Apple analyst Dan Ives at Wedbush today released a report indicating that Apple’s supply chain partners are increasing their production schedules and forecasts as Apple sees stronger-than-expected demand for the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro.
Quoting recent checks with the supply chain, Wedbush says that suppliers are already getting slight revisions higher. The production…
Microsoft’s Surface Duo is a foldable Android phone
October 2, 2019
Microsoft today announced something of a surprise during an event this morning in New York City: A new foldable with phone functionality. It’s called the Surface Duo, and it runs Android instead of Windows.
The outer shell of the Surface Duo is rounded, much like that of…
More than a billion scam popup ads were served thanks to bugs in Apple’s WebKit and the open-source Blink frameworks which power Safari and Chrome on iOS and macOS…
Scam popup ads are one of the biggest headaches for web publishers. Scammers manage…
A British iPhone owners’ lawsuit against Google filed in 2017 and which the High Court blocked in 2018 has today been reinstated.
The ‘representative action’ (the UK equivalent of a class action lawsuit) was seeking compensation for every Brit who used an iPhone between June 2011 and February 2012, with the campaign group behind it seeking £500 ($613) per user…
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The popular iOS app Duet Display that turns your smartphone or tablet into a secondary monitor is now available to download on Android.
While you can already turn your Samsung Galaxy phone into a desktop machine using the DeX system, it’s harder to turn your phone into…
Blue Yeti X review — The best USB microphone yet
October 2, 2019
If you ask a group of young kids what they want to do when they get older, at least some of them are going to answer “YouTuber” or “Twitch streamer.” Content creation is a huge business, and Blue Microphones is one of the companies capitalizing on that. Its Blue Yeti…
Apple will let Siri open third-party iOS apps by default
October 2, 2019
Apple’s iOS operating system has increased its included collection of apps over the years, growing from 17 in 2007 to just under 40 in 2019 — all while guaranteeing that everything included is the iPhone’s or iPad’s “default” app for its own functionality. Now Apple is set to loosen the latter restriction, Bloomberg reports, as the voice assistant Siri will be able to open certain…
Watch Star Wars filmmaker’s short film shot on iPhone 11 Pro
October 2, 2019
A new short film shot on iPhone 11 Pro gives perhaps the best insight yet into what a professional filmmaker can do with nothing more than an iPhone.
There’s no shortage of films and ads proclaiming they were ‘shot on iPhone,’ but most have cheated by using…
After a slight delay, Android Auto Wireless is now compatible with select Samsung Galaxy phones.
Google had originally claimed that Android Auto would be compatible with any Android phone running at least Android Pie but unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case. At…
Rune has raised $2 million in funding in its effort to use artificial intelligence to help find friends for mobile gamers.
Rune is a Y Combinator accelerator grad, and it was built by two doctoral students who dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sanjay Guruprasad and Bjarke Felbo. They started their company by asking a simple question: Can AI find you friends?
Users have…
