A new rumor is making the rounds that claims something that may make Apple fans happy about the coming 2020 iPhone devices. According to the rumor, Apple is considering bundling the wildly popular AirPods with its new 2020 smartphones.
The fear with the rumors is that Apple may be using the bundling of AirPods with the 2020 iPhone models
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple May Be Planning 2020 iPhone Bundle With Popular Wireless AirPods
Monthly Archives: November 2019
OnePlus 7 Pro Price Slashed By $150 With This Red Hot Black Friday Deal
We have sung the praises of the OnePlus 7 Pro here at HotHardware before, and OnePlus is luckily running a Black Friday promotion that is knocking a big chunk off the flagship smartphone’s price tag. OnePlus is already known for attractive pricing for its Android smartphones, so this particular configuration’s $699 price tag was already among
Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 7 Pro Price Slashed By 0 With This Red Hot Black Friday Deal
For Black Friday, Strikers Across Europe Demand Amazon Improve Working Conditions
Amazon workers and union members in Spain, Germany, and the U.K. went on strike this Black Friday—one of the busiest shopping days of the year for the retail giant—to protest for better pay and improved conditions at the company’s warehouses, which have previously been described by U.K. and U.S. officials as some of…
Source: Gizmodo – For Black Friday, Strikers Across Europe Demand Amazon Improve Working Conditions
Black Friday Shoppers: Beware of Fake Five-Star Reviews
As shopping takes off for the holiday season, so do phony reviews — and pressure is mounting on major retailers to fight back. From a report: More than a third of online reviews on major websites, including those on Amazon.com, Walmart and Sephora, are fake, meaning they are generated by robots or people paid to write them, according to Fakespot, which identifies fraudulent reviews. The problem has become so pervasive that the Federal Trade Commission has started cracking down on violators, and lawmakers are pressing Amazon to do a better job of policing reviews on its website. This month Apple Inc. pulled all product reviews and ratings from its online store without explanation. Amazon, Walmart and Sephora dispute Fakespot’s findings but say they are taking steps to make their reviews more reliable. In Amazon’s case, it said it has spent more than $400 million to protect customers from review abuse and other fraud or misconduct in the past year, and that it prevented more than 13 million attempts last year to leave inauthentic reviews on its website. Further reading: When Is a Star Not Always a Star? When It’s an Online Review.
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Source: Slashdot – Black Friday Shoppers: Beware of Fake Five-Star Reviews
Scott Snyder Says the Justice League's Biggest Battle Is Having Faith in Human Nature
Scott Snyder’s pen is no stranger to most of your favorite DC characters and some of the publisher’s biggest cosmic events. Take Justice League as of late— reality is slowly eating away at the fringes of the universe. The source wall has a big ol’ hole in it after the events of Metal. Planets are being torn apart. The…
Source: Gizmodo – Scott Snyder Says the Justice League’s Biggest Battle Is Having Faith in Human Nature
Chrono Cross Was A Bad Sequel, But A Brilliant Game
In many ways, the reason Chrono Cross is one of the most underrated JRPGs in gaming is because of the comparisons to its predecessor, Chrono Trigger.
Source: Kotaku – Chrono Cross Was A Bad Sequel, But A Brilliant Game
USB Updates In Linux 5.5 Help Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Xavier + More – But No USB 4.0 Yet
Earlier this week as part of his series of pull requests, Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted the USB subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 5.5 kernel…
Source: Phoronix – USB Updates In Linux 5.5 Help Intel Ice Lake, NVIDIA Xavier + More – But No USB 4.0 Yet
Garmin's Forerunner 645 (a staff favorite) is 50 percent off at Amazon
As you may have heard, Team Engadget is spending some time this week perusing Black Friday deals. I was sifting through some sales today, and it turns out my favorite running watch is on sale. In fact, I’m wearing it on my wrist as I type this. At fu…
Source: Engadget – Garmin’s Forerunner 645 (a staff favorite) is 50 percent off at Amazon
Nefertiti's bust joins the digital age
Can museums can really “own” the digitization of cultural heritage artifacts? The bust of Nefertiti shown above is a 3D rendering I created myself on 3DS Max from a digital file, obtained by artist Cosmo Wenman after three years of persistence. Now,…
Source: Engadget – Nefertiti’s bust joins the digital age
Wine 4.21 Released As Wine 5.0 Inches Closer
Wine 4.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release as the feature freeze approaches for the Wine 5.0 release in early 2020…
Source: Phoronix – Wine 4.21 Released As Wine 5.0 Inches Closer
Apple HomePod costs just $200 in Best Buy's Black Friday sale
If you’ve been curious about Apple’s HomePod but felt that it was too expensive even after the April price drop, now’s your time to act. Best Buy is selling the smart speaker for $200 as part of its Black Friday sale, a full $100 off the usual price…
Source: Engadget – Apple HomePod costs just 0 in Best Buy’s Black Friday sale
Toxic Coastal Fog Linked to Dangerously High Levels of Mercury in Mountain Lions
An unlikely culprit is being blamed for elevated mercury levels found in mountain lions living along the California coast: marine fog.
Source: Gizmodo – Toxic Coastal Fog Linked to Dangerously High Levels of Mercury in Mountain Lions
Oculus Go drops to $150 on Amazon in Black Friday sale
You’re looking at one of the most affordable ways to immerse yourself in stand-alone VR. Amazon is selling the 32GB Oculus Go headset for $150, down from the usual $199, as part of its Black Friday sales. There have been substantial discounts before…
Source: Engadget – Oculus Go drops to 0 on Amazon in Black Friday sale
Final Fantasy VIII’s Surprise Twist Nearly Ruined It For Me
Final Fantasy VIII is easily one of the most action-packed and compelling games in the series. It was amazing when it first came out, and as I play through the recently-released remastered version, I’m enjoying it just as much. But even 20 years later, some of the choices made by FF8‘s story are still confusing.
Source: Kotaku – Final Fantasy VIII’s Surprise Twist Nearly Ruined It For Me
Manhattan Attorney Announces Arrest Of United States Citizen, Who Works For Ethereum, For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John Brown, Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Counterintelligence Division, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, announced today the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging VIRGIL GRIFFITH, a United States citizen who works for Ethereum, with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by traveling to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) in order deliver a presentation and technical advice on using cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to evade sanctions. From a press release: GRIFFITH was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday and will be presented in federal court in Los Angeles later today. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman stated: “As alleged, Virgil Griffith provided highly technical information to North Korea, knowing that this information could be used to help North Korea launder money and evade sanctions. In allegedly doing so, Griffith jeopardized the sanctions that both Congress and the president have enacted to place maximum pressure on North Korea’s dangerous regime.” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said: “Despite receiving warnings not to go, Griffith allegedly traveled to one of the United States’ foremost adversaries, North Korea, where he taught his audience how to use blockchain technology to evade sanctions. By this complaint, we begin the process of seeking justice for such conduct.”
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Source: Slashdot – Manhattan Attorney Announces Arrest Of United States Citizen, Who Works For Ethereum, For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions
The Organelle music computer is nearly $100 off this weekend
Here’s a sweet deal on a gift that could make sense for the more adventurous music-makers in your life. Critter & Guitari is running a sale on the Organelle M that drops the price from $595 to $499 from now through December 2nd. At that price, th…
Source: Engadget – The Organelle music computer is nearly 0 off this weekend
PlayStation discounts include half-price 'Red Dead' and 'Spider-Man'
It’s no secret that Black Friday weekend is a good time to score deals in the PlayStation world, and that’s truer than ever as the PS4 era draws to a close. To start, the PlayStation Store is offering massive discounts on a slew of PS4 games until D…
Source: Engadget – PlayStation discounts include half-price ‘Red Dead’ and ‘Spider-Man’
Dealmaster: The best Black Friday gaming deals for PS4, Switch, and Xbox
Enlarge / The Nintendo Switch. (credit: Photo Illustration by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Today is Black Friday, and that means a lot of video game deals. While the annual shopping event is still filled with offers that push mediocre products or prices that aren’t particularly low, many of the gaming deals the Dealmaster has found across various retailers are genuinely worth your time.
On the PlayStation side of things, that includes $100 off the 4K-ready PlayStation 4 Pro, with the standalone console and a bundle that includes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare currently down to $299. The standard “Slim” PS4, meanwhile, is down to $199; that’s about $80-100 off where we normally see it online, but Sony is packaging God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition, and The Last of Us: Remastered with the console as part of its holiday season bundle. For context, those three games usually sit in the $10-20 range these days. (All of them are also pretty good, if you haven’t tried them already.) This deal does appear to be running out of stock pretty quickly, though.
A bundle of the company’s PlayStation VR headset that includes two games and two PlayStation Move motion controllers is also discounted to $250. That’s roughly a $100 discount and about as low as we see it at major retailers. An additional bundle that included five games but no Move controllers was available for $200 earlier this week, but that unfortunately looks to be out of stock at major retailers on Black Friday itself.
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Source: Ars Technica – Dealmaster: The best Black Friday gaming deals for PS4, Switch, and Xbox
Intel Says It Sold Its Modem Chip Business To Apple at 'a Multi-Billion Dollar Loss' Because Qualcomm Tactics Left It With No Other Choice
Intel sold its smartphone modem chip business to Apple at “a multi-billion dollar loss,” the U.S. chipmaker said in a court filing on Friday, alleging that rival Qualcomm forced it out of the market. From a report: Intel made the claims in a brief filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Qualcomm is seeking to overturn a sweeping antitrust decision against it after losing a lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Intel, whose executives testified at the trial, argued on Friday that the ruling should stand. Appeal proceedings are expected to begin in January. In a 233-page decision issued in May, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose wrote that Qualcomm’s patent licensing practices “strangled competition” in parts of the market for modem chips that connect smartphones to mobile data networks. She ordered the San Diego-based company to renegotiate licensing agreements at reasonable prices.
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Source: Slashdot – Intel Says It Sold Its Modem Chip Business To Apple at ‘a Multi-Billion Dollar Loss’ Because Qualcomm Tactics Left It With No Other Choice
Found Frozen and Almost Perfectly Preserved in Permafrost, this 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Could Be a Huge Deal
The DNA of an exquisitely preserved puppy found in Siberia doesn’t appear to fit the profile of a dog or a wolf, which means the specimen might be something in between.
Source: Gizmodo – Found Frozen and Almost Perfectly Preserved in Permafrost, this 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Could Be a Huge Deal