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Purported Google Pixel 3 XL leak shows a white body and single rear camera
2018-07-30

Over the weekend, XDA Developers Forum user dr.guru claimed to have gotten their hands on a Google Pixel 3 XL, the larger of the two flagship handsets from the company that are slated to arrive later this year. Android Police noted that the front fascia design matched that of a screen protector for this model which...

Prepare yourself: Facebook could be the future of national census
2018-07-29

Every ten years, governments around the world conduct their national census: a count of the resident population. This is no easy task. The 2011 Chinese census, for instance, was a vast operation relying on six million enumerators taking census questionnaires from door to door. Knowledge of a population’s composition...

Did Google stop domain fronting as a censorship move?
2018-07-29

Google, which has been long known for defending freedom of internet, recently removed access to a feature that was widely used to bypass censorship; domain fronting. Activists claim Google is siding with censorship, while Google claims it was a regular update. But what is the bigger picture? Should Google ignore the...

Google’s AR design guidelines aren’t complete shit, but should be better
2018-07-28

When Google and Apple announced their mobile augmented reality (AR) platforms last summer, they rocked the 3D world. Almost overnight, Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit shifted the center of gravity for 3D UX design away from headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR toward already ubiquitous...

Facebook follows YouTube in suspending Alex Jones
2018-07-28

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. It’s about damn time. Just this week, Jones ran afoul of YouTube guidelines, getting himself a slap on the wrist and finding four of his more egregious videos deleted. We wondered why Facebook didn’t do the same thing. In...

Facebook hit with class-action suits following stock tumble
2018-07-27

Facebook shareholders are suing the company after its stock lost $120 billion in value. This week is delivering a powerful one-two punch to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. First, on Thursday, Facebook’s stock plummeted 19%, erasing $120 billion in value—the biggest one-day drop in any public company,...

Groupon loses $83 million patent dispute with IBM
2018-07-27

The jury verdict is a blow for local-deals marketplace, whose stock now hovers in the $5 range. A patent dispute between IBM and Groupon has ended badly for the local deals company. On Friday, a Delaware jury awarded IBM $83 million in damages for what it viewed as willful patent infringement on the part of Groupon,...

Facebook will spend $10M on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s private jets and security
2018-07-27

The social network yesterday filed a report with the SEC, which disclosed CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s security allowance. All those extra trips to testify in front of Congress this year must have taken their toll, because he’s now allotted $10 million. That’s a significant increase over last year’s budgeted $7.3...

Tesla is not normal
2018-07-27

What should we do when a company acts as erratic as its CEO? I’ve been thinking a lot about a small quasi-interaction I had this week, and it’s nagged me enough to write it down. It all started when I decided to write a short post about a pseudonymous financial writer who didn’t much care for...

Facebook finally suspends Alex Jones and Infowars for hate speech
2018-07-27

Call it a time out. The company banned Jones’s personal account for 30 days. Days after YouTube removed four videos from Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Facebook finally got around to doing the same thing. The videos in question—which spewed vitriol at liberals, Muslims, and...

Twitter’s user growth just took a big hit
2018-07-27

Twitter’s monthly base was down by a million users as it finished out the quarter. A purge of bots, trolls, and other problematic accounts seems to have caused a noticeable decline in monthly active users for Twitter, which reported second-quarter 2018 earnings this morning before the opening bell.Read Full...

Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store
2018-07-27

Google has now banned all cryptocurrency miners from the Play store. Apps that manage mining hardware are apparently okay, though – for now. The new ruling is hidden amongst the July updates to Google’s Developer Policy Center, as spotted by Android Police. It can be seen as a follow-up to their previous set of...

Blockchain startups are selling visions of the future, not technology
2018-07-27

The blockchain hype train has been operating at full steam for some time now. Every week Twitter and Reddit are ablaze with new launches of blockchain startups promising decentralized and distributed technologies, which promise to change life as we know it and empower us, the people, to decide our own future. The...

Fortnite’s Android edition will reportedly be exclusive to Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 at launch
2018-07-27

If you’ve been waiting with bated breath to play Fortnite on your Android device since the announcement in May, you might have to be patient for a while longer: 9to5Google reports that the title will first become available only on Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 9. The handset is slated to be announced on August 9,...

Lenovo’s Google Assistant-powered Smart Display is now available from $199
2018-07-27

Back in January, Google announced that it was working with third-party hardware makers on touchscreen-equipped smart speakers with the company’s Assistant on board. The first of those products is now available from Lenovo. The imaginatively named Lenovo Smart Display comes in two sizes – an 8-incher with an HD...

The future of security? A good old-fashioned key
2018-07-26

Google’s employees are now using hardware security keys, including one version designed to look like a real key. I juggle two password managers that mishmash random characters and numbers together and file them away to ensure optimal encryption across my various accounts on the web. As a result, I can’t...

Smartest voice assistants: Siri beats Alexa but Google prevails for now
2018-07-26

Amazon’s voice assistant just can’t keep up on smartphones. Google Assistant is better at understanding and answering questions than any of its rivals, according to a new test by Loup Ventures. The venture capital firm asked 800 questions each of Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s...

Facebook is basically done growing in the U.S., Canada, and Europe
2018-07-26

Facebook reported misses on revenue, daily active user count, and monthly active user count. Now the stock is in a free fall. Facebook shares are sliding after the company published its most recent quarterly earnings report. A lot has been riding on the company’s financials as it continues to take a beating in...

Facebook stock hammered after earnings miss, slow growth forecast
2018-07-26

Investors have clearly been looking for a reason to run away. Now, Facebook’s given away all its stock gains from the last quarter. Poof. There goes a quarter of really impressive stock gains.Read Full Story

These Venus-moon meet-up pics are the best thing on Instagram right now
2018-07-16

There’s still time to see Venus and the moon hang out. Venus and the crescent moon hung out last night, and since they are the celestial equivalent of Beyoncé and Jay Z, the paparazzi was all over it.Read Full Story

This startup is the perfect example of Korea’s vibrant crypto market
2018-07-16

Though cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications seem to have taken the entire world by storm, there are few places where this new technology has been embraced like South Korea. In part, thanks to changing regulations within the country, the overwhelming sentiment seems to indicate that crypto will soon become...

The simple way Apple and Google could fix notifications
2018-07-16

Psychological scientist Kostadin Kushlev, who studies the impact of our mobile tech on our lives, discusses the road to digital well-being. This article originally appeared on The Conversation.Read Full Story

Amazon’s European workers are striking on Prime Day
2018-07-16

The strike will see workers at a large Amazon facility just outside Madrid go on strike from now until July 18. Workers at Amazon’s warehouses in Spain have gone on strike today to protest working conditions, reports CNBC. The strike was organized by a group calling itself Amazon En Lucha and will see workers...

Dear Elon Musk, delete your Twitter account
2018-07-16

Right, we’re done here. Elon Musk has gone off the deep end and called British diver Vern Unsworth – who was instrumental in recently rescuing a Thai boys’ soccer team trapped in a cave – a pedophile, after Unsworth balked at the billionaire’s idea of using a small “submarine” to help bring the boys back...

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