The USB Promoter Group — an association comprising Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments — today announced the pending USB4 specification, slated to deliver 40-gigabit-per-second throughput and support for host-based algorithms to more efficiently handle data operations. USB4 will use the same USB-C connector we’ve grown used to and still require …
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Sigma’s the only company that announced a full-frame mirrorless camera in 2018, but it hasn’t started selling it. When the company talked about it at Photokina in September, it didn’t provide much detail save to say it would be out this year. Now that’s slipped to 2020, but the company did state a resolution for the new version of its Foveon …
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Who needs an anticipatory buildup? The Nokia 9 PureView phone, notable for its five-camera ring, will start selling this Sunday, March 3, for $599 — $100 off its nominal $699 price — through March 10. Nokia’s parent HMD Global announced the camera just three days ago, telling us the phone would be a “limited edition,” offered in “a limited run,” …
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Probable marketing renders of Huawei’s P30 and P30 Pro would seem to have leaked into the universe in advance of the phones’ launch at the end of March, revealing notable information about the camera setup: the P30 Pro jumps to 7.8x zoom from the 3x of the P20 Pro, and the P30 bumps to a triple camera setup, adding a …
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Samsung makes some of the world’s fastest storage, not just phones. And the company announced today that it’s started mass producing 512GB mobile-focused flash memory with over twice the read speed and 1.5 times the write speed of the previous leader, the 1TB module announced last month at CES. The V-NAND (PDF) memory is based on its embedded Universal Flash …
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Blade’s Shadow Ghost is a cool little box that lets you use the Shadow desktop-in-the-cloud service with just a TV or monitor. No PC required. The box that gives you the device and network connections you need to use the Windows-based desktop service. When I tried it out, I kept forgetting I wasn’t on a local PC and never found …
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If you were planning to check out the Galaxy Fold at your local phone store when it launches in April, you may not be able to. According to a Samsung exec at MWC, the “super premium” foldable phone will likely be in short supply when it goes on sale on April 26, and the company sounds like it will be closely managing …
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Adobe on Friday pushed out an update to Adobe Premiere Pro CC via its Creative Cloud app to fix the glitch in the previous version that seemed to kill the speakers on late-model MacBook Pros. The message was posted to the Adobe Community thread tracking the situation: UPDATE: Adobe had a small number of user reports about an issue in …
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The Galaxy S10 and foldable phone leakfest is finally over; now that Samsung’s Unpacked event has started, we’ve got all the official details about Samsung’s much-hyped new Galaxy Fold, its raft of Galaxy S10 models, and all the new accessories that go with them. Of course, there’s always something we didn’t get. In this case, no news on the Galaxy Home. …
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It looks like Samsung’s got a pair of lemon-drop Galaxy Buds to go with its banana-yellow budget Galaxy S10E. WinFuture has posted purported renders of the upcoming headphones — we’ve previously seen them in white — and while we’ll probably struggle to decide exactly what shade of yellow the new Galaxy ensemble is, they’re certainly appealing. We’ll find out for sure whether or not …
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