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The Morning After: Microsoft lets you ditch the password | Engadget Daniel Cooper Microsoft isn’t so much declaring war on passwords as bragging about a successful first strike against them. The Windows maker has announced users can now remove the password from their Microsoft account in favor of something that’s (hopefully) more secure. The feature,…
Alphabet’s Project Taara is beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River | Engadget Mariella Moon Alphabet ended Project Loon earlier this year, but the things it learned from the internet-broadcasting balloon initiative haven’t gone to waste. The high speed wireless optical link technology originally developed for Loon is currently being used for another moonshot called…
New Encryption Technique Better Protects Photographs in the Cloud Harini Barath This year researchers expect the world to snap 1.35 trillion photographs, or about 3.7 billion per day. All those pixels take up a lot of room if they are stored on personal computers or phones, which is one reason why many people stash their…
FTC set to keep a closer eye on smaller acquisitions made by tech giants | Engadget Mariella Moon FTC Chair Lina Khan wants the commission to identify potential loopholes in its merger reporting guidelines that allowed some acquisitions to “fly under the radar,” according to CNBC. That’s one of the FTC’s key takeaways after completing…
Samsung begins manufacturing 14-inch 90Hz OLED displays | Engadget Steve Dent Samsung has started manufacturing 90Hz OLED displays that will be used in the latest ASUS laptops, it announced. The 14-inch, 2,880 x 1,800 16:10 panels were significantly delayed, as Samsung said they’d arrive in March this year when it first unveiled the technology. The…
Alphabet’s Project Taara laser tech beamed 700TB of data across nearly 5km Richard Lawler In January, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 2017). However, some technology developed as a part of the Loon project…
‘Deltarune’ chapter 2 arrives on September 17th for PC and Mac | Engadget Mariella Moon At the end of the stream for Undertale’s sixth anniversary, Toby Fox has dropped a surprise for his fans: The second chapter of Deltarune, his newer top-down RPG, will be available this week after almost a three-year wait. As Kotaku…
The Apple rumors were wrong Mitchell Clark For many who follow tech news closely, Apple’s event on Tuesday had a few big surprises — not because there were completely unexpected announcements, but because we didn’t see things we really thought we’d be getting. Rumors that had enough smoke to be almost a sure-fire thing in…
The iPhone 13 event was a case study in Tim Cook-era product refinement Sean Hollister For the past ten years, Tim Cook’s greatest accomplishment as Apple CEO has been vastly more of the same. More iPhones, more iPhone accessories, more apps, and so much more money. While the Mac and iPad have occasionally fallen into…
VCV Rack 2 is coming in November | Engadget Terrence O'Brien When it was released in 2017 VCV Rack quickly became a hit. The free, open source virtual modular synth with thousands of modules to choose from (including recreations of popular physical ones) gave many of us a way to explore the world of Eurorack…