Month: December 2020
Apple’s MagSafe wallet now has competition that’s cheaper and packs more features
MOFT is a company that’s made iPhone accessories in the past, and it’s now releasing a competitor to Apple’s $50 MagSafe wallet. MOFT’s version, which goes on sale today, costs only $30 and holds three cards like Apple’s, but it also has a built-in kickstand. The stand lets users keep…
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Apple’s HomePod Mini Falls Short As a Smart Speaker
Apple’s small spherical speaker is a convenient satellite for Siri-loving Apple users, but it doesn’t score many points beyond that. Source
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EE connects parts of rural Scotland to 4G for the first time Mast in Strathconon
Residents and businesses in some of the more remote parts of Scotland now have access to 4G connectivity – more than eight years after the first LTE mast was switched on in the UK. Although 99% of the UK population now has access to 4G, connecting some rural locations has…
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Apple and Google clamp down on X-Mode, a location-tracking data broker
Apple and Google have reportedly ordered app developers to sever ties with X-Mode Social Inc., a data broker that specializes in location tracking. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company has supplied data to US government contractors working… Source
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Cyberpunk 2077 blows away Steam record as tons of gamers rush to play at launch Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 has blown away the previous record for simultaneous players in a single player game on Steam (and for concurrent viewers on Twitch, too). As PC Gamer points out, that previous record was Fallout 4 with 472,962 concurrent players, which Cyberpunk 2077 easily exceeded after its launch, going on…
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Red Hat makes drastic changes to CentOS, leaves users fuming IBM
The CentOS project has announced a dramatic change for the project that’s left a large number of open source businesses, particularly web hosts, in a lurch. CentOS is a rebuild of the paid Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product and the two projects have peacefully co-existed before and after Red…
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