Samsung Galaxy S9 looking to rival the iPhone X camera. The tech giant announcing on Thursday plans to reveal the S9 device on February 25th. CNET Senior Editor Dan Ackerman explains how Samsung's upcoming device might fare against Apple's latest iPhone.
"The camera specs are one of the areas where these companies can really compete and one-up each other," says Ackerman.
According to some leaks of the Samsung Galaxy S9 device it appears to look similar to the previous model explains Ackerman. "From the leaks we saw today it kind of looks like the same phone, maybe a better processor, maybe a better camera. But maybe we've kind of hit a wall with what we can do with this form factor," said Ackerman.
Apple Pay is getting in on the buy now pay later boom with a feature allowing users to split purchases into four separate payments over six weeks at no additional cost or interest.
San Francisco-based technology startup Illumix just closed a $18 million Series A round of funding, and in a rare move for the Shark Tank star, Mark Cuban contributed.
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant venture, is reaching out to major U.S. neurosurgery centers to potentially begin testing its devices on humans, according to a Reuters report.
A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after discovering water containing a low level of radioactive material was leaking from a pipe for the second time. While the utility and health officials say it is not dangerous, the issue has prompted concerns among nearby residents and raised questions about aging pipelines.