There’s a potential shakeup building in who’s supplying the brains of the latest and greatest Android smartphones. While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are the de facto gold standard in high-performance handsets, Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek said that Chinese phone giant Oppo will be employing its new 5G-capable Dimension 9000 chipset for its flagship Find X-series phones. The …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. We’ve all lost or misplaced something at some point in our lives. It can be so frustrating to be in a hurry to get out the door, only to realize your keys are nowhere to be found. Now you can take the stress out of …
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It was two years ago when Spotify entered the podcast scene and has since added 2.2 million podcasts to its platform. With so many shows to pick from, the company will let users give their opinion on a podcast with its new rating system. The five-star rating system goes live Thursday and lets listeners use 1-5 stars to determine how …
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The wireless carriers took scrappy to a whole new level this year. A shift in the industry’s landscape, transformed by last year’s merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, meant competition in 2021 was more intense than it had been in years. That competitive dynamic was a boon to consumers, who saw aggressive promotional offers and streaming freebies designed to keep people …
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Samsung introduced the Galaxy Tab A8, Wednesday, a new midrange 10.5-inch Android 11 tablet. It is the successor to the Galaxy Tab A7 and is expected to be released in the US in January 2022. Pricing wasn’t announced for the Tab A8 but the Tab A7 currently starts at $230, AU$379 and £210. For the Galaxy Tab A8, Samsung switched …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Whether you’re holiday shopping, upgrading your fitness tracker or you’re a fan of all things Apple, news about the latest deal on the company’s latest smartwatch will be music to your ears. A major price drop on the Apple Watch Series 7 has just brought the cost of …
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some workplaces have opted to work remotely to keep employees healthy and safe, and this pushed meetings into the virtual world. Now, some people find themselves in a marathon of meetings with no time in between to go to the restroom, grab a snack or get to their next meeting on time. Not …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Thanks to the always evolving state of the pandemic, a lot of folks are still postponing travel plans. Others are leaning into their vaccinated status and traveling for business or pleasure like in the good old days, albeit with a face mask firmly in place. …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple has reportedly indefinitely delayed the requirement for its workers to return to the office due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. Workers were expected to return on Feb. 1, but will now return on a “date yet to be determined,” Bloomberg reported …
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Apple on Wednesday released a major new version of Swift Playgrounds, its iPad and Mac app designed to teach kids its Swift programming language, that now lets budding coders submit their projects to Apple’s app store. Swift Playgrounds introduces programming by letting coders control a character named Byte. Programmers learn basics like commands, variables, loops, and if-this-then-that operations. The code …
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