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T-Mobile knows that even after years of growth and changes it still has a reputation problem. Many people still think of it as an inferior carrier network to rivals Verizon and AT&T.  In a bid to change that narrative, the company on Wednesday is pulling out an old move from its “un-carrier” playbook: giving interested …

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Two airlines ban all MacBook Pros from checked luggage

Two Australian airlines are prohibiting all 15-inch Apple Macbook Pros from being transported in the jets’ cargo holds and those in the cabin must be turned off for the duration of the flight. The new rules apply even to MacBook Pros that weren’t subject to a recent recall. At the top of Virgin Australia’s Dangerous Goods information page, which identifies …

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Apple won’t listen to Siri recordings without your permission anymore

Your conversations with Siri won’t be going directly to Apple anymore. The tech giant said Wednesday that it will stop retaining voice recordings by default.  Apple announced the Siri privacy changes after The Guardian reported in July that contractors were regularly listening to conversations from people giving voice commands. While the data is anonymized, those conversations included identifiable details like …

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Insta360 Go is an incredibly small wearable camera with big image stabilization

The Insta360 Go is a tiny wearable camera for capturing life’s little moments and then easily sharing them with family, friends and followers. It’s a camera category that hasn’t really caught on like its counterpart the action cam, though, and while I don’t think the Go will be any different, it’s certainly an interesting entry. One of the biggest things the …

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Google is shutting down another service

Google has announced it’s shutting down Google Hire. The job application service will be gone by Sep. 1, 2020, Google said this week. The tech giant will be focusing its resources on “other products in the Google Cloud portfolio.” Google Hire was designed to help smaller companies find and recruit job candidates. It integrates with Gmail and Calendar, so job …

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Uber, Lyft driver caravan lands in California capital demanding a living wage

A caravan of Uber and Lyft drivers concluded their journey on Wednesday in Sacramento, California, with one message to state lawmakers: pass Assembly Bill 5. The proposed state law could allow for drivers to be classified as employees, rather than independent contractors, which advocates say would give them more worker protections, including overtime, minimum wage and the right to unionize. …

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