Netflix is rolling out spatial audio support for iPhones and iPads. The spatial audio feature has been rolled out to music streaming services such as Apple Music recently and its appeal is that it enhances the separation (or ‘space’) between sounds or instruments in the audio you are playing. This makes watching movies with headphones…
Dell has announced new portable monitors, including but not limited to a 14″ FHD IPS display with a 16:9 aspect ratio (meaning it is a typical wide, but good screen aspect ratio found in most laptop and desktop monitors). The monitor can pair with your laptop or desktop computer and is only 4.95mm thick. That…
Google has been promoting the YouTube Premium service as an alternative to the free version of YouTube, which is plagued by frequent advertisements and the inability to play songs in the background. Google Stadia Pro is another upcoming cloud service from Google that allows people to play resource-intensive video games from any device, even if…
Google Fi — a high-speed fiber optic Internet service has expanded its discounts to some returning customers. Normally, if you are a first-time user of Google Fi you can get a discount on a new Google Pixel phone. However, the new policy makes you eligible for the discount even if you have tried Fi more…
The CTO of Corellium — Chris Wade has shown that Ubuntu 20.10 (dubbed Groovy Gorilla) can be made to run on an M1 Mac Mini. M1 is Apple’s ARM-based architecture and it is built to run Mac OS. However, ARM versions of Ubuntu Linux (and other Linux distributions) do exist and have made it possible…
NVidia, one of the largest manufacturers of graphics processing units (GPUs) for video cards has brought features offering by their high performance GPU product lines to Linux devices with ARM processors. The features are Ray Tracing and DLSS. Windows PCs using the x86 instruction set architecture as well as the Xbox and PlayStation consoles have…
Microsoft has revealed a cloud-based version of their Windows operating system (OS) called Windows 365, and it can run on any device — even a tablet on a different platform such as an iPad. This could be a response to the growth of Windows’ largest competitors — Mac OS and Linux. The reasons to use…
Apple is now offering a MagSafe battery pack for iPhone 12. The battery pack can charge your iPhone 12 wirelessly via its built-in MagSafe charging coil. It also sticks to the back of your iPhone because it’s magnetic. This makes power banks a little more convenient as you don’t have to plug them in via…
The Tesla full self driving (FSD) technology under development will soon be able to detect turn signals, hazard lights, ambulance/police lights and hand gestures, according to Elon Musk. The cars will first show drivers the lights on the screen so they can make appropriate decisions, and in the future the cars will recognize the lights…
The popular Audacity music editing app for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, which was acquired by Muse Group has uploaded a new privacy policy that is considered by some to be…audacious? The policy mentions that data will be collected from users and shared with their offices in multiple countries, including WSM Group in Russia. Russia…
Apple has reportedly caught some app vendors trying to circumvent customers’ anti-tracking settings via a tracking system called CAID. Apple blocked updates that implemented CAID. CAID is an system that allows participating app vendors to track users’ activity across apps, even if they declined permission to be tracked on their iPhones. It was introduced by…
Samsung, one of the largest phone manufacturers will start offering 5 years of security updates for some of its Android phones. The supported models are the Galaxy Enterprise phones. This could (and should) be the norm for Android phones, but sadly it isn’t. The industry (like many others) has been driving customers to buy new…