Steven Musil

Apple Could Launch AR/VR Headset With New M2 Chip Next Year

Apple’s first mixed-reality headset may have something in common with the company’s latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The headset, which is expected to be just one piece in a “deluge” of products rumored to be unveiled next year, could sport the company’s flagship M2 processor, according to Mark Gurman’s Sunday newsletter for Bloomberg. The …

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Meta Reportedly Halts Development of Two

Facebook parent Meta has halted development of a much-rumored smartwatch featuring two cameras, Bloomberg reported late Wednesday. The device, expected to make its debut as early as this summer, had been reported to sport two cameras for taking photos and video, as well as health features like a heart rate monitor. It would reportedly support LTE connectivity at a cost …

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US Reclaims Supercomputing Crown With AMD

The US has reclaimed the top spot on the list of the world’s most powerful computers with the first supercomputer to cross the exascale performance threshold. The AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory topped 1.1 exaflops, or 1.1 quintillion calculations per second, on the Linmark benchmark, the lab announced Monday. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built machine handily beat …

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Wear OS Users Can Now Stream YouTube Music Without a Phone

Google has begun rolling out a Wear OS update that’ll let users stream YouTube Music playlists over LTE or Wi-Fi — without the need to have a phone nearby. Premium subscribers will have access to more than 80 million songs and thousands of playlists on the app, Google said in a blog post Monday. The app also comes with Google’s …

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Buffalo Massacre Suspect Reportedly Invited Discord Users to Review His Plan

The suspected shooter in the massacre at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket invited a small group of Discord users to join a private chat room to review his plan about 30 minutes before beginning his attack, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing a statement from the chat app. Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old white suspect, is accused of killing …

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Livestreamed Shooting Leaves 10 People Dead in Buffalo

A gunman who killed 10 people on Saturday at Buffalo, New York, supermarket broadcast the attack on Twitch, a livestreaming site. The suspected shooter, an 18-year-old white man identified as Payton Gendron from Conklin, New York, was arrested after opening fire at the Tops Friendly Market, striking 13. Eleven of the victims were Black, and officials said the shooting is …

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Samsung Hits $61B in Revenue for Another Record Quarter

Samsung posted record revenue during its first quarter, boosted by strong sales of memory chips and its latest flagship phones. The Korean electronics giant said Wednesday that its revenue for the three-month period ended March 31 came in at 77.78 trillion won ($61.4 billion), an increase of nearly 19% over the same quarter last year. It’s the company’s third straight …

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Amazon Must Reinstate Activist Employee Fired After Protest, Judge Rules

Amazon must reinstate a worker it fired two years ago after a protest against the company’s working conditions at a Staten Island, New York, fulfillment center, a judge ruled Monday. Gerald Bryson, a former warehouse employee, is also owed back pay, Benjamin W. Green, an administrative law judge, determined. The judge agreed with a National Labor Relations Board finding that …

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iPhone 14 Pro, Pro Max May Get Bigger Bump for 48MP Camera System

You may be able to forget talk about Apple bumping the rear-camera bump from the upcoming iPhone 14. The Pro and Pro Max models of the next-generation iPhone will actually expand the bump, says Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The reason, he says, is to accommodate a wider camera with a 48-megapixel camera system, a health bump from the 12-megapixel camera …

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Police Arrest Suspected Hackers in Wake of Lapsus$ Attack on Okta, Report Says

UK police arrested seven people, including teenagers, in connection with an investigation into a hacking group, according to CNET sister site ZDNet. The arrests followed a Bloomberg report that a teen was the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking group, which has claimed responsibility for data hacks of Samsung and Nvidia, as well as recently revealed breaches at Microsoft and Okta. …

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