A number of vulnerabilities have been revealed in Amazon’s Alexa, highlighting the need for smart home platform providers, such as Apple’s HomeKit, to maintain security as part of the service. The concept of a smart home is appealing, but the dream of ordering a virtual assistant to automate household chores …
Read More »Tesla, Walmart, Nvidia, Home Depot, and Other Investor Supplies to Watch This Week
Text size Brick-and-mortar retailers make up the bulk of revenue reports this week. Walmart, Home Depot, and Kohl released their second-quarter results on Tuesday, followed by Lowe’s, Doel, TJX, and L Markets on Wednesday. Ross Stores reports Thursday. Non-retail names releasing results this week include Nvidia and analog devices on …
Read More »Apple rumored to announce ‘iPhone 12’ in October, Apple Watch and iPad in September
Serial leaker Jon Prosser on Wednesday late launching the expected Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad products to near-exact dates, saying the company will break with tradition and announce changes to at least two major product lines in a September press release . In a tweetje, Prosser announced Apple plans to …
Read More »NVIDIA mega-rumored: GeForce RTX 2190, GeForce RTX 2180 Ti naming scheme
NVIDIA announced the “Ultimate Countdown“towards their next gen Ampere GeForce graphics cards, but then there were the hints with numbers and more specifically: 21. FREE GALLERY – 14 PHOTOS After posting the tweet #UltimateCountdown, NVIDIA added: “21 Days. 21 Years” which means August 31st (21 days after the countdown was …
Read More »Parallels Desktop 16 has been upgraded to run Windows faster on macOS Big Sur
The developer says 25 years of work was needed to bring Parallels to Big Sur, but will not comment on whether Windows will support Apple Silicon. Parallels is the virtualization app that allows users to run alternative operating systems alongside Apple’s macOS, and in practice that means typically Windows. Now …
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