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Best laptops For Engineering Students To Buy In 2021
Are you searching to get a laptop for your engineering needs with good specifications? Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer, no matter which engineering discipline you’re pursuing, the best laptops for engineering students are those capable machines that can handle heavy applications.
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In France, Apple now shows how hard its products are to repair
Apple's products haven't typically been the easiest to repair, though the company is making progress on this front. But being able to repair a product (or at least have a third party professional do it) is an important part of the experience of owning that product, and now Apple is at least forced to acknowledge it.
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A New Generation of Wi-Fi to Improve Your Home Network
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test.
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Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math
Drivers for Uber, Lyft, and other firms are building apps to compare their mileage with pay slips. One group is selling the data to government agencies.
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‘Millions of people’s data is at risk’ — Amazon insiders sound alarm over security
Whistleblowers say they were forced out after flagging problems with e-commerce giant’s data security and compliance. Amazon is amassing an empire of data as the online retailer ventures into ever more areas of our lives. But the company's efforts to protect the information it collects are inadequate, according to insiders who warn the company's security shortfalls expose users' information to potential breaches, theft and exploitation.
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Valve Ordered to Give Apple Information on 436 Steam Games As Part of Epic Games Legal Case
Valve, the makers behind popular game distribution platform Steam, will be forced to hand over aggregate historical sales, price, and other information on 436 games hosted on the store to Apple, as part of the Apple vs. Epic Games antitrust case.
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Stunning new 2021 iMac leak reveals new design in five colors
Abrand new story from serial Apple leaker Jon Prosser has revealed what could be the next design of Apple's brand new iMac featuring five color choices. We also got a look at Apple's rumored upcoming Mac Pro 'mini'.
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Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
Apple has acquired about 100 companies over the last six years, the company’s chief executive Tim Cook has revealed. That works out at a company every three to four weeks, he told Apple’s annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday.
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Apple Hopes To Participate In The Earliest Stage Of 6G Connectivity, Now Hiring Engineers For Work
Last year, Apple launched its first 5G mobile phone iPhone 12 series. Nevertheless, Apple seems to be working hard on 6G network research and development. Recently, Apple released a new job advertisement to recruit wireless system R&D engineers for 6G mobile networks.
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Apple Surpassed Samsung as World's Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter
Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016, according to market data by Gartner. In the final quarter of 2020, Apple sold 80 million new iPhones, largely driven by the launch of the first 5G-enabled iPhone series. Anshul Gupta, Senior Research Director at Gartner, says that 5G and improved camera features helped convince customers to upgrade to iPhone 12 models in the final quarter of the year.
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Samsung's future smartwatch is rumored to use Android, not Tizen
Samsung has been using its Tizen platform on smartwatches ever since 2014's Gear 2 line, but it might go back to its Android 'roots' in the near future. Both SamMobile and well-known leaker Ice Universe claim Samsung is making a smartwatch using Android (possibly Wear OS) rather than its usual platform. It would be the first time Samsung had used Android on the wrist since early products like the Galaxy Gear and Gear Live.
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Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?
Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.
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The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens
A GLANCE TO the left. A flick to the right. As my eyes flitted around the room, I moved through a virtual interface only visible to me—scrolling through a calendar, looking up commute times home, and even controlling music playback. It's all I theoretically need to do to use Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens coming from a company called Mojo Vision.
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Citizens are turning face recognition on unidentified police
The new series of our AI podcast, In Machines We Trust, is all about face recognition. In part one of the series, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the unexpected ways the technology is being used, including how it is being turned on police.
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Apple TV App Finally Arrives on Chromecast with Google TV
Our favorite streaming device just got a major update. As initially teased by Google back in December, Chromecast with Google TV now supports the Apple TV app on its platform. Other Google TV-powered devices will also get support for the app, including Sony and TCL’s 2020 televisions when they eventually hit the market later this year. Google also said the app will arrive on additional Android TV-powered devices in the months ahead but did not elaborate on which specific devices would be included.
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China is about to achieve a historic e-commerce milestone—and no other country comes close
China is set to become the first country in history that will see a majority of its retail sales conducted online instead of via traditional brick-and-mortar stores. That’s according to a new report from digital marketing research firm eMarketer. “China will take a step in its digital transformation this year that once would have seemed almost unthinkable,” the firm’s research note explains. “For the first time anywhere, a majority of retail sales for an entire country will transact online.”
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Automating scam call blocking sees Telstra prevent up to 500,000 calls a day
Telstra has said it is now blocking approximately 6.5 million suspected scam calls a month, at times up to 500,000 a day, thanks to automating the former manual process that sat at around 1 million monthly scam calls.
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Samsung has ruined Samsung Pay — and it's only getting worse
The title says it all: Without MST support, there's just no reason to use Samsung Pay. Over the past year or so, Samsung has effectively stripped Samsung Pay of its most compelling features, but its saving grace was MST — the technology that allowed Samsung phones to mimic a magnetic credit card strip, making them compatible with legacy payment terminals. But Samsung's latest smartphones, the Galaxy S21 series, debuted without MST this year — and all that's left of Samsung Pay is a bloated, ad infested app that compares poorly to Google Pay.
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iPhone 13 mini still planned despite ailing 12 mini sales
Anew report from Jon Prosser says that Apple still plans to release an iPhone 13 mini despite reports of poor iPhone 12 sales.
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Google apps feel strain as firm's privacy standoff with Apple drags on
Google’s privacy standoff with Apple has lasted so long that even the company’s own apps are complaining about it. Since early December, Apple has required any iOS app to include a privacy “nutrition label”, listing all the ways the app uses personal data.
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