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25% of Microsoft Surface owners report problems within 2 years, Consumer Reports findsA new, large survey of Microsoft Surface owners found that a quarter of those using the hybrid devices experience problems by the second year of owne…
... . According to Consumer Reports, that failure rate is "statistically significant," and ... -
Epic Games head Tim Sweeney bemoans iOS App Store's leeching of developer profitsApp developers are losing too much money from the cut of app revenues taken by app stores operated by Apple and other companies, according to Tim Swe…
... game. "This is a market failure," added Sweeney. "Gamers really want ... -
Samsung to face off against Apple's 'iPhone 8' with 6.3-inch Galaxy Note 8 [u]Looking to finally eclipse last year's fire-prone Galaxy Note 7, Samsung on Wednesday announced the Note 8, which should ship to the U.S. on Sept. 15…
... Note 7 was a catastrophic failure for Samsung, costing the company ... -
PSA: Zello app for iPhone is not an actual walkie-talkie, still needs internet connectivit...In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and with Irma approaching, word is spreading about "push to talk" iPhone app Zello. However, downloaders should be a…
... -capacity as a reason for failure. If you live in Florida ... -
Crowdfunded HomeKit smoke detector Birdi marred by late and low-quantity deliveries, silen...Birdi had a promising start with a successful crowd funding campaign for a HomeKit smoke detector. But, the tale of the company after taking customer…
... to our requests for comment. Failure to communicate The Birdi website ... -
Qualcomm says Android always first to new technology, takes aim at iPhone X featuresIn a post to its website on Monday, cellular industry pioneer Qualcomm claims it helped Android roll out a number of industry firsts, like edge-to-ed…
... aim at Apple's reported failure to integrate under-screen Touch ... -
Apple Heart Study focusing on atrial fibrillation launching in 2017Apple in conjunction with Stanford Medicine is launching a new study on atrial fibrillation that aims to detect heart rate irregularities using a con…
... significantly higher rate of heart failure, stroke, and is linked to ... -
Apple denies iPhone X failed in onstage demo, says Face ID feature worked as intendedResponding to media outlets and critics eager to report that iPhone X's tentpole Face ID feature failed during Tuesday's keynote presentation, Apple …
... Face ID's first -- spectacular -- failure. Seen in the video below ... -
All 2018 iPhones likely to adopt Face ID biometrics, TrueDepth camera if consumer response...With the launch of Face ID on iPhone X, and the subsequent removal of Touch ID, users are wondering whether Apple's legacy fingerprint biometric solu…
... as Face ID's first failure. Apple quickly responded to those ... -
Inside iPhone 8: Apple's A11 Bionic introduces 5 new custom silicon enginesApple's new A11 Bionic chip used in iPhone 8 and the upcoming iPhone X packs in an array of processing cores and sophisticated controllers, each opti…
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Apple patent for ultrasonic force sensor could lead to iPhone with under-screen Touch IDApple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an ultrasound-based force and touch sensor that could lead to a thinner, less obstructive 3D Touch mechanis…
... X and Apple's rumored failure to integrate a sub-screen ... -
Super fast, big bionic glass: iPhone 8 Plus ReviewApple's latest iPhone 8 is supercharged by its new A11 Bionic chip, which does the heavy lifting for a series of major new camera features as well as…
... protected from corruption and storage failure (as SSD cells wear out ... -
Super fast bionic glass: iPhone 8 ReviewApple's latest iPhone 8 is supercharged by its new A11 Bionic chip, which does the heavy lifting for a series of major new camera features as well as…
... protected from corruption and storage failure (as SSD cells wear out ... -
Apple reportedly 'looking into' pair of iPhone 8 Plus with split screen from swollen batte...After reports circulated on social media about two iPhone 8 Plus exhibiting a swollen battery out of the millions shipped, Apple is reportedly lookin…
... nothing more than an "infant failure" of both devices, assuming the ... the lithium ion battery immediate failure rate on the average was ... or by the purchaser, the failure rate is still well ... incidents. For reference, the reported failure rate on the Galaxy Note ... -
Three more reports of swollen batteries in iPhone 8 Plus surface, still not statistically ...Three more reports of swollen iPhone 8 Plus batteries have surfaced in international markets, but the current rate of failure is still well within in…
... of failure is still well within industry norms for infant failure ... Apple diagnostics. The normal infant failure rate of lithium ion ... cable can contribute to battery failure, as can mishandling by ... into the situations surrounding each failure, but has so far ... -
Jony Ive on iPhone X and Apple's future products: Design and ideas must wait for technolog...In a conversation at The New Yorker's TechFest conference in Manhattan on Friday, Apple chief designer Jony Ive gave a small glimpse into the develop…
... asked what his "most interesting failure" was. The question seemed to ... not sure if he finds failure itself to be interesting. But ... -
Google's Pixel 2 XL priced higher than Apple's iPhone 8 Plus but is half as fast, lacks ma...Google's latest effort to show off its vision for "Pure Android" hardware costs more than Apple's iPhone 8 Plus but is half as fast, lacks a telephot…
... -style, ignoring the cycle of failure that has kept Google from ... for the same sort of failure that will win it applause ... -
Apple CEO Tim Cook says close relationship with customers drives sales, improves productsApple Chief Executive Tim Cook appeared at the launch of the Oxford Foundry business and tech incubator, and spoke for an hour to students of the uni…
... Jobs in a question about failure. "In hours or days if ... -
Apple launches new round of developer betas with iOS 11.2, watchOS 4.2, tvOS 11.2Apple has started on the next wave of OS release testing, launching developer beta tests for iOS 11.2, watchOS 4.2, and tvOS 11.2 -- suggesting that …
... include iTunes Store sign-in failure when pairing under certain conditions ... -
Sprint to end merger negotiations with T-Mobile, report saysU.S. wireless carrier Sprint's parent company, SoftBank Group, is reportedly looking to back out of merger talks with T-Mobile after company executiv…
... will mark SoftBank's second failure to join the two telcos ... -
USA Today Face ID stupidity<h1>iPhone X Face ID is not 100% reliable, critics say</h1>https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/10/31/iphone-x-faceid-not-100-reliabl…
... it's somewhat of a failure, but then the article goes ... -
How Apple Watch laid the foundation for iPhone XWith a vibrant, full-faced OLED screen sporting handsomely-rounded corners edged in polished stainless steel, passive biometrics that "just work" to …
... into a slippery slope of failure that might finally open up ... -
Apple unveils second developer betas of iOS 11.2, watchOS 4.2, macOS 10.13.2, tvOS 11.2A week after the latch batch of releases, Apple has deployed second developer beta releases of all of its operating systems, including watchOS 4.2. i…
... include iTunes Store sign-in failure when pairing under certain conditions ... -
Apple's AR headset: Rounding up the rumors about Apple's smart glassesThe latest rumors of an in-development augmented reality headset from Apple are the latest in a long line of speculative reports attempting to determ…
... a 65 percent probability of failure. Aside from issues relating to ... -
Apple designer Jony Ive defends ditching home button, other tech in interview about iPhone...In an interview published on Thursday, Apple chief design officer Jony Ive argued for the company's sometimes controversial decisions to abandon comm…
... a path that leads to failure," Ive explained to Time. "And ... -
Time includes iPhone X in its list of '25 Best Inventions of 2017'Time Magazine has named the iPhone X as one of the '25 Best Inventions of 2017,' calling Apple's flagship mobile device 'arguably the world's most so…
... a path that leads to failure." Ive is also brought up ... -
First FDA-certified Apple Watch accessory is AliveCor's Kardia Band EKG meterAfter a few years of health monitor peripherals availability lacking the Food and Drug Administration's approval, AliveCor's Kardia Band has been app…
... significantly higher rate of heart failure, stroke, and is linked to ... -
Apple's HomePod isn't about Siri, but rather the future of home audioIntroduced this summer at WWDC17, Apple's HomePod was immediately positioned next to Amazon Echo and Google Home by bloggers as a "smart speaker" ser…
... away from the much larger failure of everyone else's voice ... -
Apple's recent software problems are bad, but shouldn't lead to knee-jerk personnel decisi...By any account, Apple had a rough year with iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra from a software quality perspective -- but there are lessons to be learned a…
... the failure of a seawater piping system joint caused a cascading failure ... solely as the result of failure of a specific braze, weld ... ." This saga of testing, and failure, may seem familiar to Apple ... a vessel to a material failure. In the same time frame ... -
Make your new Mac more useful with these essential appsA brand new Mac is a semi-blank canvas ready for the owner to turn into their ideal workspace, by adding the applications and utilities they aim to u…
... that often ends in slapstick failure, as players attempt to create ...
