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• Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2 tackles the original's biggest problems

  At its virtual Unpacked event today, Samsung officially announced the Galaxy Z Fold 2, the successor to its beleaguered first folding phone. Unfortunately, the company only revealed a few key details about the hardware and stated a more thorough reveal would arrive on September 1. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Samsung announces the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra with massive specs

  After months of rumors and leaks, Samsung's Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra are finally official. Samsung made the announcement at its first virtual Unpacked event, alongside a slew of other Galaxy devices. Pre-orders for the device begin tomorrow. As usual, both Note devices ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to watch Samsung's Galaxy Note 20 event

  Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked events are some of the biggest events in the tech world, matched only by the likes of Apple and Google. But in the year 2020 of coronavirus, physical tech events have almost all been canceled, and Samsung is hosting its first-ever virtual Unpacked event. The ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Scientists: What if black holes had a safe zone where little planets could live? Let's call them 'blanets'

  Every once in a while the scientific community comes up with a discovery so important that it immediately changes the course of human evolution. I'm talking of course about the invention of the word blanet. I think we can all agree that it is the cutest word science has ever created. However, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Apple just gave the 27-inch iMac a major spec bump and a matte display option

  Apple today made a surprise update to its line of iMacs -- in more ways than one. While we were expected an upgraded iMac sometime this year, rumors had pointed to an all-new design that would be more akin to an iPad Pro than the iMacs of yore. Instead, these new iMacs look the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google confirms the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G are coming this fall

  The Pixel 4a's reveal was Google's biggest news of the day, but that technically wasn't the only device the company announced today. It also confirmed the existence of the upcoming Pixel 5, as well as a 5g edition of the Pixel 4a. That's not surprising given all the rumors so far, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• A scientific analysis of the Facebook group where millennials pretend to be Boomers

  I joined a private community called “a group where we all pretend to be Boomers (UNCENSORED)" and rated the accuracy of ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Congress fumbles through antitrust hearing with big tech CEOs

  Heres an exhaustive play-by-play of the US House Judiciary Committee's antitrust hearing with the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists put penis rings on bisexual men to prove they exist

  A team of researchers recently published a study on bisexual men that, surprisingly, indicates they exist. This comes as ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Is your brain okay?

  Coronavirus in Context is a weekly newsletter where we bring you facts that matter about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The OnePlus Buds sound great at $79, but they just don't fit my ears

  OnePlus may be best known for its affordable phones, but alongside those devices, it's also released some pretty decent earbuds ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine is starting to look like a winner

  Oxford researchers have developed a potential vaccine for COVID-19. Early testing in more than 1,000 clinical trial participants ...

  • Tristan Greene