When the Bluetooth SIG announced the power-efficient Bluetooth LE/Bluetooth Smart standard nearly a decade ago, users expected that long-lasting wireless headphones and speakers would quickly follow — but that didn’t happen, as LE’s dramatic power reductions were actually designed for lower-bandwidth accessories such as intermittently used digital scales and in-home sensors. Today, the…
Five years ago, the American Red Cross, the British Red Cross, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and Doctors Without Borders kicked off the Missing Maps project, a humanitarian endeavor that aims to preemptively map parts of the world vulnerable to conflicts, natural…
During a press conference at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel gave an update its efforts with respect to its AI and machine learning. The details were a bit hard to come by, but it gave a glimpse at the performance that can be expected from its future Xeon Scalable…
Since Android Pie, being able to put applications split-screen has changed. So this may be why you might be wondering how to enable split-screen now that you have updated to Android 10.
In previous versions of Android, you had to have multiple apps already open in the background to access split-screen. With Android Pie, Google changed the way the app switcher looks and by extension how it…
AMD reveals Xbox Series X ports in a sizzle reel (updated)
January 7, 2020
You might not have to wait for Microsoft to detail the Xbox Series X’s connectivity — AMD just did. As part of a sizzle reel for its CES presentation, the chip designer produced a 360-degree view of the Series X that put its rear ports on full display. And……
Nokia 6.1 Plus gets Android 10
January 7, 2020
Back in December HMD released its Android 10 update roadmap which showed us the next Nokia devices scheduled to receive the latest version of Googles OS.
Now the, Nokia 6.1 Plus has officially received the Android 10 update. Nokia Mobiles official Twitter handle…
Dell debuts an AMD Ryzen version of its G5 gaming laptop
January 6, 2020
Dell is expanding its G5 gaming laptop line with an unusual addition: AMD hardware under the hood. Its new G5 15 Special Edition will run on AMD’s new “Renoir-H” Ryzen laptop processors and Radeon RX 5600M graphics, giving you solid mid-tier performance if you don’t care much for the Intel/NVIDIA combos that often dictate gaming portables. Not surprisingly, there’s…
Acer is giving its thin-and-light Swift 3 laptop a useful shot in the arm. It just introduced two versions of the portable that use the latest chips from both AMD and Intel. The AMD-powered version, the 14-inch SF314-42, uses the brand new Ryzen 7 4700U to deliver…
HyperX is jumping into new gaming categories yet again. Kingston’s games-focused division established a business selling memory. But then it got into gaming headsets, then mechanical keyboard, and mice. Now, the company is refreshing all of those products and launching a…
HTC earned just $330m in 2019, down nearly 60% over 2018
January 6, 2020
HTC’s financial results for 2019 are in and they look unsurprisingly dim. The company made just $330m in revenue for the entire year, a drop of nearly 58% over 2018 and staggering 84% down compared to 2017.
To put things in perspective, Bloomberg Columnist Tim Culpan aptly points that Apple makes more money from AirPods sales in two weeks, than HTC makes in an entire year.
HTC managed to…
