Singapore’s parliament has become the latest government to pass laws aimed at curbing the spread of fake news. The Protection of Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill, passed on Wednesday according to the Straits Times, gives Singaporean ministers powers to demand that companies like Facebook and Twitter put fake-news warnings next to posts or take them down …
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Do you know what the most-drunk spirit in the world is? It’s not whiskey, vodka or gin. It’s baijiu. Baijiu is only consumed in China, but that’s enough to make it number 1. In a similar way, Huawei, without any exposure to the US market, is within reach of the global number 1 spot. The company sold 59.1 million phones …
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Three years ago my mum went to South Africa. She was doing the 20-something hour flight alone and figured this was the time to see what the whole “listening to music on your phone” fad was about. I put songs on her iPhone and dug out some earphones. She was immediately struck by the euphoria of mobile music. She spent …
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Remember Snake? It’s back — in Google Maps form! Snake, the iconic Nokia game first introduced on the Nokia 6110 in 1997, has been reimagined for Google Maps in celebration of April Fools’ Day. You can play it on iOS and Android versions of the Google Maps app. Just touch the sidebar option on the left side of the search …
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On Sunday Microsoft quietly made a change to its Surface Book 2 line. An entry-level 13.5-inch model now comes with a quad-core eighth-gen Intel i5 processor. This is a considerable power bump from the existing dual-core seventh-gen Intel i5 CPU but without any raise in price. The upgraded entry-level model starts at $1,499, while the older one has dropped $200 …
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Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Fold, a 4.6-inch phone that can be opened into a 7.3-inch tablet, on Feb. 20. The company was beaten to the punch, though, when Xiaomi showed off its own folding phone in a video a month prior. The Chinese tech company has given us a second teaser for its yet-to-be named phone. A 10-second video was …
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LGBTQ dating app Grindr was bought last year by a Chinese gaming company called Beijing Kunlun. The US government considers the deal a national security risk and is pressuring Kunlun to sell, according to a Reuters report. Kunlun fully acquired the California-based Grindr app in January of last year for an estimated $152 million after buying an initial $93 million …
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It was just days ago that Huawei unveiled its new P30 line of phones in Paris, but the bustling tech giant is already looking forward to September. That’s around the time its next flagship phone, the Mate 30 Pro, will launch, an executive said in Malaysia on Wednesday. The Mate 30 is currently being tested in Huawei’s labs, Huawei Product …
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It’s a chilly winter night in Munich, Germany. I’m alone in an empty hostel dorm, basking in the warmth of the heater and the hostel’s surprising hygiene, trying to watch Mad Men on my MacBook. I say “trying” because this is proving to be a peculiarly difficult task. Watching 50-minute episodes of Mad Men is taking anywhere between one and …
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In February Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Fold, its first foldable phone. It was exciting, but the Fold was only put on display — and not in anyone’s hands. A video on YouTube tech vlog phoneoftime uploaded Tuesday appears to show the foldable device in the hands of a real live person, demonstrating how it transforms from tablet to phone and back again. …
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