The new Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ come with the first triple camera setups in the phablet lineup. And while the three units are familiar from the Galaxy S10, Samsung has managed to keep things interesting by adding a few cool new tricks for the video recording. The company went ahead and shared a few official samples highlighting the novelties.
Arguably the most interesting of the bunch is…
IKEA creates a business unit devoted to smart home tech
August 17, 2019
It’s clear by now that IKEA is serious about smart home tech between its Sonos-powered speakers and connected lights, but the home furniture giant wants to formalize that commitment. It just established a full-fledged Home Smart business unit that, as you might guess…
The Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ feature a new and improved S Pen and this infographic is the simplest way to explain the upgrades. If you read until the end, youll find an illustrated history of the Galaxy Note and its S Pen.
Air Actions join the old Air Command…
Hitting the Books: How big tech might monopolize AI
August 17, 2019
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.
Our modern world wouldn’t exist if not for machine learning. From…
Developers criticize Apple’s changes to location permissions in iOS 13 as ‘anti-competitive’
August 17, 2019
iOS 13 introduces a number of changes for how developers are able to use user locations. Now, a group of app developers have joined forces to call the changes anti-competitive, and are taking their complaints directly to Tim Cook.
As detailed in a…
Switch owners may be able to replace their consoles with the model that has better battery life if it’s only been a month or less since they’ve purchased their device. According to some posts on Reddit, Nintendo of America has been telling customers that they can…
Teardown videos prove Nintendo’s revised Switch with new CPU lasts longer on a charge
August 16, 2019
Nintendo claims that the only difference between its new, revised Switch and the older model is improved battery life. Not content to take Nintendo’s word for it, some popular YouTubers put their brand new, currently hard-to-find units to the test, cracking them open to search for any new undisclosed features or hardware tweaks along the way.
The consensus? Nintendo isn’t fibbing about that…
If you’ve bought a Nintendo Switch since July 17th, you might be able to upgrade for free
August 16, 2019
Nintendo made a lightly updated version of the original Switch console that offers improvements like better battery life. But if you bought the old model recently, you might not be out of luck. The company is offering upgrades to the newer model for customers who bought the…
Google has removed 85 apps from the Google Play store after security researchers at Trend Micro found a particularly annoying adware scheme hiding inside.The adware, called AndroidOS_Hidenad.HRXH, was embedded in fully functioning photography and gaming apps that were…
When you hear “Android fragmentation,” we often conjure up the negatives, but there is more to the mobile OS forks than slightly slow software updates. Unlike Android, iOS has an end-to-end experience controlled by Apple from start to finish. That means that because of iOS, we sometimes wrongly see fragmentation as a dirty word. The thing is, it is actually quite the opposite on the Android…
