Enlarge / Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 4. (credit: Samsung) It’s time for a new round of Samsung foldables. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 are official. Both devices hit stores on August 26, and the prices haven’t changed from last year: It’s $1,799 for the Fold 4 and $999 for the…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Enlarge / The Galaxy Watch 5 has a notably flat-front screen, so it’s good Samsung has upgraded the display to sapphire crystal. (credit: Samsung) Samsung announced the Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro on Wednesday, giving its round, semi-rotating Wear OS watches new looks, a tougher screen material, and—for reasons the company can only…
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) As part of its Windows 11 design push, Microsoft also published fun redesigns for all of its emoji characters that added more character and texture than the older Windows 8- and 10-era versions. Today, the company is going one step further, open-sourcing the vast majority of these new “Fluent” emoji designs and…
Enlarge / Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images Within weeks of the Twitter board’s approval of Elon Musk’s unsolicited bid to take the company private, the South African-born billionaire came down with a severe case of buyer’s remorse. Twitter was not happy, and after Musk decided not to go through with the purchase, the social media company quickly…
Enlarge / All images in this review were personally captured by Sam Machkovech on various PCs, unless otherwise specified. (The game’s handy “photo mode” helps on this front, though such images are still representative of real-time gameplay.) (credit: Sony / Insomniac / Nixxes) In two days, the 2018 hit game Marvel’s Spider-Man will break out…
Enlarge / The dust in this galaxy, shaded red, required the MIRI instrument to resolve. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) There is more than one reason why the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is considered to be pioneering. Of the four instruments on JWST, it’s the only one that…
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for another Dealmaster. Today’s roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes the return of the lowest price we’ve seen for Google’s Pixel 6 Pro. As of this writing, Amazon subsidiary Woot has the 128GB unlocked version of the phone available for…
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FullStory, which sells analytics tools for apps and websites, secured $25 million in new equity financing, paperwork filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week shows. TechCrunch couldn’t independently confirm the investors and the company hadn’t responded to a request for comment as of press time. But according to Crunchbase, the infusion is…
It’s long been known that security is not a problem that companies, even large corporations, can solve on their own. It takes a community working together to battle the kinds of problems that companies are facing today when it comes to cybersecurity. This morning at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas; AWS, Splunk…