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Huawei's problems appear to be terminal. (Source: Getty Images)

Huawei smartphone production lines grind to a halt

Embattled Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s woes are no longer academic it seems. According to the South China Morning Post, Huawei smartphone assembler Foxconn has shut down several production lines that were making Huawei’s mark...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 02 Jun 2019 02:30

The battery reportedly exploded while on charge. (Image source: @whitepanda)

MacBook Pro: Battery dramatically explodes, damaging owner's house

A Twitter user has shared a video and information about his MacBook Pro, which exploded during normal use. The video shows the laptop emitting copious amounts of smoke, with the battery having caught fire. The device has been brou...

Alex Alderson, 30 May 2019 23:26

OnePlus acknowledges ghost touch issue affecting some 7 Pro smartphones

Have you noticed ghost or phantom touch issues on your OnePlus 7 Pro? Well, the company has recognised it as an issue, and has issued a functionality limiting workaround for the time being.

Alex Alderson, 30 May 2019 17:52

Best Xbox One games in 2016 (Source: Digital Spy)

We are all sick: Gaming addiction is now recognized as a disease

Video game addition was defined by the World Health Organisation as a disorder in late 2017, and now it has been finally recognized as a disease that will be placed in line with gambling addition starting in 2022. However, it will...

Codrut Nistor, 27 May 2019 14:47

Huawei may have 12 month's worth of components for its devices. (Source: Reuters)

Huawei has stockpiled up to a 12-month supply of parts as a buffer against a potential ban

At the time that Huawei was placed on the US government's Entity List last week, Huawei is thought to have built enough supplied of key components to last up to 12 months. The report comes via the Nikkei Asian Review that says Hua...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 26 May 2019 06:43

Opinion | An ARM and a leg: What ARM's latest decision may cost Huawei

ARM's recent announcement to cut ties with Huawei may leave the Chinese dragon in a lurch. While Huawei manufactures its own custom processors, they are built on ARM's architecture. Should ARM revoke Huawei's ability to use this a...

Sam Medley, 23 May 2019 17:17

Is Apple's App Store a monopoly? Depends on who you ask

A recent survey run by Blind shed some light on what various tech employees think of Apple and the App Store. Apple's own employees largely believe the company doesn't hold a monopoly on iOS app distribution, but other companies (...

Sam Medley, 22 May 2019 23:56

Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL facing random shutdowns

Trouble in paradise: Google Pixel 3a/3a XL users are facing random shutdowns

Although Google has a rich experience with Android devices, some of its latest Pixel handsets are now affected by an ancient plague: random shutdowns. After quite a few such incident reports that have been posted on Reddit recentl...

Codrut Nistor, 21 May 2019 17:31

Massive data breach may have affected millions of Instagram users, including some major influencers

A recently discovered hack has exposed the personal contact information of millions of Instagram users, including some prominent influencers and celebrities. The hackers attacked an Amazon Web Services-hosted database owned by Cht...

Sam Medley, 20 May 2019 23:44

HongMeng OS, Huawei's replacement for Google (Source: Wccftech)

HongMeng OS: This is the name of Huawei's Android replacement

Given the trouble that Huawei has been having lately, it is not surprising to find out that the Chinese giant is already working on a Google Android replacement. Media reports confirm that HongMeng OS is in the trial phase already...

Codrut Nistor, 20 May 2019 21:15

Dell claimed to have fixed the XPS 15 9570's DPC latency issues with BIOS 1.10.1. (Image source: Dell)

Updated | Dell has not eliminated the DPC latency issues that have been affecting the XPS 15 9570

Dell promised the earth, so it should come as no surprise that it has failed to meet expectations. The company had promised that it had fixed the latency issues that have been affecting the XPS 15 9570. Alas, it seems that the com...

Alex Alderson, 20 May 2019 14:37

Anthem has had a rough ride in the gaming community. (Image source: NDTV Gadgets)

Apparently Anthem's problems are because of the players

It’s been reported that some of the executives at BioWare, the EA-owned game developer, have been blaming Anthem’s issues on the gamers that play it. Great things were expected from the title, but within days of its release in Feb...

Daniel R Deakin, 17 May 2019 10:29

Affected Titan Security Keys have a printed "T1" or "T2" at the bottom (image: Google).

Security flaw found in Google's Titan Security Keys

A flaw discovered in Google's Bluetooth Low Energy Titan Security Keys leaves a hole open for potential attackers. Under certain circumstances and with proper timing, an attacker could potentially hijack the Bluetooth pairing proc...

Sam Medley, 17 May 2019 05:32

New ZombieLoad attack can exploit all Intel chips dating back to 2011

A flaw in Intel's modern CPU architectures can be used in a new attack. Dubbed "ZombieLoad," the vulnerability is similar to the Spectre and Meltdown bugs that haunted the PC market last year. ZombieLoad uses a similar flaw in Int...

Sam Medley, 14 May 2019 23:44

Google gives its reason for including a 3.5mm jack on the Pixel 3a phones, and it's flimsy as hell

In an interview a few days ago, Soniya Jobanputra, Product Manager at Google, revealed the reason behind the company's inclusion of a 3.5mm headphone jack on the new mid-range Pixel 3a phones...while that same feature is missing o...

Ricci Rox, 14 May 2019 14:10

Amazon warehouse worker in action (Source: Reuters)

We are disposable: Amazon to replace more human jobs with robots

Thanks to the latest developments in automation and robotics, Amazon needed almost 20,000 fewer workers in 2018 than in 2017. In the coming months, machines that pack orders — which are currently being tested — might burn over 1,3...

Codrut Nistor, 14 May 2019 10:11

Does your XPS 15 9570 get hot in your bag? You might not be the only one. (Image source: Dell)

Does your XPS 15 9570 get hot and drain its battery while asleep? Dell has a workaround, but you may not like it.

Dell may well be working on a fix for S3 sleep with the XPS 15 9570, but the device still has numerous outstanding issues too. One such problem is high battery drain and overheating when asleep, and Dell now has a rather counter-i...

Alex Alderson, 10 May 2019 20:18

The wireless charging pad now subject to a recall may look like this. (Source: USCPSC)

US consumer safety body orders recall of a wireless charging pad

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has ordered the recall of a wireless charging pad sold by the company Imagine Nation Books due to a burn hazard. This order affects about 64,000 of these products circulating in the countr...

Deirdre O Donnell, 10 May 2019 16:54

Having the latest Android Q preview may be cool, but perhaps less so when going about your daily life. (Source: Android Central)

Some Google Pay users find the latest Android Q beta is not daily driver-ready the hard way

Google announced that the newest preview for the next version of Android would be made available on a total of 21 devices, including the more recent Pixel phones. Therefore, a relatively large number of users may have gained acces...

Deirdre O Donnell, 09 May 2019 20:36

UltraFine to Ultra-rare: Apple seemingly removes LG UltraFine 5K display from its store

Apple has apparently delisted the LG UltraFine 5K Display from its online retail store. This could possibly mark the end of the product and might be a harbinger of Apple selling its own professional-grade monitor. Rumors are flyin...

Sam Medley, 09 May 2019 16:05

The Samsung Galaxy Fold is set to get a relaunch date in the next couple of days. (Source: Samsung)

Samsung Galaxy Fold relaunch date imminent

Samsung’s troubled Galaxy Fold looks set to get an official relaunch date in the couple of days, according to Co-CEO DJ Koh. Koh heads up Samsung’s mobile division and says that the company has investigated the issue and appears t...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 09 May 2019 12:13

Dell recommends rolling back to BIOS 1.12.1 for the time being, but it is not necessarily that simple. (Image source: Dell)

Some Dell XPS 15 9560 laptops are experiencing a severe BIOS related HDMI problem

Oh dear. While much has been made of Dell fixing the issues affecting the XPS 15 9570, it appears that the company has broken an important feature for its predecessor, the XPS 15 9560. There have been multiple reports of BIOS 1.14...

Alex Alderson, 09 May 2019 01:02

Visual representation of Bitcoin, US$40 million Binance theft May 2019 (Source: Getty Images)

Grand Theft Crypto: Hackers steal the equivalent of over US$40 million from Binance

Although the security breach that has just been discovered by Binance impacted the BTC hot wallet only — which contained only about 2 percent of the total BTC holdings of the exchange — the hackers managed to withdraw 7,000 BTC in...

Codrut Nistor, 08 May 2019 08:52

Dell is gradually fixing the issues that have been affecting the XPS 15 9570. (Image source: Dell)

Dell confirms that fixing S3 sleep is next on the agenda for the XPS 15 9570

Further to its backtrack last month, Dell has now confirmed that it is focussing its efforts on addressing S3 sleep mode for the XPS 15 9570. The company removed the mode over a year ago with the release of BIOS 1.3.0.

Alex Alderson, 07 May 2019 23:02

Sly tactics: Canon has limited the EOS Rebel SL3 (EOS 250D/EOS Kiss X) and EOS 2000D (Rebel T7) to proprietary flash accessories

Canon has omitted the center pin from the EOS Rebel SL3 and EOS 2000D, a decision which renders both DLSRs incompatible with almost all third-party flash accessories. Naturally, the company has not pointed this out for either devi...

Alex Alderson, 07 May 2019 17:49

Samsung Galaxy Fold could miss the first wave of the foldable revolution

Samsung Galaxy Fold has no official release date yet

If missing the initial release date of April 26 was not bad enough, Samsung is now having it worse: according to the company's officials, a new release date for the Galaxy Fold cannot be confirmed yet. Unfortunately, this can only...

Codrut Nistor, 07 May 2019 10:06

Google Fi has made charging errors for a number of its customers. (Source: Google)

Some Google Fi customers are being charged full prices rather than their finance-agreement rates for phones

Google runs a virtual carrier in the States called Fi, through which customers can avail of interest-free instalment plans to pay for devices such as the Pixel 3. However, its support site is currently being flooded with complaint...

Deirdre O Donnell, 06 May 2019 18:30

A OnePlus 7 gets controversially dunked in water in a new teaser video. (Source: OnePlus)

OnePlus 7 Pro won't have official IP67 certification despite ad showing it dunked in water

OnePlus seems to have kicked an own goal in its latest marketing teaser for the OnePlus 7 Pro. The Chinese company has posted a short video clip on its Twitter feed showing its latest smartphone being dropped into a bucket, implyi...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 04 May 2019 11:05

Respawn has banned over 770,000 Apex Legends players for cheating

Following up on a promise to combat cheating in Apex Legends more than ever, developer Respawn announced in a blot post today that the company has banned over 770,000 players for cheating so far. The company also banned over 4,000...

Sam Medley, 04 May 2019 04:32

Slightly Mad's Mad Box console project has been affected by Google Stadia. (Image source: Trusted Reviews)

The future of Slightly Mad's Mad Box console that proposed VR gaming at 120 FPS is looking grim

An executive for Slightly Mad Studios has admitted that the future development of the Mad Box console is looking “questionable”. Slightly Mad, which is the company behind the Project CARS series of games, revealed it was planning ...

Daniel R Deakin, 03 May 2019 10:56

The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G was completely destroyed. (Image source: Naver/user-Rivon)

Updated | Images of exploded Samsung Galaxy S10 5G evoke memories of Note 7 debacle

A Samsung Galaxy S10 5G owner has taken to an online platform to share some disturbing photos of the flagship smartphone after it apparently caught fire and exploded. It’s clear to see in the images the massive amount of damage th...

Daniel R Deakin, 03 May 2019 10:04

Dell has really dropped the ball here. (Image source: Dell)

Dell laptops confirmed to be affected by serious SupportAssist security flaw

Dell reportedly sat silently on a critical SupportAssist vulnerability for nearly 6 months, according to the security researcher that reported it to the company. If you have the software installed, then chances are that your lapto...

Alex Alderson, 03 May 2019 01:19

Samsung Mall to shut down on June 30 (Source: Samsung India)

Samsung Mall to be discontinued at the end of June

Launched in India back in January 2017, Samsung Mall will apparently go down on June 30. This piece of bad news reached the users of this service in the shape of a notification message on their handsets. However, the official webs...

Codrut Nistor, 02 May 2019 20:50

Galaxy Tab S5e users are complaining of Wi-Fi signal attenuation issues cause when holding the device in a certain way. (Source: David Warner)

Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e users report Wi-Fi-related hardware concerns

In an issue reminiscent of Apple’s iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ woes, it appears that Samsung’s flashy new Galaxy Tab S5e is suffering from Wi-Fi signal attenuation issues when users place their hand in a certain position on the device....

Sanjiv Sathiah, 02 May 2019 12:48

Not so super anymore. The manufacturer of the Superbook has squandered almost US$3 million of funding. (Image source: Sentio)

The downfall of the Superbook, the US$99 laptop shell that may never reach all its backers

The company behind the crowdfunded laptop shell still has its order page live, despite admitting privately to backers that it has run out of money with potentially thousands of orders still unfulfilled.

Alex Alderson, 02 May 2019 12:09

There are still numerous issues with the XPS 15 9570. (Image source: Dell)

Almost a year on from its release and the Dell XPS 15 9570 is still suffering from countless issues

Dell may have just fixed the device's DPC-related latency issues, but the popular 15.6-inch laptop is still plagued by other problems that the company has failed, or refuses, to fix.

Alex Alderson, 02 May 2019 00:00

Energizer Power Max P18K Pop will no longer launch, crowdfunding campaign ends in failure (Source: Indiegogo)

Big is not enough: The Energizer Power Max P18K Pop has failed

In one of the greatest Indiegogo fails ever, the Energizer "brick smartphone" with an 18,000 mAh only managed to gain 11 backers. The sum pledged was US$15,005 — not much more than 1 percent of the US$1,200,000 fixed goal that had...

Codrut Nistor, 01 May 2019 12:48

The Dell XPS 15 9570 currently starts at US$999.99. (Image source: Dell)

Dell fails to deliver OLED option to the XPS 15 in April but clues suggest 9580 refreshed model for June

The announced OLED panel update for the Dell XPS 15 has already been delayed since March, and it now looks like those hoping for this display type on this particular performance laptop will have to wait even longer before making a...

Daniel R Deakin, 01 May 2019 10:53

The BIOS 1.10.1 for the XPS 15 9570 is available to download now. (Image source: Dell)

Dell releases new XPS 15 9570 BIOS to address DPC latency issues

The Pigs have flown, Hell hath frozen over. Dell has finally released a new BIOS for the XPS 15 9570 specifically to address the device's DPC latency issues. It would not be an XPS 15 fix without some unintended problems though, r...

Alex Alderson, 30 Apr 2019 17:01

Anki, the company behind cute little robits like Vector has gone out of business. (Source: Anki)

Robotics startup Anki goes under

Anki, the startup which attempted to make robotics mainstream through tiny, but relatively expensive, toys has folded. Based in San Francisco, CEO Boris Sofman broke the news to emotional staff that all 200 have been laid off with...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 30 Apr 2019 13:17

Mozilla to replace Firefox on Android with new browser, dubbed "Fenix"

Firefox for Android will begin to fizzle out later this year. Mozilla is moving their ailing mobile browser into an extended-support update scheme in order to focus on a new mobile browser: Fenix. Firefox for Android will continue...

Sam Medley, 28 Apr 2019 05:11

The Dell XPS 15 will soon come with a GeForce GTX 1650 GPU, but no GTX 1660 Ti. (Image source: Dell)

Dell XPS 15: No GeForce GTX 1660 Ti model, but a GTX 1650 version is coming

The company has revealed that it has no plans to introduce a GTX 1660 Ti with its XPS 15 refresh, nor will it release a white version either as it has with recent XPS 13 models. The new XPS 15 will come with a GTX 1650 though, Fra...

Alex Alderson, 27 Apr 2019 16:57

Six Android apps on Google's Play Store found to secretively harvest data from users

Six apps from Chinese developer DO Global have been found to secretly collect user data and send it to Chinese servers. While these apps have now been removed, this issue has once again turned a spotlight on a serious privacy prob...

Sam Medley, 27 Apr 2019 03:18

Gone but not forgotten: iFixit's teardown of the Galaxy Fold is still viewable online (Image source: iFixit)

How Orwellian: Samsung pressures iFixit to withdraw its Galaxy Fold teardown

Samsung PR is in overdrive. After delaying the public release of the Galaxy Fold following reports of numerous display issues, the company is now doing its best to shut down any negative press about the foldable smartphone.

Alex Alderson, 26 Apr 2019 11:43

Clevo barebones are used by system builders like Sager, Schenker, and EVOC. (Source: Sager)

Updated | Alienware Area-51m scores 26,435 points in 3DMark Fire Strike and gets immediately outgunned by a couple of Clevos

An Alienware Area-51m owner has managed to score a very respectable 26,435 points in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (1.1). The laptop was fitted with an Intel Core i9-9900K CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 GPU. But it seems a couple of ...

Daniel R Deakin, 26 Apr 2019 07:31

Do you have one of these? If so, stop using it immediately. (Image source: Apple)

Dangerous fruit: Apple recalls specific wall plugs over electric shock risk

Did you buy a Mac, iOS device or the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit between 2003 and 2010? If you did, chances are that you received a wall plug too. Turns out that the three-prong adapters sold in certain countries during that pe...

Alex Alderson, 25 Apr 2019 19:43

LG's ailing smartphone business has consistently made losses for almost two years. (Image source: Mobilesyrup)

Goodbye South Korea, hello Vietnam: LG suspends smartphone production in South Korea

The South Korean manufacturer is reportedly switching production of its flagship smartphones from its home country to an existing plant in Vietnam. The move is an effort to reduce manufacturing costs amid seven consecutive quarter...

Alex Alderson, 25 Apr 2019 16:35

Apple will begin repairing MacBook Pro keyboards at Apple Stores, reducing turnaround time

In an internal memo to Apple Store employees, Apple has instructed its repair technicians to begin repairing MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards on-site rather than shipping the devices to a repair facility. It appears that Apple is...

Sam Medley, 23 Apr 2019 23:58

Samsung Galaxy Fold could get two foldable companions soon, reveals South Korean news outlet The Bell

Samsung allegedly working on two more foldables

Although the Galaxy Fold has been officially delayed, it looks like two more such models are in the pipeline. For now, they are known as "Type G" and "Type S," but there is no official information regarding their commercial names ...

Codrut Nistor, 23 Apr 2019 08:55