Every day hundreds of men climb the 9,000 feet to the summit of Mount Ijen located in Java, Indonesia and then trek 3,000 feet down into the crater to break slabs of sulfur. Each load of sulfur is around 100-135 pounds, which is the approximate total body weight of the miners.
Many of these men do not wear gas masks and carry their loads of sulfur up a steep volcano wearing sandals versus shoes.
After several reports of criminals unlocking people’s iPhones and managing to access users’ bank accounts in Brazil, the São Paulo state police were able to arrest one of these gangs.
According to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, four men were arrested yesterday…
Apple @ Work: Prevent employees from upgrading to the iOS 15 and macOS Monterey public betas through your MDM
July 17, 2021
Apple’s public betas for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey have been available for the past few weeks. While there is a lot of excitement around them for business and personal reasons alike, there is also a lot to consider for IT departments when employees want to…
Back in high school, prom night saw several of the senior elite roll up to the dance in fancy limos. Something tells me that if I had pulled the same move in this funny stretch limousine electric tricycle, I might not have gotten a quick invite to the cool kids’ table. But that’s ok. Life’s too short to care about anything other than having fun — and this trike has fun written all over it…
CIRP: US buyers bought more expensive iPhones, traded in their old ones earlier in Q2 2021
July 17, 2021
CIRP surveyed 500 US customers who bought an iPhone, iPad, Mac or an Apple Watch in the April-June quarter of this year. And what the researchers found is that Apple customers are spending more money than in previous quarters.
While the general trend in the industry (and for…
All of the other Chinese smartphone brands have benefited from Huawei’s international demise (except Honor), but none more than Xiaomi, and today’s news comes to confirm this fact yet again.
According to Canalys, in the second quarter of 2021, Xiaomi was the…
Yesterday a rumor started doing the rounds claiming Honor is holding a global launch event on August 12, and today the company itself has confirmed this to us through an invite.
As you can see, the invite specifically mentions the Honor Magic3 series, and it also gives us a nice close-up view of one of the upcoming phones’ cameras, pitted against the horizon. Whether or not this implies a…
Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 11 were top sellers in Q2 2021, iPhone 12 mini got the cold shoulder
July 17, 2021
We recently reported on a research by which analyzed for how long Apple users were holding on to their older iPhones.
Another interesting angle of the research however was which were the most popular new iPhone models in this period.
The research looked at iPhones were…
Samsung announced the Galaxy M21 last March and it will introduce the 2021 edition called the Galaxy M21 2021 Edition on July 21.
This revelation comes from Amazon.in, which tells us that the Galaxy M21 2021 Edition – previously rumored to be called the Galaxy M21…
Realme GT Explorer Master Edition coming with Snapdragon 870, vanilla model passes by Geekbench
July 17, 2021
As evident by several leaks, Realme is planning to introduce a Master Edition of its GT 5G model on July 21. It seems however that there will be more than one Master Edition phone at launch with an “Explorer Master Edition” joining the vanilla variant. The news is now clarified by Steve Hemmerstoffer (@OnLeaks) who shared an image of the RMX3366 aka Explorer Master Edition.
Because there…
