Credit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority More details of Qualcomm’s rumored Snapdragon Wear 5100 smartwatch chipset have leaked. The SoC is said to retain its predecessor’s quad-core A53 design but upgrade to LPDDR4X RAM. For more adventurous OEMs, the chipset could also bring dual-camera support to wearables. News that Qualcomm is working on a possible
Read MoreMultirotor drones tend to need quality and well-matched parts in order to stay balanced and in the air. However, crash enough drones and you might find you’ve got plenty of mistmatched bits and pieces lying around. In just this vein, [Jason Suter] decided to raid his junk box and built himself a little FPV airboat
Read MoreIn Europe and the US we are very much getting used to groceries being delivered within 15 minutes, with a huge battleground of startups in the space. Startups across Europe and the US have raised no less than $3.1 billion in the last quarter alone for grocery deliveries within 10 or 20-minute delivery promises. But
Read MorePhonePe, one of the largest digital payments services in India, on Thursday launched Pulse, a free product to offer insights into how people in the world’s second largest internet market are paying digitally. And PhonePe would know: the Flipkart-backed five-year-old startup said its insights are based on over 22 billion transactions it has processed over
Read MoreDigitimes says the new mini-LED MacBook Pro is on the rocks… What you need to know Apple is reportedly unveiling a new MacBook Pro later this year. Mini-LED displays and beefier Apple silicon is reportedly the order of the day. However, a new report says the models might be delayed because of silicon shortages. A
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “Quick phrases” is a new feature currently under development for Google Assistant that could one day let you skip having to say “Hey, Google” for common phrases like “What time is it?” or “Turn the lights on,” 9to5Google reports. The feature is yet to be officially announced, and
Read MoreAditya Kalra / Reuters: Sources: Apple is facing an antitrust investigation in India over forcing developers to use its in-app payment system — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is facing an antitrust challenge in India for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the apps market by forcing developers to use its proprietary …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Delta and Spotify have announced a new deal that will see the music and podcaster streamer provide in-flight entertainment. The audio portion of Delta’s in-flight seatback entertainment will be provided by Spotify, with music and podcasts on tap. The update is now being rolled out with new content coming in
Read MoreIndia is the latest country on a growing list of App Store scrutiny… What you need to know India is reportedly planning to investigate Apple’s App Store. It’s over claims its in-app purchase model is anticompetitive. It will also examine Apple’s 30% rate of commission on some purchases. A new App Store investigation is might
Read MoreAfter staving off Xiaomi’s stranglehold on the mid-range smartphone segment, Realme has been consistently aiming upwards. The Realme GT is the company’s attempt at the value flagship market, a market erstwhile dominated by OnePlus that has been seeing increasing competition from Xiaomi, Iqoo, and Vivo. In the Android Authority Realme GT 5G review, we see if a
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK now mandates app makers comply with its children’s privacy design code, or face fines of up to £17.5M or 4% of annual worldwide turnover, whichever is higher — In the UK, a 12-month grace period for compliance with a design code aimed at protecting children online expires today …
Read MoreCredit: Samsung Samsung has launched two new smartphone camera sensors. Its 200MP Isocell HP1 sensor is the firm’s first and packs new pixel-binning technology. The 50MP Isocell GN5, meanwhile, brings improved autofocusing tech with smaller pixels. Samsung is pushing the smartphone camera industry into the 200MP era. The company announced its new Isocell HP1 sensor,
Read MoreThe Verge: Apple’s updated rules allowing web signup links appear to apply only to apps that don’t make much money for Apple, like Netflix and Spotify — It’s for apps that don’t make Apple any money anyways — While vocal app developers accused Apple last week of spinning a lawsuit settlement …
Read MoreThe clicky part doesn’t do anything aside from help you take the pen out of the phone. Samsung isn’t offering a new Galaxy Note phone this year, but it has brought S Pen support to the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Galaxy Z Fold 3. Unfortunately, both of these phones lack an S Pen slot
Read MoreKhari Johnson / Wired: 300+ organizations are urging the EU to redefine key terms in the draft AI Act, asking to label more AI systems as high risk and ban some forms of AI entirely — Everyone from tech companies to churches wants a say in how the EU regulates AI that could harm people.
Read MoreCheese is one of those foods that when you like it, you actually love it. It’s also one of the most difficult foods to make from something other than milk. Stockeld Dreamery not only took that task on, it has a product to show for it. The Stockholm-based company announced Thursday its Series A round
Read MoreMarket research and insights are often underutilized assets for enterprises but it’s usually too hard to find content and there’s a lot of duplication, or information isn’t used well. Swedish startup Stravito says it can centralize internal and external data sources and create something more akin to a ‘Spotify or Netflix’ for these kinds of
Read MoreBenjamin Butterworth / inews.co.uk: LGBTQ activists say UK’s Online Safety Bill could provide the legal basis for censorship of LGBTQ content and say ending online anonymity could harm queer users — EXCLUSIVELegal free speech could be banned from social media under the proposed law — Stephen Fry has led warnings …
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple has unveiled a new Chinese Apple Store that will open on Saturday. Apple Changsha will serve customers from across central China. Another stunning Apple Store. Apple has taken the wraps off another new Apple Store, this time in central China. Apple Changsha is the first store in Hunan province
Read MoreSteven Melendez / Fast Company: Some Black LinkedIn users complain of algorithmic bias, saying their posts are not appearing on the site or are being taken down repeatedly — Some Black users say their posts are stifled by the networking site. But while LinkedIn insists issues are due to an unfortunate mix of technical …
Read MoreRISE, one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, is returning to Hong Kong in March 2022 as an in-person event, and will be held there for at least five years, announced organizer Web Summit today. Last year, Web Summit said RISE would move to Kuala Lumpur, but its return to Hong Kong means the conference will
Read MoreLike many Hackaday readers, [Steven Stallion] has had his eyes on the replica PDP-11 created by [Oscar Vermeulen] for some time now, and this summer he finally got the opportunity to build one himself. But while most owners might be content to just watch the Raspberry Pi based faux-retro computer blink away on a shelf, he
Read MoreRebecca Szkutak / Forbes: Joy, an all-in-one wedding planning service, raises $20M Series A led by Valor Siren Ventures with participation from Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures and others — When Vishal Joshi moved from India to the U.S. to work as a software engineer he didn’t expect that path would eventually march him down the
Read MoreSamsung 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 pixel-binning technology “ChameleonCell.” The
Read MoreAmy Lewin / Sifted: French grocery delivery startup Cajoo raises $40M Series A from investors including Carrefour, and plans expansion into Europe early next year — Landing a supermarket as a strategic investor gives Cajoo an edge, argues Capoul. — “Some competitors have much more money than us, but we have an advantage in Carrefour,”
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