Month: December 2020
LG’s new ‘QNED’ TVs will have up to nearly 30,000 tiny LEDs behind the screen
LG might be the company that’s most synonymous with OLED TVs, but tonight it’s announcing what to expect from its LCD-based sets in 2021. Like other manufacturers including TCL have already done (and Samsung is expected to soon join in on), LG is adopting Mini LED technology for its premium…
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What’s on TV this week: NYE 2021, and ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’
As 2020 comes to a close we have the usual slew of wrap-ups and college football bowl games, but not many video games or movies to look forward to. Fans of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will get the series finale later this week, followed… Source
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Coinbase halts trading of XRP following SEC suit against Ripple
Coinbase announced today that it is halting all trades of XRP on its cryptocurrency exchange, according to an official blog post (via Coindesk). Certain kind of trades became restricted today, and the full suspension will go into place January 19th, 2021 at 10:00AM PT. Coinbase is the largest cryptocurrency exchange,…
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Tencent backs Chinese healthcare portal DXY in $500M round
DXY, a 20-year-old online healthcare community for Chinese consumers and healthcare organizations like Pfizer, announced this week that it has raised $500 million in a new round led by private equity firm Trustbridge Partners. Existing backer Tencent and Hillhouse Capital also participated in the round, which lifted the firm’s total…
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Google inexplicably takes away wide-angle astrophotography from Pixel phones
Pixel 5 and 4a 5G users can no longer use their ultra-wide cameras to take pictures of the stars: Google apparently removed the lens’s astrophotography capabilities with the Google Camera 8.1 update. The feature was a selling point of the Pixel 4, and was available on the regular and telephoto…
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We Found The Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps
This is Part 4 of a BuzzFeed News investigation. For part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here. This project was supported by the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism, the Pulitzer Center, and the Open Technology Fund. ALMATY — China has built…
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