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Apple iPhone 11 unsurprisingly found just as durable as iPhone 11 Pro
It’s time to round off the physical endurance of Apple’s latest crop of iPhones with the JerryRig iPhone 11 durability video. Here’s the gist of it – the glass on the iPhone 11 begins to scratch at a level 6 on Mohs scale of hardness and the body doesn’t bend or crack – just like…
Hyundai is getting into the flying car business – TechCrunch
Hyundai Motor Group has launched a new air mobility division aimed at developing technology for the commercialization of flying cars, the latest company to dive into the emerging industry. The division will be led by Dr. Jaiwon Shin, an aeronautics engineer who most recently led the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate at NASA. While at NASA,…
‘Stranger Things 4’ takes Netflix’s hit retro sci-fi show beyond Hawkins – TechCrunch
“Stranger Things 4” got its first teaser today, courtesy of the official Stranger Things Twitter account. The Netflix series, which is in its fourth season (although the creators, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, maintain that each installment isn’t really a “season” in the traditional TV sense, but rather more like a movie broken up across…
Google brings its Jacquard wearables tech to Levi’s Trucker Jacket – TechCrunch
Back in 2015, Google’s ATAP team demoed a new kind of wearable tech at Google I/O that used functional fabrics and conductive yarns to allow you to interact with your clothing and, by extension, the phone in your pocket. The company then released a jacket with Levi’s in 2017, but that was expensive, at $350,…
Verizon picks up the assets of Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt – TechCrunch
After raising $100 million, virtual reality content startup Jaunt has been in a precarious position for a few years now. It seems like the saga has finally come to a close as the startup announces that Verizon has purchased the company’s technology. The studio rode the wave of VR hype following Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus,…
Microsoft OneDrive Personal Vault rolls out worldwide, launches expandable storage – TechCrunch
Earlier this summer, Microsoft introduced an extra layer of security to its Dropbox competitor, OneDrive. The security features, called OneDrive Personal Vault, allow users to protect their files with two-step verification, like a fingerprint or facial recognition, PIN code, or a one-time code sent through email, SMS or Microsoft Authenticator. At the time of launch,…
Cellular IoT device security–Why the right vendor strategy is important
In my previous articles here, and here, I explained the rationale for increased focus on device security and its challenges. The threats are more acute, especially from unknown foreign vendors offering predatory pricing. After reading the articles, a few people questioned me about the ills of such a situation and even suggested that the fierce…
Facebook faces VR challenges – TechCrunch
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Not all is predictable on Facebook’s social Horizon Last week, Facebook unveiled Horizon, a massively multiplayer VR world that’s scheduled to…
A Red Dead Redemption 2 PC port looks more likely by the day
As of this week, we know two things about Red Dead Redemption 2. One is that the game is almost certainly coming to PC, and the other is that Rockstar isn’t making any meaty single-player story DLC to accompany said release. The Australian ratings board last week inadvertently teased a potential new release for RDR2. The…
