98point6, a telemedicine startup whose platform pairs clinicians with AI to provide text-based care, today closed a $119 million venture funding round. The company says it will use the proceeds to further invest in R&D and expand its practice as employers, health plans, and retail partners increasingly rely on remote care during the pandemic.
As with other virtual health-focused platforms…
Xbox Series X external storage tests: USB HDD vs. SSD vs. NVME
October 15, 2020
By now, you probably know that to play next-gen Xbox Series X games, you need to store them either on the internal SSD or the official $220 Seagate 1TB expansion card. When it comes to backward compatible games, however, you can load them from an external USB drive. And if…
Upcoming Honor X-series phone leaks in live images
October 15, 2020
An unannounced Honor phone bearing the Dingdang codename and DNN-LX9 model number broke cover in a series of live images. Those arrived in our mailbox alongside a few of its specs and even its alleged pricing. The images reveal a trio of available colors – green…
Samsung has released a new software update for the Galaxy Fold that brings several Galaxy Z Fold2’s features to the first-gen foldable smartphone, which include App Pair, Capture View and Dual Preview.
App Pair allows you to open up to three apps together in your preferred split-screen layout via the Edge Panel, which is accessible with a swipe on the side of the screen. The company has…
Snapchat finally lets all iOS users put music in their snaps
October 15, 2020
Snap is making good on its word to bring music to Snapchat and setting itself up to compete even more so with TikTok and Instagram. The company announced today that iOS users around the world will be able to include popular music in their snaps. It already brought the…
Microsoft’s new-look Xbox dashboard is rolling out this week
October 15, 2020
The October update for Xbox is arriving this week, bringing with it a taste of the next generation. Microsoft has announced that a new dashboard design is rolling out to Xbox consoles as part of the latest update, and it’ll also run on the Xbox Series X and Series S when…
Watch the Infinix Note 8 launch live here
October 15, 2020
We are about to witness the debut of yet another interesting phone as Infinix is about to unveil its Note 8. The new smartphone of the Shenzhen-based company will be unveiled at 8 AM PDT (3PM UTC) and we have the livestream embedded below for your perusal.
The Infinix Note 8 will arrive as the successor of the Note 7, introduced back in April. This time we’ll see a Helio G80 chipset, a total of…
The first iPhone 12 hands-on happened on 'Good Morning America'
October 15, 2020
Now that Apple has announced its new iPhones, people are of course eager to see what they look like in real life. Unfortunately our current conditions kept reporters away from the event, and mean it will take a little longer for most of us to get first hand impressions of…
Apple introduced the iPhone 12 lineup this week at its October online event, which means the press was unable to try out the new iPhones right after the announcement. However, the company sent the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro to ABC News tech reporter Becky Worley, who…
OnePlus ditches Facebook bloatware on the 8T and future phones following user backlash
October 15, 2020
Following the launches of the OnePlus Nord and OnePlus 8 series, it was made apparent that the company was pre-installing Facebook bloatware on its devices. Now, in a reversal, OnePlus is officially stopping that practice.
In case you missed the original story, earlier this year users became aware that OnePlus was pre-installing some Facebook apps on its phones. Specifically, the OnePlus 8, 8 Pro…
