This week, two major suppliers of components for the iPhone and other Apple products released quarterly financial reports. By themselves, they are not of great interest to a wide audience, however, based on the data presented, certain conclusions can be drawn regarding the supply of Apple smartphones themselves. Foxconn is not only a supplier of some components for the iPhone and other […]
Less than two months have passed since computing platform security researchers again caught the ASUS cloud service sending backdoors. This time, the WebStorage service and software were compromised. With its help, the hacker group BlackTech Group installed Plead malware on victims’ computers. More precisely, Japanese cybersecurity specialist Trend Micro considers Plead software a […]
On the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), according to the LetsGoDigital resource, Intel patent documentation describing unusual smartphones has been published. We are talking about devices equipped with a camera system for panoramic shooting with a coverage angle of 360 degrees. Thus, the design of one of the proposed devices provides for an edge-to-edge display, the upper part of which […]
German startup Lilium announced the successful test flight of a prototype of a five-seater electric-powered flying taxi. The flight was controlled remotely. The video shows the craft taking off vertically, hovering above the ground and landing. The new Lilium prototype features 36 electric motors mounted on the wings and tail, which is shaped like a wing but smaller. Air taxi can reach speeds of up to 300 […]
Images of the Meizu 16Xs smartphone, the preparation of which we recently reported, have appeared on the website of the Chinese Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority (TENAA). The device appears under the code designation M926Q. It is expected that the new product will compete with the Xiaomi Mi 9 SE smartphone, which you can learn about in our material. Like the named Xiaomi model, the Meizu 16Xs device will receive a Snapdragon processor […]
The next, tenth generation Intel Core i5-10210U mobile processor has been mentioned in the Geekbench and GFXBench performance test databases. This chip belongs to the Comet Lake-U family, although one of the tests attributed it to the current Whiskey Lake-U. The new product will be produced using the good old 14 nm process technology, perhaps with some further improvements. The Core i5-10210U processor has four cores and eight […]
The KLEVV brand, owned by SK Hynix, has expanded its range of RAM modules designed for use in gaming systems. The CRAS X RGB series will now feature module kits that are guaranteed to operate at effective clock speeds of up to 4266 MHz. Previously, only 16 GB kits were available in the CRAS X RGB series (2 × […]
Capcom announced that its studios are creating several games using the RE Engine, and emphasized the importance of this technology for the next generation of consoles. “While we cannot comment on the specific number of games or release windows, there are currently several projects being developed by internal studios using the RE Engine,” Capcom executives said. — Games that we […]
We recently reported that Samsung is developing technology that will allow the front camera sensor to be placed under the surface of the smartphone screen. As it has now become known, OPPO specialists are also working on a similar solution. The idea is to rid the screen of a cutout or hole for the selfie module, and also do without a retractable front camera unit. It is assumed that the sensor will be built […]
DJI, a well-known drone manufacturer, as expected, announced the Osmo Action sports camera, designed to compete with GoPro devices. The new product has a 1/2,3-inch CMOS sensor with 12 million effective pixels and a lens with a viewing angle of 145 degrees (f/2,8). Photosensitivity value - ISO 100–3200. The action camera allows you to obtain images with a resolution of up to 4000 × 3000 pixels. A wide variety of video recording modes have been implemented [...]
Olympus is developing the TG-6, a rugged compact camera that will replace the TG-5, which debuted in May 2017. Detailed technical characteristics of the upcoming new product have already been published on the Internet. It is reported that the TG-6 model will receive a 1/2,3-inch BSI CMOS sensor with 12 million effective pixels. The light sensitivity will be ISO 100–1600, expandable to ISO 100–12800. The new product will be […]
Engineers from Cloudflare, Mozilla, Facebook and Bloomberg have proposed a new BinaryAST format to speed up the delivery and processing of JavaScript code when opening sites in a browser. BinaryAST takes the parsing phase to the server side and supplies an already formed Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). Upon receiving BinaryAST, the browser can immediately go to the compilation stage, bypassing the parsing of the JavaScript source code. […]
