Just a day after the renders of Galaxy S11 leaked online, we’re getting a glimpse of the smaller Samsung Galaxy S11e in further CAD-based renders.
The second-generation ‘e’ device from Samsung, the Galaxy S11e is set to include a number of firsts including a triple camera setup and a center-aligned display notch. Of course, the renders come courtesy (yet again) of in collaboration with
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Humans are responsible for the antics of our AIs
November 23, 2019
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an…
No, AI is not for social good
November 23, 2019
Faced with the public furor over problems with artificial intelligence, tech companies and researchers would now have us believe that the big fix for those problems is to develop AI for social good.
This proposal is not new; it’s the latest in a long line of bold, mostly…
And while things are slowly going back to normal around the Huawei ban, the US FCC is making things harder on the other end. The latest development around the US-China trade war is that USA operators can no longer purchase Huawei and ZTE equipment using federal subsidy funds.
As of now, only select operators with approval can purchase Huawei and ZTE equipment and they can still do it but not with…
OnePlus reveals its second website data breach in two years
November 23, 2019
Early in 2018, popular cellphone maker OnePlus revealed it had coughed up credit card information on over 40,000 users in a data breach, and now it’s informing users of another one. This time, while the website is the source of the breach, the company believes…
Honor V30 confirmed to ship with Kirin 990 SoC, price surfaces
November 23, 2019
The Honor V30 and V30 Pro arriving on November 26 were expected to ship with the flagship Kirin 990 SoC, and just three days ahead of the unveiling, the company has officially confirmed that the V30 series will indeed have the Kirin 990 chipset under the hood.
Honor made…
OnePlus security breach exposes customer names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses
November 23, 2019
OnePlus has revealed today that its systems have been breached, resulting in information about certain orders having been exposed. Names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses could be in the possession of nefarious third parties.
The company stresses that only a subset of orders have had these details exposed. Additionally, OnePlus says all payment information, passwords, and accounts…
New Nokia smartphone launches on December 5
November 23, 2019
HMD Global, the company that makes Nokia smartphones, has started teasing its next product, which will be officially unveiled on December 5. We know this much from the tweet you can see embedded below. Unfortunately, aside from the date and an outline of a handset, we…
Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, due to be launched in September 2020, are both going to sport 6GB of RAM, according to notes shared by Barclays analyst Blayne Curtis and his associates, who have provided reliable information in the past (though not…
Bungie finally has a fix for today's 'Destiny' server problems
November 23, 2019
Over the last twelve hours or so, people trying to play Destiny 1 and Destiny 2 have had trouble connecting to the game, but at last Bungie support says it has found a resolution. However, fixing the issue in Destiny’s “core services” required restarting the servers and kicking everyone out again. So if you’d finally managed to log in and are now looking at a loading…
