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Microsoft contractors listened to what people told their Xbox consoles
Google stops sending Android cell signal data over privacy concerns
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
MIT experts find a way to reduce video stream buffering on busy WiFi
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
There’s something fishy about Amazon’s FC Ambassadors
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AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls
Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins calls out Twitch for using his dormant channel to promote other streamers, including a bootleg porn broadcast for more than two hours
Tomorrow’s bionic eyes will have ‘Predator’ vision
Can an open-source AI take on Amazon and Google?
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS
Samsung unveils Galaxy Note10+ with a 6.8" display, all-screen design, Snapdragon 855, 12GB of RAM, 256GB or 512GB storage, coming on August 23 for $1,100+
Hands-on with Samsung's Galaxy Note10 and 10+: sleeker all-screen design is nice, the S-Pen has more tricks like gesture support, better DeX support is useful
Samsung’s first 7-nanometer EUV processor will power the Galaxy Note 10
Google shuts down its Trips travel planning app
Hyundai’s first car with a solar roof is available in Korea
Intel unveils eleven 10th-gen Ice Lake laptop CPUs, built on its new 10-nm Sunny Cove architecture, claims they run 18% more instructions per clock than before
Attorney General tells tech companies they must make government backdoor for encrypted software
Comcast now gives parents the option of kicking kids off their WiFi network
Sony Q1: 3.2M PS4s sold, 100M sold since launch in 2014, while smartphone revenue dropped 15% QoQ, with 900K units shipped, less than half of Q1 2018
Planning to improve rural internet access, Canada to contribute C$85M to Telesat's R&D, as the company deploys a constellation of 292 low-earth-orbit satellites
Google rolls out a new, AMP-powered Swipe to Visit feature for Google Images that lets users see a preview of the website header and swipe up to visit the page
Facebook agrees to pay a $100M fine to the SEC over charges of making "misleading disclosures" related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
OpenTable adds restaurant deliveries to its iOS app in 90 US cities through partnerships with Uber Eats, Caviar, and Grubhub
DoorDash CEO to change tipping policy "in the coming days", says it will add all customer tips to driver's earnings, after a renewed backlash
Hackers broke into a contractor for Russia’s spy agency. They stole info that included an FSB plan to deanonymize Tor.
Elon Musk promises longer, curved tunnel for future Hyperloop contests
Equifax settlement for data breach will only cost it $4 per person
Google Pixel 4 leak fuels rumors of hand gesture control
Google pulls stalking apps from the Play Store
Indies making single-play games focused on story worry about the rise of subscription models, which better suit longer, replayable games
US Treasury has ‘serious concerns’ that Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Libra could be used for terrorism
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855 Plus, which runs the CPU at up to 2.96GHz instead of the earlier 2.84GHz and also delivers a 15% graphics speed boost
Synthetic fiber ‘muscles’ could lead to brawny robots and prosthetics
Microsoft is shutting down its internet board and card games.
NASA backs demo that will 3D-print spacecraft parts in orbit
Online education platform K12.com has left 7M records, including name, email, age, what school the student attends, and authentication keys, exposed online
The FBI plans more social media surveillance – It may gather user IDs, emails, IP addresses and telephone numbers
Trump says cryptocurrencies including Facebook's Libra are "not money", need to be regulated, citing their high volatility and facilitation of unlawful behavior
Google adds 60 new supported languages to its Translate camera tool, including Arabic, Hindi, and Vietnamese, rolling out over the coming weeks
AT&T's WarnerMedia reveals the name, HBO Max, for its streaming service coming next spring with 10K hours of programming, including exclusive rights to Friends
Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro
Facebook outlines plans to help creators: improved ad options, like non-interruptive formats, supporter-only Groups, Facebook Stars, and more
Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada
Amazon staff will strike during Prime Day over working conditions.
Reddit · 2 months ago
‘Destiny 2’ year two winds down with Moments of Triumph starting July 9th
LightSail 2 sends its first signals back to Earth
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are struggling to stay online today
Hacker News · 2 months ago