Xiaomi’s looking to put a big smile on shutterbugs’ faces with a new, monstrous smartphone camera. On Wednesday, the Chinese company announced the Xiaomi 12 Pro, the first product to use Sony’s massive 1/1.28-inch IMX707 sensor. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 1/1.33-inch type sensor for its wide rear camera and a […]
For two products that should be very important to Google, Assistant and Lens had a quiet 2021 compared to even the year prior. Fortunately, the lack of movement seems to be due to upcoming advancements being not quite ready yet. Looking back at the year, the biggest and most impactful Assistant product move was the […]
Ever wish display tech had longer acronyms? LG Display’s here to help. Today, it introduced LG OLED EX, a proprietary OLED technology that’s supposed to be brighter than standard OLED. As you may know already, OLED stands for organic light emitting diode. The EX part of OLED EX, according to the announcement, combines “‘Evolution’ and […]
HDMI is a confusing mess of standards and ports, with many features optional for manufacturers to implement. For example, even though HDMI 2.0 can support 4K at 120Hz, not all TVs and consoles with HDMI 2.0 are built for that. Now it seems there’s another HDMI update on the way. According to The Verge (the […]
Hide your “Tony the Tiger”/”Eugene Levy” fan fiction — those phrases, along with hundreds of others, are now banned from Tumblr’s iOS app. Now, any personal blog that flags itself as “mature” is not accessible on the iOS app — users will see a pop-up explaining that the content has been hidden because of “potentially […]
LG Display wants to make OLED panels a more compelling to consumers and is showing off some concepts in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The OLED Shelf concept uses two transparent, 55-inch OLED displays that LG Display initially commercialized in in 2019. They’re 40 percent transparent, but according to The Verge, LG’s […]
When Apple announced the upgraded MacBook Pro earlier this fall, the common refrain was that the company was finally giving its customers what they asked for. But while the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro updates represent the most obvious case of Apple owning up to (and rectifying) past mistakes, the company has actually been on […]
Xiaomi’s latest flagship lineup, the Xiaomi 12 series, were officially announced today, during a global stream by the company that lasted for two and a half hours. This year, it’s a case of the triplets on announcement day—although only two may end up being sold internationally. Three separate models were part of today’s unveiling: the […]
LastPass says there’s no evidence of a data breach following users’ reports that they were notified of unauthorized login attempts, as reported by AppleInsider. The password manager maintains that it was never compromised, and users’ accounts haven’t been accessed by bad actors. Reports started cropping up on the Hacker News forum after a LastPass user […]
Apple has reportedly hired Andrea Schubert, Meta’s communications and public relations lead for its augmented reality (AR) products, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter. Schubert’s LinkedIn page indicates that she’s been working for Meta for nearly six years. “Meta, with Oculus, has been the market leader in headsets, so such […]
The Oura Ring isn’t the only smart ring on the block anymore. For CES 2022, health tech company Movano is announcing the Movano Ring, a wearable that aims to help people affordably monitor chronic illnesses and better understand their data. The Movano Ring will measure all the basic metrics, including heart rate, heart rate variability […]
It’s tough running your own app store. Microsoft decided to go with Amazon’s when Windows 11 picked up support for Android apps rather than run its own, and even Samsung’s been hedging its bets, running its own app store for its Galaxy devices alongside the Play Store for years. But, based on what we’ve dug […]
