Last week, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said some of Apple’s suppliers for iPhone 14’s panel and RAM experienced quality issues, but that should have a limited impact on the mass production since the Cupertino-based tech giant has diversified its iPhone 14 series suppliers to avoid launch delays due to component shortages. However, Kuo now reports that…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A day in the life of a Chinese robotaxi driver When Liu Yang started his current job, he found it hard to go back to driving his own car: “I instinctively went for…
The Apple Watch supports flipping watch orientation. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge When it comes to watches, southpaws often get the short end of the stick. Unless lefties buy a destro watch, they have to learn to wear watches on their dominant hand instead of the nondominant hand as recommended. But that…
Human Security, a bot mitigation and fraud detection platform for enterprises, is merging with PerimeterX, a company focused on safeguarding web apps from account takeover and automated fraud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The combined entity will comprise nearly 500 employees, and it will eventually fall under the Human Security name once the…
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the chips bill (64-32) on Tuesday to bolster local semiconductor manufacturing. The bipartisan bill will pave the way for providing nearly $280 billion in various incentives for U.S-based chip making. The bill, popularly known as the CHIPS-Plus package, has three major incentives for chipmakers: $52 billion of assistance…
As regulation, platform dynamics and consumer choice continue to eat into the adtech stalwart known as cookies, it’s leaving a gap in the market for advertising solutions that can work well without relying on cookie functionality. Today, an adtech out of Spain that’s doing just this has raised a big round of funding to double…
Forget Bang & Olufsen x Balenciaga’s weird Speaker Bag, Audio Pro x Andreas Wargenbrant is the audio specialist x artist collaboration I want to see. Essentially, it’s a luxurious rose gold and sophisticated black edition of Audio Pro’s Addon T3+ Bluetooth speaker – and since Audio Pro makes some of the most talented, retro-styled, leather-handled and…
Rival satellite firms OneWeb and Eutelsat have announced plans to merge, hoping their combined resources will allow them to better compete with rivals like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper. OneWeb, which is part-owned by the UK government, is building a constellation of 650 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver connectivity to some of…
PS Plus Essential’s next batch of monthly games has been revealed, and there’s one title in particular that’ll interest subscribers. Yakuza: Like a Dragon will be available to claim by PS Plus members in August. That’s according to Dealabs user billbil-kun, who regularly and successfully leaks the subscription platform’s monthly free games. The 2020 release…
The upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake has been delayed indefinitely following development trouble at Aspyr. The development team working on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake showcased a vertical slice (a short proof-of-concept demo designed to demonstrate a game’s major features) to publishers at Lucasfilm and Sony in late…