Enlarge / Wear OS: It’s coming back. (credit: Google) Wear OS has been neglected for far too long. Google has been dead in the smartwatch space, and Samsung can’t get a decent app ecosystem together with its smartwatches based on Tizen. The two companies, along with Fitbit (which was recently acquired by Google), are teaming […]
Enlarge (credit: myoldsmar.com) An employee for the city of Oldsmar, Florida, visited a malicious website targeting water utilities just hours before someone broke into the computer system for the city’s water treatment plant and tried to poison drinking water, security firm Dragos said Tuesday. The website, which belonged to a Florida water utility contractor, had […]
The Android lock screen, now with lots of different colors. [credit: Google ] Google I/O kicks off today, and the big news is that Android 12 is getting a huge new design. Google calls the new design “Material You,” and just like in the leaks, it’s a UI that changes colors like a chameleon. For […]
Enlarge / The new Intel H20 looks like a standard NVMe SSD—but it packs both slow QLC NAND and ultra-fast Optane into separate chips on the same M.2 drive. (credit: Intel) Intel’s got a new consumer-targeted storage product, called Optane H20—as in H twenty, not water. The new device is an M.2 2280 format drive, […]
Your password is bad—want us to change it? [credit: Google ] Google has taught the Google Assistant a fun new trick: it can now change your website passwords for you. We’ll still need to see how this feature works in the real world, but Google’s demo says you’ll be able to tap a single button to […]
Enlarge / Coming soon: Nearly identical versions of these GPUs, only with “LTR” logos—and new measures to reduce their mining hash rates. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-branded graphics cards are receiving an update off the factory lines starting this month: hardware-level flags meant to slow down the mining of the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum. […]
Enlarge / The most recent Mac Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple plans to introduce significantly updated versions of the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro, according to a new report in Bloomberg citing people familiar with Apple’s plans. The report shares much more detail about these machines than we’ve previously been […]
Enlarge / The Apple M1 is a world-class processor—but it feels even faster than its already-great specs imply. Howard Oakley did a deep-dive investigation to find out why. (credit: SOPA Images via Getty) Apple’s M1 processor is a world-class desktop and laptop processor—but when it comes to general-purpose end-user systems, there’s something even better than […]
Apple Music on an iPhone with these new audio features enabled. [credit: Apple ] Today, Apple announced that its Apple Music streaming app will get two major new audio features next month: lossless audio support and spatial audio with Dolby Atmos for a wide range of supported headphones and speakers. Apple Music will play songs […]
On the back, you get a single giant camera, a time-of-flight sensor, and an LED flash. That’s it. [credit: Sharp ] Is filling the back of a smartphone with several small camera lenses really the best camera solution? Sharp is bucking the multi-camera trend with the Aquos R6, a phone with—get this—a single massive camera […]