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Engadget |
What's coming to Netflix in March: 'Triple Frontier' and 'Arrested Development'
If you'd like to continue staying in on the weekends before spring fully arrives, Netflix has got you covered. The streaming service is adding a robust list of new original films, series and documentaries, as well as licensed content, for March. Ben...
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Hacker News |
Play.js: The Node.js and React Native IDE for iPhone and iPad
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TechCrunch |
Spotinst announces strategic partnership with AWS
Spotinst, the startup that helps customers automate selecting the cheapest set of resources to complete a job, announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services today, joining the AWS Partner Network (APN) Global Startups program. Under the agreement, Amazon will help with Spotinst’s go-to-market efforts, bringing their considerable financial and sales and marketing resources to […]
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TG Daily |
Smart Home Tech of 2019 That Changes How We Interact with Our Homes
Smart Home Tech of 2019 That Changes How We Interact with Our Homes
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Boing Boing |
This password manager maximizes security on every website
Use a single password for every website, and you're compromising your security. Use a different one each time, and you're bound to lose track of them. The solution? RoboForm Everywhere, a catch-all tool that will not only manage the passwords on every site you visit but generate better ones.
As a simple password database, it's comprehensive enough for even the most forgetful online citizen. It saves and protects log-in data from any site with AES 256-bit encryption, and can even encrypt text not...
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Gigaom |
Voices in AI – Episode 80: A Conversation with Charlie Burgoyne
About this Episode Episode 80 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Charlie Burgoyne discussing the difficulty of defining AI…
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Boing Boing |
Amelia Foxtrot is an olde tyme-y DJ who spins on antique phonographs
There are old-school DJs and then there's DJ Amelia Foxtrot of Austin Phonograph Co. in Texas. Her turntables are antique hand-cranked phonographs and her records are scratchy-sounding 78s.
Of course, I was immediately charmed by all of this. I reached out to her and she shared:
I've been doing phonograph DJ work for 7 years. I started in 2012 because I wanted to buy a phonograph. Being an entrepreneur at heart, I thought if I created a business DJing with it, my hobby would fund itself. And I...
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Digital Trends |
Sony partnership with Light aims to take smartphone photography to new heights
Smartphone photography is in its ascendancy, and a new partnership between Light and Sony hopes to lift it to new heights through the development of multi-image sensor solutions for smartphones. We spoke to Light to find out more.
The post Sony partnership with Light aims to take smartphone photography to new heights appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Ars Technica |
Guidemaster: The least-awful Android phones
Over 400 Android devices were released last year. Here are the good ones.
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Digital Trends |
Charging via USB-C for laptops: Here’s what you need to know
Charging via USB-C is a great way to power up your laptop. It only takes one cable and you can use the same one for data as well as power -- perfect for new devices with limited port options.
The post Charging via USB-C for laptops: Here’s what you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends.
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CNET News |
Galaxy Fold outdoes the iPhone XS. Here's why you still won't buy one - CNET
Commentary: Unless you're crazy rich and have phones to spare, the foldable device may not be for you.
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CNET News |
Bosch dishwashers turn up the heat for CrystalDry dishes - CNET
Bosch's latest models focus on making your dishes bone dry when the cycle completes.
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MakeUseOf |
8 Things to Know About the Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, and S10 5G
The time leading up to the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S10 was plagued with leaks, leaving little mystery around the phone and its features. However, Samsung has officially announced its newest range of phones. Here’s everything you should know about the smartphone giant’s 2019 flagship devices. 1. The Specs for Galaxy S10 Phones The 2019 launch of the Galaxy S series flagships is the first time that Samsung has launched four devices, instead of two, as part of its flagship range. A...
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Wired Top Stories |
Instacart Delivers Groceries, but Detaches Us From Our Food
The less we touch our food, the further we get away from its significance.
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Slashdot |
Montana Legislator Introduces Bills To Give His State His Own Science
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The legislator in question is Republican Joe Read, who represents an area north of Missoula, home of many fine scientists at the University of Montana. Read has eight bills under consideration in the current session of the legislature, and two of those focus on climate change. One of them focuses on his state's role in any greenhouse gas regulatory program that would be instituted under a future president. Read is apparently unaware of past ...
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
The Full Nerd ep. 85: Is it RTX's time finally? Intel to KFC chips and Ryzen 3000 here by July
With Direct Ray Tracing now enabled in Metro Exodus and DLSS support pushed out for Battlefield V, is Nvidia's GeForce RTX series of GPUs finally "winning?" That's just the first thing the Full Nerd crew talks about.Next order of business was Intel's leaked 9th gen KFC chip, leaked laptop 9th-gen chips, and a Core i9 so hard to get—even OEMs have to enter an auction to get one.You can witness it all in the video embedded above. You can also watch The Full Nerd episode 85 on YouTube (subscrib...
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AnandTech |
Best SSDs: Q1 2019
The unsung hero of PC performance, these days it’s often storage that makes the difference between a fast, responsive PC and something that feels like less. A processor can only work as quickly as it can be fed data, and this is where a good solid state drive can help even a slow system become faster. Whether it’s an upgrade for an older system still packing a hard drive, or building out a new system from scratch, picking the right SSD is one of the more important decisions to make i...
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Wired Top Stories |
I Stopped Using Exclamation Points and Lost All My Friends
At the same time, I found a better way to make a point.
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The Verge - All Posts |
The Galaxy Fold makes no sense as a consumer device yet
Nice technical showcase, Samsung
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Guru3d Latest Headlines |
Review: Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4 memory (32GB / 3600MHz) - Next level Easthetics
Corsair outs a new Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4 memory kit. Not only do these puppies look awesome, but they are also properly specced as well. We received a 4x8GB DDR4 3600MHz CAS 16 DRAM kit from Cor...
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Digg Top Stories |
Oh God, This Snake With A Magpie In Its Grip Is Absolutely Horrifying
We don't know whether to fear it or to admire it for its killing efficiency.
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Digg Top Stories |
There's Only One 'Game Of Thrones' Fan Theory That Matters Anymore
The show may be drawing to a bombastic conclusion, and its famously spread out cast of characters will only continue to aggregate, but after seven seasons of easter eggs and mysteries, there is still room for surprises.
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Digg Top Stories |
The People Who Love Meetings Are The Managers Who Run Them
If you're a manager, dear reader, the odds that your team eagerly anticipates your meetings are low. But don't blame yourself entirely.
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Digg Top Stories |
Man Talks About The Worst Nightmare He Had When He Was In A Coma
The mind is a terrifying thing, and Robert Mobley's mind was turned against him for a very long time. This story is hard to listen to, but at a point it's also impossible to turn away from.
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Digg Top Stories |
Interview With The Amazon Slayer
The nomination of Queens State Senator Mike Gianaris to a post with veto power spelled the beginning of the end for HQ2. His next target: New York's vast system of corporate tax breaks.
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Digg Top Stories |
Bored Pilot Writes 'I'm Bored' And Draws Two Dicks In The Sky
A pilot based in Adelaide, Australia, took an artistically inspired flight path on Tuesday morning.
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Digg Top Stories |
Jussie Smollett Arrested And Faces A Felony Charge For Allegedly Filing False Police Report
In the weeks since the alleged attack on the "Empire" actor first made headlines, the narrative has unraveled with several twists, transforming him from a victim to a suspect in three weeks.
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Digg Top Stories |
'Cowboy Pinball' Game At Rodeo Goes Completely Wrong
The objective of the game is to stand in your designated circle and pull a $100 bill off the bull, and it's apparently a common rodeo game. Things didn't go so well this time, with multiple people tossed into the air and injured.
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The Register |
There's no 'My' in Office, Microsoft insists with new productivity hub
If you like that then you'll just LOVE our 365 range
Microsoft has updated the My Office app and would like to remind users that there's a free, online version of the suite.…
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Mashable! |
The best Samsung Galaxy S10 pre-order deals from Mobiles.co.uk
Just in case you haven't checked you phone, on been online, or talked to another human being lately, you should know that Samsung has launched a new line of premium smartphones under the name Galaxy S10.
There are four devices included in the range: the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10e, and Galaxy S10 5G. Featuring the all-new Dynamic AMOLED display, next-generation camera, and intelligent performance, the Galaxy S10 line is causing a stir in the tech world.
It's not surprising that there is...
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Boing Boing |
Tucker Carlson thought anti-elite historian would be an easy interview, but ended up telling him "go fuck yourself"
You may have seen the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman in a viral video last month, in which he appeared on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos and berated the attendees for their tax-evasion and insisted that no amount of philanthropy can make up for starving the state of the money it needs to provide for everyone under democratic guidance.
The net-fame earned Bregman an invitation to appear on Tucker Carlson's show, presumably as part of the wave of extremely selective right-wing inte...
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Boy Genius Report |
Today is your last day to get Anker’s best fast wireless charger at its lowest price ever
If you have an iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy phone, or any other recent Android handset with face unlock features, listen up. Also, if you plan to buy any of Samsung's brand new Galaxy S10 handset, you had better pay attention. The Anker PowerWave 10W Fast Wireless Charger is perfect for any phone with face unlock, because it holds your phone upright so it can see your face and unlock without you even touching it each time new notifications arrive. It's also made ...
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Hacker News |
Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
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The Huffington Post |
Trump’s 2020 Challengers Peer Through Oval Office Window On New Time Cover
Can you name them all?
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Boing Boing |
Baseball catcher Moe Berg became a spy during World War II
Moe Berg earned his reputation as the brainiest man in baseball -- he had two Ivy League degrees and studied at the Sorbonne. But when World War II broke out he found an unlikely second career, as a spy trying to prevent the Nazis from getting an atomic bomb. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow Berg's enigmatic life and its strange conclusion.
We'll also consider the value of stripes and puzzle over a fateful accident.
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MacRumors |
Apple Says European Developers Have Earned Over $25 Billion From App Store
Apple Music vice president Oliver Schusser spoke with German blog Macerkopf this week, revealing that European developers have now earned over $25 billion from the App Store since its inception in 2008.
Schusser also noted that customers have downloaded and streamed over 50 billion episodes of 650,000 active shows on Apple Podcasts.Apple provided MacRumors with Schusser's full remarks in English:Our services division which includes the content stores, Apple Pay and iCloud storage is...
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Neowin |
Meizu Note 9 to debut in China on March 6, likely to boast a 48MP camera
Chinese electronics company Meizu has confirmed today that it will be announcing the Meizu Note 9 on March 6 in China. The phone is said to be powered by a Snapdragon 675 SoC and boast a 48MP camera. Read more...
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Hacker News |
Show HN: ICONSVG – Customize and Generate Common SVG Icons
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Welcome to Fudzilla |
OnePlus 5G with Snapdragon 855 arrives in Q2 19
On Finnish carrier Elisa
Finland is the land of Nokia and Nokia is a big player in the 5G infrastructure. This is why Finnish telecommunication carrier Elisa plans to launch a OnePlus 5G enabled device in the second quarter of 2019.
It is expected that OnePlus might talk a bit about its 5G device and a successor of OnePlus 6T following next Monday at the start of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. From what we know from the Qualcomm side, Alex Katouzian SVP at Qualcomm confirmed back in De...
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Digital Trends |
This new all-in-one flashlight is a power bank, lighter, and screwdriver
The Pyyros modular flashlight can perform numerous field tasks, from hammering to starting fires. If you back it on Kickstarter now, you can score some savings on this innovative flashlight and multi-tool, but act fast: This early-bird pricing is only available for a short time.
The post This new all-in-one flashlight is a power bank, lighter, and screwdriver appeared first on Digital Trends.
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Techradar - All the la... |
From VOOC to Super VOOC – OPPO heralds a fast charge revolution
OPPO’s VOOC Flash Charge is the world’s fastest and safest charging used by more than 100 million smartphones
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Resources | ZDNet |
Windows 10's new free Office app: Microsoft Store PWA now open to all
Office progressive web app, or PWA, replaces the pre-installed MyOffice app.
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Reuters: Technology News |
South Korea's Netmarble, Kakao, MBK bid for Nexon parent: report
South Korean tech firms Netmarble and Kakao and private equity fund MBK Partners have submitted initial bids to buy the parent of gaming firm Nexon, the Seoul Economic Daily said.
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Boing Boing |
As sports company abandons support for "smart" basketball, Nike pushes a software update that bricks its self-tying shoes
Wilson X was the sports manufacturer's entry into the market for smart basketballs, but maintaining the app that made sense of the telemetry from your sensor-equipped roundball was expensive and stupid and so the Wilson X app is no more, and the "B" in "B-ball" stands for "bricked."
But wait, there's more! If you shelled out $350 for Nike's self-tying shoes, you got burned this week when Nike updated its shoe-tying app leaving it unable to pair with the shoes' "advanced power-lacing system" ...
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Digital Trends |
Apple opens up about its self-driving car program in letter to NHTSA
Apple has traditionally kept details about its self-driving car technology under wraps, but it has revealed details about the program in a rare instance of openness. The company takes safety seriously.
The post Apple opens up about its self-driving car program in letter to NHTSA appeared first on Digital Trends.
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The Next Web |
Elon Musk thinks Bitcoin is ‘brilliant’ — but only owns 0.25 BTC
Despite Elon Musk being somewhat of an unofficial poster boy for cryptocurrency, it turns out he actually doesn’t hold any – well, aside from 0.25 Bitcoin. The Tesla CEO recently went on record proclaiming Bitcoin is “quite brilliant,” and that “paper money is going away.” It might come as a surprise then to learn that Musk infact doesn’t have any “crypto holdings,” according to a Tweet from earlier today. Just a relatively small amount of Bitcoin. That said, I still only own 0...
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The Guardian |
Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold changes the smartphone game
Folding tablet hybrid shows Asia, not US or Europe, is leading the way in innovationSamsung has placed its stake in the ground with its Galaxy Fold smartphone-tablet folding phone that is spectacular in every way, even in price, and pitches itself years ahead of its arch-rival, Apple.Nearly a decade in the making, everything about the Galaxy Fold shouts next generation. It has a standard 4.6in phone screen on the front, but open it up like a book and you reveal a single large 7.3in screen that l...
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Hacker News |
Elizabeth Holmes' Final Months at Theranos
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TechCrunch |
Even the IAB warned adtech risks EU privacy rules
A privacy complaint targeting the behavioral advertising industry has a new piece of evidence that shows the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) shedding doubt on whether it’s possible to obtain informed consent from web users for the programmatic ad industry’s real-time bidding (RTB) system to broadcast their personal data. The adtech industry functions by harvesting web users’ data, […]
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Engadget |
Varjo's human-eye resolution VR headset costs a mere $6,000
When it comes to virtual reality, achieving human-eye resolution is arguably the main objective -- you want to see things as they would appear in real life, right? In 2017 Finnish company Varjo said it was working on a headset that delivered exactly...
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Mashable! |
These super slow motion close-ups of birds are totally mesmerising
Getting close enough to watch a bird of prey blinking is not an easy thing to achieve. In fact, it's safe to say that, IRL, it would be pretty much impossible.
Luckily, we have The Slow Mo Guys on YouTube to make this gorgeous sight available to us, up close and in super slow motion.
Thanks to their super slow motion shooting, the clip above gives a pretty spectacular view of a golden eagle blinking sideways using its nictitating membrane — a see-through blinking eyelid.
Fascin...
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Digg Top Stories |
How Much Each Extra Bedroom Costs When You're Buying A Home, Charted
What's the average cost difference between a one-bedroom home and a two-bedroom home? Or between a four-bedroom home and a five-bedroom home, for that matter?
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Digg Top Stories |
This Swiss Army Knife Of Chargers Is Perfect For All Devices And 50% Off
Minimize your cable clutter and keep your devices happily charged with this SCOUT Wireless 5,000mAh Portable Charger: it's a massive capacity, multi-function charger that includes a built-in wall charger, built-in cables, quick-charging USB port and intelligent charging technology.
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Digg Top Stories |
Get Up To 30% Off Winter Gloves From Huckberry
The great Huckberry glove sale has begun. Get 30% off select brands, including Hestra and Black Diamond.
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Digg Top Stories |
An Insane Credit Card Offering 0% APR Until March 2020
This jaw-dropping card is offering 0% APR for 14 months and 5% back in rotating categories. Pay no interest until March 2020 and double your cash back.
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Digg Top Stories |
The Race To Make The Warmest Winter Clothes
Why winter coats from Canada Goose and Moncler are ready for the Arctic.
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Techradar - All the la... |
Microsoft is bringing Mixed Reality to phones with a new Hololens mobile app
Smaller businesses will soon be able to use Mixed Reality without the need for a $5,000 headset.
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Hacker News |
A Fairly Fast Fibonacci Function
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SlashGear |
MIT researchers solve decades-old quark quandary
Physicists from MIT have announced that they have discovered the answer to a question that has challenged nuclear physicists for 35 years. That mystery was why do quarks move more slowly inside larger atoms? A quark is a fundamental building block of the universe. Quarks are subatomic particles and are some of the smallest particles we know of, and they … Continue reading
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Boy Genius Report |
10 exciting Galaxy S10 features you won’t find on any iPhone
After months of leaks and rumors that seemingly pulled back the curtain on everything there was to know about Samsung's new flagship phones, the Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and Galaxy S10+ are now official. And as is always the case when it comes to leaks, they never manage to paint a complete picture of unreleased devices that's quite complete. Sure we knew what to expect when it comes to Samsung's completely overhauled designs, and yes we knew about all the key Galaxy S10 specs long before they w...
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AppleInsider |
Goldman Sachs & Apple credit card with added iPhone features about to enter testing
Apple and Goldman Sachs are continuing to work on a project that could result in a jointly-produced credit card, one that offers extra functions in the Wallet app that may help users manage their spending and their accounts more effectively, without requiring a separate card-specific app.
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Hacker News |
From Sudoku Solver to Program Synthesis
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Ars Technica |
Playtime to the max: Snapshots from the 2019 New York Toy Fair
This year's NYTF saw many old toys learn new, high-tech tricks.
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Business Insider |
Here's how Samsung's new $750 Galaxy phone compares to the iPhone XR (AAPL)
Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy S10e, a less expensive version of the Galaxy S10.
The phone is priced similarly to Apple's iPhone XR.
Although the phones fall in the same price range, there are some key differences when it comes to their specifications.
Samsung unveiled a handful of new Galaxy phones on Wednesday, including a less-expensive version of the Galaxy S10 called the Galaxy S10e that competes directly with the iPhone XR.
Like the entry-level option in Apple's newest iPhone lineup, th...
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The Register |
Data breach rumours abound as UK Labour Party locks down access to member databases
Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info
The UK's Labour Party has been forced to lock down access to membership databases and campaign tools over concerns the info was being sucked up by breakaway MPs, in a possible breach of data protection laws.…
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Samsung Galaxy Fit keeps fitness tracking simple
Band on the run
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Techradar - All the la... |
Oscars live stream: how to watch the 2019 Academy Awards online from anywhere
Are you ready to watch them walking the Red Carpet? Discover the winners as they're announced with a 2019 Oscars live stream.
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Resources | ZDNet |
Robots at Work: Meet the non-engineer who automated his small business
Small business owners are creating and customizing their own automation solutions to increase productivity and save money.
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9to5Mac |
With four estimates of Q1 iPhone shipments now out, Gartner is the most pessimistic
Apple didn’t reveal its fiscal Q1 iPhone shipments or sales this time around. We know from its revenue of $84.3B that sales must have been significantly down year-on-year, but we’re dependant on market intelligence companies to provide estimates of the actual numbers for the holiday quarter.
We’ve previously seen estimates from Counterpoint, IDC and Strategy Analytics – and now Gartner has completed the set with the most pessimistic view of the four …
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9to5Mac |
WSJ: Joint Apple and Goldman Sachs credit card launching later this year, enables special features with Wallet app
Apple and Goldman Sachs are readying a joint credit card, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new credit card will integrate with the Apple Wallet app on the iPhone to offer special features like the ability to set spending goals and track purchase rewards. The card would purportedly offer rewards like 2% cashback, and maybe more when buying Apple gear.
The report says the new card will be tested with employees in the next month or so with a launch later in the year. The Wallet app has und...
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Hacker News |
PostgreSQL's Explain Analyze Made Readable
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Hacker News |
A Different Kind of Theory of Everything
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News - THE INQUIRER |
Twitter beta makes tweet responses easier to read for dumb people
People: Can we have some abuse policing? Twitter: Here's some colour coded tweets
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The Verge - All Posts |
Zuckerberg to meet UK minister after damning ‘digital gangsters’ report
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will finally meet with a representative of the UK government after a UK parliamentary report this week excoriated the social media site for behaving like “digital gangsters.”
According to The Guardian, the UK’s culture secretary Jeremy Wright has flown out this Thursday to Facebook’s headquarters in California to talk with Zuckerberg in person. The Facebook CEO has refused repeated requests by the UK Parliament to answer questions in person over issues inclu...
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Extremetech |
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold Will Cost Almost $2,000 When It Launches This Spring
The previously teased Galaxy Fold is official, and it's coming this April. You might want to start saving up now, though.
The post Samsung’s Galaxy Fold Will Cost Almost $2,000 When It Launches This Spring appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Techradar - All the la... |
Get almost £350 off a Dell XPS 15 at Currys PC World’s big payday sale
Hard earned cash burning a hole in your pocket? Then a sizeable saving on a Dell XPS 15 might just tempt you…
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Engadget |
The Morning After: Say hello to Samsung's Galaxy Fold
Hey, good morning!
The last 24 hours were filled with new phone announcements, and they weren't just from Samsung. If you were looking for something beyond folding devices, we've got accidental mics in devices that Google forgot about, and we'll sum...
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The Verge - All Posts |
WinRAR patches 19-year-old security vulnerability that put millions at risk
WinRAR has patched a 19-year-old security vulnerability that allowed attackers to extract malicious software to anywhere on your hard drive. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies, who realised that WinRAR’s support for the effectively defunct ACE archive format meant that it was still relying on an insecure and dated DLL file from 2006.
The researchers have compiled a lengthy blog post explaining how they discovered the bug, but a short video tel...
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Hacker News |
Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?
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Resources | ZDNet |
Sony’s future engineers will focus on chips for IoT, automotive technologies
Sony says that a substantial proportion of new hires will focus on image sensor and chip technologies.
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Hacker News |
UI Email Signature Generatorl Released 1.6.0
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The Next Web |
Inside NEO’s plans to get Microsoft .NET devs to build apps on its blockchain
The Bitcoin bear market has battered and bruised a multitude of blockchain startups. It’s also rendered terms like “streamlining,” “restructuring,” and “run out of money, shutting down” all too common. But somehow, a Matrix-themed cryptocurrency, NEO, is hiring. The second iteration of NEO DevCon took place in Seattle over the weekend. The most notable announcement was the opening of a new office in the famously tech-orientated Washington capital. It’s to be spearheaded by John d...
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MacRumors |
Gartner: iPhone Sales Suffered Worst Quarterly Decline for Three Years Over 2018 Holiday Period
Apple recorded its biggest decline in iPhone sales for almost three years over the holiday quarter, according to new market research data by Gartner.
Apple sold 64 million iPhones in the fourth quarter of 2018, down from 73 million in Q4 2017. Those numbers followed a pattern of declining smartphone sales globally in Q4 2018, with growth of just 0.1 percent over the period and 408.4 million units shipped. Despite retaining its second place position with 15.8 per cent market share be...
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Business Insider |
Dublin Airport briefly shut down over a drone sighting at the runway
Dublin Airport was shut down briefly on Thursday because of a drone flying over the airfield.
The airport tweeted at 11:56 a.m. local time saying they had suspended all flights due to a "confirmed sighting of a drone over the airfield."
Eight minutes later they re-opened the runway and flights resumed.
The disruption is the latest in a string of drone sightings causing disruption at major airports.
Gatwick Airport was closed for 32 hours in December 2018. London Heathrow and Dubai airports were ...
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Digital Trends |
The best Google Chrome themes for 2019
Sometimes you just want Chrome to show a little personality and ditch the grayscale for something a little more lively. Lucky for you, we've sorted through the Chrome Web Store to find best Chrome themes available.
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Wired Top Stories |
A 'Smart Wall' Could Spark a New Kind of Border Crisis
A technological barrier might be preferable to a physical one, but it raises civil liberties concerns that are largely absent from the debate.
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MakeUseOf |
The Best USB Car Chargers for Your Next Road Trip
USB car chargers cost very little these days. But that doesn’t mean you should buy just any charger. Whether you’re looking for a USB-C or micro-USB charger, our curated guide will help you find the best. Buying a USB-C car charger is tricky. Not only will many USB-C chargers fail to charge your device at its maximum speed, but some may not charge your device at all. Also, a large number of poorly designed USB-C chargers will destroy your devices. If you aren’t sure whether a c...
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Engadget |
Spotify finally lands on Garmin's VivoActive 3 Music
Some potential buyers might have backed out of buying Garmin's music-focused Vivoactive 3 fitness watch, because it didn't support Spotify when it launched in mid-2018. Now, the wearables maker is finally patching that compatibility hole. The Vivoact...
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Business Insider |
Bloomberg is diving in to the booming alternative-data field with a new product that'll help the market become mainstream
Bloomberg LP is rolling out a new product that will offer its customers access to alternative datasets from more than 20 companies.
The alternative datasets will be hosted not on Bloomberg's main product, the terminal, but instead through its growing enterprise data business.
The alternative data industry has exploded over the past couple of years with new firms offering obscure information to hedge funds seeking a trading edge.
Alternative data is about to be normalized.
Bloomberg LP is the la...
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Wired Top Stories |
Microsoft Wants Rules for Facial Recognition—Just Not These
Microsoft executives have urged lawmakers to set restrictions on the technology, but the company is opposing a Washington state bill that would do just that.
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PCWorld.com - Latest N... |
Four ways Samsung’s Galaxy S10e blows away the iPhone XR (and four ways it doesn’t)
Samsung’s Galaxy S10e is clearly a response to the iPhone XR, Apple’s new lower-cost handset. But how does it stack up?
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Hacker News |
Macrostrat: A Global Geological Map
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The Register |
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of HTTP/2, where a naughty request can send Microsoft's IIS into a spin
It's patching time again for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
Updated Oops! Microsoft has published an advisory on a bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) product that allows a malicious HTTP/2 request to send CPU usage to 100 per cent.…
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TechCrunch |
Alibaba hits the gas on mobility as its bike-sharing service adds carpooling
Carpooling is heralded to be environmentally friendly and money-saving, but in smog-stricken China, the transportation option became a source of public concerns after two female passengers got murdered during their lifts with Didi Chuxing drivers. The ride-hailing app has suspended its Hitch service to this date under government command, and its peers were also directed […]
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Business Insider |
After repeatedly mocking Apple for ditching the iPhone headphone jack, Samsung is doing exactly the same thing
Samsung showed off its highly anticipated Galaxy Fold smartphone on Wednesday.
The phone won't include a headphone jack, The Verge reports.
Samsung previously made fun of Apple for getting rid of the headphone jack on the iPhone.
Samsung's new foldable phone may be able to fold in the middle and possess six cameras (three on the front and three on the back), but it won't have a headphone jack, according to The Verge.
Since 2016, the trend for jack-less phones has grown. Companies including App...
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Neowin |
LG set to “aggressively” expand voice-controlled smart home appliances in 2019
LG has announced an expansion of its smart appliances. The firm currently operates in six markets but wants to expand to a further 21 markets following its most profitable year in the sector. Read more...
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AppleInsider |
Apple has doled out $120 billion to app developers worldwide in 11 years
In the 11 years since Apple first opened the App Store, developers worldwide have received over $120 billion, with European developers collecting just over $25 billion of that.
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Twitch: How Ninja was unseated as most-subscribed streamer
How Ninja has gone from a high of 200,000 Twitch subscribers to around 30,000 in only 10 months.
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Techradar - All the la... |
Best super telephoto zoom lenses 2019: great lenses to get closer to the action
Super telephoto lenses allow you to get up close and personal to a range of subjects.
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SlashGear |
LG G8 ThinQ 3D ToF to be used for gesture control
Just a few days left before its official debut, LG is slowly dropping another breadcrumb leading to the G8 ThinQ. Although it had already revealed it would be using a 3D time of flight or ToF sensor for the upcoming flagship, it is now giving a bit more detail on what the sensor would be capable of. In addition to … Continue reading
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What's coming to Netflix in March: 'Triple Frontier' an...
