Don’t buy a new iPhone right now. You’ll probably regret it in a couple of weeks. Apple is expected to announce three new iPhones in September: an upgraded version of the iPhone X, a larger version of the iPhone X with a 6.5-inch screen and a more affordable iPhone with a 6.1-inch LCD display. The […]
t’s become ubiquitous in Palo Alto and Wall Street, parodied on Instagram and memorialized by the wardrobe department on Showtime’s fictional hedgefund drama “Billions” and HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” The anecdotal evidence was everywhere, but the numbers are in and now it’s official. Sales of the office sweater vest — the casual, fleece variety — are […]
The high speed tunnelElon Musk’s Boring Company has planned for LA’s Dodger Stadium should be ready by 2020, team CFO Tucker Kain told CNBC on Friday. “The expectation right now is that we’ll have approvals early next year and get started building the tunnel, and hopefully have it opened by the end of 2019, in […]
D-Wave Systems today published a milestone study demonstrating a topological phase transition using its 2048-qubit annealing quantum computer. This complex quantum simulation of materials is a major step toward reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive physical research and development. The paper, entitled “Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits”, was […]
Apple has removed Facebook’s Onavo security app from the App Store because it does not comply with its privacy rules. “We work hard to protect user privacy and data security throughout the Apple ecosystem,” an Apple spokesperson said in an email to CNBC on Wednesday. “With the latest update to our guidelines, we made it […]
New flagship smartphones are some of the most closely guarded secrets in tech, and while leaks often occur a month or two before an official release, there’s typically enough mystery to keep things interesting until then. But in a nearly unbelievable turn of affairs, Russian blog Rozetked appears to have gotten its hands on a […]
Besides the Google Material Theme, Gmail added a number of productivity features with its revamped web version in April. Today, the “quick-access side panel” that provides convenient access to Keep, Tasks, and more is making its way to other G Suite web apps like Docs and Calendar. With the side panel, Google aims to increase […]
Being surrounded in your home by speakers that support Alexa is fantastic, but what happens when you leave the house? You can use Alexa on your smartphone if you dig around and open Amazon’s app, but not all of its features are supported. Plus, the great thing about Alexa is hands-free access, so why should […]
A recent flood of research scholarship on electronic transport in low-dimensional (2-D or 1D) materials like graphene or carbon nanotubes reflects the tremendous potential of these materials to unveil a deeper understanding of the laws that govern the sometimes surprising emergent behavior of electrons. Scientists have probed novel materials like these to uncover the physics […]
Adding to an ongoing location-tracking scandal, a research paper claims that idle Android devices are sending nearly ten times as much data to Google as iOS devices do to Apple’s servers. In testing, an Android phone with Chrome running in the background sent location data to Google 340 times within a 24-hour period, or about […]
If you read enough science news, you’ll know that there’s a long list of experiments attempting to “prove Einstein wrong.” None have yet contradicted his hallmark theory of relativity. But the latest effort to falsify his statements surrounding “spooky action at a distance” has gone truly cosmic. Scientists have long performed tests demonstrating that the […]
Microsoft today announced a few deadlines for developers who have built Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps. The Microsoft Store will stop accepting new apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8/8.1 packages (XAP and APPX) on October 31, 2018. In July 2019, Microsoft will stop distributing app updates to Windows Phone […]
