Technology

On Monday, investors dumped shares of Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group (9988. HK) and Tencent (0700. HK) as well as chipmakers in response to new U.S. export control measures aimed at slowing Beijing’s technological and military advancements. On Friday, the Biden administration released a comprehensive set of export controls, one of which restricted the sale …

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Sony is relaunching PlayStation Plus in June, but it doesn’t look like everything is going as planned. The Japanese giant’s most recent financial report shows that between July and September of this year, Plus lost 1.9 million subscribers since it started. Hiroki Totoki, the CFO of Sony, said that “there hasn’t been a lot of …

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It looks like Spotify might finally let its subscribers stream in HiFi quality. Apple Music, Deezer, and Tidal already have HiFi music, but the streaming music platform doesn’t offer music quality above 320kbit/s at the moment. Spotify has said that the HiFi subscription will be back in 2021, but the lossless quality setting hasn’t been …

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Mark Gurman of Bloomberg says that Apple will talk about new iPad Pro models with the M2 chip on Tuesday, October 18. Gurman said before that updated 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models would be announced: “in a matter of days.” Since then, he has narrowed the timeframe to tomorrow. The announcement is likely to …

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Apple is reportedly looking into hybrid OLED displays as a way to make the iPad even thinner. The company seems to think that hybrid OLED is a better alternative to flexible OLED because it costs less to make and doesn’t look like it’s been crumpled. Apple has also added Taiwan SMT to its supply chain. …

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A report from Deadline cites an email from Comcast Spectacor CEO Dave Scott saying that the video game-focused TV and online network G4, which was brought back by Comcast less than a year ago, is closing down. “We worked hard over the past few months to get people interested in G4, but viewership is low …

G4 Shuts Down After Layoffs, High-Profile Talent Departures Read More »

Some cities now have access to Jio and Airtel’s 5G networks and more will follow in the coming months. India now has access to both Airtel and Reliance Jio’s 5G services. The 5G services from both Jio and Airtel are now live in select cities. By the end of the year 2023, Jio promises to have …

Do You Need A New SIM For Jio 5G? Read More »

A woman’s pregnancy was apparently detected by an Apple Watch before any official medical testing could confirm it. A Reddit poster claimed that her Apple Watch had alerted her to an abnormality after showing that her resting heart rate had risen sharply over the previous few days. “My normal heart rate at rest is 57 but …

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In a small note at the end of a recent press release, Apple said that the iPhone 14 Plus would be available in Colombia later this month. The problem was that the iPhone 14 had been banned in Colombia since it came out because Apple was still in a legal battle with Ericsson over 5G …

Colombia Banned The iPhone 14, Apple Says It Will Sell It Anyway Read More »

The Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts landed safely Friday off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. This was the fourth commercial crew mission by NASA to the International Space Station. Four people from different countries spent 170 days in space. At 4:55 p.m. EDT, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and ESA …

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