Less than a week after announcing the USB 3.2 spec, the USB Implementers Forums (USB-IF) has announced the spec for the USB 4 protocol, or “USB4,” as it might be known upon release. The protocol seemed to be modeled after the Thunderbolt protocol. The group offered the following description of what to expect: “The USB […]
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Following the launch of the Samsung Galaxy fold and given the new hype around smartphones with foldable phones, Samsung has apparently provided sample units to both Apple and Google. According to the industry on the 27th, Samsung Display made a set of foldable display and delivered it to Apple. This set, which is actually powered […]
Sometimes Apple offers the coolest upcoming product teases in a rare moment. Over at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Apple’s Craig Federighi answered a shareholder question about iPad Pro models, USB-C, and the current inability to do video over USB-C. The question came during Apple’s Q&A part of its annual shareholder meeting in Cupertino on […]
Apple appears to have dismissed almost 200 staff members from its Project Titan self-driving vehicle department. Per a new filing with the California Employment Development Department, the majority of the affected positions were engineering roles. The layoffs include 38 engineering program managers, 33 hardware engineers, 31 product design engineers, and 22 software engineers. This puts […]
And this is why you don’t plug random devices into the USB-C ports on your Mac. A group of researchers over at Light Blue Touchpaper have detailed a vulnerability through the Thunderbolt interface with USB-C ports. The attack, if executed correctly, can give hackers full access to data that “should never leave the machine. On […]