Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram. With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal. More
Microsoft may buy Barnes & Noble's Nook unit for $1 billion According to internal documents obtained by the website TechCrunch, Microsoft has offered $1 billion for the digital assets of Nook Media, Barnes & Noble's digital book venture. According to internal documents obtained by the website TechCrunch, Microsoft has offered $1 billion for the digital assets of Nook Media, Barnes & Noble's digital book venture. More
HTC Expects Brighter Second Quarter Taiwan's HTC expects its second-quarter revenue and operating margin to rise from the first quarter, as sales of the new HTC One smartphone pick up. More
Qualcomm gives better-than-expected revenue forecast as company pushes AI-powered smartphones Qualcomm called out strong demand for "premium tier" smartphones that require the most advanced chips. 05/1/2024 - 9:02 am | View Link
Best 4G home broadband deals in May 2024 Outside of work, you'll find Rob on the tennis courts, in the gym, or diving into the biggest and best games of the year. 05/1/2024 - 4:56 am | View Link
Private moon lander will carry Nokia's 4G cell network to the lunar surface this year Nokia is developing a LTE/4G communications system for the moon, and its first piece of the network might launch as soon as late this year. Hardware for a simplified version of the network is due to ... 04/29/2024 - 2:59 am | View Link
More than a million older 4G mobile phones at risk of being blocked from making triple-0 calls in 3G shutdown Telstra is due to switch off its 3G network on June 30 and Optus is expected ... June last year — said he believed the number of devices affected would be higher than 1 million. 04/7/2024 - 9:33 am | View Link
Cheapest 4G and 5G smartphones in South Africa However, the department noted that these dates depend on the outcomes of a risk assessment study to be published within a year of the final ... 4G and 5G-enabled smartphones on offer in South ... 04/2/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for May 4's Wordle solution revealed.
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Though Prime Video may be seen as a secondary benefit to your Amazon Prime membership (after that glorious free two-day shipping), the streamer’s deep catalog of great movies deserves more fanfare. We’ve pored over their huge selection of new releases and classics to bring you the films we love that you can stream today.
Does AI have a place in the music industry? At least one label seems to think so. The record label Sub Pop told the Los Angeles Times that the music video for "The Hardest Part," a single release on May 2 by the artist Washed Out, is the first collaboration between a major music artist, filmmaker, and OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator.
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft)
It's been a bad couple of years for Microsoft's security and privacy efforts. Misconfigured endpoints, rogue security certificates, and weak passwords have all caused or risked the exposure of sensitive data, and Microsoft has been criticized by security researchers, US lawmakers, and regulatory agencies for how it has responded to and disclosed these threats.
The most high-profile of these breaches involved a China-based hacking group named Storm-0558, which breached Microsoft's Azure service and collected data for over a month in mid-2023 before being discovered and driven out.
Enlarge / A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e-6 lunar probe blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on May 3, 2024 in Wenchang, China. (credit: Li Zhenzhou/VCG via Getty Images)
China is going back to the Moon for more samples.
On Friday the country launched its largest rocket, the Long March 5, carrying an orbiter, lander, ascent vehicle, and a return spacecraft.