From Zoom to Quibi, the tech industry saw some companies take advantage of the opportunity in 2020, even while others burn out. Engadget editors have put together their list of 2020 winners versus 2020 losers, and after a year that felt more like a decade, we may have remembered some you forgot.
Stadia probably won’t surprise people with where it ended up, but foldable phones popping up on both sides of the divide felt a bit on the nose.
– Richard Lawler
The M1 chip makes it zippy and efficient, but also limited for professionals.
Apple’s M1-equipped MacBook Pro is just as snappy as we expected, offering all the features we appreciated from the updated MacBook Air. But while it is slightly faster, it can be difficult to sell. As Devindra Hardawar discovered, other limitations, such as support for only one external display and no support for external GPUs, mean this isn’t the professional machine it wants to be.
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And only on certain devices.
When Amazon launched early access for Luna, Android users were locked out and it only worked on Fire TV, PC, Mac and iOS devices. Now Luna’s list of compatible devices and browsers includes 21 Android devices from Google, Samsung and OnePlus. According to 9to5GoogleLuna will be terminated if you try to load it from an unsupported device. It also seems to work on some models not listed on the official page, including the Note 20 Ultra. However, it’s hard to guess if it will work on a particular phone or not – Luna didn’t load on a Galaxy Z Fold 2.
Users must be on Android 9 or higher and have a minimum internet speed of 10 Mbps – it’s a cloud gaming service after all.
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Space rocks.
JAXA opened the recently returned Hayabusa2 sample capsule and discovered that the spacecraft had managed to collect material from the asteroid Ryugu. It also confirmed that a gas sample in the collector “differed from Earth’s atmospheric composition,” confirming that it was also from the square asteroid.
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