Screenshot: Qualcomm While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear chips power the vast majority of current Wear OS watches, the platform itself has never really delivered. Thus far, Snapdragon Wear chips have been repurposed mobile processor designs built on outdated tech and are a big reason why Wear OS watches have been so lackluster. But today, Qualcomm is…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Enlarge / Here is a preliminary design of a Mars lander to be built by Impulse Space. (credit: Impulse Space) Relativity Space has not launched a single rocket, and Impulse Space has never tested one of its thrusters in space. Nevertheless, on Tuesday, the two California-based companies declared their intention to launch an ambitious mission…
Enlarge / Plankton are under real threat as our oceans warm and acidify, but they’re not all gone yet. (credit: tonaquatic/Getty Images) For the past few days, it has been hard to look at social media without coming across a scary-looking report from the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post. “Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton…
Adding your own tracks to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and other streaming services, can expand your listening possibilities. Laura Chouette / Unsplash Music streaming services have given us access to more music than ever before: Tens of millions of songs available on demand, for roughly the price of an old CD album every month….
Save $30: As of July 19, Norton 360 Deluxe antivirus software for five devices is on sale for $19.99 at Amazon, which saves you over 50% off its usual $49.99. A $10 Amazon gift card is included. In 2021, there was a surge of ransomware cyberattacks. As peak inflation makes hacking an increasingly lucrative hustle,…
Slack has revealed it will raise the price of subscriptions for its popular collaboration platform for the first time. In a blog post, the company explained that pricing will increase across the globe for organizations on its Pro plan, starting September 01, 2022. Affected customers will see their monthly subscriptions rise in price from $8/£5.25…
Following recent promises to crack down on account sharing, Netflix has finally launched its new password-sharing strategy – however, users connecting with one of the best Netflix VPN services seem to evade the provision – at least for now. The new rules seem to suggest that Netflix has chosen to target households, rather than users….
Searching for emails in Gmail is due to get “more accurate and circumstantial… suggestions.” Previously, search results have relied on things like chips, filters, and operators to help you find that elusive email, but machine learning is soon to make it easier to find what you need. This can be great if you know exactly…
Sony Pictures head honchos Sanford Panitch and Josh Greenstein believe their studio deserves some credit for the stratospheric success of Top Gun: Maverick. In a recent interview with Vulture, the pair claimed that Sony’s decision to release movies including Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Spider-Man: No Way Home exclusively in theaters during…
If you’ve bought a five-star rated item on Amazon only to have it fall apart within days of getting it, then you’ve likely wondered if any of those reviewers actually used the product. Well, spoiler alert, it turns out that they might not have done, as Amazon is suing over 10,000 people for orchestrating plots…