work on even better and more innovative products in the years to...
From PC Mag: We're less than a month into 2018, and there's already a potential new contender for the largest tech deal ever. According to CNBC, Dell is considering a move to sell itself to VMware in a massive reverse merger that could exceed the record-setting $67 billion Dell paid to buy EMC in...
From CNET: What's worse than the chip flaws that leak sensitive information? Apparently, some of the software updates meant to fix them.
Over the weekend, Microsoft released an update that disables a patch to Intel CPUs after reports that the patch -- meant to fix a design flaw known as Spectre --...
From The Verge: Facebook will introduce a new privacy center this year that features all core privacy settings in one place, ahead of the introduction of a strict new EU data protection law that takes effect on May 25th. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will restrict...
From CNET: Apple reportedly notified suppliers on Monday that it is halving its iPhone X production target for the first three months of the year.
The company was expecting to produce 40 million units of the iPhone X in the first quarter of 2018, but has now revised the figure to just 20 million...
From PC Mag: Looking to do a bit of gaming this weekend? Perhaps you just got your hands on Monster Hunter: World for the PlayStation 4 and you're itching to do some pig-petting, pig-outfitting, or pig-carrying. (Yes, Poogie is kind of a big deal.)
Or maybe you're more into Dragon Ball FighterZ...
From PC Mag: Looking to do a bit of gaming this weekend? Perhaps you just got your hands on Monster Hunter: World for the PlayStation 4 and you're itching to do some pig-petting, pig-outfitting, or pig-carrying. (Yes, Poogie is kind of a big deal.)
Or maybe you're more into Dragon Ball FighterZ...
Does it blow your mind how much data we are generating nowadays? While our Microsoft Word documents may be getting larger, or you have an ever-growing collection of photos thanks to high quality smartphone cameras, the elephant in the room is the amount of power we have in our hands to generate ridiculously large video files. Think about it: Every respectable modern smartphone can capture video at 4K resolution, and with these 4K videos come a...
From CNET: The smart speaker became available for advance orders in the online Apple Store in the US, UK and Australia on Friday. While you can typically put in an order for new Apple products at 12:01 a.m. PT, the HomePod wasn't available until just before 5:45 a.m. PT.
A little patience was...
From The Verge: Walmart has struck a deal with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten that will see the US company become the exclusive mass retailer of Kobo e-readers. Co-branded Walmart and Kobo apps will be released for ebook and audiobook content, which will be available through Walmart's website...
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