Sean Keane

Chinese iPhone sellers reportedly cut prices following sales warning

iPhone sellers in China are reportedly cutting prices after Apple’s sales warning to investors, whkch blamed the country’s decelerating economy. Retailers like Suning and JD.com are slashing prices by up to $118 on the iPhone XR, according to Reuters and Yahoo Finance. Suning will start selling the 64GB iPhone XR for 5,699 yuan (around $845/£660/AU$1,170), …

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Apple reportedly plans to launch three iPhones in 2019

Apple will reportedly launch a trio of new iPhones in 2019, despite a recent sales warning to investors and hints of production cuts for its 2018 models The 2019 models will include a successor to the well-received iPhone XR and new camera features, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing unnamed sources. The highest-end model will have a triple rear …

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Google search adds activity cards to make browsing your history easier

Google is making it easier to continue your old searches by adding activity cards When you do a repeat search on mobile, the new feature will show links to pages you’ve visited previously and searches you’ve already made. Google The links show up under the “Your related activity” dropdown menu at the top of your results page, letting you either …

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Google Chrome Labs lets you Etch

Google Chrome Labs is apparently happy to help you waste your valuable time… by releasing Web-A-Skeb, a browser-based version of the classic Etch-A-Sketch toy. Just like the physical version, you draw using two knobs. One controls vertical movement and the other horizontal. The “shake” button clears the screen. There’s a sweet extra option too. The “fancy” button adds shadowing to …

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Apple reportedly cuts iPhone production by 10 percent for first quarter

A week after issuing a sales warning, Apple reportedly slashed its iPhone production for January to March by 10 percent. More on Apple Apple CEO Tim Cook teases ‘new services’ for 2019 Tim Cook says Apple’s long-term health ‘has never looked better’ Apple CEO Tim Cook made $15 million in 2018 The Cupertino, California, company asked suppliers to make fewer …

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SpaceX moon tourist earns retweet record with $900K giveaway

The Japanese billionaire who’ll be Elon Musk’s first paying passenger for a trip to the moon used his deep pockets to get the most retweeted tweet on all time over weekend. Yusaku Maezawa, who was revealed as the mystery SpaceX moon passenger back in September, had 4.8 million retweets as of Monday morning, crushing Carter Wilkinson’s 2017 attempt to get …

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Microsoft and Kroger put ‘connected’ grocery shopping to the test

Microsoft and Kroger have teamed up to offer customers a “connected store experience” that’s very different from the one offered by Amazon Go. The companies opened pilot stores that use digital shelf labeling in Monroe, Ohio, and in Redmond, Washington, near Kroger’s and Microsoft’s respective headquarters. The labeling system is known as Enhanced Display for Grocery Environment (EDGE, not to …

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Android Q will reportedly have system

Google’s upcoming Android Q may add a system-wide dark mode. “Dark mode is an approved Q feature,” Google’s Lukasz Zbylut wrote in the Chromium bug tracker, according to Android Police. “The Q team wants to ensure that all preloaded apps support dark mode natively. In order to ship dark mode successfully, we need all UI elements to be ideally themed dark …

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China’s censors reportedly learn real history to stop it spreading online

Chinese censors must reportedly learn a history previously unknown to them so they know which information the government wants them to stop from spreading. Employees of censorship companies like the Beijing-based Beyondsoft are taught about the government’s violent suppression of the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square protests and late activist Liu Xiaobo, who was repeatedly imprisoned for his anti-government views, The …

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Huawei reportedly punishes workers for tweeting from official account on iPhone

Huawei may have overtaken Apple as the world’s second largest phone vendor in 2018, but at least two of its workers seem to prefer the iPhone. The Chinese phone maker tweeted “Happy 2019” from its official account at 11:31 p.m. on Dec. 31, with a “Twitter for iPhone” stamp, the South China Morning Post reported Friday. Huawei deleted and replaced …

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