1982 iPad, Chromecast, PlayStation teardown, hacking Apple, space toilet, EXIF data, mammoth bones and Rocky Horror. The news this week was a little light as everyone waits for the iPhone 12 to be announced next week. Read through the headlines below and click on a headline to read the full story.
Electronics
- Apple Watch Series 6 review: The best new features are the boring ones
***** Get Apple Watch Series 6 at Amazon ***** - Apple’s 1982 iPad prototype is utterly wild
- Nest Audio review: Google’s new smart speaker is an improvement in every way
- Anker Nebula Mars II Pro review: Petite portable projector performs proficiently
***** Get Anker Nebula Mars II Pro at Amazon ***** - NVIDIA CEO says RTX 3080 and 3090 supply shortage will last throughout 2020
- Chromecast with Google TV review: Finally a worthy competitor to Roku and Fire TV
- Oppo Watch review: A great WearOS smartwatch, with a few missing pieces
- Google’s updated WiFi router starts at $99, or $199 for a 3-pack
- Intel’s 11th-gen desktop processors will launch early 2021
- PS5 teardown gives detailed look at next-gen console
Privacy and Security
- Google is creating a special Android security team to find bugs in sensitive apps
- Hackers claim they can now jailbreak Apple’s T2 security chip
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- Amazon reveals 19,816 employees have had COVID-19
- Survey: 60% of respondents have altered digital transformation plans due to COVID-19
- Impact of COVID-19: Growing small and medium businesses are investing more in technology
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Software
- NVIDIA wants to make video calls better with AI
- Chrome 86 released with password-related security improvements
- New Window 10 test build adds set-up customization options
- Windows 10: Watch out for Microsoft’s new way of doing release notes
Technology
- Mario Kart Live Home Circuit: What we just learned about Nintendo’s AR racing game
- Why Walmart Plus thinks it can challenge Amazon Prime
- NASA launches new $23 million space toilet to ISS. It should arrive Monday
- Proximity-tracking and a new app: How to run the London marathon in the midst of a pandemic
- Reliable time travel might take a while
- AT&T offloading DirecTV could be a “fire sale” as company weighs low bids
- What’s this EXIF technology people used to study Trump photos?
- Prime Day vs. Black Friday: When is the best time to buy?
Fun Stories
- 15 Halloween Movies for People Who Don’t Like Horror Movies
- Profane Polly: Expletive-Spewing Parrots Have Been Removed From an England Zoo
- What Will Mexico City Do With 2,000 Mammoth Bones?
- The Grim Crime-Scene Dollhouses Made by the ‘Mother of Forensics’
- 14 Facts About The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Its 45th Anniversary
- 6 Bizarre Halloween-Related Lawsuits
- A Man Cycled More Than 2500 Miles From Poo Poo Point, Washington, to Pee Pee Creek, Ohio
- The Holocaust-Surviving Violins That Were Quarantined Beneath a California Stage
- Why Historians Are Reexamining the Case of the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
- It’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska, And There’s Still Time to Vote
- When 1980s Satanic Panic Targeted Procter & Gamble
- How Alaskan Yup’ik People Are Reviving the Culture Lost to the 1919 Flu
- 9 Innocent-Sounding Words with Surprisingly Naughty Origins
If you see some important tech news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.
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