eSIM by AT&T launches for World Cup visitors with unlimited data

AT&T has just announced the launch of a new service called eSIM by AT&T. It's aimed at people visiting the US, Canada, and/or Mexico, and the choice of countries makes sense when you consider the fact that the FIFA World Cup is taking place from June 11 to July 19 in exactly those three countries. AT&T is aiming this at people who will be arriving in North America for the World Cup matches. As you can see below, eSIM by AT&T comes in four 'sizes'. A one-day pass is $3.99 and only available for the US. A seven-day pass is $15.99 for just the US, or $24.99 for all three countries. A...

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Verizon upgrades the 5G network for the Indy 500, promises speeds over 1.0Gbps at the track

The annual Indy 500 race is coming up – it’s happening this Sunday (May 24) and the legendary track expects massive crowds to gather to watch the racing live. Last year, around 350,000 people showed up at the track and shared a whopping 61TB of data over their mobile connections. This year, Verizon has spent months preparing the 5G infrastructure at the track and it has upgraded the radio hardware to deliver a 400% increase in bandwidth. The carrier thought things through to ensure a good experience from the start – since paper tickets are mostly a thing of the past, you need to load a...

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Apple's new hardware chief orders another reshuffle to speed up product development

Apple is getting a new CEO later this year as Tim Cook will be succeeded by the Senior VP of Hardware Engineering, John Ternus. But in addition to the news of a new CEO, the company also announced a significant restructuring. Johny Srouji becomes the new Chief Hardware Officer and merges the hardware engineering and hardware technologies teams. Almost immediately after taking his new role, Johny Srouji commenced a big reshuffle. Kate Bergeron, for example, will pass on the main product design management to two of her deputies, while she will oversee product reliability. She's taking on...

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Samsung is facing the biggest worker strike in its history over employee bonuses

Samsung’s memory division reported record sales for Q1, but this has caused discontent within the company, specifically the Device Solutions (DS) business. DS is home to the memory business, System LSI (which designs chipsets) and the foundry business (which fabs chips for Samsung and external clients). Now Samsung is facing the biggest strike in its history – with 48,000 employees threatening to walk out – which is due to start on Thursday, unless an agreement is reached or the government intervenes. The strike is planned to last 18 days. SK Hynix is also based in Korea and it is the...

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Sony 1000X The ColleXion in for review

If you're into headphones, then you're no doubt familiar with Sony's WH-1000X series, which is easily one of the most popular wireless over-ear noise-cancelling headphones around. One could say that alongside the Bose QuietComfort 35, which started the trend, Sony's 1000X series has been the most popular option for years. An achievement remarkably maintained even after many others, including Apple, joined the space. Sony's line of wireless over-ear ANC headphones turns 10 (wow), so the Japanese made something special to mark the occasion - meet the Sony 1000x The ColleXion (reads like...

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Microsoft announced the new Surface Laptop 8 series and Surface Pro

Microsoft updated four of its laptops today - the Surface Pro 13, the Surface Laptop 13-inch, Surface Laptop 13.8-inch and Surface Laptop 15-inch. The new devices run on the recently released Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, but Snapdragon X2-powered versions are expected later this year. Surface Laptop Starting with the most important updates - the Surface Laptop 13.8 and 15-inch. They now come with new display options, some of which include a privacy screen feature similar to the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's. The 15-inch model gets a higher resolution, but it's still LCD. OLED...

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The media starts receiving the first Trump Mobile T1 Phone units, launch is imminent

The Trump Mobile T1 Phone was supposed to launch last year in August, but many future customers who put a $100 pre-sale order were left empty-handed until now. It looks like the T1 Phone is actually happening as the company started distributing units to media, which in turn means that the actual shipments to customers will begin shortly. But there's a catch. If you haven't followed the news around the T1 Phone lately, you will be surprised to see a couple of discrepancies. The most obvious one is the new design, which is a lot different from the initial one. Also, the American flag at...

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