Apple, which up until recently was responsible for nearlynine percent of Samsung’s revenuein parts orders, is rumored to be gradually taking its lucrative mobile chip contract away from Samsung, aspreviously speculated. A new report out of Asia tells us the South Korean conglomerate is likely to delay construction of a new logic fabrication facility over fear that it will no longer make Apple’s in-house designed processors for iPhones, iPads and iPods on an exclusive basis....

Apple is laying off new retail staff in its various brick-and-mortar retail outlets in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada, a new report has it. New hires and employees on their probation period have been let go in the United Kingdom, where Apple operates33 retail stores. Back in the United States and Canada, we’re hearing whispers of part-time staffers seeing their hours reduced, some even to zero. All of this is happening just as thenext iPhoneis coming to full view....

Smart #1 Prototype Is A Compact Electric SUV With One Frustrating Detail Smart and the electric ForTwo flirted briefly with American car buyers before abandoning Uncle Sam in 2019. The brand underwent corporate restructuring in 2020, and Smart is now a 50/50 collaboration between German automaker Mercedes-Benz and Chinese auto giant Geely. It wasn’t long before an all-new, four-door electric SUV came to the fray, a near-production model called theSmart Concept #1unveiled in September 2021....

Star Wars has become so entrenched into modern pop culture, mythologized and scrutinized to the point of exhaustion, that it’s easy to forget how it began in relative obscurity with little fanfare or advanced hype. A New Hope originated during a unique time in American filmmaking. In the early to mid-1970’s George Lucas was part of a new generation of maverick directors emerging in Hollywood, artists determined to shatter the norms which existed in the industry for nearly two decades....

Stranger Things creators are considering “George Lucas-ing” Will’s birthday Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers admit that they forgot Will Byers’ birthday in Season 4, but now they intend to fix it. HitNetflixseriesStranger Things– a horror epic that takes place in the small yet cursed town of Hawkins – has become a cultural juggernaut, with the world eagerly waiting to see the conclusion of its fourth season next week. The fourth series was, to many, a step up from the previous two seasons....

We’ve said it before, and yet another analyst confirms it: the smartphone market is a duopoly of Apple and Android. The two firms control 92 percent of the market, according to Strategy Analytics researchers. What does this mean? Of the 217 million smartphones shipped during the final quarter of 2012, 200 million were powered either by iOS or Android. The concentration of the smartphone market in two hands is just the latest indication of an industry-wide consolidation....

The James Bond Lotus Esprit That’s Now Owned By Elon Musk Elon Musk buys all the things — and if he can’t buy them, he builds them. Take SpaceX, for example. Or Tesla. And let’s not forget theimpending purchaseof the social media platform Twitter. But let’s dial the Wayback Machine to 1989, when a random couple living in Long Island, New York, purchasedan abandoned storage unitfor $100 in a blind auction....

The Reason The FTC Just Hit Twitter With A $150 Million Fine 2022 is turning out to be an extremelyeventfulyear for Twitter. Even as the fiasco over Elon Musk’s proposed Twitter acquisition continues, the San Francisco-based social media giant has beenslapped with a $150 million fineby the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On Wednesday, August 24, 2025, the FTC published court documents that accused the company of violating a 2011 agreement with regulatory agencies....

This Is Gogoro’s First Solid-State Battery: It Could Be An EV Game-Changer Solid-state batteries may be widely expected to be the future of electric vehicle power, but it’s Gogoro – better known for mass-market electric scooters – not the big automakers that has delivered the first, fully-functional prototype. Then again, when you make it your business to power lightweight two-wheel EVs, and offer riders a super-simple way to switch out their power packs rather than wait for a traditional recharge, there’s a big incentive to position yourself at the cutting-edge of battery design....

Welcome to theTop 5 Upcoming RPGs of December 2022! In this series, we highlight theTop 5 RPGsfor the upcoming month. In this edition, we’re going to take a look at each of the titles, talk a little about each, and then explain why we think they deserve to be on the list. So join me now and find a mixture of some hidden gems and old favorites given a shiny new coat of paint....

Happy weekend from Fextralife! If you’ve been too busy to keep up on the latest in the games we cover or are looking for a refresher we’ve got you covered! Here’s a bite-sized version of the Top RPG news of the week. Taste all the latest news across theFextralife Wiki Network. Check out the video above and read on for the text! Tales of Arise For more on this news find it here inTales Of Arise Gets New Trailer Story & Gameplay Ahead Of Release....

The App Store has seen its fair share of drama since its creation, and while Apple never publicly acknowledged any of it, there have been ample amounts of evidence showing thatiTunes accounts have previously been hackedto steal money from store credit, or tobuy applications without the account’s owner’s consent. Last year, some hackers went as far asselling iTunes accounts login informationon ToaBoa.com, a Chinese site similar to eBay. Today we received tips from two independent sources claiming they had received a suspicious email from Apple, urging them to download an application from the App Store....

What’s The Most Expensive Private Jet Ever Made & Who Owns It? As long as there are planes and there are rich people who can afford them, there will be private jets. But there are still multiple levels in the private jet game, with some unbelievably wealthy owners building unrivaled sky luxuries most of us couldn’t even dream of, even on land. However, finding out which one out of all these extravagant planes is the most expensive and who its owner is, isn’t as easy as you might think....