European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/45222...
LCD monitor shipments were still down in Q1 2023, but market recovery is inbound (www.techspot.com)
TrendForce reports that most major LCD monitor sellers saw declining shipments in the first quarter of 2023. However, positive numbers from some companies could signal an overall...
Apple M2 Ultra can double the performance of M2 Max in many tests, proving claims true (www.techspot.com)
Apple claimed the M2 Ultra could double the performance of its previous flagship, the M2 Max. It achieves this feat by combining two M2 Max chips using...
Intel announces biggest processor rebranding in 15 years ahead of Meteor Lake launch (www.techspot.com)
Seagate's mass-produced HAMR hard drives to debut at 32TB, followed by 40TB (www.techspot.com)
I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we've hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don't turn out to be outrageously expensive, I'll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable
A 13-year-old spent $64,000 of her parents' money on mobile games without them realizing (www.techspot.com)
Steam will show EU customers 30-day-low price for games (www.techspot.com)
Linus Sebastian is stepping down as CEO of Linus Media Group, rejects $100 million takeover offer (www.techspot.com)
Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Windows Defender bug that was killing Firefox performance (www.techspot.com)
Firefox users should now get a much smoother and better-performing experience while browsing the web.
Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain (www.techspot.com)
Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....
Russian state-sponsored hackers compromised Microsoft source code repositories (www.techspot.com)
Security researcher charged with defrauding Apple out of more than $2.5 million, company thanks him two weeks later (www.techspot.com)
Elon Musk says Tesla workers will be sleeping on the factory floor when new $25,000 EV goes into production next year (www.techspot.com)
The Price is Wrong, Bob: Only a third of PC gamers pay full price (www.techspot.com)
Modder is hosting his personal website on a 40-year-old IBM PCjr (www.techspot.com)
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
Assassin's Creed haptic feedback shirt will let players feel every punch, stab, and fall (www.techspot.com)
The partnership lets players experience the world as the game’s protagonist, Basim
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/121003...
Foxconn plans to pivot from iPhones to EVs amid rising US-China tensions (www.techspot.com)
Foxconn chairman and CEO Young Liu recently detailed the company's plans to expand its electric vehicle business. The market could be an escape hatch for the iPhone...
8BitDo releases adapter for using modern controllers on PS1 and PS2 (www.techspot.com)
France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high (www.techspot.com)
Patent pending: Apple could skip foldables and advance directly to a rollable iPhone (www.techspot.com)
As other leading smartphone makers are perfecting devices with vertically or horizontally folding screens, recently published patent information suggests Cupertino might take a different route. A patent for “electronic devices with rollable displays” filed last October and published on July 13 references a device with a...
Japan crashes SLIM spacecraft upside-down on the moon and calls it a "success" (www.techspot.com)
