Sharp is using its TV production lines to make face masks insteadSharp is using its TV production lines to make face masks instead

Sharp is usually known for making hardware such as soundbars and televisions, but the Japanese electronics brand is moving into a new area: medical face masks.

As reported by the BBC, Sharp is leveraging one of its TV factories to meet the huge surge in demand for face masks among members of the public, amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak that

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I Am Not Okay With This

Wondering if I Am Not Okay With This will get return for season 2? The new supernatural dark comedy-drama hasn't been officially renewed by Netflix just yet, but it's got a fairly good chance of coming back. It's been a fixture of Netflix's top 10 list in the US and UK since launch, and has also gained traction on platforms like Tumblr and Twitter.

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UK competition watchdog 'stifling British tech firms'UK competition watchdog 'stifling British tech firms'

Drawn-out and last-minute investigations performed by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are stifling the country's up-and-coming tech companies, claims the Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec).

The industry body delivered a letter to newly appointed Chancellor Rishi Sunak, asserting the competition watchdog’s “eleventh hour int

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Google IO 2020 is canceled: will we still hear about Android 11, Pixel 4a and more?

Google IO 2020 (the company’s annual developer conference) was still months away from its planned May 12-14 run, but Google has cancelled it out of concerns over the coronavirus. 

What that means for all the news we expected to hear about products like the Google Pixel 4a and software like Android 11 is uncertain. However, the show might go on in a

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Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2070 Super mobile GPUs could hit new highs for laptop gaming

Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Super and 2070 Super mobile GPUs could be due to land soon, with a beefy power bump compared to the vanilla RTX 2080 and 2070 offerings, according to a fresh leak. 

This comes from PC GamesN, which obtained a confidential Nvidia presentation slide that shows the relative performance of the firm’s current mobile GPUs compared to t

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We're shunning smart speakers in favor of voice assistants on our phones

Do you have a smart speaker at home? Chances are you're not using it in the way companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google might have hoped. 

A study by Forrester Analytics' Consumer Technographics has found that more of us use smart assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant on our smartphones instead of speakers like the Amazon Echo, Google

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