Visa acquires the fintech company behind Venmo for $5.3 billion
"Visa just spent $5.3 billion to acquire Plaid, the fintech company powering Venmo and other banking apps. Plaid's API software allows startups, like the mobile investing app Robinhood and the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Gemini, to connect t..."
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/visa-acquires-plaid-fintech/Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra might have more RAM than your PC
" Rumors for the Galaxy S20 have mentioned a no-holds-barred Ultra model, but just what would that entail? Quite a lot, if you believe the rumors. XDA's Max Weinbach (who shared the leaked photos of the S20+ 5G) claims the Ultra 5G will have extreme..."
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/samsung-galaxy-s20-specs-leak/Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra might have more RAM than your PC
" Rumors for the Galaxy S20 have mentioned a no-holds-barred Ultra model, but just what would that entail? Quite a lot, if you believe the rumors. XDA's Max Weinbach (who shared the leaked photos of the S20+ 5G) claims the Ultra 5G will have extreme specs, incl…"
https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-13-samsung-galaxy-s20-specs-leak.htmlApple's next MacBook upgrades could be coming soon
" Last year's 16-inch MacBook Pro felt a bit like a return to form. While the latest iteration of Apple's flagship laptop didn't address the love-it-or-hate-it (but mostly hate-it) Touch Bar and an obnoxious lack of connectivity, it did have a much better keybo…"
https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-13-macbook-2020-update-scissor-switches.htmlApple's next MacBook upgrades could be coming soon
" Last year's 16-inch MacBook Pro felt a bit like a return to form. While the latest iteration of Apple's flagship laptop didn't address the love-it-or-hate-it (but mostly hate-it) Touch Bar and an obnoxious lack of connectivity, it did have a much bet..."
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/macbook-2020-update-scissor-switches/2005年1月14日、フラッシュメモリーを搭載した初代「iPod shuffle」が日本で発売されました：今日は何の日？
"フラッシュメモリーを採用した各社のシリコンオーディオプレーヤーに対し、アップルは容量を重視し、2001年からHDDを搭載したiPodシリーズを投入。初代iPodはもちろんのこと、小型化したiPod miniでもHDDモデルとなっていました。このiPodシリーズで、初めてフラッシュメモリーを採用したのが「iPod shuffle」となります。"
https://japanese.engadget.com/jp-2020-01-13-2005-1-14-ipod-shuffle.html?guccounter=1Comma Ai continues to impress with its aftermarket driver assistance tech
" Way back in 2016 I flew out to Las Vegas to check out Comma Ai's driver's assistance system crammed into an Acura. At the time, it was being developed as a self-driving add-on for vehicles. But times have changed and nearly every automaker and st..."
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/comma-two-openpilot-hands-on/ZOIA Euroburo is a modular synth you can put inside your modular synth
" Empress Effects ZOIA is perhaps one of the most exciting guitar pedals to come out in recent years. It's effectively a self-contained modular synth in a stompbox format. So, it only makes sense then that Empress would take it and stick in a Eurorack format, s…"
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/empress-effects-zoia-euroburo-modular-synth-eurorack/Fans are creating a Harry Potter role-playing game inside 'Minecraft'
" There have been some ambitious Minecraft projects before, but this one may win for sheer sophistication. The modding team Floo Network is creating Minecraft School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a Harry Potter-themed role-playing experience inside a Mi..."
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/harry-potter-minecraft-rpg/YouTube lures three more top streamers away from Twitch
" Twitch is once again losing some big-name streamers to YouTube. Lannan " LazarBeam " Eacott, Elliott " Muselk " Watkins and Rachell " Valkyrae " Hofstetter (above) have announced that they'll livestream exclusively on Google's video service. It's not a comple…"
https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/13/youtube-lazarbeam-muselk-valkyrae-exclusive/ https://http://www.engadget.com/ 