We’ve just received the ultra-premium version of the Oppo Find X – the Lamborghini Edition. It’s essentially a Find X Super Flash Edition but with carbon fiber and Lamborghini-branded back, wireless headphones in the box, a few Lamborghini themes and 512GB internal memory. More importantly, both special editions boast the mobile world’s fastest charging technology…
Amazon has sold a lot of Echo Dots. Like a crazy, silly, unfathomable number of the things. Over the past two generations, it has arguably become the single-largest driver of the smart speaker craze. There’s nothing exceptional about the product, of course. It’s a simply designed hockey puck of a product, designed to mostly stay…
Homeland Security has said it has “no reason to doubt” statements by Apple, Amazon and Supermicro denying allegations made in a Bloomberg report published earlier this week. It’s the first statement so far from the U.S. government on the report, casting doubt on the findings. Homeland Security’s statement echos near-identical comments from the U.K.’s National…
Steven Aquino Contributor Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. More posts by this contributor At Apple’s WWDC 2018, accessibility pervades all AirPods to get Live Listen feature in iOS 12 I’ve heard it said many times recently by hosts of various Apple-focused podcasts that adapting to the new iPhone XS Max…
Facebook just snatched some talent to fuel its invasion of LinkedIn’s turf. A source tells TechCrunch that members of coding interview practice startup Refdash including at least some of its executives have been hired by Facebook. The social network confirmed to TechCrunch that members of Refdash’s leadership team are joining to work on Facebook’s Jobs…
Four Elon Musk tweets. One Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit. Two settlement offers. Then some more Musk tweets taunting the SEC. While Tesla continues to prove its doubters wrong as an automotive and energy business, the ongoing social media sideshow hangs over its finances. The stock rose to $310.70 per share on Monday, after Musk…
Gather round. The EU has a plan for a big update to privacy laws that could have a major impact on current Internet business models. Um, I thought Europe just got some new privacy rules? They did. You’re thinking of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which updated the European Union’s 1995 Data Protection Directive…
The other day, my colleague Googled my dad. I can’t remember why, so don’t ask, but he sent me a 20-year-old photo of my dad sitting in an office that can only be described as Dunder Mifflin-esque. I had never seen it before in my life. And no, I will not include the photo, you creeps.…
Do you know what is the latest version of Wi-Fi? It’s okay if you don’t know. It is — Wi-Fi is 802.11ac. I am sure many of us can’t answer this question immediately because the Wi-Fi technology doesn’t have a traditional format of version numbers… at least until yesterday. The Wi-Fi Alliance—the group that manages…
Product Testing and Cybersecurity Cheryl Ajluni, IoT solutions lead at Keysight Technologies, a manufacturer of electronics test and measurement equipment and software, says thanks to the IoT, manufacturing is evolving from large-scale production to a MaaS (manufacturing-as-a-service) model, with technologies like 3D printing enabling mass customization. Amidst the myriad benefits of IoT adoption, however, is…
