Katie Collins

Apple anniversary iPhone may sport curved glass, report says

The 10th anniversary of the iPhone is fast approaching, and Apple reportedly has something very exciting in store to celebrate with. The company is testing a revamped iPhone with an all-screen, curved glass front, according to Bloomberg. Apple is reportedly set to unveil three new iPhones at its annual launch event this fall — two …

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Facebook allows staff to join anti

Facebook won’t penalize employees who take time off on May 1 to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The social network posted a memo on an internal forum on April 14 announcing the policy, which will allow employees to join pro-immigration protests set to take place on International Workers’ Day. It also said it will re-evaluate contracts …

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Facebook drags feet removing pro

Facebook’s moderation system is under fire once again. The Times newspaper conducted an investigation in which a reporter using a fake account pointed out extremist images to the social network, but Facebook failed to remove them, Reuters reported Thursday. The Times reported the presence of images and videos that glorified the Islamic State, praised the recent terrorist attacks in London …

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Google reportedly investing $880M in LG OLED for Pixel phones

Here’s an early clue to what we can expect to see from Google‘s next Pixel phones: flexible OLED displays made by LG. Google is seeking to invest at least 1 trillion won ($880.29 million) in LG‘s display business to help boost its output of OLED screens, according to a report in the Electronic Times on Monday. The tech giant launched …

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Facebook wields new weapon in battle against revenge porn

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook tools aim to combat revenge porn 1:25 Revenge porn is the scourge of the social internet — emotionally distressing at best and a downright life-ruiner at worst. Facebook is stepping up its game when it comes to protecting victims of the practice. The social network announced a new tool on Wednesday that will prevent people …

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Roaming sucks. This Handy travel phone could rescue your bill

Google Maps, online flight check-in, access to TripAdvisor and Yelp on demand — there are a thousand ways the internet makes traveling more convenient and fun. You know what’s not so fun? Roaming bills. It’s a problem Hong Kong-based Tink Labs is trying to solve by putting custom-made phones with free data in hotel rooms across the world for foreign …

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Apple reportedly developing iPhone graphics chips in house

Apple is developing its own graphics processors to be used in future versions of products including the iPhone, said one of its partners on Monday. UK-based Imaginations Technologies currently makes the graphics chips used in the iPhone, but said in a statement that Apple will cease to use its tech in between 15 months and two years time because it …

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Skyscraper pioneer Fazlur Rahman Khan rises in Google Doodle

Google celebrated the 88th birthday of structural engineer and architect Fazlur Rahman Khan with a skyscraper-themed Doodle on Monday. Khan, who was born in Bangladesh, died in 1982. He was famous for pioneering “tubular design” for high-rise buildings and designing the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center. “As a youth my father never imagined that one day he would …

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Ustwo’s Sway app wants to put meditation in your motion

In humanity’s never-ending quest to destress, we turn to the Scandinavians for answers. First they brought us hygge, and now they bring us Sway. Sway is a new meditation app from the Nordic branch of Ustwo, the studio that made Monument Valley, and Danish wellness company PauseAble. It melds physical movements with the technology we carry in our pockets to …

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When and where to buy a Samsung Galaxy S8 in the UK

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S8’s major makeover 2:14 Just to recap, in case you somehow missed it, the Samsung Galaxy S8 has finally landed — and what an entrance it made. There was a lot riding on Samsung’s first major phone launch since the Note 7 debacle, but the company delivered quite a show — a Beatles ballad, …

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