Month: September 2021
This week’s ‘Lower Decks’ engages in old-school Trek tropes
This post contains minor spoilers for season two, episode four of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks.’ If you were a Star Trek newbie, today’s episode of Lower Decks, “Mugato, Gumato,” is not a good place to start. It’s packed full of references across the franchise, including Beckett Mariner, Sam Rutherford and…
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Samsung announces 200-megapixel phone camera sensor
Samsung has announced a 200-megapixel image sensor intended for smartphone cameras, by some distance the highest resolution phone camera sensor ever made. The ISOCELL HP1 has 0.64μm pixels and can bin 16 of them at once for the equivalent of a 12.5-megapixel sensor with 2.56μm pixels. Samsung calls the HP1’s…
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Xiaomi officially kicks off its EV business Xiaomi, Lei Jun
Chinese tech company Xiaomi – primarily known for its budget smartphones has finally gone official with its electric vehicle venture. The company has announced that it has completed the official formalities and has set up a new business entity called Xiaomi EV Inc. Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun has announced that…
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Cajoo raises $40 million for its instant grocery delivery service
French startup Cajoo is raising some money in order to compete more aggressively in the new and highly competitive category of food delivery companies. Interestingly, the lead investor in today’s funding round is Carrefour, the supermarket giant. Headline (formerly e.ventures) is also participating in the round as well as existing…
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Apple concedes to let apps like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle link to the web to sign up
While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement into an App Store change that was barely a change at all, the company appears to be making a true, if small concession today: Apple says it will let developers of “reader” apps (think Netflix, Spotify, and…
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Samsung Knox is getting a lot easier to use Samsung Knox
Samsung is updating its Knox mobile security suite and cloud service with new features and upgrades that will improve usability for both end users as well as admins. According to a new blog post from the Korean tech giant, the latest Knox cloud service release will provide improvements and enhancements…
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