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At Apple’s event today, the company released a shiny new iPad Air. It packs the M1 Apple Silicon chip into the iPad Air form factor we know and love. Apple’s choice of using the M1 processor, rather than its A15 chips, shows that the iPad has aspirations as a laptop replacement, rather

Two years after reviving the line, Apple's bringing the SE back for another go. The iPhone's little sibling won support when it was unveiled in 2018 as a low-cost alternative to the flagship smartphone. The line is a way of keeping the iOS software fresh, while maintaining lower price point

CES is done. MWC has come and gone. That means it’s time for another Apple event. The company sent out invites for its Peek [sic] Performance event last week. These things sure have a way of sneaking up on you now that everything's gone virtual. The event kicks off today at 10AM PT/1PM ET

The thing about these virtual events is they've really got a way of sneaking up on you. Back in the good ‘ol days of corporate travel, you could expect a few weeks' heads-up ahead of the big show to allow you the proper time to book a night at the Palo Alto Travelodge (decent Wi-Fi, l

Samsung Electronics has suspended shipments of all products to Russia “due to the current geopolitical developments,” the company said on Saturday. “We continue to actively monitor this complex situation to determine our next steps,” the company said. Samsung decline

A shrewd entrepreneur joins the 100+ accelerator program sponsored by brewing giant AB Inbev and home consumables emporium Unilever, and spots a pattern. The breweries have tons of spent grain, and the home consumables have a plastics problem. Build a bridge between the two problems, and you have M

Apple isn’t the only tech behemoth pulling its products from the Russian market in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Microsoft is ‘suspending‘ all new sales of products and services in Russia, and is halting “many aspects” of its business in the country to honor US,

I wrote a bit last week about how it was going to be a weird MWC. By “weird,” I mean beyond the usual way that everything is weird all the time now. In addition to being the second time the show has been held during a global pandemic, the smartphone industry has undergone some big changes. Here

Mobile World Congress was going to be OSOM's big debut. After a few months of teases, the North American (U.S./Canadian) smartphone maker formed in the wake of Essential’s collapse was going to show off its first handset, amid a week of major mobile news. But plans change. People decide m

Invites just went out for Apple's next big event, scheduled for 10 AM PT (1 PM ET) on March 8. It will be an online event broadcasting from Apple Park. Anybody will be able to watch it from Apple's website. The invite features an Apple logo that looks like the entrance of a neon tunnel. It

Seven years after co-founding OnePlus, Carl Pei left the smartphone maker in 2020 to launch his own venture. The company that became Nothing has, to date, launched a single product: the Ear (1) transparent earbuds. But it seems the executive is readying a return to the industry where he made his na

Fitbit this morning announced that it is participating in a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall of its Ionic smartwatch following reports of an overheating battery and potential burn injury. The CPSC adds in a report today that at least 115 people in the U.S. — and 59 internationa

Pico, the Chinese virtual reality startup bought by TikTok parent ByteDance back in August, has struck a major partnership with Qualcomm to push further into the extended reality (XR) space. Pico’s XR products will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces, the chipmaking giant’s

Alphabet's drone service Wing this morning announced another milestone, as it hit 200,000 commercial deliveries. The number, which the firm says excludes test flights, comes half-a-year after it hit 100,000. Australia, which has been the primary market for testing and commercial deployment, com