enlarge / The Galaxy Z Flip (left) and Galaxy Z Fold 2 (right). Samsung will now sell both display styles to competitors. An ETNews report claims that Samsung Display is poised to expand its foldable display business and start selling it to companies other than Samsung Electronics’ phone division. Flexible panels were previously exclusive to … Read more
enlarge / The Xbox Series X, which launched in November. Microsoft released its second quarter 2021 earnings report yesterday and the company has continued its sprint of very strong quarters, again driven primarily by Azure and the cloud. But that same old story isn’t all here: the report also tells us a thing or two … Read more
enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. The past 24 hours have been awash with stock market news, from normal to crazy. But based on Apple’s performance in recent quarters, the revenue the Cupertino company reported today for the first quarter of 2021 was very much on the normal side. And by that we … Read more
SOPA images | Getty Images Samsung Electronics said a global semiconductor shortage that has hit global automakers may also disrupt orders for the memory chips used in smartphones as manufacturers rushed to respond to the crisis. The warning from the world’s largest memory chip maker comes as companies and governments worry that limited chip production … Read more
enlarge / A live look at Huawei’s headquarters. Trade War! USA v. China View more stories The US sanctions against Huawei are now really starting to hold. A new report from Canalys Research shows that Huawei dropped to sixth in global phone sales in the fourth quarter of 2020, a dramatic drop from its first … Read more
This Asus version of the DG1 is passively cooled, which should give you a hint where the DG1 sits in terms of raw GPU performance. This actively cooled version of the DG1 was built by an “other partner”, which Intel previously mistakenly identified as colorful. No word yet on who really makes it. Here at … Read more
enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of the proposed technology stack. (Luckily, spell correction isn’t one of the core services Ctrl IQ provides.) Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has created a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a sponsorship company for the … Read more
Google’s Chrome browser users have faced three security vulnerabilities in the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new information about how malware can compromise Chrome’s syncing feature. abuse firewalls. Let’s discuss them one by one. First, the Great Suspender, an extension … Read more
enlarge / Users can install Homebrew through the Terminal in macOS. Samuel Axon The popular Mac tool Homebrew has long been used by developers and others for package management on macOS, but as we complained in our first M1 Mac review, it didn’t support Apple Silicon when Apple’s new Macs first launched late last year. … Read more
The camera on the first iPhone in 2007 was only 2 megapixels. And it only had a reversing camera; there wasn’t even a selfie shooter out front. These days, you’ll find multiple cameras on the front and back of phones — some with sensors as large as 108 megapixels, like the largest camera on the … Read more