We’re just a week away from Samsung’s launch event for the Galaxy S20, and as it approaches, the wave of leaks hasn’t stopped. Today, it’s been revealed that Samsung leaked the Galaxy S20 on its own website alongside new details about the Galaxy Buds+ including a full spec sheet.
Galaxy Buds+ spec sheet confirms what’s new
First, let’s talk about Samsung’s new headphones. Last…
LG pulls out of Mobile World Congress over coronavirus concerns
February 4, 2020
Mobile World Congress is the event the world — or at least, our particularly nerdy corner of it — looks to for annual updates in smartphones, networking technology and more. This year, as concerns over a growing coronavirus outbreak continue to mount, LG has…
Rockstar Games is losing one of its cofounders. Dan Houser, who started the studio with his brother Sam, is leaving, according to a U.S. Securities Exchange Commission filing. Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive alerted investors that Dan Houser will exit the Grand…
The world is watching the spread of a coronavirus from China, and in the lead-up to one of the year’s biggest tech conferences, the GSMA is announcing measures to combat the virus.
Coronavirus won’t stop MWC 2020 in Barcelona itself, but Chinese telecoms equipment company ZTE is pulling the plug on its press conference.
In a statement today, GSMA confirmed that MWC 2020 will go on as planned…
How AI helped upscale an antique 1896 film to 4K
February 4, 2020
When the 50-second silent short film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat premiered in 1896, some theatergoers reportedly ran for safety at the sight of a projected approaching train, thinking that a real one would burst through the screen at any moment…
Ahead of this month’s MWC 2020 in Barcelona, Spain, the largest annual gathering of wireless device makers and carriers, event organizer GSMA today said that despite seeing “minimal impact” from the Wuhan coronavirus, it’s implementing additional measures to…
President Trump is set to give the 2020 State of the Union address tonight, February 4th at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT. Here’s how to watch it on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and the web.
This marks President Trump’s last State of the Union speech before the upcoming presidential election in the fall.
As noted by PBS, the State of the Union address comes just a day before the Senate is going to…
LG will only sell premium 5G flagships in NA and Europe, move mid-rangers production to ODMs
February 4, 2020
LGs mobile division is bleeding money, but the company has plans for a turnaround in the 2020-2021 period. The core of the new strategy is to focus high-end phones where they will be best received and move the production of entry-level and mid-range handsets to ODMs.
The…
U.S. interviews iOS app makers in Apple antitrust investigation
February 4, 2020
(Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of its investigation into Apple, one of the four big tech companies being probed for alleged anti-competitive behavior, according one of the developers and another person familiar with the…
If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands. The Seattle tech giant today launched Brand Voices, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly, Amazon’s cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech, that pairs customers with Amazon engineers to build AI-generated voices representing certain personas.
As Amazon…
