We had some scheduling challenges the past couple of weeks so Kevin and I recorded a bit longer MobileTechRoundup show #439 to cover what has been happening since our last show. …read more Source:: ZDNet

TechCrunch’s Lucas Matney describes the Lumin operating system that will power Magic Leap’s upcoming Magic Leap One mixed reality headset: Alright, first, this is what the Magic Leap One home screen will apparently look like, it’s worth noting that it appears that Magic Leap will have some of its own stock apps on the device,…

USB sockets providing 5 VDC are so ubiquitous as a power source that just about any piece of modern portable technology can use them to run or charge. USB power is so common, in fact, that it’s easy to take for granted. But in an emergency or in the wake of a disaster, a working…

Emma Stone and Jonah Hill’s Maniac, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Octavia Spencer in Madame CJ Walker and more will stream soon. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: “The Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is working on adding a new feature to its browser that is similar to the Site Isolation feature that Google rolled out to Chrome users this year,” reports Bleeping Computer. “[Chrome’s] Site Isolation works by opening a new browser process for any…

Emma Stone and Jonah Hill’s Maniac, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Octavia Spencer in Madame CJ Walker and more will stream soon. …read more Source:: CNet

At the company’s second quarter 2018 financial results conference call, Intel chief engineering officer Venkata Renduchintala said the “Cannon Lake” 10mn processors won’t appear in products until the 2019 holiday season. “The systems on shelves that we expect in holiday 2019 will be client systems, with data center products to follow shortly after,” Renduchintala said….

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: In a scrapyard in Massachusetts, the YouTuber known as Rich Rebuilds runs a pair of jumper cables from a broken down Tesla Model S to a deep cycle battery. “We may hear some clicks,” he says, as he prepares to connect the second lead. “We may hear…

An electromagnetic coil gun takes a line of electromagnets working together to form a moving electromagnetic field. These fields accelerate a project and boom, you have electricity moving matter, often at an impressive rate of speed. [Carl Bugeja] has taken the idea and in a sense turned it upon its head with his flexible PCB…

Color is one way we have seen manufacturers distinguish one smartphone from another, but Samsung’s S Pen is a differentiator with substantial productivity enhancements. It also helps aging smartphone users in a couple of ways. …read more Source:: ZDNet