Qualcomm cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit, which was supposed to ship in June, and will offer refunds, as the product failed to meet its “standards of excellence”
refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately Bluesky: Scary Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : ouch - but you can already get a laptop w...
Intel plans to cut 15%+ of its workforce, the majority by the end of 2024, as part of a $10B cost reduction plan and to suspend its dividend starting in Q4 2024
Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.
Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car teams were reportedly based
The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.
Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3
Apple server faces outage as users get message that platform 'can't connect' Mastodon: Matt Birchler / @matt@isfeeling.social : You know, if you could let users download your app f...
Sources: Apple decided not to replace departing VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey; its group of ~20 industrial designers will report to COO Jeff Williams
Amazon expands its Luna game streaming service across the US and adds free games for Prime members, one-click Twitch broadcasting, three new channels, and more
Twitter will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets, after users complained about disappearing tweets
Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets. The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web … Source: @twittersup...
While critics liken iPhone 13 to an iterative “12S” update, the branding shows Apple has adjusted to the current smartphone market, where big overhauls are rare
Smartphones have been so successful that it's possible … Casey Newton / Platformer : Apple's uncanny iPhone event Sami Fathi / MacRumors : iPhone 13 Still Doesn't Display Battery P...
Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14
Earlier today, we reported on a Geekbench Metal result for the iPhone 13 Pro showing an approximately 55% graphics performance improvement compared to the iPhone 12 Pro.
A look at the substrates that connect chips to circuit boards, and how years of underinvestment in substrate manufacturing has worsened the global chip shortage
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @whatthebit , @wsj , and @hassankhan Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : so the chip shortage is actually a substrate shortage (?)...
Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped TweetDeck in the US, Canada, and Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more
Twitter is beginning to test a completely redesigned version of TweetDeck, the company announced today.
In 2013 emails, Eddy Cue pitched iMessage for Android, but Craig Federighi said it would simply “remove an obstacle to iPhone families” buying Android phones
‘Do we want to lose one of the most important apps in a mobile environment to Google?’
Apple's M1 chip, used in computers ranging from $699 to $1699, and tablets, upends decades of x86 OEM marketing and segmentation centered around CPU performance
On Tuesday, Apple updated the iMac with new SKUs, display panels, and various color options.
Interview with Apple's marketing head Greg Joswiak and hardware chief John Ternus on why the company has no plans to merge iPad and Mac product lines
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Firefox and major Chromium browsers like Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi are not joining FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies
Firefox and major Chromium browsers like Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi are not joining FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies
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A federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling MacBooks with defective display cables can proceed
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
A federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling MacBooks with defective display cables can proceed
A potential class-action lawsuit will go forward — When Apple introduced its controversial MacBook Pro redesign in 2016, the company probably …
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says it will spend $20B on two fabs in Chandler, Arizona and will reconfigure its external Foundry Services to serve new chip customers
The new CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has today outlined his vision for Intel over the coming years.