[ad_1] Whatever it ends up being called, it looks like the tablet (codenamed “Marx”) will have thin bezels and will support the company’s M-Pen stylus, as well as its smart magnetic keyboard. When set up with the keyboard, it really does look like the iPad Pro. The renders also show that the tablet will be […]
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Wirecutter’s best deals: Dell’s U3419W Ultrawide Monitor drops to $722
[ad_1] Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage-Door Controller Street price: $45; deal price: $30 Back down to $30, this is a nice discount on the Chamberlain MyQ, one of our smart garage-door controller picks. The street price has dropped in recent months with regular pricing now around $45, but this deal still matches the previous best price […]
Interior Department grounds drone fleet over security concerns
[ad_1] It isn’t clear if any particular behavior or network activity from the drones set off alarms at the Department of the Interior or if they were grounded due to the fact that DJI hardware is made in China. The company’s drones have been in the spotlight for years. As The Wall Street Journal points […]
ACLU sues to reveal the FBI’s uses of facial recognition
[ad_1] The FBI has engaged in “political policing,” the ACLU said, including spying on peaceful activists. That raised the potential for abuse against innocent targets. The agency also claimed that it didn’t need to demonstrate probable cause to use facial recognition, and couldn’t confirm if it honored “constitutional obligations” to inform defendants in criminal cases […]
The kid-friendly Blipblox Synthesizer is on sale for $30 off
[ad_1] On the outside, the Blipblox has bright, glossy, primary-colored plastic, large knobs designed for kids and crazy blinking lights. Underneath all that, you’ll find an oscillator, an amp envelope, a pair of LFOs, a modulation envelope and a low-pass filter. You don’t get full control. Various algorithms combine oscillators and modulation schemes in predetermined […]
Save $80 on Sony’s sporty WF-SP700N true wireless earbuds
[ad_1] The earbuds are meant to be used at the gym or during a workout, and they have an IXP4 rating, which makes them sweatproof. They also offer active noise cancellation and an ambient sound mode, which lets in some background noise. Sony claims it’s the first to combine active noise cancellation in true wireless, […]
The Morning After: DJI’s palm-sized drone can fly for 30 minutes
[ad_1] More screens aren’t always better.LG G8X ThinQ review Foldable phones aren’t quite ready for primetime, so LG did the next best thing: It added a case with a second screen. The only problem is that this doesn’t quite work either. As Chris Velazco explains, “the G8X and its second screen generally act like two […]
Tim Cook: Apple Pay transactions doubled year-over-year
[ad_1] Apple CFO Luca Maestri has also announced that the US Census Bureau is using iOS devices for next year’s census. The agency had already developed (PDF) apps, including an address listing and mapping application and an interviewer-administered survey application, that can run on iOS, Android and even Windows. Maestri said that the shift to […]
Amazon Echo review (2019): Low-priced, but not low-end
[ad_1] While the Echo lacks the smart hub features from the Pro model, I didn’t miss them much. Previously, the biggest benefit with the more expensive model was better audio quality, but now that they sound the same, the Pro is even harder to recommend. I didn’t find its smart home features very useful when […]
Juul stands accused of shipping a million contaminated vape pods
[ad_1] The lawsuit says Breja learned in an executive meeting on March 12th, 2019 that approximately 250,000 Juul mint refill kits (equivalent to one million pods) with contaminated e-liquid were shipped to retailers and sold to consumers. It goes on to say that Breja protested Juul’s refusal to issue a product recall or to at […]