Huawei becomes the world’s No. 1 phone maker, Google offers freebies

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Is 5G hazardous to your health?

False conspiracy theories about links between 5G wireless networks and the origins of the coronavirus have been circulating widely online. The baseless claim is that somehow the radio waves used to transmit 5G either caused the virus or weakens the immune system, making one more susceptible to COVID-19. It does not.  But that hasn’t stopped threats against broadband engineers and …

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A day after Jeff Bezos downplayed Amazon’s power, it posts record profit

After Amazon warned of turbulent times ahead during the coronavirus and CEO Jeff Bezos downplayed the company’s leadership position before Congress on Wednesday, Amazon went ahead and posted massive gains in the second quarter. The company on Thursday reported a profit of $5.2 billion, or $10.30 per share — an all-time record — and double last year’s total. That record …

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Robocalls, spam calls, fraudsters. However you name them, T-Mobile is taking on this class of unwanted incoming calls in the carrier’s latest bid to win subscribers’ hearts — and maybe aim a little spit at Verizon and AT&T’s eye. During an announcement last week, T-Mobile unveiled Scam Shield, a service to block robocalls and otherwise protect you from scams, like …

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Pixel 4A launch date teased for Aug. 3

Update, Aug. 3: The Pixel 4A is here. Read CNET’s review. Original story follows. We think we know a fair amount about Google’s next flagship smart phone — presumably the Pixel 4A — but we didn’t have a firm sense of when the thing would actually arrive. That changed Thursday, thanks to a clever tease posted to the Made by Google Facebook …

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House passes ‘Sami’s Law’ named after woman killed by a fake Uber driver

The US House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill called “Sami’s Law” on Wednesday that’s aimed at making ride-hailing services more secure.  The law was named after Samantha Josephson, a student killed by a fake Uber driver near Columbia, South Carolina. Sami’s Law, which now heads to the Senate for a vote, would require companies like Uber and Lyft to …

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The affordable Moto G 5G Plus packs value and 5G connectivity for Europeans

There’s one quality nearly all 5G phones have in common: They’re expensive. It will cost you at minimum $999 to buy a Motorola Edge Plus or one of the phones from the Samsung Galaxy S20 family. Depending on the carrier, the OnePlus 8 and LG V60 are slightly less expensive ranging from $700 up to $900 respectively. And who knows how much Apple …

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Twitter permanently bans white supremacist David Duke

White supremacist David Duke has been permanently banned from Twitter for violating the platform’s rules on hate speech, the company confirmed late Thursday. Duke’s account “has been permanently suspended for Twitter Rules on hateful conduct,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. Twitter’s policy, revised in March, prohibits posts that promote violence or threats of violence against people based on …

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Apple’s iPhone sales grew despite coronavirus, but iPhone 5G will launch late

Apple’s iPhone sales showed resilience between April and June, despite the coronavirus pandemic’s continued spread, upending lives and disrupting business across the globe. Apple, in the midst of a strong fiscal third-quarter report, signaled its success navigating the global health emergency has its limits, and that means the new iPhone will be coming later than usual. The tech giant twice …

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Facebook announces internet nostalgia app E.gg

A weird new Facebook app is launching, and it’s based on bringing back the internet of the ’90s. E.gg is the latest creation from Facebook’s experimental app team New Product Experimentation and is aimed at “recapturing that atmosphere” of the early web. The About section of E.gg looks like an old-school Geocities web page, and even has a GIF of the …

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Adobe online PDF tools tap into Google’s .new internet addresses

Since 2018, Google has let you type doc.new, slide.new and sheet.new into your browser address bar to fire up a blank document for G Suite’s Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Now there’s a new option using the same approach from Adobe: PDF.new. Adobe invented the Portable Document Format standard, which is now widely used for digital documents like …

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Amazon Prime Day is coming in the fourth quarter

Update, Sept. 22: Amazon has announced Prime Day will start on Oct. 13. Original story follows. Amazon has revealed a little more detail about when its Prime Day sale is happening. During an earnings call with media on Thursday, Amazon finance chief Brian Olsavsky said Prime Day will be held in the fourth quarter.  The company had previously only said …

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Twitter’s app is helping stop phones from strangling the web

For years, Twitter has offered both a website and mobile apps for iPhones and Android. But in 2017, it decided to marry the two approaches. The result is one of the highest-profile examples of what’s called a progressive web app, a technology that could rejuvenate the web and challenge the power of app stores. The web got its start as …

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