If you like mechanical keyboards, you like switches. Historically, switches were weird, with strange capacitive rubber dome switches in Topre boards, buckling springs in the IBM Model M, and beamsprings in earlier IBM keyboards. This teardown of an HP signal generator has the weirdest keyboard switches ever. They’re being called pulse transformer switches, but they
Read MoreWelcome back to Lady Bits, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Let’s face it, the tech industry can be bro-y as hell. So, we’ve made this special game of Bingo for you to play at your workplace — if you have to deal with sexism, you might as well try to make it fun,
Read More8K OLED TVs officially become a thing this week as LG starts taking orders in South Korea for arguably the most advanced consumer TV set ever created. The 88Z9 has an 88-inch OLED panel with 8K Ultra HD resolution (7680 x 4320) — that’s four times more pixels than 4K. The OLED panel itself is
Read MoreJust hours after Oppo revealed the world’s first under-display camera, Xiaomi has hit back with its own take on the new technology. Xiaomi president Lin Bin has posted a video to Weibo (later re-posted to Twitter) of the Xiaomi Mi 9 with a front facing camera concealed entirely behind the phone’s screen. That means the
Read MoreGmail, YouTube and other services that rely on Google’s backend technology were disrupted for more than four hours on Sunday by what the company blamed on “high levels of network congestion.” Apple iCloud, Snapchat, Nest, Discord, Vimeo, and a number of third-party applications that host their services on Google were affected as a result. Several of
Read MoreNo notch, no problem. Oppo teases a phone with a selfie camera built into the screen – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBloomberg: Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $23.85 per share, valuing the company at €9B, at about 33% premium to its Friday closing price of $17.82 — – The proposed acquisition values Cypress at about $10 billion — Semiconductor players are wrestling with slowing growth Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for .85 per share, valuing
Read MoreSmartphone companies are trying really hard to get rid of the notch by accommodating the selfie camera in many different ways: pop-up modules, flip-up camera, and sliding camera modules. Now, Oppo today announced through a tweet that it’s working on an under-display selfie camera. The company posted a video on Twitter that shows a camera
Read MoreMarianna Tzabiras / IFEX: Caller ID and spam blocking app Truecaller can endanger journalists by revealing their phone numbers, even if journalists never use the app — While TrueCaller may have laudable intentions, the privacy implications for people who end up in their database raise concerns. Caller ID and spam blocking app Truecaller can endanger
Read MoreInfineon Technologies: Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $23.85 per share, valuing the company at €9B, at about 33% premium to its Friday closing price of $17.82 — Business & Financial Press — Infineon CEO Ploss: “Landmark step in Infineon’s strategic development. Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for .85 per share, valuing the company at
Read MoreAlex Johnson / NBC News: NBC officially launches NBC News Now, a free streaming news service with 8 hours of programming every weekday, expects to have it running 24/7 by 2020 — The service, which doesn’t require cable service authentication, is intended to go round-the-clock by next year. NBC officially launches NBC News Now, a
Read MoreWhat you’re looking at could be the world’s first under-display camera. The video was posted to Oppo’s official Twitter account without much detail. What we can see, though, is a working front-facing camera that doesn’t need a notch, tear drop, hole punch, or pop-up sliding mechanism to leave that edge-to-edge display uninterrupted. In May, Ben
Read MoreA Dragon Quest iOS and Android game hits Japan in 2019. Dragon Quest Walk is Square Enix's answer to Pokemon Go – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreLamps are quite often simple things, designed to light an area and perhaps add a touch of style to a room. Of course, it’s 2019 now, and we don’t need to settle for just that. We can have wildly colored animated lamps if we want to! (French Youtube link, embedded below.) The lamp in question
Read MoreJon Russell / TechCrunch: TaniGroup, which operates a B2B platform for Indonesian farmers to sell their produce direct to 400 SMBs that cater to 10,000 consumers, raises $10M Series A — In 2016, former World Bank analyst Eka Pamitra teamed up with five friends to start a business that would help farmers in their native
Read MoreEcobee’s latest connected thermostat addresses many of the problems with the prior model Continue reading… Ecobee’s new SmartThermostat is faster, sleeker, and a better Alexa speaker Source: New feed
Read MoreSquare Enix has announced Dragon Quest Walk, a new smartphone entry in the titanically successful JRPG series. Very little has been revealed so far, but as you can see from the teaser trailer above, it’s a location-based game that puts monsters from the franchise into the real world, like Pokémon Go. Dragon Quest Walk will
Read MoreWhat’s next for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, the Mac — and everything else in the Apple universe? We’ll find out on Monday. Apple WWDC 2019 keynote: Start time, how to watch, livestream, iOS 13 and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMeir Orbach / CTech – 24/7: PE firms Francisco Partners and Israel Growth Partners to acquire LiveU, an Israel-based developer of live broadcasting and streaming tech, for $200M — LiveU develops live broadcasting and streaming technologies negating the need for an outside broadcasting van, as the video is transmitted directly … PE firms Francisco Partners
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Infineon nears deal to buy Cypress Semiconductor for $23-$24/share; the San Jose-based chipmaker had market cap of $6.5B and closed at $17.82 on Friday — – Transaction likely to value Cypress at $10 billion with debt — German chipmaker could pay $23 to $24 per share for Cypress Sources: Infineon nears deal to
Read MoreIt has been fascinating to watch the rise of the #BadgeLife community in North America, and a little sad when viewed from a European perspective that their creative vibrancy has not quite fully made it across the Atlantic. It’s pleasing therefore to report on something traveling in the opposite direction. We’ve found a #BadgeLife creation
Read MoreA host of other popular apps and services had been giving users trouble on the East Coast. YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail connection issues in eastern US now fixed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt was the revolutionary desktop that turned heads but failed to win hearts and minds, leaving its successor a steep task. Trash can redux: Reexamining the legacy of the 2013 Apple Mac Pro – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFoxconn has received fewer orders for Huawei phones, the South China Morning Post reports. Huawei strips back production of phones amid US crackdown, report says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe corporate home of Wonder Woman, Harry Potter and “Friends” weighs how its streaming service can compete on price with Disney, Netflix and Amazon. AT&T’s Streaming Ambitions Hit a Snag: The Cost of HBO Source: NY Times Tech
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