Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is known for his frequently accurate Apple predictions based at least in part on supply channel connections… and if he’s on the mark this time, he might raise some eyebrows. Kuo has claimed that the “highest-end” 2021 iPhone will ditch the Lightning port in favor of a “completely wireless experience.” While there have been portless concept…

Exactly one year ago, Waymo, the self-driving vehicle venture of Google parent company Alphabet, launched Waymo One, which it characterized at the time as the world’s first commercial autonomous taxi service. Waymo One enabled select customers — initially only those who were involved in the early stages of Waymo’s trial program — to hail a robo-taxi, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona and…

As cellphones got smarter, they also became marginally more dangerous to the clumsy, easily distracted humans holding them, according to new research. Before phones came loaded with perilous pings from Twitter, read receipts, or news alerts, the researchers found, they posed less of a risk to the integrity of their users’ faces. Around 2007 — the year the first iPhone was released — the…

Nokia has launched its first smart TV in the Indian market with e-commerce platform Flipkart. The 55-inch model being launched today is the first of its kind, with more models coming in later. The Nokia 55CAUHDN has a 55-inch display with 4K UHD resolution, 60Hz refresh rate, 400 nits peak brightness, 1200:1 contrast ratio and 178 degree viewing angles. The TV uses an ADS panel, which is a…