Foxconn, an electronics manufacturer that provides parts for Apple, is investing $10 billion in a US factory that could create up to 13,000 jobs, and no, it isn’t going back on this. Despite reports saying that the company is scaling back the US factory, Foxconn says it’ll stay true to its US investment. While the …
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Yelp has filed an antitrust complaint against Google in the EU, crying out that the search giant has abused its dominance to favor its own services over competitors’. The complaint follows a 2017 EU ruling that Google misused its dominance in shopping search results. That ruling resulted in a 2.4 billion euro fine ($2.9 billion, £2 billion or AU$3.7 billion). Google is currently appealing …
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“The bad: Two-hour battery life.” That’s from our review of the $199 Oculus Go, one of the first compelling VR headsets cheap enough to throw in a bag and carry around. But short battery life may not plague portable headsets for long: Bloomberg reports that a new, unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 processor will make it easier to build cheap VR and …
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A while back I offered advice on choosing the best music service for your family, with an eye toward convenience, versatility and especially price. One important consideration I completely forgot was explicit lyrics. Given that pretty much every modern song contains bad language (that’s right, I said it — now get off my lawn!), parents might want the option of …
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Pandora is taking on Spotify‘s popular Discover Weekly personalized playlists with its own individualized mixes it calls Soundtracks, which center on themes like high-energy music or tunes to help you focus. Pandora, a streaming-music provider best known for its free digital radio, is widening these personalized playlists Wednesday to all subscribers of its Premium service, which is a $10-a-month membership that competes with …
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Google backtracked from a Chrome feature that blocked autoplaying audio on some websites, but the feature will be back in October. The autoplay blocking, intended to make the web a more pleasant place and to rein in push websites, also had the unintended side effect of crippling lots of web-based games in Chrome. So Chrome temporarily disabled autoplay audio blocking …
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Legal troubles stemming from unhappy MacBook users are piling up for Apple. A new class action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over its use of “butterfly switch” keyboards on MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Defendants say the keyboards, which Apple introduced in 2015, are defective. This is the second lawsuit over the keyboards this month. It follows blog posts, tweets, support-forum comments, a Change.org petition, …
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Apple is currently offering $29 iPhone battery replacements, but if you paid full price ($79) for an out-of-warranty replacement before Apple discounted its rate, you may get your $50 back. Apple announced that it’s giving $50 refunds to customers who paid full price for an iPhone battery replacement, for iPhone 6 or later, at an authorized Apple store between Jan. 1, …
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Perhaps Twitter isn’t meant for your TV. Twitter announced that it’s ending support for its Xbox, Roku and Android TV apps on May 24. The social media company suggests you use Twitter on your computer or device instead. These versions of Twitter all use a streamer or console to run on your TV. There are other ways to get Twitter …
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What’s not to love about slimline receivers? They’re so little! So tiny. Come here little cutie!! Look at you! Marantz has been making half-height AV receivers for many years, and the NR1509 and NR1609 are the latest to slip off the production line. The look is familiar, and the features are more or less the same. Now that everyone is …
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