IT総合 Apple will pay $20M to settle Watch battery swelling suit, ‘denies wrongdoing’
Apple has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over battery swelling on the Apple Watch. Filed in...
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IT総合 IT総合 Apple quarterly revenue increases, even as China sales decline 11%
Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag filled with slipping iPhone sales and countered by rising revenue. Report...
IT総合 Google issues ‘voluntary exit’ program for Android, Chrome, and Pixel employees
Google SVP Rick Osterloh issued an internal memo to the Pixel/Android/Chrome team Thursday, announcing a “voluntary exit...
IT総合 Microsoft’s Copilot-focused Surface Pro and Laptop PCs ship with Snapdragon and Intel options
At an event in New York City on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled two additions to the Surface line of PCs. The new Surface P...
IT総合 What DeepSeek, China, and Trump mean for Apple ahead of its Q1 earnings
These days, nothing is certain about the tech market or the world at large. Even NVIDIA’s seemingly bulletproof st...
IT総合 Figure AI details plan to improve humanoid robot safety in the workplace
Safety is often overlooked in the rush to bring humanoid robots to the workplace. As high-profile corporations ranging f...
IT総合 Ambi Robotics built a clever solution to automate pallet packing
U.C. Berkeley spinout Ambi Robotics announced Tuesday the arrival of AmbiStack, a novel system that automates pallet pac...
IT総合 Cornell’s robot jellyfish and worm are powered by a hydraulic fluid battery
Researchers at Cornell University on Monday showcased a pair of bio-inspired robotics running on a hydraulic fluid-power...
IT総合 Smartwatch pioneer and Kickstarter darling Pebble is returning in a new form
Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, Pebble abruptly end...
IT総合 OpenAI-backed 1X acquires Kind Humanoid
1X has acquired Kind Humanoid, the Norwegian robotics startup told TechCrunch on Monday. The deal marks a small but key ...
IT総合 iOS 18 hits 68% adoption across iPhones, per new Apple figures
Apple released new figures Friday, highlighting user adoption of iOS 18. Released in public form back in September 2024,...
IT総合 Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch burns
Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some ...
IT総合 Researchers develop a way to power wearables through human skin
The dream of battery-free devices has taken an unlikely turn, as Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted Power-Over-Skin. Th...
IT総合 Samsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 will support Content Credentials to identify AI-generated images
Another tidbit just dropped following Wednesday’s Samsung Unpacked event. This one comes courtesy of Adobe, which notes ...
IT総合 Samsung Unpacked 2025: Google is bringing improved hearing aid features
Alongside a slew of announcements tied to Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google anno...
IT総合 Samsung Unpacked 2025: Here’s how to watch and what we expect
The biggest reveal from last week’s Samsung CES press conference may well have been another press conference. The hardwa...
IT総合 Symbotic set to take over Walmart’s robotics business
Walmart and Symbotic announced a deal Tuesday that would find the Massachusetts robotics firm taking control of the mega...
IT総合 Nintendo teases Mario Kart as first Switch 2 title
A console is only as good as its games. While Nintendo didn’t reveal anything in the way of specs for the forthcoming Sw...
IT総合 Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S25 on January 22 — here’s what we expect
The biggest reveal from last week’s Samsung CES press conference may well have been another press conference. The hardwa...
IT総合 Biden administration adds 14 additional Chinese firms to trade blacklist
Days after pushing for sweeping AI chip export restriction, the Biden administration has added an additional 14 Chinese ...
IT総合 Nintendo Switch 2 could be announced this week: The rumors (and facts) so far
With CES 2025 finally in the rearview, it’s time to move on to the next round of big hardware announcements. Rumors have...
IT総合 DJI Flip is a $439, fully foldable camera drone
Four short months after introducing the truly palm-size Neo, DJI is back with another pint-sized consumer drone. The Fli...
IT総合 These startups are making smarter canes for people with visual impairments
The white cane for the 21st century. While many tech companies have increasingly worked to make technology more accessib...
IT総合 Lenovo’s latest form factors prove PCs can still be fun
Large corporations aren’t known for taking risks. This is as true in the world of consumer hardware as anywhere. Annual ...
IT総合 The new Atari handheld knows its market
CES isn’t much of a gaming show. Every year, however, a few notable products slip through the news deluge. Created in co...
IT総合 Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot gets to work at CES 2025
CES 2025 has been a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor had a watershed moment, as images of the top players ...
IT総合 These are CES 2025’s least repairable and sustainable gadgets, according to iFixit
The Razzies, the Darwins — not all awards are good. Sure, CES is a time to celebrate the year’s weirdest and most wonder...
IT総合 The LiberLive C1 stringless instrument isn’t a guitar, and that’s fine
I’m old enough to remember musicians getting angry over Guitar Hero. But they always seemed to be missing the point. Nob...
IT総合 Pickpad addresses the chaos of restaurant takeout
There was a time when baristas just had to write a customer’s name on a cup and call it out. They wouldn’t always get th...
IT総合 Astrohaus launches a mechanical keyboard for writers
Astrohaus has cornered a very specific niche. The Michigan-based startup builds hardware for writers looking to eliminat...