Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Do you think there should be a limit to how many Bluetooth speakers one should own? I don’t think so. That’s why you should buy Sony’s compact SRS-XB10 portable speaker, selling at just $29.99, down from its original price tag
Read MoreHow Soli’s radar-powered tech could evolve into watches, smart home equipment and a lot more. Project Soli is the secret star of Google's Pixel 4 self-leak – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreGoogle’s next flagship is definitely on its way. Keep tabs on the other rumors about the Pixel 4 and 4 XL. Pixel 4 confirmed by Google: Other rumors, leaks, design, specs, price and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThick, slim, short or tall, we tried gaming chairs for all. Best gaming chairs we've sat in for 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft is planning to make it easier to recover a Windows 10 machine with a new cloud download option. Windows 10 recovery: Microsoft borrows Apple's Mac cloud reinstall feature Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreImage: Waze Google-owned navigation app Waze now lets drivers pick up more than one passenger at a time when using the app’s carpooling feature. VentureBeat notes that Waze now supports picking up a maximum of four passengers, which you can do by tapping the “+” icon after confirming an initial ride. The new feature will
Read MoreA duo of Google bug-hunting researchers have disclosed several “interactionless” vulnerabilities in iOS that made it possible for hackers to hijack your iPhone via iMessage – without even engaging with the malicious texts. The researchers, Natalie Silvanovich and Samuel Groß, who work with Google’s security task force Project Zero have so far released details for only five out
Read MoreThere’s an urban legend that finds Ernest Hemingway in a restaurant with his friends. He bet everyone around the table that he could write a story in only six words — they accepted. So, he leaned down, wrote “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” on a napkin, passed it around, and collected his winnings. This got us
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It was, in retrospect, perhaps not the best two weeks to go on vacation. Each time I checked in with the news, there was some startling new collision between Facebook and democracy. There was that $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. There was that $100 million
Read MoreBattle royale, a “fight for survival” genre popularized by Fortnite, has inspired imitators hoping to cash in. But there are signs that the market has reached a plateau. Fortnite Is Here to Stay. Just Ask Its Competitors. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Eric CATARINA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Alongside the announcement of its first new album in over a decade, the rock band Tool has said that its catalog will finally be available to stream and to purchase digitally on August 2nd. In an Instagram post first spotted by Pitchfork, the band said its albums would
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei made 221.6 billion yuan ($32.2 billion) in revenue in the April-June quarter, a 23 percent increase over the previous quarter despite the escalation of the US-China trade war cutting off its business with American companies. Net profit margin was 8.7 percent on 401.3 billion yuan ($58.3 billion)
Read MoreExecutives at the Chinese tech giant sounded exuberant about the firm’s ability to thrive, even if it ends up fully cut off from American technology. Huawei’s Sales Jump Despite Trump’s Blacklisting Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo has now sold 36.87 million Switch consoles after moving 2.13 million units in the April-June quarter, a 13 percent increase year on year. Operating profit for the three-month period was down 10.2 percent year on year to 27.4 billion yen ($252 million), while revenue was up
Read MoreSony’s PlayStation 4 console has been a huge hit for the company, and it has now hit the 100 million sales milestone. Sony revealed in its latest earnings that the company sold 3.2 million PS4 devices in the quarter ended June 30th, meaning exactly 100 million have now been sold in total. Sony was previously
Read MoreSamsung already assembles half of its handsets in the country, which got a big lift from U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. Now Apple is homing in. Your Next iPhone Might Be Made in Vietnam. Thank the Trade War. Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAutonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Dr. Walsh believes, and must be banned. Toby Walsh, A.I. Expert, Is Racing to Stop the Killer Robots Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA new software algorithm decides which patients are most likely to become infected with the virus. But this is not like other risk calculators, some experts say. Would You Want a Computer to Judge Your Risk of H.I.V. Infection? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreTaiwanese chip manufacturer MediaTek has announced its latest flagship processors, the Helio G90 and G90T. The chips include an octa-core CPU clocked at up to 2.05GHz, which uses the same ARM Cortex-A76 and A55 cores as the latest flagship processors from Qualcomm and Huawei. MediaTek’s chip also includes a Mali G76 GPU with speeds of
Read MoreLee is the first black woman to serve on Twitter’s board of directors. Twitter board member Debra Lee to step down – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSome are good, some are… not so good! Everything that happens in Avengers: Endgame's newly released deleted scenes – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreUS-based bank, Capital One, revealed last night a data breach that exposed data of exposed the data of 106 million credit card applicants including names, phone numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. In addition, 140,000 US social security numbers, 80,000 bank account numbers, and 1 million Canadian social insurance numbers were also stolen. The bank said while
Read MoreThe Dreamcast was a proud moment for Sega, at least initially, being the first console to launch of a new generation. Unfortunately this didn’t translate into massive sales, and the plug was pulled far earlier than expected. The console retains a dedicated fanbase to this day however, who continue to tinker with the hardware. [DreamcastChannel]
Read MoreData stolen also included 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. Capital One data breach involves 100 million credit card applications – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image} Once a program has been debugged and works properly, it might be time to start optimizing it. A common way of doing this is a method called profiling – watching a program execute and counting the amount of computing time each step in the program takes. This is all well and good for most
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