Today, Microsoft announced that it’s investing $1 billion in the Elon Musk-founded company OpenAI. The two companies will work together to bring supercomputing technologies and AI to Microsoft Azure. And OpenAI will run its services exclusively in Microsoft’s cloud. Ultimately, the partners hope to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a technology that some say will match or…
Samsung posted a video that highlights the quality and flexibility of Galaxy A80’s flip-up camera. That flip-up mechanism rotates the 48MP main camera, the 8MP ultra wide module and the 3D ToF sensor and points them at you, enabling almost full use of their…
Realme X receives first firmware update in China
July 22, 2019
The Realme X is one of the most exciting phones in the midrange market at the moment. Released back in May for Chinese users and a week ago for those in India, the phone offers a full-screen experience and Snapdragon 710 chipset for just $270.
Now the growing Oppo subsidiary…
watchOS 5 3 and iOS 12 4 will restore Walkie Talkie service after Apple Watch vulnerability discovered
July 22, 2019
Last week, Apple revealed that it had disabled the Walkie-Talkie feature on Apple Watch due to an exploit that could have allowed someone to secretly eavesdrop. With the release of watchOS 5.3 and iOS 12.4 today, Apple has restored Walkie-Talkie functionality for Apple Watch.
The watchOS 5.3 release notes say that the update “provides important security…
Nowadays, having strong passwords is a must online, and password managers make that task much easier. 1Password is one of the best options available, and this week its Android version is getting updated with a dark mode for Android Q and…
Nokia 7.1 Android smartphone hits a new low with Amazon deal, TP-Link’s Assistant-enabled smart plugs on sale from $24, and $100 off ViewSonic’s 1080p DLP Projector. Hit the jump for more in this Lunch Break.
Amazon is currently offering the Nokia 7.1 64GB…
We expect Apple will release iOS 12.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch later today. The update has been in developer and public beta since mid-May. This software release could be the first version of iOS that supports the Apple Card release, Apple’s new credit card with special features in the Wallet app on iOS, although it’s possible Apple Card could appear in a later update.
We also expect…
Recently OnePlus hosted a contest for an honorary community Product Manager for the development of Oxygen OS 10 and winner Léandro Tijink submitted the following screenshots as his idea for the next version of OnePlus’ OS.
Oxygen OS 10 will be the next version of…
The Xiaomi Mi Band 4 is the first in the family of smart bands that features a color screen (which is higher resolution than previous screens to boot). This allows users to customize the look of the band with wallpapers. If you have a great idea for such a wallpaper, you…
iOS 13 beta 4, released last week, brings 3D Touch back to supported iPhones closer to the way it used to be. Now you can perform proper peek and pop gestures, and continue your gesture motion to select menus similarly to how you could prior to iOS 13. To be clear, it’s still not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction.
There are quite a few additional noteworthy changes and features…
