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Samsung’s wearables are getting smaller. At Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona on Sunday, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Ring, a smart ring it’s been teasing since January. The device will purportedly allow users to receive a “deeper, more holistic understanding” of their health using biometric sensors, which fit snugly around …

It used to be that resolution was the most important metric for a gaming monitor, but today’s picky gamers care about refresh rate. The latest gaming monitors might offer refresh rates measured in hundreds of hertz, but Nvidia says that doesn’t guarantee the smoothest image. For that, you’ll need a …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is doing damage control. After a disastrous debut, Google’s Bard AI is available to testers. However, the company’s chatbot has been roundly criticized for its inability to keep up with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the ChatGPT-infused Microsoft Bing. Pichai appeared on the most recent New York Times …

Oppo is one of the largest smartphone makers in the world, but you’d never know it if you buy all your phones in the US. Oppo is part of the Chinese megacorporation BBK Electronics, which also runs Vivo, Realme, and OnePlus among others. Smartphones in this family are about to …

  Smartphone updates have been a mess for as long as the modern smartphone has existed, but Samsung just took a big step in the right direction. The company has decided to extend security update support to a full four years. That’s longer than any other Android device maker, Google …

  IBM has been scaling up its own quantum computing efforts over the past few years, and the company is now claiming it’ll deliver a 100x improvement in certain workloads. The company isn’t going to deliver this improvement solely through hardware, but through the deployment of new software tools, algorithms, …

  Microsoft has made phones in the past, but they all ran the now-defunct Windows Mobile or Windows Phone OS. The Surface Duo, which launched last summer, is Microsoft’s first Android phone. The $1,400 dual-screen device hasn’t been in the news much since its release, but now Microsoft is promising …

LAS VEGAS — Printing metal has been one of the holy grails of 3D printing. For the most part, printed prototype parts are made of plastic or other soft materials. That greatly limits their use in many production applications. Unless you pony up for a bank-vault-sized unit that can print metal …

Photo: Anna Funke of Semcon  While typing in a phrase like “engineer” in a typical search engine may reveal an image of a group of males, a new gender neutral search engine claims to be different. Semcon’s Re-Search service is said to offer a gender-balanced image search, avoiding common stereotypes …

Apple’s recent MacBook Pro updates and “courageous” iPhone 7 have proven to be controversial, and a recent pair of news items highlights how much pent-up frustration is aimed at the device manufacturer. First, Tim Cook made several posts to an Apple employee bulletin board, detailing Apple’s thinking on thinking on …