Amid reports that consumers aren't biting at Apple's 2018 iPhones, an Apple exec reckons the cheaper iPhone XR is actually the company's best-seller. Mobility The 10 best smartphones of 2018 iPhone XS, XS Max charging problems: Strange issues surface on Apple's new phones Here's how much it costs to charge a smartphone for a year Here's how Apple, Google, and Microsoft can stop robocalls The iPhone XR has been Apple's "most popular iPhone each and every day since it became available", Greg Joswiak, Apple vice president of product marketing, told ZDNet sister site CNET. Apple tempted consumers with the $1,000-plus iPhone XS and XS Max for one month before allowing anyone to see or test the iPhone XR, which starts at $749. The iPhone XR has an LCD display rather than the OLED on the iPhone XS. It's also not quite as water resistant, is only available with up to 256GB of storage, and uses Haptic Touch rather than 3D Touch. But otherwise it is a comparably good iPhone for $250 … [Read more...] about Slow iPhone sales? iPhone XR is our best-selling model, says Apple
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How a Battle to Build the Best Weather Model Impacts Everyone on Earth
Feuds It's Feud Week at Gizmodo. We're exploring spats, gripes, and fights in tech, science, and entertainment. Hurricane Sandy was one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history. But beyond the catastrophic losses of life and property, the storm also dealt a blow to the American weather modeling community. The American weather model whiffed on the initial forecast, but its European counterpart was dead on. Nearly six years later and the phrase “the Euro nailed Sandy” is still a running joke in the meteorological community, shorthand for both the continued superiority of the European model’s ability to predict major weather events like hurricanes while also mocking people who obsess over a model that has its own deficiencies and occasional high profile whiffs. Behind the scenes, though, the weather modeling arms race is heating up with the American model getting a major upgrade early next year. This competition about more than model supremacy: Lives and … [Read more...] about How a Battle to Build the Best Weather Model Impacts Everyone on Earth
Top 14 Best NAS Servers for Home [2018]
It’s no secret that we can’t all be real geniuses building anatomically correct robots in our garages, some of us might need help in figuring out what to look for in a new piece of technology. Whether you are looking to improve your data storage or accidentally endow a machine with sentience, you might need some help learning the lingo in order to walk boldly into the electronics store and get the thing you want. The new NAS server for home or small office, not the humanoid robot. If you are looking for a new way of expanding the storage space for your home network or for your small business, a NAS server is probably what you are going to want whether you know it yet or not. But, if you are not an especially tech savvy person navigating all the options and features can be and extremely intimidating venture. Fortunately for you, that is exactly what I am here for. Today, I would like to take you on a tour of the wide world of NAS servers and walk you through the kinds of … [Read more...] about Top 14 Best NAS Servers for Home [2018]
20 Best Christmas Gifts for Car Lovers
Car enthusiast know that their love for vehicles does not come cheap, and affording everything for a lot of them is something impossible or it would just take a lot of time just to purchase it all. So, we bring you a small list of the best possible gifts for your car lover to show that you support their love for these magnificent machines. Although it is hard to know what they will need, these 20 items are what we believe that any car owner should need or that we already have in our garage and feel like without it life would be a lot harder. The list is not in any way categorized, they are just to inspire you or give an idea on what to get as a gift, and you may ask your car-loving friend on what they needed or what they are missing in their garage.20Hail Protector Hail cover for a vehicle is one of those gifts that I received and thought that it would be never used when the time came (and it came sooner than expected) it worked perfectly. As the name speaks for itself, and it … [Read more...] about 20 Best Christmas Gifts for Car Lovers
The best password managers for 2018
Welcome to CNET's 2018 directory of password managers. This is our one-stop home for the overview of the best password managers, which can be used to tame the chaos of all those accounts and passwords. And -- let's be honest with each other -- "chaos" is an accurate description. The use of user IDs and passwords for account authentication is a fundamentally flawed security mechanism. User IDs are often guessable, derived from the account holder's name or other characteristics. Complex passwords are difficult to remember, so many users have defaulted to passwords like "password," "abc123," their pet's name and other easily guessable or breakable naming conventions. And in a world where the size of password breaches can number in the hundreds of millions or more, it's plausible that your passwords may already be floating around the seedier corners of the internet. The entire category of password managers, therefore, exists because we have yet to create a more universal and secure … [Read more...] about The best password managers for 2018