Foxconn has stopped “almost all” of its production in China until February 10th at the earliest due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to both Reuters and Bloomberg. A lengthy stoppage could substantially disrupt Foxconn clients, the most visible being Apple, from shipping devices to customers.
Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook told investors that the company’s revenue projections for the…
First batch of Samsung Galaxy Note20 leaks starts pouring in
February 4, 2020
The Galaxy S20 series is still a week away from an unveiling an over a month away from actually hitting store shelves, but we already have a pretty complete picture through leaks.
In fact, industry insider channels have been so active that they appear to already be moving…
(Reuters) — Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company’s “contacts upload” feature.
In a statement published on…
BenchSci raises $22 million for AI-powered drug discovery tools
February 4, 2020
Assessing the health of pharmaceutical R&D by unearthing hidden patterns in procurement data is a task made simpler by AI. At least, that’s the pitch given by David Qixiang Chen, Elvis Wianda, Liran Belenzon, and Tom Leung, who cofounded BenchSci in 2015. The Toronto, Canada-based biotech company taps AI to run experiments that accelerate drug discovery with the aim of increasing the speed…
Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S9+ gets Android 10 in the US
February 4, 2020
Samsung released the Android 10-based One UI 2.0 update for the Galaxy S9 and S9+ last week in the US, but only for the carrier-locked units. Now, the company has expanded the rollout for the unlocked S9+ units as well.
The firmware for the unlocked units sports version…
The Apple TV app is now available on LG’s 2019 TVs
February 4, 2020
LG has made the Apple TV app available on a variety of its 2019 smart TVs as promised, according to a press release from the company. The app will be on TVs in more than 80 countries and gives users access to Apple’s new Apple TV+ video subscription service as well as the…
Now certain 2019 LG TVs have the Apple TV app too
February 4, 2020
Late last year LG started to add AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to its TVs with firmware updates. Then at CES last month the company announced it would add the full Apple TV app that adds all of the video bits from iTunes, as well as access to the Apple TV+ service. Now, if you have one of its 2019 OLED TVs or high-end NanoCell LCD TVs then you should start seeing the app, while “select” other…
LG gave an update last month before CES about the Apple TV app arriving this year on its recent TVs. While we learned that the 2020 models would include Apple’s TV app when they launch, LG didn’t share a date for when the 2018 and 2019 models will gain support except for…
Google now has a ‘multibillion-dollar’ hardware business, has paid $80B to Android app devs
February 4, 2020
“We have no idea how much money Google makes from hardware,” Marketwatch wrote two years ago. That’s no longer entirely true — the company’s hardware division is a “multibillion-dollar” business, the company revealed during parent Alphabet’s Q4 earnings call…
For a while now, we were starting to believe that Samsung’s Bixby-powered smart speaker would keep existing as vaporware. After all, it was first announced over a year ago, in 2018 alongside the Galaxy Note9. Earlier today, Samsung Korea accidentally posted an announcement article for the Galaxy Home Mini. The article was posted on Samsung Korea but has since been taken down.
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