Google rolls out ChromeOS 117 with a Material You redesign, adaptive charging, a new camera and microphone privacy indicator, an improved clipboard, and more
Chromebooks update automatically* to provide … Efe Udin / Gizchina : Google releases ChromeOS 117: Deeply integrates Material You design Cesar Cadenas / TechRadar : New ChromeOS up...
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned
which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases ma...
Counterpoint: the average selling price of iPhones could rise to $892 in Q3 2022 and $944 in Q4 2022, as buyers choose Pro models; the record is $873 in Q4 2021
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The iPhone, in its third year of a three-year design cycle, may be overhauled in 2023; Apple may delay Pay Later to 2023 and may not host an October 2022 event
I've spent the last week or so testing out the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I believe it sets the stage for larger changes next year.
Amazon plans to acquire Roomba maker iRobot in a $1.7B all-cash deal; Colin Angle will remain as iRobot's CEO
Everyone's Favorite Robot Cleaning Company Financial Times : Amazon acquires Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7bn Jon Fingas / Engadget : Amazon is buying iRobot, the creator of the Room...
Google will update over 20 apps with tablet optimizations in the coming weeks, as the company seeks to improve Android on large-screen devices
More than 20 Google apps will be updated with tablet optimizations in the coming weeks. — There's a reason why the word tablet is synonymous with iPad.
Google plans to launch an Android-based Pixel Tablet in 2023, with speakers and a rear camera, after killing its Chrome OS-based Pixel Slate in February 2021
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The US FCC approves “nutrition labels” forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15
so we can compare price, speed & data. No more fees in fine print. That's why the FCC is kicking off an effort to develop #broadbandnutritionlabels. Makena Kelly / @kellymakena : N...
Apple M1 Pro and Max review: CPU and GPU improvements offer an unparalleled combination of raw performance, unique acceleration, and power efficiency
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A first look at Android app support on Windows 11: the apps are nicely integrated, run well, and installing them is simple, only requiring Amazon's Appstore app
Android apps can now run on Windows 11 — Microsoft has released the first preview version of its Android apps support in Windows 11.
Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14
Earlier today, we reported on a Geekbench Metal result for the iPhone 13 Pro showing an approximately 55% graphics performance improvement compared to the iPhone 12 Pro.
Apple, in a first, reported no CPU gains for the A15, likely because of the engineer exodus to companies like Nuvia and Rivos
everything we know Michael Simon / Macworld : The rumor mill got a lot wrong about Apple's iPhone 13 event Tweets: Dylan Patel / @dylan522p : A15 is a 7.6% ST increase with 8% cloc...
Apple's iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are the first to support dual eSIM, expanding on support for eSIM and regular SIM in previous iPhones
Apple introduced eSIM support on iPhone with iPhone XR and iPhone XS in 2018. However, while you can use a regular SIM and an eSIM simultaneously …
Apple's A15 is a 5nm SoC with two performance CPU cores and four efficiency cores, a 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations/second, and more
Facebook announces Horizon Workrooms, a virtual meeting space with avatars, spatial audio, a whiteboard, and more, in beta on Oculus Quest 2
here's how it works Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Work From Borg — Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology … Tristan Greene / TNW : Facebook...
In the new iPadOS 15 beta, Apple makes its controversial Safari redesign optional, letting users choose a more conventional tab layout in settings
Enable the new (bad) tab experience in settings — Apple has started trickling out its fourth iOS and iPadOS 15 betas …
Arm details PlasticARM, a 32-bit processor built on a flexible substrate, that it says can lead to embedding of low-cost, ultrathin chips into everyday objects
Facebook hides the tag #VaccinesKill from searches, displaying a message that says it is “keeping our community safe”, two years after Instagram hid the tag
(CNN)Last week, even as it came under fire from the White House over its role in spreading anti-vaccine misinformation …
North Idaho ISP Your T1 WIFI will block Facebook and Twitter for customers that request it after it received complaints over censorship
Your T1 WiFi, an internet service provider based in northwestern Idaho, will implement firewalls that restrict access to Facebook and Twitter at its customers' requests.
Neverware, which helps schools and enterprises resurrect old PCs with its Chromium-based CloudReady OS, gets acquired by Google, which invested in its Series B
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