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You can always just install the Google Assistant… Enlarge / S-Voice on its launch device, the Galaxy S III You’ve got a month and a half to say your goodbyes to Samsung’s S-Voice voice assistant. SamMobile reports that Samsung will shut off the servers on June 1, 2020, at which point Samsung’s original voice assistant will stop attempting to … Continue reading Say goodbye to Samsung’s S-Voice—the servers shut down June 1, 2020 Continue Reading →

Better than the 2020 competition? Sure. Better than last year’s phone? Ehhhh. Today, OnePlus is launching its flagship smartphones for 2020, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. OnePlus made a name for itself in the smartphone industry with great value-for-money offerings, but this year, get ready for some sticker shock. The OnePlus 8 is $699, … Continue reading OnePlus 8 Pro review—The best flagship of 2020, even if it is more expensive Continue Reading →

Better than the 2020 competition? Sure. Better than last year’s phone? Ehhhh. Today, OnePlus is launching its flagship smartphones for 2020, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. OnePlus made a name for itself in the smartphone industry with great value-for-money offerings, but this year, get ready for some sticker shock. The OnePlus 8 is $699, … Continue reading OnePlus 8 Pro review—The best flagship of 2020, even if it is more expensive Continue Reading →

New simulations show parent body may have been ripped apart by strong tidal forces. Enlarge / An artist’s impression of ‘Oumuamua. A new study based on computer simulations offers a comprehensive theory for how it formed and where it came from, that accounts for the interstellar object’s odd characteristics In late 2017, our Solar System received its … Continue reading Study: ‘Oumuamua interstellar object might be remnant of a “super-Earth” Continue Reading →

Manufacturer says conversion requires “significant rework.” Airbreak suggests otherwise. As infections from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continue to climb, hospitals around the world are struggling with a potentially fatal shortage of ventilators, the bedside machines that help patients breathe when they’re unable to do so on their own. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of lower-grade breathing … Continue reading Medical device “jailbreak” could help solve the dangerous shortage of ventilators Continue Reading →

If your remote work experience is bad, your Wi-Fi is likely the culprit. Enlarge / Left to right: a looming Netgear Orbi satellite, an upside-down Plume superpod, and an older Eero model. The Great Telework Experiment of 2020 has brought a lot of network challenges to the fore. Obviously some jobs are better suited to remote work … Continue reading Your COVID-19 Internet problems might be COVID-19 Wi-Fi problems Continue Reading →

Folding@Home had settled into a low-profile niche. Then came COVID-19. Almost 20 years ago, faculty in the chemistry department of Stanford University launched a distributed computing project called Folding@Home (F@H). They sought to understand how proteins self-organize and why this process sometimes goes wrong, causing issues such as cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. F@H hit its pinnacle of … Continue reading The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer Continue Reading →

Baffling baffle brings (almost) boundless blessed silence. And now for a bit of research that is suddenly highly relevant in today’s locked-up and closed-in world: noise reduction. Does air-conditioning drive you mad? The constant hiss of sterile air? The average building designer doesn’t seem to give a damn about it. As long as water doesn’t drip … Continue reading Hollow corkscrews may put a cork in noisy ventilation Continue Reading →

The Pixel 6 could have a Google-built processor. A new report from Axios claims that Google has “made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel smartphone” and that a Google-made SoC could debut in a phone as early as next year. Google is apparently teaming up with Samsung, which is … Continue reading Google wants to dump Qualcomm, launch smartphone SoC as early as next year Continue Reading →

Dealmaster also has deals on Google Pixel phones, smart speakers, and more. Today’s Dealmaster is headlined by a nifty couple of deals on Bose noise-cancelling headphones—provided you’re willing to buy refurbished. Factory-renewed models of the popular Bose QuietComfort 35 II and the newer Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 are both discounted at Bose.com and Bose’s official eBay storefront, with … Continue reading Officially refurbished Bose noise-cancelling headphones are on sale today Continue Reading →