State IDs will certainly be supported in Wallet upon both the iPhone and the Apple Watch. [credit: Apple ] Apple is rolling out the ability to add driver’s licenses and state IDs to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch in select US states, the company announced this week. The first states to […]
The Pixel 3 XL. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] A growing number of Pixel 3 and 3 XL users say their phones are dying an early death. For months, reports have been piling up on Google’s issue tracker , support forums , and Reddit, all saying basically the same thing: one day, the phones suddenly stop […]
Enlarge / Each Telum package consists of two 7nm, eight-core / sixteen-thread processors running at a base clock speed above 5GHz. A typical system will have sixteen of these chips in total, arranged in four-socket “drawers.” (credit: IBM) From the perspective of a traditional x86 computing enthusiast—or professional—mainframes are strange, archaic beasts. They’re physically enormous, […]
Enlarge / Apple offices in northern California. (credit: Apple) Apple’s long-rumored mixed reality headset will require an iPhone within wireless range to function for at least some apps and experiences, according to a new report in The Information. The Information’s sources say that Apple completed work on the system-on-a-chip (SoC) for the headset “last year” […]
(credit: Samsung) Samsung’s latest super-sized camera sensor is the “Isocell HP1. ” It has a whopping 200 MP sensor, making it the highest-resolution smartphone camera sensor ever made. If you saved an image from it at full resolution, you’d end up with something like a 16, 384 x 12, 288 image. Megapixels don’t matter—what matters […]
Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi 4. (credit: Raspberry Pi ) Installing the ARM versions of Windows 10 or Windows 11 to a cheap Raspberry Pi board has been possible for a long time but has always required more time and patience than it’s worth. But if you’re curious, a new script called “WoR-flasher” (that’s Windows […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Popular NPM package “pac-resolver” has fixed a severe remote code execution (RCE) flaw. The pac-resolver package receives over 3 million weekly downloads, extending this vulnerability to Node.js applications relying on the open source dependency. Pac-resolver touts itself as a module that accepts JavaScript proxy configuration files and generates a function for […]
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 6. (credit: Corey Gaskin) Analysts and reporters have published conflicting reports about what to expect from the next Apple Watch. Some, like Nikkei, claimed it will have new health sensors, but others like Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have said that this year’s model will offer no major new hardware features […]
Enlarge / System76’s Pangolin is a lightweight and relatively slender 15″ design with a 1080p matte display and RGB-lit keyboard. (credit: System76 ) System76’s Pangolin is a lightweight and relatively slender 15″ design with a 1080p matte display and RGB-lit keyboard. [credit: System76 ] Specs at a glance: System76 Pangolin OS Pop! _OS 21. 04 […]
Enlarge / Microsoft is streaming a Surface-focused hardware event on September 22. (credit: Microsoft) Windows 11 is coming out on October 5, but it’s not the only thing Microsoft has in store this fall. The company will be livestreaming an event at 11 am Eastern on September 22 , where it promises to “talk about […]