Commentary: The new Galaxy Note 20 Ultra has the most ridiculous specs and features list of any phone currently available, and as an iPhone user, I’m jealous. Galaxy Note 20 Ultra: 5 features I wish Apple would copy for the iPhone 12 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe company is rethinking the online and in-store buying experience. Note 20: How do you sell a ,000 phone during a pandemic? Samsung has a plan – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePYMNTS.com: iwoca, an online lending startup for SMBs, raises £100M to support SMBs looking for financing via the UK’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme — U.K. FinTech iwoca has notched £100 million in funding to help coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS) clients. iwoca, an online lending startup for SMBs, raises £100M to support SMBs
Read More{$inline_image}China recently launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission marked the Arab world’s foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July
Read MoreThey may look like chrome kidney beans, but the $170 Galaxy Buds Live have an ergonomic fit and mostly perform very well. Galaxy Buds Live stay in my ears better than AirPods, but noise canceling needs some work – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRugged phones are coming into vogue as they get slimmer or offer cool new features. 6 rugged phones that will survive 2020 and beyond – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJust like everything else in 2020, the four-day, multi-stage festival of music and art known as Bonnaroo has been cancelled. This would have been [Guy Dupont]’s fifth year making the journey to Tennessee with his friend. Since they couldn’t go, [Guy] decided to build an interactive Bonnaroo mix tape into an 80s clock radio as
Read MoreLooking to save some dough on an older Google Pixel phone? Here’s how to decide between the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3A. Pixel 3A vs. Pixel 3 specs: Cameras, processor, battery and more compared – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAna Swanson / New York Times: The language in Trump’s EOs on WeChat and TikTok may be vague deliberately, as some argue the uncertainty may dissuade more US companies from operating in China — The restrictions on the two Chinese-owned apps followed a familiar model for other policy announcements on China from the Trump administration.
Read More{$inline_image} Ana Swanson / New York Times: The language in Trump’s EOs on WeChat and TikTok may be vague deliberately, as some argue the uncertainty may dissuade more US companies from operating in China — The restrictions on the two Chinese-owned apps followed a familiar model for other policy announcements on China from the Trump
Read MoreJoe Mcdonald / Associated Press: Huawei says that production of its high-end Kirin smartphone chips will stop Sept. 15 and, more broadly, its smartphone production has “no chips and no supply” — BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tech giant Huawei is running out of processor chips to make smartphones due to U.S. sanctions … Huawei says
Read MoreWe feature a lot of clocks here at Hackaday, but it’s not often that one comes along and makes us stop in our tracks and reconsider the fundamental question: just what is a clock? [Charlyn] has managed it though, with her Nova Light clock, which doesn’t so much measure the passing of time, but mark
Read MoreKim Lyons / The Verge: Twitter says it is testing showing quote tweet counts directly on each tweet to see whether that makes the Retweets with Comments metric “more understandable” — Whatever they’re called, this is really going to mess with the ratio — In a move that may forever change what it means …
Read MoreAnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: US bank regulator fines Capital One $80M over a 2019 hack that compromised personal info of ~106M card customers and applicants between 2005 and early 2019 — OCC, Federal Reserve order the bank to beef up cybersecurity defenses — A top banking regulator has fined Capital … US bank
Read MoreOver the years there have been a variety of methods for a computer to commit its thoughts to paper. Be it a daisy wheel, a dot matrix, a laser, or an inkjet, we’ve all cursed at a recalcitrant printer. There’s another type of printer that maybe we don’t think of quite as often but is
Read MoreChaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple’s business due to its huge exposure on everything, from manufacturing to sales, to China — Trump’s ban could have far-reaching consequences for Apple — President Trump’s executive order banning WeChat … Rapidly escalating tensions, including WeChat ban, may devastate Apple's business
Read MoreThe social media company has reportedly eyed the Chinese-owned app, which has been feeling the heat from the US over national security concerns. TikTok, Twitter held talks about sale of popular video app, says report – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNASA reconsiders unofficial names given to galaxies and nebulae, such as “Eskimo Nebula,” as it works to be more inclusive. NASA ditching insensitive nicknames for cosmic objects – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe ceiling fan uses UV lights to kill up to 99.9% of a room’s airborne pathogens in minutes. It’s now being tested against the virus that causes COVID-19. UV light and the coronavirus: Big Ass Fans might have a solution – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok’s US operations, expects it would face less antitrust scrutiny than Microsoft — Microsoft still seen as front-runner in bidding for video-sharing app’s U.S. operations — Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.46% … Sources: Twitter had preliminary talks with TikTok about combining with TikTok's
Read MoreTurner Novak / Turner’s Blog: Profile of Pinduoduo founder Colin Huang, from his early startup endeavors to creating a $100B+ social commerce giant successfully challenging Alibaba and JD — How the son of factory workers grew Pinduoduo from Zero to $100 billion in five years. — In 2015, Colin Huang founded his third company, Pinduoduo
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has had preliminary discussions about a “combination” with TikTok, the Wall Street Journal reported, making the social media platform the latest possible suitor for the popular video-sharing app. As the WSJ notes, it’s not clear whether Twitter would pursue a possible acquisition of TikTok, and any such
Read MoreIt’s one of the idyls of our age, to imagine oneself lounging in a hot tub watching a golden sunset, glass of wine in hand and the love of your life at your side. Along the way though it’s one that’s become diverted from the original, instead of a Scandinavian style wood fired tub in
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over the president’s executive order banning the app in the US, and the company may file the lawsuit as early as Tuesday, NPR reported. According to NPR, the lawsuit will argue the president’s action is unconstitutional because TikTok did not have
Read MoreTripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history — The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs’s creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history How Tim Cook turned Apple into
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