OnePlus is over-the-moon excited to announce a new over-the-air (OTA) update for OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 owners. The update is being pushed out with OxygenOS 11.2.9.9 and, in addition to “multiple regular system optimizations,” OnePlus it “greatly improved the camera performance,” which is notable because we already found the photo-taking

Preorders for Apple’s iPhone 13 family kicked off this morning, with prices starting at $699 for the iPhone 13 mini on up to $1,099 for the iPhone 13 Pro Max. However, Walmart and Amazon are getting in on the Apple frenzy today with discounts on additional hardware, including the newly announced 9th generation iPad and 6th generation iPad

Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake CPUs are still a few weeks away from launching, presumably, but there is plenty of related hardware in the wild to keep the leaks flowing. The latest one is an actual photo (read: not a render) of a next-generation LGA 1700 socket, as shown above. It looks similar overall to LGA 1200, but there are some key differences.

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Heads up, Microsoft has issued a patch for what security researchers had dubbed a “highly sophisticated” zero-day vulnerability in Windows that hackers could use to target Office 365 and Office 2019 users. It is available as a standalone release, and also as part of this month’s cumulative Patch Tuesday update, which rolled out to PCs yesterday.

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Samsung is prepping a powerhouse mobile SoC with the Exynos 2200, which will reportedly officially ship later this year. Earlier this week, some early benchmarks for the Exynos 2200 found their way onto the internet with an octa-core design headlined by an Arm Cortex-X2 “prime” core.
We were warned at the time that clocks for the cores on

Samsung recently launched its third-generation foldable smartphones – the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and the Galaxy Z Fold 3 — and they’re very impressive. The cheapest of the two is the Galaxy Z Flip 3, priced from $999 compared to the $1,449 launch price of its predecessor.
Even though the smartphone has only been on the market for a few weeks, Amazon

It’s only been out a bazillion years (small exaggeration), but Nintendo has finally got around to implementing Bluetooth audio support on its Switch consoles, a feature that has been absent since the original model launched back in 2017 (hard to believe it’s been almost half a decade already!). The ability to pair Bluetooth audio devices arrives

Samsung has been refining its innovative foldable phone line-up for a couple of years now. While the first iteration of the company’s Galaxy Z Fold may not have been terribly robust out in the wild, last year’s follow up was by most accounts a solid device. This year, the newest Galaxy Z Fold3 5G seems to have it all: a malleable 7.6″ screen,…

Is social media bad for you? A recent article suggests that Instagram can be harmful to teenagers. Instagram has fired back and argues that social media’s influence is more nuanced. 

The Wall Street Journal article notes that Facebook conducted several studies on the impact of social media over the last three years. These studies have reportedly

Tired of juggling and trying to remember multiple passwords for different sites and services? Microsoft feels your pain, and more than that, it believes the time has come to leave traditional password input in the past. This is something Microsoft has talked at length about numerous times before, and putting action to words, it announced today