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Apple and other companies are warning of manufacturing constraints due to a shortfall in critical components. Microprocessors, essential to smartphones and many other electronics, are in high demand and in short supply. iPhones Price Hikes? Tom Smith / EyeEm / Getty Images Natural factors and disasters, such as weather and factory fires, worsened the situation. Even finding enough containers to ship goods is a problem. Companies arent making enough new containers to match demand, Kenney said....

Dells latest XPS 13 could change that. This isnt Dells first go at OLED. The display was stunning, but had a downside: terrible battery life. Dell Now, Dell thinks its solved OLEDs efficiency problem, and the XPS 13 will serve as proof. An LED displays backlight is always on, even when the screen is entirely dark. OLED, however, is self-emissive, meaning each pixel produces its own light. Dell A perfectly dark pixel creates no light and uses (almost) no power....

TCL also teased its rollable concept phone, which can go from a 6.7-inch phone to a 7.8-inch tablet. The bigger screen real estate offered by phones like these could make them a tempting purchase. “Having more screen real estate is great for anyone who multitasks on their phone. LG Big Screens, Little Information Details about the new rollable phones are hard to come by. Both LG and TCL played coy with their designs at CES....

AMD and Samsung havepartneredto bring RDNA 2, AMDs latest graphics tech, to smartphone graphics processors. It could also bring benefits for all types of mobile users. Better graphics capabilities mean every graphical function of a phone works that much better." Witthaya Prasongsin / Getty Images Of course, theres the benefit that these updates and advances bring to mobile gaming. Ray tracing will allow for more realistic shadows and lighting, something we already see in newer games....

We’ve all been there. But don’t be so quick tobuy a new phone. These steps will walk you through all the solutions that have worked for us. Qi Yang / Moment / Getty Images Reboot your Androidorrestart your iPhone. That might do the trick if you havent restarted your phone in a while. Check the Wi-Fi signal strength. It’s easy to mistake a slow internet connection for a slow phone....

Making automatons feel better Coneyl Jay / Getty Images Your next robot may have skin that can feel. BeBop Sensors has launched their newRoboSkin lineof skin-like coverings for tactile awareness for humanoid robots and prosthetics. It’s part of a growing movement to improve robotic skin to give automatons better awareness. Coneyl Jay / Getty Images “Tactile sensors have mostly focused on robot fingertips. Manipulation starts with the fingertips, so that’s where you need the richest sensory information....

X-Mode trackers appeared in apps that have been downloaded at least 1 billion times. The trackers, which can reveal your location, are raising privacy concerns. Google and Applehave bannedthe X-Mode trackers because of alleged sales of tracking information to the military. xijian / Getty Images Despite the ban, ExpressVPN found that only 10% of these apps have been removed from Google Play. The findings are part of a broader study on location trackers by the ExpressVPN Digital Security Lab....

One things for sure. It wont make the images any better. But whats the point? Xiaomi And arent there downsides to using such a dense sensor in a phone? “In my professional work, I use a camera with 24MP. And I really mean HUGE prints, like the size of a building.” Xiaomi The display supports 10-bit color, which is usually only found in high-quality computer monitors. There are multiple challenges in packing that many megapixels into such a small sensor....

“You have a whole generation of kids now who don’t communicate through text; they use Snapchat. Arecent reportby Conviva found that people who stream more are also more active on social media. Streaming companies are going to continue to invest heavily in social media platforms. Maskot / Getty Images “Netflix’s Twitter accounts @strongblacklead, @NetflixGeeked, @Uppercut are great examples.” Maskot / Getty Images

Noise canceling gets smarter Apple YourAirPods Proscould soon stay in your ears a lot longer. The new software means you won’t have to keep removing AirPods for daily activities. “However, these processes tend to be crude and can add unpleasant artifacts to the remaining audio. AirPods Pro Second Generation.Apple Smarter AirPods AirPod Pros are getting some new tricks through a software update. The headline feature involves the introduction of separate modes, namely Conversational Awareness and Adaptive Noise Control....

Anew study foundthat the cost of a flying car will come in at over $700,000. However, I anticipate that people will start to use a flying taxi around 2030 on a small scale. On June 28, it flew between cities in Slovakia. AirCar / Klein Vision The company claims the invention will cut the typical travel time between the cities by a factor of two. This flight starts a new era of dual transportation vehicles, Klein said in anews release....

But is privacy important enough to convince people to move? “Will people move from Gmail to Skiff for privacy concerns? Will that make a significant difference to Gmail’s domination of the email market? Skiff / do you mockup “Dragos Badea, founder ofhybrid work company Yarooms, told Lifewire via email. Open Letter First, the privacy angle. Unlike most email service providers (ESP), Skiff protects all your data with end-to-end encryption. Skiff...

In schools, Chromebooks have the market pretty much tied up. They’re cheap, they’re built for central control, and they’re cheap. Mostly, though, they’re cheap. Students using computers.Alexander Grey / Unsplash Especially when compared to Apple’s laptops, which start at $1,000. Accordingto a new rumor, Apple is planning a new, low-costMacBookspecifically for theChromebook-saturated education market. But Apple never, ever makes cheap computers, right? Kids using a MacBook.John Schnobrich / Unsplash And once, it even made a special, education-only Mac....