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Facebook today announced that it would extend to four more branches the “most comprehensive” subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region. Facebook will do this in collaboration with the 2Africa consortium that includes China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orang

Way back in January 2020, Sonos sued Google over patent infringement. Today, the streaming speaker company scored an early victory with the U.S. International Trade Commission. A preliminary ruling penned by ITC chief administrative law judge Charles Bullock finds that Google infringed on five pate

Earlier this year, Nothing launched the Ear (1) with a grand idea: earbuds as fashion accessories. Sure, the company talked a lot about the non-invasiveness of transparent design, but at the end of the day, the product's launch on StockX betrayed a focus on the fashion forward. In that respect,

While it was one of the less-hyped gadget debuts in recent memory, Samsung blasted out a series of announcements at an Unpacked event bright and early this morning. Too busy to tune in? Still asleep when it all went down? Here’s the slimmed-down version of everything you need to know. Galaxy

The Galaxy Z Flip is probably destined to forever play second fiddle to the Fold. And with its older and larger sibling now ascending to the ranks of “flagship” with a slew of new features like S-Pen functionality, the designation is probably all but inevitable. But for those seriously consider

Behold, Samsung's latest flagship. With the Galaxy Note out of the way — for this year, at least — the company used today's Unpacked event to breathe added legitimacy into its foldable line. The original Galaxy Fold, introduced in 2019, represent a sort of experiment for the com

In what has quickly become the busiest Unpacked of the virtual era, Samsung just dropped a new version of its wireless earbuds. The Galaxy Buds 2 add active noise canceling to the entry-level model, while retaining the $149 price point. For those keeping track, the current Galaxy Buds offerings are

Samsung's watches have long been something of an anomaly. Whe the company embraced Wear OS (then Android Wear) in its earliest days with the massive Gear Live, the company quickly shifted to Tizen, an open-source operating system largely used by Samsung for wearables and smart TVs. That's n

Samsung is set to introduce a whole bunch of new products, starting today at 7 AM PT/10 AM ET. I wrote a whole bunch of words about what to expect from the company's latest Unpacked event. It's a long list and a kind of return to the pre-pandemic days, back before companies started taking l

Most people probably don’t realize just how much our devices are time driven, whether it’s your phone, your laptop or a network server. For the most part, time keeping has been an esoteric chore, taken care of by a limited number of hardware manufacturers. While these devices served the

Yesterday's leak didn't leave much to the imagination. And today's big Nest reveal confirms pretty much everything we saw — which is precisely what happens when Google's the one doing the leaking. Still, this morning's announcement marks one of the biggest refreshes to Google&

Superintelligence, roughly defined as an AI algorithm that can solve all problems better than people, will be a watershed for humanity and tech. Even the best human experts have trouble making predictions about highly probabilistic, wicked problems. And yet those wicked problems surround us. We are

U.K. cybersecurity company Pen Test Partners has identified several vulnerabilities in six home electric vehicle charging brands and a large public EV charging network. While the charger manufacturers resolved most of the issues, the findings are the latest example of the poorly regulated world of

Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn't waste any time proving out its technology. We've written about the company's wireless charging a few times over the years, including the “FreePower” technology it has baked into Nomad's charging pads, which brings a more streamlined ver