Indias premium smartphone shipments have been on the rise throughout 2019 and according to the latest report, OnePlus cemented its position as the leader in the segment with a 33% market share, ahead of Samsung and Apple. The catch is that the analysts consider premium all devices priced above INR 30,000 ($420). Those saw a 29% year over year growth.
OnePlus now controls 1/3 of the premium…
Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro gets a $300 price drop at Amazon
February 4, 2020
Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is barely a few months old, but there are already good deals to be had if you’re willing to be patient. Amazon is selling the base configuration of Apple’s latest laptop for $2,099, a full $300 off its usual sticker price and a…
PSA: iCloud․com accessible from iOS and Android with support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, more
February 4, 2020
If you haven’t tried in a while, support for iCloud.com when using a mobile browser like Safari or Chrome on an iPhone, iPad, and Android has improved. Functionality differs a bit between iPhone/Android and iPad but there is access to Photos, Notes, Reminders, Find iPhone…
Chinese phone maker Xiaomi gave us our first look at its 100W Super Charge Turbo fast charging technology last March, showing how it juiced up a 4,000 mAh battery from flat to 100% in 17 minutes.
We are yet to see a smartphone from Xiaomi that supports this tech, and it appears there’s still a lot of waiting to be done. Xiaomi VP Lu Weibing took to Weibo to detail the challenges with the…
Google has paid Android developers about half of what Apple has
February 4, 2020
As I write this the evening before you’re reading it, the colossal caucus clusterf*** in Iowa is still ongoing and no official results are anywhere in sight. It seems clear that some portion of the problem stems from a poorly architected app. It’s an incredibly bad start…
As part of the proposed quarterly maintenance schedule, the Samsung Galaxy S7 is now receiving the January 2020 security patch.
It’s great to see Samsung not leaving the Galaxy S7 out of its recent update spell, even if the January 2020 patch is slightly behind the most…
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…
