The market shouldn’t pay too much attention to how much of TSMC’s 5nm production is utilized by Apple, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests, with changes in production likely to be more due to seasonality than unexpectedly low iPhone 12 demand. Shifts in share prices of Apple’s suppliers have taken place based on the suggestion […]
Complaints about companies pressuring YouTubers and reviewers is nothing new, as the likes of Frankie Tech and TechTablets have discussed in the last few months. However, few have caught as much attention as the one made by Hardware Unboxed. According to a tweet posted on Friday, NVIDIA had banned Hardware Unboxed from receiving GPU review […]
As rumored many months ago, Apple’s silicon ambitions don’t end with replacing Intel CPUs with its own in Macs—it plans to ditch Qualcomm modems in favor of its own custom-designed chips for iPhones, according to Apple hardware tech lead Johny Srouji. Srouji confirmed the company’s plans when speaking to employees during an internal town hall […]
A new malware strain has been spreading to hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs in an effort to inject unauthorized ads into users’ search results, according to Microsoft. The company has been tracking “Adrozek,” a malware family capable of modifying multiple browsers including Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox in order to insert the […]
Apple has decided that bigger is not always better when it comes to the powerhouse Mac Pro. A brand-new offering is apparently in the works, and there are major changes afoot – including good news for users who resent the monstrous size of the current version. Rumour has it that Apple is planning on releasing […]
For more than three decades, the Internet’s most key underpinning has posed privacy and security threats to the billion-plus people who use it every day. Now, Cloudflare, Apple, and content-delivery network Fastly have introduced a novel way to fix that using a technique that prevents service providers and network snoops from seeing the addresses end […]
Apple is now developing its own cellular modem that will be used in future devices and that will eventually replace modem components sourced from Qualcomm, reports Bloomberg. The information was shared by Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies Johny Srouji at a town hall meeting with Apple employees. “This year, we kicked off the […]
2021 could be a turning point for Samsung’s chip-making arm. The company’s first 5nm chip, the Exynos 1080, which will make its commercial debut later this month with a Vivo handset, already looks impressive on paper and in benchmarks. And now, the chaebol is gearing up to launch its flagship Exynos 2100 chip that will […]
Germany’s competition watchdog is investigating Facebook for tying its social app to its Oculus virtual reality headsets. Today, the Bundeskartellamt or Federal Cartel Office (FCO) announced a probe of the increasingly close link between Facebook and Oculus, arguing that it could hurt competition in both VR and social networking. The new Oculus Quest 2 headset […]
Twitter is partnering with Snap to bring tweets into Snapchat with a native integration that both companies hope will push users away from screenshots and toward more interactive embeds. Twitter users who are also logged into the Snapchat app on their phone will be able to access the functionality by tapping share on a particular […]
Apple and Google are both cracking down on applications that integrate the X-Mode Social tracking software. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has informed developers that they have two weeks to remove X-Mode’s trackers from their applications. The decision from Apple and Google comes after investigative reporting revealed that X-Mode collects data directly […]
Samsung has launched a 110-inch MicroLED TV, and it’s now up for pre-sale in Korea. The tech giant has been showcasing massive displays that use MicroLED technology over the past two years. It unveiled a 146-inch TV called The Wall at CES 2018, and it showed off a 75-inch model and a 219-inch display at […]
