Author: Zach_Wilson
There won’t be an Essential Phone 2 but ex-employees may make a spiritual successor Essential Phone
Former staff of Essential, which made the fan-favorite Essential Phone, have gathered under a new company called OSOM Products that was founded by prior Essential R&D head Jason Keats. Essential shut down in early February 2020 over both controversy following founder Andy Rubin and lukewarm Essential Phone sales. As first…
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This suspected Apple Watch prototype is disguised as a tiny iPod
Is this an actual prototype Apple Watch in one of those covert “security cases” that companies sometimes use when they’re testing gadgets in broad daylight? We can’t say. Either way, this tiny iPod is perversely adorable — and quite the in-joke if it’s real. Prototype Apple Watch (Original) with matching…
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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, and more
You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. They begin playing as soon as you load a page or (if they’re more deviously implemented) when you start scrolling through a page. Automatic video play is a feature…
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NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless
Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in market… Source
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Teenage Engineering’s next product is probably a Bluetooth speaker
When Teenage Engineering started teasing it was working on a "magic apparatus," people got understandably excited. After all, this is the company that has released some of the most offbeat but capable synths (and IKEA products) in the last couple of… Source
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The Pentagon says Microsoft should still get its $10B JEDI contract following an investigation
Following an investigation by the Pentagon, the Department of Defense says it is standing by its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, not Amazon, the latest in an ongoing legal battle over the lucrative infrastructure project. On Friday, the Department of Defense said in a…
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