Month: October 2020
Why the Pixel 5 reminds us of the Nexus 5
Every Tuesday this month, Vergecast co-host Dieter Bohn is hosting a series of discussions diving deep into tech review season, each focusing on a specific product. This week, Dieter talks with Judner Aura, aka UrAvgConsumer on YouTube, about how the recently announced Google Pixel 5 shares some common ground with…
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iPhone 12 launch event confirmed, and Apple is hosting it next week Apple iPhone 12 event
The iPhone 12 is finally upon us, and Apple has set a date to reveal its new iPhones. October 13 is now confirmed as the date when Apple will be revealing new devices to the public, and we can’t imagine the new phones won’t be among them. It’s a virtual…
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SpaceX wins contract to make US missile tracking satellites
SpaceX continues to get cozier with the US military. The private spaceflight outfit has won a Space Development Agency contract (via Space News and The Verge) to build missile warning and tracking satellites for the Defense Department. The roughly $1… Source
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Instagram turns 20 on this day in 2030
[Transcript for 2D legacy devices] [10/6/2030] —LEFT EYE / RIGHT EYE: /impose/ INSTAGRAM TOWER [VOICEOVER] INSTAGRAM, the little photo filtering app that’s become the biggest shopping and communications platform in the world, turned TWENTY YEARS OLD today. —RIGHT EYE / interspersed archival photos of Instagram app CIRCA 2015, CIRCA 2014,…
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BlackBerry CEO: Our security journey isn’t over yet null
The CEO of BlackBerry has assured industry watchers that the company is still going from strength to strength as it continues its push into the software world. In what he called a “state of the union” address at the keynote of the company’s online BlackBerry Security Summit, John Chen outlined…
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Your MacBook might be hiding a major security vulnerability – here’s what you need to know null
Hackers claim to have found a way of utilising two exploits originally devised for jailbreaking iPhones to also jailbreak Macs and MacBook devices. The exploit, which has now been verified by top Apple security and jailbreaking experts, makes use of a vulnerability found within the T2 security chips that Apple…
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