Remember when the only phones with over-$1,000 price tags were made of leather, ruby and sapphire crystal? Thanks to Apple and Samsung, those days are over. The iPhone XS and Galaxy Note 9‘s $999 starting price tags cement the thousand-dollar phone as the new normal. Level up your storage capacity Continue Reading
For a brief, shining moment, it looked like 16-inch laptops were going to be a thing. For the longest time, traditional 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch laptop screens dominated. Then 14-inch screen grabbed some market share about five years ago, and is now a solid, established choice. At the same Continue Reading
At a New York press event on Thursday, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy Home smart home speaker, a Galaxy Watch wearable and the high-end Note 9 phone. Featuring incremental updates like a Bluetooth-enabled S Pen stylus, a higher-capacity battery and a slightly bigger display, the Note 9 doesn’t exactly deliver any Continue Reading
BEN Francis was just a 19-year-old student who delivered pizzas when he started making gym clothes in his parents’ garage in 2012 – the start of sportswear giant Gymshark. The 26-year-old from Birmingham could never have dreamed that six years later, his business is about to turnover £100million. Ben Francis Continue Reading
LIDL is to give a pay rise to its 16,000 employees, overtaking Aldi to become the UK’s highest-paying supermarket. The bargain supermarket said that staff will earn £8.75 per hour, up from £8.45 outside of London and £10.20, up from £9.75, within the M25 starting from March 1 next year. Lidl has announced that it will Continue Reading
In nearly a decade and a half covering the tech industry, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing companies go all out when showing off their new products. One of the more awkward is the image of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin on Rollerblades gliding up to the stage Continue Reading
In his first joint address to Congress, President Joe Biden delivered an hour-long speech calling on the nation’s lawmakers to enact an ambitious domestic and foreign agenda. “Tonight, I come to talk about crisis and opportunity. About rebuilding the nation, revitalizing our democracy and winning the future for Americans,” Continue Reading
