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The best iPhone X plans and prices in Australia compared
If you're looking for information and great prices on the tenth-anniversary handset from Apple, then follow this page for iPhone X deals and plans.
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Neowin |
New study finds more than 2,000 potentially dangerous apps on the Play Store
A new study by the University of Sydney and CSIRO's Data 61 found 2,040 apps on the Play Store that either contained malware outright or sought suspiciously too many permissions to user data. Read more...
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Mark it in your calendar, Amazon Prime Day 2019 start July 15
We have the official Amazon Prime Day 2019 dates, and Amazon is calling it a two-day parade of epic deals.
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SlashGear |
Pixel 4 could finally have support for P3 wide-color image capture
For a couple of generations now, Android phones have dominated camera benchmarks like DxOMark. Google’s Pixel phones, in particular, have been praised for what they can pull off with just one camera and software where others require two or more. Despite those advancements, Apple’s iPhones have had one distinct advantage since 2016. That, however, may be a thing of the … Continue reading
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Resources | ZDNet |
Amazon Prime Day 2019: How to find the best deals for you and your business
Amazon's annual summertime sale is coming up fast. Here's what to expect and when.
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Digg Top Stories |
The Road Not Taken
The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers' control.
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Digg Top Stories |
The Mouse Cure
Researchers have a new idea for battling Lyme disease: Release gene-edited rodents into tick-infested Nantucket. What could go wrong?
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Digg Top Stories |
Girl's Crossover Dribble Is Literally Lethal
This looks like a special move from a sports video game. It is not. It is real.
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Digg Top Stories |
Why We Can't Stop Watching Keanu Reeves, 30 Years On
What has allowed him to remain a star, 30 years later, is a blend of virility, vulnerability and an aura of mystery, hearkening to a bygone era of stardom that contradicts the current moment, which requires stars to seem endlessly accessible.
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Digg Top Stories |
Data Brokers Are Selling Your Secrets. States Are Trying — And Failing — To Stop Them
Vermont's new data broker registry highlights the difficulties of regulating dozens of secretive firms that buy and sell the personal information of millions of Americans.
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CNET News |
Titan could be home to gigantic crystal encrusted lakes - CNET
These lakes of methane and ethane could potentially be encircled by bathtub rings made out of crystals.
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TechCrunch |
JD.com’s logistics arm raises a $218 million investment fund
The logistics division of JD.com, Alibaba’s closest e-commerce competitor in China, has raised 1.5 billion yuan (about $218 million) to invest in logistics-related companies and technology. Limited partners in the new fund include JD Logistics and JD.com, as well as undisclosed listed companies and government-led funds, reported Reuters. JD Logistics, which became a standalone subsidiary […]
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Mashable! |
We finally know when Prime Day is and — surprise! — it's actually 2 days
Amazon has finally confirmed the details about Amazon Prime Day 2019: The big day will start at midnight PST (3 a.m. EST) on Monday, July 15, and last until 11:59 PST on Tuesday, July 16 (2:59 a.m. EST on July 17) . Prepare to not blink for two days straight.
The summer shopping event feels just as engraved in our brains as Black Friday, so it's always a shocker to remember that Prime Day has only been around since 2015. Somehow, in less than five years, Amazon has managed to get us just investe...
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Hacker News |
A WebGL canvas-based volume viewer
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Resources | ZDNet |
Cybersecurity staff burnout risks leaving organisations vulnerable to cyberattacks
Survey of security professionals reveals that almost two thirds have considered leaving their jobs or the industry all together. So who will fill the gap?
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Resources | ZDNet |
Amazon Prime Day 2019 date announced: 48-hour blowout sale to kick off July 15
Amazon will put one million products on sale for Prime Day -- some for a brief time or in limited quantities.
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GeekWire |
Prime Day is back: Amazon’s 5th annual shopping extravaganza will start July 15 and last 48 hours
Amazon’s self-made holiday is returning for the fifth consecutive year. Prime Day is back and will last a record 48 hours next month from July 15-16, when Prime members can shop for more than one million deals. The summer sales blowout has become a tradition for Amazon, which took a page from rival Alibaba and its Singles Day shopping event in China. It’s a strategy to get people to spend more with Amazon and to sign up more Prime members. “Our vision is that Prime Day should b...
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TechCrunch |
Amazon Prime Day 2019 expands to become a 48-hour sale on July 15-16
Amazon is preparing for its longest Prime Day ever. The company announced today it will host a 48-hour Prime Day sales event this year, starting at midnight on Monday, July 15 and extending for two full days. The Amazon sales holiday — its own version of a Black Friday-type sale — will feature over a […]
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CNET News |
Amazon Prime Day, officially announced for July 15, will run for two days - CNET
In a few years, it may become Prime Month.
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Business Insider |
This year's 48-hour Amazon Prime Day is the longest one yet (AMZN)
Amazon Prime Day, Amazon's middle-of-July sales bonanza, will start on July 15 and last two full days.
It offers steep discounts on a variety of products, similar to a Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale.
In 2018, Prime Day became the largest sales event in Amazon's history, but it was leapfrogged by Cyber Monday later in the year.
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Amazon Prime members won't have to wait much longer for their favorite day of the year.
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The Verge - All Posts |
Amazon Prime Day 2019 sales start on July 15th
Amazon Prime Day is back on July 15th for the biggest sale event in Amazon’s annual tradition of deals and discounts. And this year, Amazon is stretching the definition of Prime “Day” even further: the deals will last a full 48 hours, beginning on Monday July 15th at 12AM PT / 3AM ET, and running through 11:59PM PT / 2:59AM ET on Tuesday, July 16th.
If you’re new to the deal-hunting game, Prime Day is Amazon’s big summer deal event, where the online retailer cuts the prices on tons of...
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SlashGear |
KitchenAid Smart Oven+ connects with Google Assistant, Alexa, our house
Everything is connected today, and not just the obvious culprits like phones, computers, and TVs. These days, even refrigerators and ovens are connected to the Internet or to each other. The latter is what KitchenAid is trying to sell with the new Smart Oven+. First shown of at CES 2019, the smart single or double wall oven allows users to … Continue reading
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Neowin |
Limited Run Games to re-release Star Wars for NES and Game Boy
Almost thirty years after the original release, Star Wars for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy will be available in limited physical quantities from Limited Run Games later this week. Read more...
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CNET News |
Avengers: Endgame re-release -- new footage, how to buy tickets, what we want to see - CNET
I vote for "resurrect Tony Stark from the grave" and "make old man Cap put on the suit one last time."
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Boy Genius Report |
Here’s what the new footage will include in this weekend’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’ rerelease
Tickets started going on sale Monday night for this weekend's re-release of Avengers: Endgame, which is heading back into theaters for a brief run that gives the Marvel superhero epic a fighting chance to finally surpass Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all time.
But that's not the only reason the re-release of the roughly three-hour blockbuster has been making headlines. We already knew we were in for roughly six minutes of previously never-before-seen-footage in this new version of the...
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CNET News |
What is a black hole? The universe's dark, mysterious monsters - CNET
There's only one real image of a black hole, but there are a whole lot of pictures showing us what they do and what they might look like.
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Reuters: Technology News |
Hackers hit global telcos in espionage campaign: cyber research firm
Hackers have broken into the systems of more than a dozen global telecoms companies and taken large amounts of personal and corporate data, researchers from a cyber security company said on Tuesday, identifying links to previous Chinese cyber-espionage campaigns.
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Guru3d Latest Headlines |
Introduction To Montech - Enters the Western Market With PC Cases and Power Supplies
MONTECH is a brand that originally founded in 2016. The brand itself has been quite successful in Asia market. Now it is looking to expand to western countries. Their group includes experienced engine...
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Digitimes |
Taiwan flexible PCB firms have limited order visibility
Zhen Ding Technology and Flexium Interconnect, both of which are reportedly among the flexible PCB suppliers of Apple, see low order visibility, according to industry sources.
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Reuters: Technology News |
Nokia not immune to impact of trade war uncertainty, says its China president
Finland's Nokia Oyj is not immune from the trade war between the United States and China which has caused economic uncertainty, the company's Greater China president said on Tuesday.
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Digitimes |
Tyntek defers trial production of 6-inch epitaxial wafers at new plant
Tyntek originally planned to start production of 6-inch epitaxial wafers for making Si-based sensor chips at a new factory in second-quarter 2019, but due to delay in construction of the factory, will begin trial production in third-quarter 2019 and volume production in 2020, according to the company.
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Engadget |
Apple's Seattle workforce will quintuple by 2024
Apple is doubling down on the number of employees it plans on hiring in its new Seattle site. The company announced at a Monday news conference that it would be bringing 2,000 jobs to the city by 2024 -- twice the number it initially planned. The new...
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SlashGear |
postmarketOS now supports 139 abandoned phones and tablets
Android has the lion’s share of the smartphone market partly because of the wide variety of devices available and the wide range of prices they carry. There may also be one other factor influencing those numbers: early obsolescence of devices. Android phones are guaranteed two to three years of software updates and that is if they’re lucky. If you have … Continue reading
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Digitimes |
Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER formulate new battery design
Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and AMBER, the SFI Center for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research hosted at Trinity College Dublin, have announced they have created a new formula for battery composition that makes batteries more powerful by packing 2.5 times the battery life than anything currently on the market.
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Hacker News |
Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks
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Digital Trends |
The Dell G5587 Nvidia GTX 1060 gaming laptop just dropped to $799 at Walmart
Gone are the days when you had to spend a grand or more to get a great gaming laptop. PC makers like Dell are cranking out some excellent and affordable machines today like the Dell G5587, which is on sale right now for just $799.
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Hacker News |
Ask HN: US government funds a lot of tech research, why don't startups use it?
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Digitimes |
PCB firms positive about demand from networking device segment in 2H19
Despite growing economic uncertainty triggered by the US-China trade dispute, most Taiwan-based PCB makers still expect demand for rigid PCBs for networking device applications, particularly for switch and router products, to remain robust in the second half of 2019, according to industry sources.
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Boy Genius Report |
Southwest’s just-announced fall fare sale has some great deals, with tickets as low as $49
We’re barely into summer, which means most of you probably aren’t already looking ahead to the latter part of the year yet or to the travel plans you may or may not pursue once the weather gets cool. That is, unless you’re eager to snatch up a discounted fare early, in which case a number of carriers are already stepping up to offer a plethora of discounts to make the dog days of summer a little more bearable.
Southwest is the latest, with its unveiling on Monday of a fall fare sale that ...
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Slashdot |
US Senators Want Social Media Firms To Tell Users How Much Their Data Is Worth
An anonymous reader shares a report from CNBC: A bipartisan team of senators introduced a bill Monday to require social media companies to disclose more information about the data they collect and monetize from their consumers. The Dashboard Act, which stands for Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight And Regulations on Data, aims to help consumers understand the price of using social media services that are free on face value. The bill seeks to require "commercial data operat...
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GeekWire |
Amazon Web Services rolls out Control Tower and Security Hub, courting big business customers
After seven months in preview, Amazon Web Services on Monday night announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub, aiming to make it easier for corporate customers to set up, secure and monitor cloud environments. Unveiled at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last year, the new services are part of a broader effort by the public cloud leader to lower the barriers to entry for large businesses that want to shift to the cloud, and to reduce the friction for existing business...
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Resources | ZDNet |
Singtel launches digital self-registration for prepaid mobile customers
It also launched digital self-registration for its e-wallet platform Dash.
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Hacker News |
5nm vs. 3nm
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SlashGear |
Chrome OS will show Android cloud storage apps in Files app
From the very beginning, Chrome OS and Chromebooks were envisioned to be cloud-centric, which is why the early models had very measly internal storage. It may have been a bit ahead of its time and Chromebook makers eventually crammed more gigabytes inside devices. Fast-forward a few years later, cloud storage has become a critical piece of modern workers’ lives and … Continue reading
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Neowin |
Huawei's research firm, Futurewei, has sandboxed itself from parent company
Huawei's research and development arm, Futurewei, has sandboxed itself from Huawei in a bid to mitigate the damaging effects of the U.S. government's actions against the Chinese phone maker. Read more...
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Wired Top Stories |
A Likely Chinese Hacker Crew Targeted 10 Phone Carriers to Steal Metadata
In one case, they stole the location and call record data of 20 specific individuals.
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Digitimes |
NAND flash and LPDDR chipmakers dealing with inventory digestion
NAND flash and low-power DDR chip suppliers continue to digest excess inventory which may indicate a disappointing second half of 2019 facing the memory sector, according to industry sources.
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Hacker News |
FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China
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Hacker News |
Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts
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CNET News |
Hackers hit over a dozen mobile carriers and could shut down networks, researchers find - CNET
“Hacking a company that has mountains of data that is always updating is the holy grail for an intelligence agency.”
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Boy Genius Report |
Watch SpaceX launch its Falcon Heavy rocket live right here
After a stellar start to 2019, SpaceX's string of good fortune came to a halt when its Crew Dragon capsule exploded during a recent static fire test. The investigation into what caused the "anomaly" is still ongoing, but the show must go on, and the company is set to launch its Falcon Heavy tonight for only the third time ever.
The launch is a late one, with the launch window opening at 11:30 p.m. EDT, but since this is SpaceX's biggest, most powerful rocket — and since it's only been launche...
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Digital Trends |
Google Pixel 3 and 3 XL smartphones get price cuts ahead of Amazon Prime Day
American software titan Google has entered the mobile game in a big way with its excellent Pixel devices, and the third-gen Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL can both be had at nice discounts right now from Amazon.
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Neowin |
KitchenAid SmartOven+ boasts digital assistant and smartphone app integrations
Unveiled at CES 2019, KitchenAid's new SmartOven+ is now available for purchase from $3,199, featuring Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant integration, powered attachments, and mobile app connectivity. Read more...
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Engadget |
Watch SpaceX attempt a 'most challenging' Falcon Heavy launch at 2:30 AM ET
Last year SpaceX launched its massive Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, but the company describes tonight's STP-2 mission as one of the "most challenging" launches in its history. It's also the first Falcon Heavy launch to reuse side boosters,...
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Hacker News |
Sid: A framework for building computer system simulations (2002)
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Techradar - All the la... |
Telstra has massively overhauled its phone plans – no more contracts or leasing
Telstra's mobile and data-only plans have been re-shaped entirely, replacing the entire range with just four plans.
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Techdirt |
Interior Department Putting Even More Effort Into Dodging FOIA Request
The Department of the Interior is still trying to remove the word "freedom" from "Freedom of Information Act." The first step is removing the word "information."Earlier this year, the DOI tried to sneak past a rewrite of FOIA by hiding a request in the federal register. It would only apply to the DOI, hence the lack of legislative noise or heads up to the public. Under the guise of "ensuring compliance" with the law, the DOI wanted the power to unilaterally reject any request it found "burden...
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Digitimes |
The future of machine economy: Q&A with IOTA foundation co-founder Dominik Schiener and BiiLabs CEO Lman Chu
IOTA Foundation, a German blockchain NPO, announced on May 17 that it is setting aside US$2 million to set up an IOTA Ecosystem Fund to support developers. The announcement has caught much attention in the blockchain community, but not too many are aware that IOTA Foundation is also building its first Asia outpost in Taiwan.
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SlashGear |
Leica M-E (Typ 240) launched as a budget-friendly rangefinder
Contrary to popular notion, cameras haven’t gone extinct thanks to smartphones. Many have become cheaper while others have started to offer more features at the starting level. Others, however, continue to bank on their reputation and the quality expected from it and keep prices high, even for entry-level cameras. The new Leica M-E (Typ 240) tries to buck the latter … Continue reading
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BleepingComputer.com |
Windows 10 USB-C Bug Can Cause OS Shutdowns to be Slower
Microsoft has announced that a bug in the Windows 10 1809 USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface (UCSI) software implementation can cause the operating system to shut down slower under certain situations. [...]
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AppleInsider |
iOS 13 could add support for Hong Kong's Octopus transit card
Lines of code discovered on a public Apple services content server reference iOS 13 support for Hong Kong's Octopus, suggesting the widely used touchless payment system could arrive on iPhone this fall.
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CNET News |
The best July 4 sales of 2019 - CNET
Celebrate Independence Day with family, friends, games and, of course, deals.
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SlashGear |
Galaxy Note 10 won’t be affected by Galaxy Fold when and if it launches
The Galaxy Note 10 is expected to launch in less than two months but that isn’t the only Samsung phone that has yet to hit the markets. Now more than a month or two late, the ill-fated Galaxy Fold has yet to see the light of day on retail shelves. Word on the foldable phone’s launch have flip-flopped depending on … Continue reading
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Slashdot |
Google's New Media Literacy Program Teaches Kids How To Spot Disinformation, Fake News
Google announced this morning it's expanding its two-year-old digital safety and citizenship curriculum for children, "Be Internet Awesome," to now include media literacy -- specifically, the ability to identify so-called "fake news" and other false content. "The company is launching six new media literacy activities for the curriculum that will help teach kids things like how to avoid a phishing attack, what bots are, how to verify that information is credible, how to evaluate sources, how to i...
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Engadget |
New York City is the first new 'Hitman 2' location
Hitman 2 has had the same locations since launch -- you could take on new targets, of course, but the missions always had to take place in the same environments. You'll have some variety very shortly, though. IO is giving Expansion Pass holders "Th...
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CNET News |
Women in entertainment, tech tell young girls: You don't have to be perfect - CNET
Country singer Trisha Yearwood, actress Rebecca Covington Webber and other professionals shared their advice at Zynga's Women in Entertainment panel.
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9to5Mac |
How to install the iOS 13 public beta on your iPhone
Apple today surprisingly released the first public beta of iOS 13 following just three weeks of developer beta testing. Apple initially said the public beta would be available in July, but nonetheless, here it is. Read on for instructions on how to install the iOS 13 public beta.
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The post How to install the iOS 13 public beta on your iPhone appeared first on 9to5Mac.
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TechCrunch |
iPadOS preview
Microsoft drew a line in the sand with Windows 10, presenting an operating system designed for both PCs and tablets alike. The move fostered hardware designers to go all in on convertibles — devices that performed double duty as laptops or slates, with adjustable keyboards to match. For most of its history, the iPad has […]
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Digitimes |
Taiwan May manufacturing production index down on year
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 108.12 for May 2019, increasing 3.28% sequentially but decreasing 3.01% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
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Boy Genius Report |
‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ couldn’t match the early success of ‘Pokemon Go’
After launching a day early in the US, the new AR-based mobile game from Niantic that draws from the magical world of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter does an admirable job of following up the company's previous smash hit mobile game, Pokemon Go.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is now available to download and play in 130 countries, and it's off to a pretty good start, at least judging by the critical reaction which has largely praised how well the game incorporates the use of augmented reality.
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Hacker News |
China’s Biggest Startups Ditch Oracle and IBM for Home-Made Tech
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Resources | ZDNet |
LG and SK Telecom to co-develop 5G robots
LG Electronics and SK Telecom will co-develop autonomous robots that use a 5G Mobile Edge Computing-based cloud platform.
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GeekWire |
That burst of Martian methane is long gone, but mystery of life on Mars remains
BELLEVUE, Wash. — NASA says the record-setting belch of Martian methane that its Curiosity rover detected last week has faded away, leaving some big questions hanging in the air: Where did the gas come from, and what were its origins? Much of the methane on Earth is produce biologically, from sources ranging from microbes to the digestive tracts of cows and humans. But methane can also be produced through geological, completely non-biological processes. For example, methane makes up about 5 pe...
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Amazon Prime Day 2019: Everything you need to know about Amazon's shopping extravaganza
Prime Day, Amazon’s summer shopping event, should be back soon for a fifth year. We've yet to hear definitive details about time and date, but if traditional holds, we'll hear an announcement by early next week.If you still haven't checked out Prime Day, it may sound like an overhyped "Black Friday in July" sale. But while the company did fall flat in its first year with a crop of lackluster deals, the last three years featured a selection of genuinely good tech bargains.We have to sit tight f...
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Slashdot |
Apple Cites Irrelevant Spotify Subscription Stats In New Antitrust Defense
In response to Spotify's antitrust complaint, Apple claims that Spotify has greatly exaggerated how much money is being taken by the App Store. "Apple says that it's currently taking a 15 percent cut of subscription fees for around 680,000 Spotify subscribers, representing 0.5 percent of Spotify's total subscribers, and that Spotify is not paying a 30 percent cut on anything," reports The Verge, citing Der Spiegel. From the report: The takeaway message is supposed to be that Spotify is blowing i...
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Digital Trends |
Best sellers from last year’s Amazon Prime Day and what to expect in 2019
Amazon Prime Day 2019 is looming over the horizon, and right now is a great time to look back at last year's most popular deals to get a decent idea of what to expect in 2019. Take a look at our predictions.
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Android Police - Andro... |
Google Drive on the web adds offline saving for all files
You've always been able to access Google Drive files offline with the official 'Backup & Sync' desktop client, but given how terrible that application is, it's nice to see the web app get similar functionality. Google added the ability to mark Docs files for offline access (and edit them offline) earlier this year, but now you can save any Drive file.
"You can already make Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files available offline," the company wrote in a blog post. Read MoreGoogle Drive on the...
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Slashdot |
Small Slug Blamed For Power Failure On Japan's High-Speed Rail Network
Last month, Japan's high-speed rail network suffered a massive power outage that cancelled a total of 26 trains and delayed an estimated 12,000 passengers. The cause of the outage? A single, small slug. CNN reports: During a later inspection of the network's electrical equipment, the company's engineers discovered a dead slug, measuring about 2 to 3 centimeters (0.7 to 1.1 inches) long. According to a company spokesman, the slug had burned to death after touching an electrical cable leading to t...
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Hacker News |
The BS-Industrial Complex of Phony A.I
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Ars Technica |
Amazon takes on TCL’s Roku TV with low-cost HDR Fire TV television
New Toshiba models offer a cheap choice for HDR on Fire TV displays.
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Digital Trends |
Best Prime Day headphone deals: What we expect from Amazon in 2019
Solitude doesn't come cheap, but Amazon has something up its sleeve that will make it a tad more affordable: Prime Day. That's right — the retailer's discounting top-rated headphones for its online shopping bonanza.
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SlashGear |
OPPO teases in-screen front camera for this week’s big event
“How can front cameras evolve when the full screen era comes?” That is the question that OPPO asked no one in particular over on Weibo. Over the years, it has tried different ways of answering that, from rotating cameras to elevating ones. This week, the Chinese OEM is going to attempt what is probably the most daring and riskiest design … Continue reading
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Reuters: Technology News |
FedEx sues U.S. government over 'impossible' task of policing exports to China
U.S. parcel delivery firm FedEx Corp on Monday sued the U.S. government, saying it should not be held liable if it inadvertently shipped products that violated a Trump administration ban on exports to some Chinese companies.
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Boy Genius Report |
Huawei’s foldable phone will ship with Android, despite US ban
We've had two foldable phone reveals already this year, but you still can't buy either model in stores.
Samsung's Galaxy Fold was recalled for repairs after early reviewers discovered that the foldable screen can be rendered useless with relative ease. Huawei's Mate X was just postponed to September, and we thought at the time the Galaxy Fold's fate was to blame for the delay. However, we have more details about the Mate X, and it looks like the phone will launch on time, running the Android ve...
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VentureBeat |
Huawei’s U.S. research arm Futurewei attempts to separate its identity
The U.S.-based research arm of China’s Huawei -- Futurewei -- has moved to separate its operations from its corporate parent.
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CNET News |
NASA confirms Curiosity rover's surprising Mars methane discovery - CNET
High methane levels detected by the rover hinted at the possibility of life but follow up experiments show it was a transient plume.
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Business Insider |
The smartphone camera could become the new way consumers find products online
This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here.
The smartphone is getting smarter as tech and internet companies inject increasingly sophisticated computer vision and object recognition functions into their hardware and software. The ability to “understand” what the user is pointing their mobile camera at and “read” the image has opened the door for visual ...
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Digital Trends |
Adonit Pro 4 impressions: A Basic But Affordable Stylus
For casual note takers and sketch artists, the Adonit Pro 4 stylus is a low-maintenance, low-cost device for people just getting started with using a conductive pen on their smartphone or tablet.
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Mashable! |
Microsoft's foldable Surface could support Android apps
`````````Microsoft's next Surface could be unlike any other, and not just because it will be foldable.
A new report in Forbes reveals more details about the rumored device, and it sounds like the next-generation Surface will be a serious departure from previous versions of the product. The report, which was based off a market research firm's "supply chain sources," claims that the fold-up Surface will have dual 9-inch displays, LTE or possibly 5G support, and will launch in the first half of 202...
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The Next Web |
You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald
Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, you’re gone. Unless you’re a member of the r/TheDonald subreddit, in which case the rules don’t apply to you. The past 24 hours has seen a surge in posts on r/TheDonald calling for citizen violence over the current political kerfuffle in...
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Business Insider |
Google is warning employees who want to march with the company at San Francisco's Pride parade that they're not allowed to protest YouTube’s LGBTQ+ policies (GOOG, GOOGL)
Google employees planning on marching with the company at this weekend's San Francisco Pride parade have been warned that protesting against YouTube's LGBTQ+ policies would be a violation of company policy.
The confirmation of Google's stance came by way of an email exchange between a leader of the Gayglers, an internal LGBTQ+ employee group, and the company's Global LGBTQ+ Community Inclusion Lead.
A Google spokesperson confirmed with Business Insider on Monday that employees w...
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Slashdot |
Scientists Discover a New Way To Provide Plants the Nutrients They Need To Thrive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a new method for delivering key nutrients to plant roots -- without having to ensure they're present in the soil where the plants are growing. This method, described by researchers in detail in a new academic paper, would manage to improve efficiency to nearly 100% absorption of nutrients and pesticides delivered as nanoparticles (particles smaller than 50 nanometers across -- a human h...
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SlashGear |
7-Eleven now delivers snacks to parks and other public places
While Amazon cooks up drone-based deliveries and college campuses roll out autonomous snackbots, convenience store chain 7-Eleven has introduced its own unique twist on product deliveries: getting your order in public places. Under the new option, customers can order items from the nearest 7-Eleven and have them delivered to a park, beach, or other public places. Delivery services are notoriously … Continue reading
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Engadget |
Leica's new 'entry' M rangefinder camera costs $3,995
Good news: Leica just made its M-series cameras more accessible... relatively speaking. The company has introduced an M-E (Typ 240) model that preserves the compact rangefinder design and a 24-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor, but at a slightly easi...
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Digg Top Stories |
The 'Dusty Stick' Is The Best Slack Emoji That Nobody Uses
What does it mean? Where did it come from? And why isn't everyone as obsessed with it as we are?
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Digg Top Stories |
Did Neanderthals Catch And Kill Golden Eagles For Their Feathers And Talons?
New evidence suggests that the ancient hominids held raptors in high esteem — and might have even passed that practice to us.
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Digg Top Stories |
Everglades Wildfire, Sparked By Lightning, Burns 17,000 Acres
A fire ignited by lightning has burned 17,000 acres in the Everglades, pumping billows of smoke across western Broward County and bringing warnings about breathing problems for South Florida residents.
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Digg Top Stories |
The Difference Between Bernie Sanders's And Elizabeth Warren's Student Debt Plans
The Vermont senator's once-fringe ideas about student debt reform are now part of the Democratic mainstream.
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Mashable! |
Everything we learned about computer viruses from '90s films
If you know how to protect your mainframe from the backdoor trojan worm that’s duplicated the virus code malware drive in the reboot server, uh, code, then this article isn’t for you. If it sounds made up and like a movie script from the '90s, then keep reading unless you want your identity stolen and used on the dark web to buy caviar and rhino horn.
Unless you can type as well as the guy below (a government official in the original 1995 film Ghost in the Shell), or you've already g...
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Android Police - Andro... |
JBL's massive PartyBox 200 speaker is marked down to $330 ($50 off)
You may already own a Bluetooth speaker or two, but can it plug into a guitar, be used with a mic for karaoke, and wake up your neighbors a few doors down? The JBL PartyBox 200 sure can, and it's currently $50 off at various retailers.
JBL markets the PartyBox 200 as a party speaker, and with different "light show" modes, 2x 6.5" woofers, and 3x 2.25" tweeters, I can see this 33 lb monstrosity filling up a room with music — it's rated for up to 120W of output. Read MoreJBL's massive Part...
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