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Bluetooth is far from perfect, but it’s also increasingly vital as smartphones continue dropping the headphone jack. Apple has managed to wean people off wires with AirPods, but most other true wireless options are comparatively lacking. A company called Tempow hopes to change that with a new Bluetooth technology. It’s …

Law enforcement has been stuck paying exorbitant prices to get confiscated phones unlocked by security firms, but now you too can be gouged for access to that encrypted data. DriveSavers has announced a new service to unlock your iPhone or Android device, and all it’ll cost you is $3,900. The …

Xiaomi’s recent U.K. launch was something of a blended bag, however in between the arrival of mega-affordable flagship phones, electrical scooters you can’t ride in public, and a’Flash Sale’that went extremely incorrect, there was one interesting announcement that went a little under the radar. Editor’s Select These are the best …

Just over a week ago, we covered news from Asia Nikkei Review suggesting that Apple might have significantly cut its orders for new iPhones, specifically the iPhone XR. At the time, I suggested taking the news with a grain of salt, noting that there were many reports of low iPhone …

There are reports that Apple has pulled back plans for a major iPhone XR capacity boost, with Foxconn and Pegatron planning to deploy fewer manufacturing lines for Apple’s cheapest premium phone. Apple is instead apparently requesting more iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Pluses, to the tune of 5 million additional …

Helium. It’s not a gas you probably pay much attention to, unless you work in a handful of very specific industries, enjoy playing with insane overclocking rigs, or have a job filling party balloons. But helium is critical in the cryogenics industry, which means it’s used in hospital MRI scanners …

Any time a new product launches, you can guarantee that related forums will carry at least a certain load of problem posts from end users whose initial experience with the device is anything but good. It can be genuinely difficult to parse out what constitutes a ‘real’ problem as opposed …

When Red announced its first smartphone with a holographic display, it raised a lot of eyebrows. Red is a company known for its cameras, not its smartphones. It promised a cutting-edge holographic display and debuted with an aggressive PR pitch that saddled the phone with impossibly high promises. Red promised …

Apple touts its iOS platform as more secure than Android, but we don’t actually know how secure it is. Android is open source, so everyone can follow the patching and disclosure of bugs. iOS is essentially a black box with an unknown number of flaws, some of which have been …

Human brain cells have been discovered to carry electrical signals in a fashion that could substantially increase the power of private neurons. Comparing the speed of signals taking a trip down the branches of human nerve cells with comparable cells drawn from rats, scientists have discovered a distinction in signal …