Samsung’s Galaxy flagships have long used two different chips depending on where you buy them, but it seems the Galaxy S23 series will be an outlier in that regard, using Snapdragon chips globally.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Samsung has plans to use Snapdragon chips in the Galaxy S23 in all regions, compared to using Qualcomm to supply around 70% of the chips for the Galaxy S22…
Apple @ Work: macOS Ventura and iOS 16 drive Apple’s vision for identity in the enterprise
July 9, 2022
Apple @ Work is brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that fully integrates 5 different applications on a single Apple-only platform, allowing Businesses and Schools to easily and automatically deploy, manage & protect all…
Apple was the second most successful smartphone vendor globally in Q1 2022, according to new data. The Cupertino company falls behind Samsung, as the South Korean tech giant has 23.4% of the global market.
As shown by BanklessTimes, Samsung and Apple are battling for the top…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Solar-powered ice cream vending bike
July 9, 2022
Dumpster diving into the abyss of the world’s largest online shopping site has regularly seen me bob to the surface with some uniquely interesting and sometimes terrifying finds. China has become the undisputed leader in producing electric vehicles, especially the seemingly outlandish ones. But as much fun as a bright pink life-sized Barbie electric pickup truck can be, it’s the truly useful…
Tim Cook goes for a ride in Rivian electric pickup at Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’
July 9, 2022
As reported earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook is attending the Sun Valley Conference this week in Idaho, often referred to as a “summer camp for billionaires.” While we rarely learn much about what goes on at Sun Valley each year, a fun Friday story this year is that…
Back in April, the well-known billionaire Elon Musk announced that he would buy Twitter in a $44 billion deal. However, the deal was put on hold a month later after a number of controversies. Now Elon Musk seems to have officially backed out of the Twitter deal, as he has…
Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and local Finnish utility Vatajankoski have together built the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system that can be powered by solar and wind.
Sand-filled energy storage in Finland
Polar Night Energy’s heat storage system is a 23-foot-tall steel container filled with 100 tons of sand. (Polar Night Energy uses the lowest…
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NASA Highlights Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets Coverage
Editor’s note: The Climate Conversation prelaunch event on Wednesday, July 13, begins at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT).
Riding aboard will be EMIT, a mission developed at JPL to…
Nearly a year later, the Google Home app has made no progress in cleaning up its Nest disaster
July 9, 2022
Last year, Google refreshed the Nest camera lineup for the first time in several years, but it also came with a change on the software side of things. The Google Home app is supposed to replace the Nest app, but the transition period has been a maddening limbo. Nearly a year…
Saints Row officially coming to Google Stadia on August 23, day-and-date with other platforms
July 9, 2022
After months of uncertainty, it was today officially announced that Saints Row will be released on Google Stadia the same day as other major platforms.
The reboot of Saints Row was originally scheduled for release this past February, but was delayed to August. The game is still on track for its August 23 release date, but it’s now adding a new platform.
Officially announced on Twitter today…
