One of the underappreciated parts of the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem has always been DeX, the platform for accessing apps and tolls on your Galaxy phone from the comfort of a keyboard/monitor/mouse setup. For its latest iteration in 2019 for the new Note 10 and Note 10+, the focus shifts to working with your PC, instead …

Google Fiber is expanding its Austin offering, and it is doing so with gigabit wireless internet.  This week the internet giant announced it would be expanding Fiber in the city through its Webpass subsidiary, offering a new wireless way to connect people to its high-speed internet service.  While Google has been providing gigabit internet in Austin since 2014, the new …

If autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is your thing, Apple added four videos to its “Shot on iPhone” YouTube series on Wednesday. The tech giant uploaded videos titled Tapping; Scraping; Crunching; and Whispering from Ghost Forest, all between 6 and 10 minutes long. Apple prefaces each video with a note that it’s best enjoyed with headphones.  Tapping has gentle rain …

Back in the day, having the smallest possible phone was a status symbol. Ben Stiller, playing the namesake Zoolander character in the popular 2001 movie, carried around a flip phone the size of a lighter to show how important he was. Steve Jobs, when introducing the first iPhone in 2007, noted that the 3.5-inch device “fits beautifully in the palm of …

Samsung announced Tuesday it will partner with the United Nations to deploy an app aimed at raising funding and awareness for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals program. During Samsung’s Note 10 announcement event, Samsung CEO DJ Koh joined UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Stein to roll out the app. “At the heart of this initiative is the new Samsung Global …

Samsung has worked with Microsoft to allow greater integration between your computer and its Galaxy Note 10. And later this year, you’ll be able to make phone calls directly from your Windows PC. More from Samsung New Galaxy S10 phones bring it Galaxy Fold is the most exciting phone we’ve seen in years Every camera lens and curve on the …

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has promised $85 million in federal funding to make sure rural Americans get broadband. And she wants to override states that try to prevent local municipalities from building their own broadband networks.  Warren, a senator from Massachusetts, unveiled her plan Wednesday ahead of a road trip across Iowa. The broadband initiative is part of a …

The Galaxy Tab S6 is Samsung’s Android-based answer to the iPad Pro and Surface Pro (and the discontinued — but not discounted — Pixel Slate). As a premium tablet, the S6 has all the stuff you’d expect: A powerful new processor, a great 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display and quad speakers as well as a new pen and keyboard cover. But it’s …

Samsung shone a spotlight on its Exynos 9825 processor on Wednesday, hours before the Galaxy Note 10 launch at its Unpacked event. Given the timing, it’s likely this chip will power the premium big-screen phone. It’s also the company’s first 7-nanometer processor built using a process it unveiled last October — a refresh of the 8-nm Exynos 9820 that powered …

Some gaming laptops go for heft and size, hitting us up with more power than any (current) game needs. The Alienware Area-51m and Origin PC Eon17-X comes to mind, as does the upcoming Asus Mothership. Others go for portability, sacrificing screen size and muscle for a smaller footprint, like the Dell G5 15.  But what if we could get the …