Across the US and Mexico, Google‘s Doodle has turned into a loving homage to the legendary Dolores del Río on August 3 — the actress’s birthday in 1904. Dolores del Río was discovered by American filmmaker and legendary director Edwin Carewe, and embarked on an illustrious film career in 1925, appearing in films such as “What …
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LG’s new flagship to feature OLED display
LG‘s next flagship phone, rumoured to be the V30, will mark the company’s first OLED phone since 2015. Announced August 3 in Seoul, South Korea, the phone will come with a 6-inch screen, but unlike the company’s previous OLED phone, the LG G Flex 2, it will not be flexible. “Expertise in OLED has long been a core competency of …
Read More »Rob Kardashian’s Instagram deleted after alleged revenge porn post
Reality TV personality Rob Kardashian of the Kardashian family has had his Instagram account deleted after he allegedly posted intimate photos of his former fiancée, model Blac Chyna, according to a report from Heavy. Instagram deleted the photos and video of Chyna with another man, after which Kardashian allegedly reposted them along with a tirade claiming Chyna had cheated on …
Read More »Samsung developing dedicated chip for the internet of things
Samsung Electronics is going all in on the internet of things (IoT). The company announced this week that it is commencing production on the Exynos i T200, a processor optimised for IoT, ZDNet reports. The chip is a member of its Exynos range of mobile ARM processors, and supports wireless communications and improved security, the company said, boasting a function that …
Read More »Google takes Street View to Uluru
Google Street View has taken us to some pretty interesting places, such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, an 800-year-old salt mine in Poland, a volcanic crater in Vanuatu and the Lamborghini Museum. Now, it’s added another world-famous landmark to its collection of places you can visit digitally: The spectacular giant red rock in the heart of Australia, Uluru, formerly known …
Read More »Major layoffs loom for AOL and Yahoo, report says
Citing anonymous sources, Recode has reported that AOL and Yahoo are about to make over 1,000 layoffs as they get set to merge under a new media division at Verizon. This, the report notes, is still less than 20 percent of the total workforce. The two companies are set to be merged under a new media division at Verizon called …
Read More »New technology uses the way you walk as a password
The way you walk could one day be the “fingerprint” that unlocks your phone. A a small wearable protoype developed at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Data61 lab not only uses the kinetic energy created as you walk to generate power, but it also turns the user’s gait into a unique authentication. The paper can be read …
Read More »Actor recites all 9 hours of Amazon Kindle T&Cs
Do you read the terms of service for every service you sign up for? Stop lying, you don’t. But you have a very good reason. They’re very long and very boring, and you just want to get stuck into whatever you’re signing up for. That’s all well and good, but according to Australian consumer rights advocacy group Choice, that lengthy …
Read More »Google Doodle celebrates Trappist
Dwarf star Trappist-1 is tiny, just a little bigger than Jupiter, but it’s making huge news. As you’ve probably heard, it’s home to not just three Earth-like exoplanets, but a staggering seven, three of which could have oceans of water, just like Earth. And it’s only 39 light-years away, which means the planets are close enough that we could find …
Read More »Sony has announced the fastest SD card ever
What do you look for in an SD card? If it’s speed, you’re going to love Sony‘s newest offering in the SD space. According to the company, the SF-G Series UHS-II cards will be the fastest in the world, coming in at 300 megabytes per second read speed and 299 MBps write speed. That 300 MBps isn’t new — the …
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