Month: February 2021
Symend nabs $43M for a platform to help customers avoid defaulting on bills
The pandemic-fueled economic uncertainty of the last year has led many to project that the rate of credit defaults among consumers will continue to wobble into 2021. Today a startup that has built a platform to help consumers mitigate that situation is announcing some funding on the back of more…
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Qualcomm announces its next-gen X65 5G modem, promises up to 10Gbps speeds
Qualcomm has announced its latest 5G modem — the Snapdragon X65, a successor to last year’s Snapdragon X60 which just started to hit devices as part of the Snapdragon 888 chipset. Qualcomm promises that the new modem will be much, much faster, with support for up to 10Gbps speeds on…
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Cowboy e-bikes now navigate you around air pollution
Belgian e-bike maker Cowboy has delivered on its promise to help riders avoid pollution on their commutes with a new air quality navigation feature in the company’s latest iOS and Android apps. Owners now have the option to pick the quickest or healthiest routes to their destination. The feature is…
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The AirPods Max Are Insanely Great—and Insanely Expensive
Apple’s flagship noise-canceling headphones have a premium build and a premium price tag, but they also sound better than the rest. Source
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Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite launch gets closer as it gets Bluetooth certification Xiaomi Mi 10i
The leaks about the Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite smartphone had put the launch date sometime in March. And now it seems the launch of the smartphone is imminent considering that it now has received Bluetooth certification. A tweet seems to have leaked the Bluetooth certification details of the Mi 11 Lite…
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This may be our first look at Google’s new Android 12 OS
A series of leaked images may offer a first look at Google’s Android 12 update. XDA-Developers has published screenshots from what is said to be from an “early draft” of documents Google distributes to Android partners. The screenshots, which XDA-Developers says haven’t been fully confirmed, include what appears to be…
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