Editor's take: Modern flagship smartphones are increasingly turning to wireless charging as a handy alternative to plugging in a physical cord to juice up. While the feature can be convenient, two major shortcomings - efficiency and range - will likely need to be addressed before wired chargers become obsolete.

On paper, wireless charging has its benefits. Being able to simply plop your phone down on a mat to recharge eliminates the potential for wear and tear on charging ports and cables. Others favor it due to sheer convenience.

But according

Editor's take: Despite suffering a massive data breach earlier in the year that reportedly saw more than two terabytes of information leak out, 2020 could go down in history as one of Nintendo's best years ever. The most recent quarter was incredibly impressive and if Nintendo can deliver on rumors of multiple remakes for the 35th anniversary of Mario, the second half of the year could be even better than the first.

Nintendo is riding high after turning in a quarterly earnings report that’s

In a nutshell: Windows 7 reached its end of extended support period in January, so you might expect its user numbers to have dropped drastically over the last eight months—but you’d be wrong. The venerable OS’s market share has barely moved as it remains on almost a quarter of all device s.

Windows 7, first released in 2009, exited mainstream support and entered its extended support phase in January 2015. The five years of free critical security patches, bug fixes

Forward-looking: Foldable phones might not have set the world on fire, but companies aren't giving up on the design. Following Samsung's unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold 2, an Android document suggests Google will release a foldable Pixel device next year.

The internal document, obtained by 9to5Google , lists all launched Pixels since the Pixel 2 and several unannounced models, including the Pixel 5a (the Pixel 5 was recently announced alongside the Pixel 4a), and three in-development

Bottom line: Samsung's recently revealed Galaxy Note20 was another exhibit of the company's growing partnership with Microsoft. The two are not only collaborating on a special Xbox Game Pass app for the latest Note, but also working towards an improved mobile connectivity experience on PC. With Microsoft's latest update to its Your Phone app - currently available to Insiders - Note20 owners will be able to stream Android apps to PCs once the feature rolls out publicly, alongside the phone's launch on August

What just happened? Another large company has apparently been hit with a ransomware attack. Following a similar incident aimed at wearables maker Garmin, Japanese tech giant Canon is reportedly suffering at the hands of hackers who have brought down systems and stolen data.

Last month's attack on Garmin forced it to close call centers, websites, and some other online services. It eventually had to pay a million-dollar ransom via ransomware negotiation business Arete IR to recover its encrypted data.

Bleeping Computer reports that Canon has also been targeted

Why it matters: It’s the biggest question in the tech world right now: who will buy Arm? It looks as if Nvidia is leading the race to make one of the biggest acquisitions in recent years, but according to a new report, the UK chipmaker has reached out to other firms to gauge interest, including Apple suppliers Foxconn and TSMC.

It was last month when we learned that Softbank was looking to offload the company it paid $31 billion for back in 2016. The Japanese