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Twitter may not delete inactive accounts after all. (Source: Twitter)

Twitter walks back its plan to cull inactive accounts

Recently, reports of Twitter's intentions to delete inactive accounts, starting December 2019, came to light. However, the company has come up against resistance to this idea from more vocal users. Their main objection appears to ...

Deirdre O Donnell, 28 Nov 2019 21:33

YI partners with Home Depot for its Black Friday outdoor camera sale

YI is a home security brand with some Black Friday deals that have already been added to its own online store. However, it has announced that its weather-proof outdoor variant will be up to 40% through the chain Home Depot on the ...

Deirdre O Donnell, 27 Nov 2019 18:37

LG has some OLED TV offers for US customers. (Source: LG)

Deal | LG unveils its Black Friday sale on 2019 OLED TVs

LG has unveiled what it calls the "best prices of the year" on its OLED TVs sold through its site and authorized dealers in the US. It includes no less than US$2000 off one 77-inch model, and a 55-inch SKU that now goes for just $...

Deirdre O Donnell, 27 Nov 2019 15:14

The Honor 20 Pro has already received the Android 10-based Magic UI 3.0 update. (Source: Trusted Reviews)

Official Android 10 update roadmap for Honor phones throws up a few surprises

Huawei and Honor began sending out the Android 10-based EMUI 10 and Magic UI 3.0 updates to their current-gen flagships. At the Honor V30 launch yesterday, Honor revealed its release roadmap for the Android 10 update and there are...

Ricci Rox, 27 Nov 2019 09:06

Strangely, the MSI WE75 has no Quadro RTX 4000 or 5000 options (Image source: MSI)

Strangely, the MSI WE75 has no Quadro RTX 4000 or RTX 5000 options

Why is it that the GE75 can be configured with up the GeForce RTX 2080 while the WE75 is limited to the Quadro RTX 3000? MSI may be pushing ultra enthusiasts into purchasing the higher-end WT75 instead where users can find the RTX...

Allen Ngo, 27 Nov 2019 06:44

Deal | Get about 30% off Reolink's best-rated, PoE or wireless security cameras

Reolink has announced its Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. It includes 31% off the Argus 2, which has been named the best 2019 home security camera (outdoor) by PCMag. There is also 25% off the 355-degree-panning E1 Pro Wi-Fi camer...

Deirdre O Donnell, 26 Nov 2019 18:39

The new heartbeatz Apple Watch heart rate bridge. (Source: North Pole Engineering)

A new gadget can transfer Apple Watch heart-rate tracking to workout machines

North Pole Engineering has launched heartbeatz, a new device that acts as a bridge between an Apple Watch and any exercise bike or treadmill with ANT+. This enables the machine in question to display heart rate information directl...

Deirdre O Donnell, 26 Nov 2019 17:56

The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 has a penta-camera setup. (Image source: Xiaomi/T3)

Xiaomi goes from strength to strength: 73% annual growth in Europe, bigger than Samsung in India, and prepping the 108 MP Mi Note 10 for the Indian market

A new report from market analysts Canalys has revealed incredible results for Xiaomi in the European smartphone market: The Chinese manufacturer has witnessed annual growth of 73%. In India, Xiaomi is currently the number 1 smartp...

Daniel R Deakin, 25 Nov 2019 23:14

MediaTek and Intel have set up a new 5G partnership. (Source: MediaTek)

Intel and MediaTek announce a new 5G partnership

MediaTek has revealed that it will be supplying Intel with modems for 5G-capable hardware in the future. These components may go into laptops, the first of which are projected to be made by HP and Dell. Those PCs may those targete...

Deirdre O Donnell, 25 Nov 2019 23:10

The patented Intel game controller. (Source: LetsGoDigital)

Intel may have patented a cloud gaming-dedicated controller

Intel has reportedly patented its own game controller. It is liberally provisioned with joysticks, buttons, a D-pad and what could be shoulder triggers. Furthermore, its design also includes a touchpad, which is apparently associa...

Deirdre O Donnell, 25 Nov 2019 18:46

Google Pay will tell you if your phone fails SafetyNet on its start-up soon. (Source: XDA)

Google Pay can now show SafetyNet status on its load page

The Google Pay app has been updated so as to display a message should a given phone be ineligible to conduct transactions using this method. This notification would apply to users who have rooted or otherwise modified their device...

Deirdre O Donnell, 24 Nov 2019 18:59

The EOS 5G Mark IV is up for one of the best deals at Canon US this Black Friday. (Source: Canon)

Deal | Save as much as US$700 on Canon cameras and lenses

Canon has unveiled its Black Friday 2019 week deals, which include a number of high-end cameras, on its own website. This store also offers discounts on some lenses, as does Amazon at present. These listings also include Tamron or...

Deirdre O Donnell, 24 Nov 2019 18:22

The Sony Xperia 5. (Source: Pocket Lint)

Two years behind the curve: The Xperia 5 continues Sony's tradition of making poor camera phones

Sony makes some of the best smartphone camera sensors, so one would expect the company's flagships to offer excellent camera performance. That could not be farther from the reality of the matter, though, as Sony has consistently s...

Ricci Rox, 24 Nov 2019 08:23

Purported Nokia 9.1 PureView. (Source: Nokiapoweruser)

New leak gives first look at the penta-camera Nokia 9.1 PureView

The Nokia 9 PureView was an ambitious device that mostly fell flat on its face due to a number of factors. HMD Global is working on the successor to that device, the Nokia 9.1 PureView, and we finally have our first look at a phon...

Ricci Rox, 24 Nov 2019 08:22

Report a verifiable Titan M hack, get up to $1 million. (Source: F3News)

Google now offers a US$1 million bounty for Titan M chipset vulnerabilities

Google's updated Android Security Rewards Program now offers up to six-figure rewards for reporting potential severe exploits that affect its Titan M security module. It applies to such discrepancies that can affect the Pixel 4, 3...

Deirdre O Donnell, 23 Nov 2019 20:47

OnePlus has admitted that a third party may have made off with its customer data. (Source: DigitalTrends)

OnePlus reports a data security breach that affects its customers

OnePlus has sent an email to "some of" its customers advising them of a lapse in data protection at the company. In this case, it appears passwords and payment details are safe; however, personal information associated with these ...

Deirdre O Donnell, 23 Nov 2019 19:24

Perfect for slicing up traffic. (Image source: Tesla)

Blade Runner-inspired bulletproof Tesla Cybertruck will slice through traffic but has breakable unbreakable windows

The Tesla Cybertruck has been officially revealed, and while the all-electric vehicle has been specifically designed to protect the environment, it will certainly make some eyes sore. Elon Musk unveiled the Blade Runner-esque truc...

Daniel R Deakin, 23 Nov 2019 04:04

Microsoft is one of a relative handful of firms that can sell to Huawei again. (Source: NT Interia)

Microsoft is now licensed to do business with Huawei again

Microsoft has announced that it has secured a license from the US government that allows it to sell its products to Huawei again. This will, for example, enable the OEM to put Windows on future generations of its MateBooks. The Re...

Deirdre O Donnell, 22 Nov 2019 18:43

The Mate 30 Pro is slowly arriving in more countries. (Image source: Huawei)

The Huawei Mate 30 Pro has officially arrived in Europe

The time has come for Huawei fans to act, as the Chinese company has officially brought the Mate 30 Pro to EU shores. The handset comes without Google Mobile Services, while its release is limited to Spain for the time being. Howe...

Alex Alderson, 22 Nov 2019 14:41

The foldable Lenovo ThinkPad X1 was on show in China. (Image source: Lenovo/ITHome)

Hands-on promo clip of the foldable ThinkPad X1 will have many fans telling Lenovo to take their money

Lenovo has posted a promo clip of the foldable ThinkPad X1 on YouTube that was filmed at the company’s recent Tech World event. A rendered marketing video for the folding laptop was already released earlier this year, but this lat...

Daniel R Deakin, 22 Nov 2019 05:06

Opinion | If Sony were smart, they would introduce an official Playstation 4 trade-in program to push Playstation 5 adoption rate

How great would it be to be able to trade-in your OG Playstation 4 for an instant $75 off the Playstation 5? A Sony-run trade-up program for existing PS4 owners could make the inevitably high launch price of the PS5 easier to swal...

Allen Ngo, 21 Nov 2019 21:18

The OPPO M1 trademark application. (Source: EUIPO)

OPPO trademarks its own in-house mobile chipset in Europe

OPPO may have an equivalent to Samsung's Exynos SoC line in the works. This is in line with a new report that the OEM has registered the name M1 in relation to this product category with the European Union Intellectual Property Of...

Deirdre O Donnell, 21 Nov 2019 19:36

The Realme XT is on ebay.de now. (Source: eBay)

The Realme XT and 5 are coming to Europe

The Realme XT is this brand's first 64MP quad-camera phone. It has finally come to European shores, although it is exclusive to eBay Germany for now, and starts at €259 (US$289) for a 6GB/64GB SKU. In addition, Realme has announce...

Deirdre O Donnell, 21 Nov 2019 18:45

Lenovo busted for secretly paying cybersecurity "influencers" to promote ThinkShield

TechCrunch Security Editor Zack Whittaker blew the whistle on Lenovo on his Twitter account recently over Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo's alleged attempts to pay Information Security "influencers" to say good things about ThinkSh...

Douglas Black, 21 Nov 2019 18:07

The apology letter is signed by Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel’s EVP and GM of Sales, Marketing and Communications. (Source: Intel Newsroom)

Intel issues public apology letter for customers and partners regarding the CPU shipment delays

This kind of full disclosure apology is unprecedented for companies the size of Intel. While the CPU maker is acknowledging the “production variability” that is causing customers and OEM partners more supply issues, there is no me...

Bogdan Solca, 21 Nov 2019 17:22

The OnePlus 7T scored well in our recent review. (Image source: OnePlus)

Opinion | The OnePlus 7T trade in program is a joke

Want to lose money quickly? Well, the OnePlus 7T trade-in scheme would be a good way to go about it. You can get up to US$370 in credit for trading-in a 256 GB OnePlus 7 Pro, a quite frankly ludicrous amount of money for a six-mon...

Alex Alderson, 21 Nov 2019 15:05

Qualcomm's president, Cristiano Amon, at last year's Snapdragon Tech Summit. (Source: Qualcomm)

The 2019 Snapdragon Technology Summit keynotes will be livestreamed from their Hawaii venue

Qualcomm has announced that its next Snapdragon Tech Summit will take place from December 3 to 5, 2019 in Maui, Hawaii. This year, the company will showcase its growing 5G expertise, as well as other facets of its mobile device bu...

Deirdre O Donnell, 20 Nov 2019 23:22

Some more Qualcomm 9205 LTE modem specs. (Source: Qualcomm)

AT&T approves Qualcomm’s new 9205 LTE modem for its IoT bands

AT&T now maintains specific bands for internet of things (IoT) devices and other low-power 4G/LTE applications. To this end, the carrier has just validated the new 9205 modem for these kinds of networks and ecosystems. This Qualco...

Deirdre O Donnell, 20 Nov 2019 19:42

Asus ProArt StudioBook Pro 17 W700 with Quadro RTX 3000 graphics now shipping for $2000 USD

Leave it to a company who designs some of the most stylish gaming laptops to offer one of the best-looking mobile workstations yet. The ProArt StudioBook Pro 17 promises Xeon options, ECC RAM, and a 16:10 1200p display wrapped a Z...

Allen Ngo, 20 Nov 2019 07:16

Centaur x86 CPU design with dedicated AI co-processor. (Source: Centaur Technology)

Centaur announces new SoC featuring an 8-core server-class x86 CPU with AVX512 support and an integrated 20 TOPS AI co-processor

Centaur Technologies has announced that their SoC combining eight x86 cores and a dedicated AI co-processor has posted outstanding results on the MLPerf AI inference benchmarks. This is the industry's first server-class SoC with a...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 19 Nov 2019 09:30

These phone's successors may be made by an ODM rather than by Samsung directly. (Source: YouTube)

Samsung reportedly switches to an ODM to make upcoming Galaxy A models

Samsung has a solid track record of both designing and making all its own phones in-house, unlike other phone companies that contract these processes out to original design manufacturers (ODMs). However, according to a new report,...

Deirdre O Donnell, 18 Nov 2019 23:45

Asus launches ProArt StudioBook Pro X laptop with Quadro RTX 5000 graphics for a hefty $5000 USD (Source: Asus)

Asus launches ProArt StudioBook Pro X workstation laptop with Quadro RTX 5000 graphics for a hefty $5000 USD

The 17-inch laptop integrates some unique features for a sleek mobile workstation including a ScreenPad, 16:10 1200p display, Xeon E-2276M, and a Quadro 5000 GPU.

Allen Ngo, 18 Nov 2019 23:40

Business: HP rejects Xerox acquisition offer

Business: HP rejects Xerox's acquisition offer

Recently, a spectacular take-over in the PC market was in the making: Xerox wanted to swallow the much larger HP. This plan may be doomed to fail however, as HP has rejected the offer from Xerox now. In a surprise twist, HP is say...

Benjamin Herzig, 18 Nov 2019 20:49

Sony: Smartphone business collapses; services being shut down too

Sony sold only 600,000 smartphones in the previous quarter, an all-time low for the Japanese company's smartphone division. The collapse of its smartphone business also has consequences for the services that Sony offers.

Alex Alderson, 18 Nov 2019 16:50

Size matters – Fujifilm's tongue-in-cheek takedown of Xiaomi. (Image source: Fujifilm)

Fujifilm trolls Xiaomi and the Mi Note 10 Pro's 108 MP camera

Size matters, at least according to the social media team at Fujifilm. While Xiaomi has gained plenty of attention recently for 108 MP camera in the Mi Note 10 and Mi Note 10 Pro, also known as the Mi CC9 Pro in some markets, Fuji...

Alex Alderson, 18 Nov 2019 16:26

The Motorola Razr's first European launch may be in Sweden. (Source: LetsGoDigital)

The Motorola Razr may be even more expensive in Europe than first thought

Earlier, a Motorola Razr 2019 leak suggested that it would be priced at up to €1500 on its European launch. Now, a new rumor indicates that it will in fact cost the equivalent of €1680 when it is released to the Swedish market in ...

Deirdre O Donnell, 17 Nov 2019 19:19

The Mi Note 10 is a solid phone with quite a few compromises. (Source: The Verge)

Opinion | Should you buy the Xiaomi Mi Note 10?

Xiaomi launched the Mi Note 10 a few weeks ago and the phone's impressive camera hardware has suddenly put it close to the top of many prospective buyers' shopping lists. Most are unsure about the purchase decision, however, so wh...

Ricci Rox, 17 Nov 2019 12:50

Ice Lake issues: Microsoft is aware that the Surface Pro 7 is currently stuck on broken graphics drivers

Ice Lake issues: Microsoft is aware that the Surface Pro 7 is currently stuck on months-old broken graphics drivers

All those Iris Plus-related bug fixes Intel have been releasing over the past three months have yet to arrive on the Surface Pro 7 despite the fact that this is supposed to be Microsoft's latest flagship Windows tablet. Though we ...

Allen Ngo, 17 Nov 2019 04:07

Huawei may get slight reprieve in US markets with extension of trade waiver

Despite the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China, Huawei received a small reprieve in the way of a general license allowing U.S. firms to transact with the Chinese telecom giant. That license is set to expire on Monday, bu...

Sam Medley, 17 Nov 2019 01:01

The Fujitsu FUTRO Q9010 has PalmSecure hand-vein biometrics. (Source: Fujitsu)

The latest Fujitsu thin clients have Gemini Lake Refresh processors

Fujitsu has announced the latest 3 additions to its FUTRO line of thin clients. They also have freshly-launched Intel chipsets: Gemini Lake Refresh processors named as the Pentium Silver J5040, Celeron J4125 and Celeron J4025. The...

Deirdre O Donnell, 16 Nov 2019 21:39

Who made the display on the Motorola Razr 2019? BOE, apparently

BOE has made an announcement on Weibo claiming that it supplied Motorola with flexible displays for the new Razr. Furthermore, it now asserts that it has done the same for the Huawei Mate X - and for the foldable Lenovo ThinkPad X...

Deirdre O Donnell, 16 Nov 2019 14:30

The new MacBook Pro 16 inch model. (Source: B&H Photo Video)

Deal | B&H offers US$100 off some new 16GB MacBook Pro 16-inch SKUs

B&H Photo Video is offering a US$100 "holiday" discount off the first MacBook Pro 16" units it has in stock. However, they all have 16GB of RAM, whereas this new Apple product also has 32GB and 64GB options. Some do have a core i9...

Deirdre O Donnell, 16 Nov 2019 13:52

Frank Azor gets a replacement: Vivian Lien becomes new VP of Alienware and Dell Gaming (Source: Dell)

Frank Azor gets a successor: Vivian Lien becomes new VP of Alienware and Dell Gaming

Dell has found a new pair of eyes to help envision the future of Alienware and the direction it's headed. A larger Alienware presence in eSports, schools, and mainstream media seems likely for more widespread recognition of the br...

Allen Ngo, 16 Nov 2019 07:00

New name, same hardware: Microsoft has been using the exact same LG Philips panel for its Surface Pro series for the past three years

The two-year old Surface Pro 5 offers essentially the same display experience as the latest Surface Pro 7 down to colors, contrast, brightness, response times, and more.

Allen Ngo, 16 Nov 2019 04:46

The Mi Note 10 features a stunning penta-camera setup. (Source: Xiaomi)

Forget the Mi Note 10, Xiaomi reportedly has an even more impressive camera phone in the works

Xiaomi's newly released Mi CC9 Pro and Mi Note 10 phones have received plenty of praise for their impressive camera performance. According to a new leak, however, that isn't as good as it gets, with the Chinese company touted to b...

Ricci Rox, 15 Nov 2019 11:36

The Moto One Actions gets US$100 shaved off its RRP. (Source: Expert Reviews)

Motorola's Black Friday deals bring even more value to smartphone buyers

Black Friday deals typically bring more value to the table, and Motorola's offerings this time will likely be enticing to most, with discounts of up to US$320 being on offer, starting November 24.

Ricci Rox, 15 Nov 2019 11:35

Lenovo's ThinkPad P53 offers incredible GPU horsepower

Lenovo now offers better GPU options and for the first time, an OLED display in its 15-inch workstation. Nvidia's Quadro RTX 5000 offers a level of performance that is usually exclusive to 17-inch models.

Andreas Osthoff, 15 Nov 2019 08:06