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VPNs are an important part of preserving your privacy on the internet in this day and age, but they can also be used to access content that is blocked on your network. However, you need to trust a provider that routes all your web traffic. There are plenty of well-known providers, and now you can add Pornhub to the list. Yes, the adult streaming site has its own VPN service, but it does have a of keeping your secrets. Pornhub says its new is designed to keep your online activity safe from prying eyes and censorship. With a VPN connection, all your traffic is encrypted and routed to the VPN’s servers.
Andy Rubin is famous in the technology community for founding Android and then running it as a division of Google for several years after the 2005 acquisition. Android has become the largest computing platform on Earth, and everyone was curious what Rubin would do after leaving Google. We got our answer last year when launched the Essential Phone. It had a striking design and support for wireless accessories, but a new report . Rubin is reportedly looking to sell the company and has ended development on Essential’s next phone. The Essential Phone was , which is now all the rage since Apple adopted it on the iPhone X.
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Apple’s next-generation A12 is now in production for the year’s upcoming set of iPhones, and the CPU core will be built on TSMC’s 7nm process. After utilizing Samsung for 14nm, Apple flipped to TSMC for the 10nm node and appears to be continuing its partnership with the Taiwanese company. Winning Apple’s business remains a feather in the cap of whichever foundry manages to pull it off, and TSMC very much wants a leadership position on 7nm. TSMC first announced it was in mass production on 7nm in April — if Apple ships its next-generation iPhones in November of this year, we’ll be looking at a roughly 6-month ramp from initial volume production to commercial shipments, which is fairly standard in the industry.
Computers running Google’s might not have the same power user appeal as Windows and macOS computers, but they’re inexpensive and can run much more modest hardware. However, they also tend to look and feel cheaper. If you want a “nice” Chromebook, you have to drop $1,000 on the Pixelbook, which is a tough sell. The has four options. There are 13 and 15-inch variants, and each is available as a regular laptop and a “Spin” version with a 360-degree hinge. These might be just what the premium midrange needs. Acer was an early supporter of Chrome OS, making some of the most reliable budget laptops running Google’s cloud operating system.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve started to see some chatter about a possible next-generation PlayStation 5, including a few examinations of what the hardware might look like. Today, Sony poured cold water on claims that in the first place. The next generation PS5 is at least three years away, according to the head of Sony’s PlayStation business, as Takashi Mochizuki of the reports. That’s despite earlier rumors that suggested a launch date this year or in 2019 (2020 is the earliest date that made much sense to us). Sony, in fact, has very little reason to hurry and ample cause to keep the PlayStation 4 in-market for a while longer.
An experienced wine connoisseur can probably tell at a glance if that $1,000 bottle is the genuine article, but most of us cannot. A properly trained machine learning algorithm might be able to help with that. IBM has that can look at items and tell you whether or not they are counterfeits. And of course, it’s got blockchain technology built in. Doesn’t everything these days? Counterfeiting costs the global economy more than $1.2 trillion annually, as consumers pay inflated prices for fake items and businesses lose sales to those same fakes. IBM says its Crypto Anchor Verifier can help authenticate everything from diamonds to food, and the technology can work with a smartphone camera.
There’s two new pieces of news about Tesla and its Model 3 ramp. One isn’t great news for anyone who hoped to buy the $35K version of the car, particularly people who wanted to pair it with the $7,500 tax credit, and the other is… complicated. Complicated news first. Both and have tested the Model 3 and come away with serious concerns about the vehicle’s braking distance. Consumer Reports logged an initial braking distance from 60mph to full stop of 130 feet on their first attempt, which is roughly in-line with Tesla’s communicated expectations. Subsequent tests, however, fell well short of that mark.
