Month: August 2021
Apple to upstage Samsung in OLED smartphone shipments – For the first time ever iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini
All these years, Samsung dominated the coveted smartphone with OLED displays. And then Apple nudged its iPhone 12 series (four models) towards OLED display. The rest is new history. Thanks to the sustained demand for the iPhone 12 series, despite the imminent launch of a new series, the Cupertino-headquartered company…
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Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies
Just months after a CEO shakeup, Waymo is officially halting sales of its custom sensors to third parties. The move sees the Alphabet-owned self-driving company unwinding a business operation just two years into its lifespan. Waymo confirmed the decision to Reuters, adding that it’s now focusing on deploying its Waymo…
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The Morning After: Explaining Apple’s $100 million App Store settlement
Following the class-action lawsuit between Apple and app developers, the company has agreed to change several App Store rules, including allowing developers to email users “about payment methods outside of their iOS app” — think Netflix and Spotify offering subscription setups through the internet browser, all without Apple taking a…
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This Rice Cooker Also Slow Cooks, But in Teensy Batches
This Zojirushi’s limited ability to cook large quantities of anything other than rice and grains makes it hard to justify its higher-than-average price tag. Source
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The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized
The conventional wisdom around the “widely viewed content report” that Facebook released last week is that it obscured more than it revealed. The company’s effort to demonstrate that most users do not regularly see divisive news stories in their feeds received widespread criticism for offering only the highest-level view of…
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Windows 11 taskbar is causing more complaints – but Microsoft isn’t budging Windows 11 File Explorer on a PC in an office
Windows 11 has witnessed various changes to the functionality of the taskbar which haven’t been popular, and in that vein, a fresh removal has been highlighted – namely the stripping back of the calendar flyout. The story here, as relayed by Windows Latest, is that the calendar flyout from the…
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