Oppo’s Barcelona FC phone is the ultimate soccer swag +11 more See all photos Sometimes jerseys and scarves just aren’t enough to express your fandom. Oppo has unveiled a special Barcelona Football Club edition of its R11 phone. It’s got the same insides as the R11 — a solid Android phone with great dual cameras …
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Between Samsung and Apple, there are a whole bunch of shiny new toys being paraded around this month. September is smartphone Christmas. It’s also like Christmas when it comes to the price tags. Samsung this week released its Galaxy Note 8. I have held one in my hands, and it’s beautiful. I have seen the light. I have also seen …
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Now playing: Watch this: Nokia finally has a flagship Android phone to get excited… 1:43 The Nokia 8 is generating a lot of hype for good reason. The company’s flagship phone has a blazing fast processor, custom camera software and, perhaps most importantly, the Nokia brand name. What it won’t have? American buyers anytime soon. “We are not planning to bring …
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Pros of the OnePlus 5: It’s got a blazing fast processor, dual cameras and a price tag that’s half the size as that of a Samsung Galaxy S8 or iPhone 7 Plus. Cons: It’s hard to get in Australia. The company is now trying to right that wrong. From 29 August, you’ll be able to buy the OnePlus 5 directly from …
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Neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer continues its quest to find a home after having its domain pulled by GoDaddy and Google. The site has moved onto the darknet, which can only be accessed through the Tor browser. A Twitter page associated with the site early Wednesday tweeted a link to its new temporary address. The Daily Stormer, which has been …
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Facebook earlier today began rolling out a series of design updates to its app and website. It says the tweaked look will make your News Feed easier to navigate, but the first thing you’ll probably notice are your friends’ circular display pictures. Goodbye squares, we hardly knew ye. In a Tuesday blog post, Facebook said the goal of the updates …
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The internet gave white nationalists a platform to organize their Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s also giving counter-protesters a way to strip them of anonymity. A Twitter account called Yes, You’re Racist has been naming and shaming people who joined the weekend rally against Charlottesville’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. The rally …
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The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website appeared to be offline late Monday after Google said it would cancel the hate site’s domain registration following its migration from GoDaddy earlier in the day. Attempts to reach the website, which has been called the “top hate site in America,” on the surface web weren’t completed and sometimes hung at a screen from Cloudflare, …
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Apple is reportedly working on a watch able to run off a SIM independent of your phone, but Huawei has beaten them to the punch — at least, if you live in Australia. Huawei’s Watch 2 can run on 4G thanks to a SIM slot in the device, and will launch 16 August, or next Wednesday, Down Under. It lets you receive …
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How effective is tight government censorship if companies aren’t any good at censoring? China on Thursday held a training drill to help internet service providers, including data centres, get better at emergency requests to pull “harmful” content from the net, reports Reuters. The country’s Ministry of Public Security ordered the drill in an attempt to “tackle the problem of smaller …
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