With Black Friday around the corner, now is the perfect time to purchase a laptop if you need a new one. Dell has discounted most of its laptops, including popular ones like the XPS 13. Act fast, however, as a couple of models have already sold out.
XPS 13
Dell has discounted the XPS 13 by $250, pricing the base model — without touchscreen — at $1,029. This model includes an…
How to check timezones on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch
November 21, 2019
Want to quickly check what time it is in another city, state, or country? Follow along for how to check different timezones on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch
There are a couple of ways to check what time it is in another place. On Apple devices, the fastest way is to use…
Minecraft Earth came out in the U.S. in early access form on November 12, and the augmented reality take on the popular exploration and creation game hit 1.2 million downloads in the country in its first week, according to market analysts Sensor Tower.
Minecraft Earth is…
Interactive ‘dynamic email’ rolling out to Gmail for Android and iOS
November 21, 2019
Google wants the future of email to be less static and more interactive. Its solution based on Accelerated Mobile Pages has found industry support, and “dynamic email” is now coming to Gmail for Android and iOS.
Instead of clicking links that open in a browser, dynamic emails let you interact with calendar invites, respond to questionnaires, and browse catalogs right from a message. One…
Oppo working on a mobile chip of its own
November 21, 2019
Following the footsteps of other big smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, Apple and Huawei, Oppo is planning to release a mobile SoC designed in-house. It will be used to drive future Oppo models and this is not the first time we area hearing about this, but now we have a…
OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren, The fastest phone gets slightly faster
November 21, 2019
OnePThe best OnePlus smartphone on the market is unfortunately not officially available in the United States — at least for now. But nonetheless, despite regional lockouts, the OnePlus 7T Pro is finest phone made by the OEM that essentially instigated the affordable…
OpenAI releases Safety Gym for reinforcement learning
November 21, 2019
While much work in data science to date has focused on algorithmic scale and sophistication, safety — that is, safeguards against harm — is a domain no less worth pursuing. This is particularly true in applications like self-driving vehicles, where a machine learning system’s poor judgement might contribute to an accident.
That’s why firms like Intel’s Mobileye and Nvidia have proposed…
Samsung Galaxy A71 appears in renders: L-shaped quad camera and Infinity-O AMOLED display
November 21, 2019
After we got to our first look at the upcoming Galaxy A51 last week, a new set of renders just revealed its bigger brother – the Samsung Galaxy A71. The phone appears to follow the same design language with a centered punch hole in the display, slim bezels all around…
Nearly every official Apple iPhone case on sale from $24, Best Buy’s new Beat the Rush sale, more
November 21, 2019
Official Apple iPhone cases are on sale at Amazon from $24 in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. This week’s Best Buy Beat the Rush sale offers early price drops on iPad Pro and fresh deals on Apple Watch bands. You’ll find all that and more down below.
Amazon is…
Google quintuples top reward for hacking Android to $1 million
November 21, 2019
Google, which has already paid security researchers over $15 million since launching its bug bounty program in 2010, today expanded its Android Security Rewards program. Most notably, the company is introducing a top prize of $1 million. The previous top prize was $200,000. That’s technically a quintupling, although the maximum reward could be even higher. Google is launching a 50% bonus for…
