The Google Pixel 4 leaks show no sign of letting up, with the latest being a video from a Vietnamese tech review site. The video, posted to YouTube by ReLab on Thursday, purports to show gaming tests on a demo version of the upcoming phone. “Why do I even call this a gaming phone? Am …
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Apple has hidden a little message for its fans in a short video it posted Tuesday following the unveiling of its iPhone 11 Pro and bigger sibling the 11 Pro Max. The Easter egg was first spotted by a Reddit user, as TechCrunch reported. The video hiding the Easter egg, posted to YouTube by Apple on Tuesday afternoon, condenses the almost two-hour …
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Snapchat and Instagram were both struggling on Monday afternoon, with users unable to send chats. Tests of both apps showed everything else working — on Snapchat you could send snaps and see stories and on Instagram you could view your feed and stories and send pictures. Snapchat confirmed it was completely back online as of around 3:30 p.m. PT. Snapchat …
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A week after a lawsuit was filed by 14 women alleging sexual assault by Lyft drivers, the ride-hailing company has announced smart trip check-in. The new safety feature will predict when a customer needs help by sensing when a ride has “unexplained delays,” Lyft said Tuesday, and will push a notification message to riders and drivers asking if they need …
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Apple’s phone shipments are forecast to continue dropping this year, with market research firm International Data Corporation predicting that 2019 will be “challenging” for the tech giant if it doesn’t introduce a 5G iPhone. But once an iPhone can use the next-gen networks being launched worldwide, shipments will pick up again thanks to Apple’s advantage of better understanding the 5G …
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EA has announced it’s testing its cloud gaming service. EA is focused on making cloud-powered games so they can be played anyplace, anywhere, anytime — and on all devices, EA CTO Ken Moss said in a blog post Monday. EA had first announced the cloud gaming service under the name Project Atlas in November last year, which Moss now says is …
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Huawei unveiled what it called its “new” P30 Pro flagship smartphone on Friday at IFA 2019 in Berlin, but it turns out to be the same P30 Pro handset, just in two new colors. Richard Yu, who’s CEO of Huawei‘s consumer business unit, said the new colors were “inspired by nature.” They are mystic blue, which is supposed to look like …
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US mobile carrier T-Mobile suffered an outage Friday night, with customers on the East Coast unable to make voice calls. Calls immediately disconnected after dialing a number, users said. T-Mobile didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but as of 3:20 p.m. PT, there were around 14,500 reports of the service being out, according to Down Detector. Most of those reports …
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Verizon is launching its new 5G network in NFL stadiums across the nation, with 13 to be live by the start of the 2019-20 football season. The service will be focused on the seated areas but could also be available in and around the stadiums. Verizon said it will bring 5G to more stadiums throughout the NFL’s 100th season. 5G, …
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Apple Music has launched a public beta of the web browser version of the streaming service. It works across all browsers, including Firefox, Chrome and Safari, and on all devices, as reported Thursday by The Verge. With the killing-off of iTunes in the MacOS Catalina update, Apple Music is now the only way to access Apple’s 50 million-song library. Now …
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