If you already have the original AirPods, you may not be missing much. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian: The National Cyber Security Agency in the UK is expected to conclude that U.S. sanctions against Huawei will make it impossible to use the Chinese company’s technology as planned for 5G networks. The emergency review, announced on Sunday, is designed to pave the way for Downing Street to push…

“Altran has released a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to help software engineers spot bugs during the coding process instead of at the end,” reports TechRepublic. “Available on GitHub, Code Defect AI uses machine learning to analyze existing code, spot potential problems in new code, and suggest tests to diagnose and fix the errors.”…

At DC and low frequency, we can pretend wires are perfect conductors. At radio frequencies, though, there are many effects that you need to take into account for wires and cables. One of these is characteristic impedance. If you have a marked cable, you can look it up on the Internet, of course. But what…

SiliconANGLE reports: [C]ode repository management firm GitLab Inc. decided to phish their own employees to see what would happen. The result was not good: One in five employees fell for the fake emails… The GitLab team behind the exercise purchased the domain name gitlab.company, then used G Suite to facilitate the delivery of the phishing…

“Thanks to the coronavirus, technology events have been canceled left and right,” writes ZDNet. “This, in turn, is damaging the finances of companies and groups that depend on these events.” Some open-source groups, such as The Linux Foundation, can deal with it. Others aren’t so fortunate. Some, such as Drupal Foundation, the Open Source Initiative…

An anonymous reader quotes IEEE Spectrum: If you’re a newly hired software engineer, setting up your development environment can be tedious. If you’re lucky, your company will have a documented, step-by-step process to follow. But this still doesn’t guarantee you’ll be up and running in no time. When you’re tasked with updating your environment, you’ll…

5G, a headphone jack, Android 11 and everything else we know (or think we know) about Google’s next budget phones. …read more Source:: CNet

We compare the specs and day-to-day performance of these two Apple phones to see how they stack up. …read more Source:: CNet

We compare the specs and features of iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max to help you choose the best Apple phone. …read more Source:: CNet