Month: April 2020
Apple reportedly delays iPhone 12 mass production by a month
Apple is reportedly delaying mass production of its upcoming iPhone 12 handsets by around a month. The Wall Street Journal reports that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic across supply chains and manufacturing has disrupted Apple’s iPhone 12 mass production plans. Rumors suggest Apple will introduce four new iPhone models…
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Microsoft’s excuse for why Surface devices don’t have upgradable RAM or Thunderbolt 3 is… weird
Ever wondered why the Surface Pro 7 didn’t go with Thunderbolt 3 support when Microsoft finally introduced USB-C to its range of well-liked hybrids? Well, Microsoft does have a reason why all Surface devices don’t support Thunderbolt, and indeed why they have soldered RAM (which makes upgrading the memory impossible).…
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The ‘Wikipedia of COVID-19’ has launched a crowdfunding drive to keep going
At the end of March a coalition of grassroots UK tech initiatives came together to co-ordinate the key groups of tech industry people supporting the UK’s response to the Coronavirus. The Code4Covid.org initiative came out of a milieu of other projects such as Covidmutualaid.org and Covid Tech Support, but it was…
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The Morning After: Twitch and the non-stop ‘Valorant’ streams
Everyone’s talking about Valorant, a new first-person shooter from the makers of League of Legends. And I haven’t even played it. The shame.Everyone’s watching it, too, despite the fact that it’s still in beta — something that creators Riot worked p… Source
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon planning a major FB-like foray in India?
The talk in the business circles all of last week was Facebook’s gargantuan investment — $5.7 billion — in Reliance Industries’ wholly-owned subsidiary Jio Platforms. The deal also seems to have an impact beyond the two protagonist companies. It carries an import that augurs well for the Indian market…
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Codota picks up $12M for an AI platform that auto-completes developers’ code
Thanks to smartphones and their downsized keyboards, autocomplete has become a nearly ubiquitous feature of how we write these days. To save us precious seconds composing and (at least in my fat-thumbed case) correcting words, our keyboards now prompt us with suggestions of what we’re trying to write to get…
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