Google has begun a live countdown of the days, hours, minutes and seconds until its annual developers’ conference. Google I/O 2022 will take place May 11-12, both at its Shoreline Amphitheater and online, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Wednesday on Twitter. We’ll be back live from Shoreline Amphitheatre for this year’s #GoogleIO! Join us online …

Marvel’s grittiest bunch of heroes and anti-heroes landed on Disney Plus on Wednesday, years after their debut on Netflix. Along with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Defenders’ Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Daredevil and The Punisher have all migrated their respective TV series to the streaming service, bringing intense violence, curse words and adult-size issues with them. It’s a …

While the latest Flip portable speaker, the JBL Flip 6, doesn’t look much different from the Flip 5 on the outside, it continues JBL’s tradition of making small tweaks and improvements over previous models. In the case of the Flip 6, that means improved sound quality, thanks to the two-way driver (a woofer and tweeter) and dual passive radiators that …

Apple’s new iPad Air, which was announced at last week’s “Peek Performance” event, is available for preorder and will be in stores soon. If you’re itching to get your hands on the latest Apple tablet, you may be wondering what you can do with that old iPad. Yes, you can sell it or trade it in for some extra cash …

After pausing production on Monday due to a local spike in COVID-19 cases, Apple supplier Foxconn is partially reopening its two campuses in Shenzhen, China, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.  Though Shenzhen, a tech hub near Hong Kong, remains in a government-mandated lockdown, the campus reopening will allow some production to resume in the facilities. Foxconn is one of Apple’s top suppliers …

A new backpack with a ventilated, lightweight padding went on sale Tuesday, demonstrating manufacturing techniques that are only possible because of 3D printing technology.  The Osprey Unltd, a new line of $700 backpacks designed for multiple-day excursions, uses a specialized technology from Carbon, a leader in 3D printing. The company’s Digital Light Synthesis method was used to make lower-back padding …

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The Federal Communications Commission banned two more Chinese-owned telecommunication companies from operating in the US market, as it continues to be wary that companies with ties to the Chinese government could pose national security threats.  In a 4-0 vote on Wednesday, the agency barred Pacific Networks and its wholly owned subsidiary ComNet from providing domestic and international service to customers in …

As VR and AR keep accelerating, companies making creative virtual world apps like Horizon Worlds and VRChat are finding a wild and sometimes hard-to-govern mix of user-made spaces that are sprouting up fast. In the world of AR, we might start seeing shared virtual experiences, too, overlaid with places in the physical world. Snap’s AR Landmarkers, which can layer AR …

For the first time since 2020, Apple unveiled an updated iPad Air. (Read our full review of the 2022 iPad Air here.) Introduced at the company’s “Peek Performance” event last week, the new, nearly 11-inch tablet is outfitted with 5G support, an M1 processor and a Center Stage front-facing camera. For now, the iPad Pro 2021 is the 2022 Air’s closest …