The United States’ first right-to-repair law for electronics passes in New York

New York is now the first state in the US to pass a right-to-repair law specifically for electronics. This week, the legislation passed the NY State Senate overwhelmingly in favor 59 to 4 and passed the Assembly 145 to 1. “The bill is the most expansive consumer rights legislation to pass in the United States in recent memory”, as per Vice. The new law called the Digital Fair Repair Act applies to all consumer electronics’ companies and will require these companies to sell repair parts, tools, and provide repair documentation under “fair and reasonable terms”. Some companies like Apple...

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T-Mobile announces Voice Over 5G (VoNR) and the Galaxy S21 is compatible

T-Mobile has just announced and launched the capability to make and receive phone calls over 5G. Voice over 5G (VoNR or Voice Over New Radio) is now live in limited T-Mobile service areas of Portland, Oregon and Salt Lake City, Utah with plans to expand to more areas throughout the US this year. Customers with a Samsung Galaxy S21 on T-Mobile can already take advantage of VoNR. The S22 series will be supported through a future update. Current 5G smartphones need to rely on 4G LTE so make phone calls, hindering a standalone 5G experience. T-Mobile says customers connected to VoNR can expect...

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Apple iPadOS 16 to transform multitasking experience

Apple’s WWDC is coming up on June 6 and as usual, we’re expecting operating system updates for all of Apple’s key products. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman one of the big new changes for iPadOS this year is a redesigned multitasking interface that shows open background apps. In addition, iPads will get new options for resizing app windows and additional ways to handle multiple apps at once. Multitasking options on an M1 iPad Air The current version of iPadOS 15 can do split-view multitasking where you have two apps side by side and you can also get another app in Slide Over...

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