New Ikea app will save you a trip to the store

IN 2017, Ikea came out with an app, called Ikea Place, to let customers see how furniture would look in their homes via augmented reality, but it didn’t allow you to buy items. A new app from the home furnishings company will change that. The upcoming Ikea app will let users buy the furniture they …

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Dell and EyeSafe partner to tackle the blue light blues

As bad as excessive exposure to artificial blue-light wavelengths may be, the current mainstream fix of shifting the screen display to yellow doesn’t cut it. Even if your eyes find it restful, it can be aesthetically unpleasant to look at and can be useless if you’re streaming video, photo editing, or performing other tasks that require accurate colors. Dell’s first …

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Huawei’s HongMeng Android alternative launch date uncertain

Huawei’s Android replacement is not, apparently, right around the corner.  After reporting that Huawei was preparing its new operating system for a possible launch, Huawei has told TechRadar that its home-grown OS will not be rolled out next month. Instead, the company plans for the OS to be ready in China later this year, with an international launch in 2020.  Huawei did …

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TikTok owner reportedly developing its own phone

ByteDance, the Chinese company behind the TikTok social video app, is working on its own phone, a report said Monday. It’ll preload the phone with its own apps, including TikTok, newsfeeds and games, according to the Financial Times, which cited two anonymous sources. The device, which ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has wanted for a while, comes after the company acquired …

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Steelseries Apex Pro keyboard’s switches autoadjust for hard or soft touch

Sometimes you need to pound and sometimes you need a light touch. Steelseries has developed new mechanical switches that can automatically change the amount of pressure required to register a press depending upon what you’re doing, such as gaming or working, and used them in its new Apex Pro and Apex Pro TKL keyboards. Enlarge Image The keyboards have a …

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Dell’s 2019 XPS 15, XPS 13 2

Dell’s premium XPS line showcases the company’s most innovative designs with the latest hardware like the new XPS 15.  It’s the world’s smallest 15.6-inch performance laptop, Dell says, with the footprint of what would normally be a 14-inch laptop, and it has a starting weight of 4 pounds (1.8 kg). Dell also shed as much bezel around the display as …

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This is one beautiful mechanical keyboard

Ambling about a sea of graphics cards, monitors and RGB headphones on the crowded Computex show floor in Taiwan, I was stopped in my tracks by this keyboard from Azio. The Retro Compact Keyboard is a mechanical Bluetooth keyboard made with genuine leather and a copper brushed metal frame. It has a battery life of around nine months, Azio says, …

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FCC raises $2 billion in second 5G spectrum auction

The Federal Communications Commission’s second 5G spectrum auction has ended, raising $2 billion in gross bids. 5G, already launched in the US by Verizon and AT&T, is the next-generation network being used by smartphones to provide faster speeds and more capacity. Through its second auction, the FCC sold off a batch of millimeter-wave (mmWave) high-bandwidth spectrum in the 24GHz band, with …

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HTML’s future settles with healing of years

A years-old, sometimes emotional division over the web’s core HTML technology has ended with an agreement designed to make it easier to chart the web’s future W3C Standards define how things work together. How far apart are the prongs on an electrical plug? How large is a sheet of letter-size paper? But for nearly a decade, two separate groups have …

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Apple sued by iTunes customers over alleged data misuse

A lawsuit filed by three iTunes customers claims Apple is sending personal user data to third parties to boost its revenues.  It is alleged that Apple is selling, renting or disclosing full names, addresses, genres of music and specific titles of songs purchased on the iTunes Store app on iPhones without consent or notification. According to documents filed with the United …

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5G chipmaker aims for China phone wins and an edge on Qualcomm

Qualcomm’s about to see more competition in the 5G chip market.  Taiwan-based MediaTek said late Tuesday it’s built its first processor that integrates the brains of a device on the same chip as 5G, 4G and other wireless connectivity, which should improve the battery life of devices. The company’s biggest customers will get samples in the third quarter of this …

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Anti

Anti-Trump brothers Ed and Brian Krassenstein were permanently banned from Twitter for operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing bots with those accounts. The Daily Beast first reported the news late Thursday. “The Twitter Rules apply to everyone. Operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions are strictly prohibited,” a Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “Engaging in these behaviors will …

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Dell XPS 15 and 13 2

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Alienware redesigns its thin gaming laptops and offers OLED

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Asus’ new dual

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