Remember how 3D Touch, the iPhone feature where you press harder into the screen, was supposed to be a very big, earth-shattering, game-changing, deal? Yeah…about that. Apple may finally take the first steps towards abandoning 3D Touch when it releases new iPhones later this year. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo returned this week with another […]
Intel urged customers not to deploy firmware updates aimed at the Spectre and Meltdown flaws because the updates caused system instability; Microsoft reacted with its own release – KB4078130 – on Saturday. Microsoft on Saturday issued an out-of-band Windows security update that disabled a patch the company released earlier this month to protect personal computers […]
Microsoft is introducing cheaper models of its Surface Laptop and Surface Book 2. The Surface Laptop model is now available on the Microsoft Store for $799. That’s a $200 discount, but a trade-off in processing power; it runs a 1.6GHz Intel Core m3 processor instead of the faster Core i5 found in the original $999 […]
IHS Markit is out with its 2017 data on smartphone shipments. The firms’ numbers are a bit more positive than what we saw yesterday from Strategy Analytics, pointing to a smaller quarterly decline along with a greater increase in year-over-year shipments. The data also puts iPhone in first place with the highest share of holiday […]
Best Buy launches a pretty nice deal. Are you in the market for a new Xbox One X? Best Buy has launched a new deal you might want to consider. The US retailer is now throwing in an extra controller (black or white) and three months of Xbox Live Gold when you buy the $500 […]
We’ve been yearning for a new BMW 8 Series for years, and now it’s finally here, having debuted at the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona. One of the best parts about Daytona is the ability to get up close to the different cars and look at all of the interesting parts. We got that chance […]
Looks like this is the weekend of Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ leaks. We already know what the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ look like, their specs, and other details, before they’re officially unveiled on February 25 at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Thanks to SamCentral, however, we’re also learning about possible included […]
Intel is not having that great of year thus far in the face of a slew of information about security flaws in it hardware coming out — and you can add another new report from The Wall Street Journal today, which suggests that Intel didn’t immediately notify the U.S. government of the issues, to that […]
Samsung’s doubling down on foldable screens. Here’s the proof. Samsung is full steam ahead on making a foldable Galaxy phone. Although it isn’t clear if that means the screen itself could fold — there are other ways to make a phone “foldable” — we now know that foldable displays are a major part of Samsung’s […]
The vulnerability, which Cisco disclosed on Monday, could allow an attacker to cause a reload, execute arbitrary code, or take full control of an affected system. A critical vulnerability affecting the VPN feature of Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance software could allow an attacker to cause a reload, execute arbitrary code, or take full control of […]
In a Tuesday blog post, Google outlined some Play Store security stats, an unusual move for the company that signals a larger shift within Google. The post—from Dave Kleidermacher, Head of Security, and Andrew Ahn, Google Play Product Manager—portrays Google as an active guardian. In 2017, it took down 700,000 apps that violated Google Play’s […]
Shares of Apple have taken quite a tumble this week, falling nearly 6% over the past two days of trading. Hardly a surprise, there have been a slew of reports indicating that Apple is slashing iPhone X production in the face of weak demand. And we’re not just talking about a mild scale back in […]
