June, 2020

• 12 June

  'Our Crops Are Damaged Due To The Gas Leak': Farmers Feeling The Effects Of Assam Oil Well Fire

  

  The fire at an oil well near Baghjan village in Assam on June 9 took a turn for the worst as it was a major blaze. The aftereffects have been bad for the farmers as the gas released from the fire are destroying their crops.  The blowout was on May 27 and the fire added …

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• 11 June

  Amazon adds two new colors for Kindle Paperwhite

  

  Amazon has added two new color options for its Kindle Paperwhite. The e-book reader now comes in plum and sage, basically a light purple and a light green. With the addition of plum and sage, the Kindle Paperwhite is available in four color options. When the e-reader launched in November 2018, the only color available was black. Amazon added a …

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• 11 June

  Just Eat Takeaway to buy Grubhub for $7.3B in online food delivery push

  

  The Netherlands-based food delivery service Just Eat Takeaway plans to combine with Grubhub in a deal worth $7.3 billion, according to a release on Wednesday. The deal will mark Just Eat Takeaway’s entry into the United States.  The merger will create the largest online food delivery company outside of China, Just Eat Takeaway said in the release. The deal between …

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• 11 June

  Twitter may be testing emoji reactions for tweets

  

  Twitter may be experimenting with a new feature to let users react to tweets with emojis, according to a Wednesday tweet from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. The screenshot attached to Wong’s tweet shows a line of emoji reactions, including a “100” icon, prayer hands and a shocked face, underneath the option to retweet or retweet with a comment. Emojis …

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• 11 June

  The phones we use today nearly didn’t happen

  

  This story is part of CNET at 25, celebrating a quarter century of industry tech and our role in telling you its story. Every time you use a smartphone, you’re enjoying something we thought might never exist: a device that does almost everything really well. But in the early years after CNET’s founding in 1995, there was a lot of …

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• 11 June

  The Vizio PX

  

  When CNET’s David Katzmaier reviewed the Vizio P-Series Quantum X last year, it distinguished itself as a superb TV with an outstanding picture that just happened to cost hundreds less than OLED equivalent models. That certainly got my attention because, while OLED will admittedly outperform this PX, it won’t run rings around it. The differences are marginal enough that you …

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• 11 June

  Apple’s virtual WWDC features keynote June 22, 1

  

  Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the virtual stage at 10 a.m. PT on June 22, kicking off his company’s first all-digital conference amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company on Thursday said its Worldwide Developers Conference will take place June 22-26.  Along with two keynotes on the first day, the event will feature over 100 engineering sessions and 1-on-1 developer …

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• 11 June

  ‘I wanted everybody to see’: How livestreams change our view of protests

  

  As people all over the world livestream protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Jon Ziegler remembers when he captured a tragic moment that was seen around the globe.  On Aug. 12, 2017, Ziegler grabbed his camera rig and headed to a counterprotest at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The night before, neo-Nazis and alt-right activists had …

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• 11 June

  Twitter removes 30,000 accounts linked to Russia, China and Turkey

  

  Twitter has permanently removed 32,242 accounts that were found to be state-backed operations from China, Russia and Turkey. The accounts were suspended for violating the social media company’s platform manipulation policy. It’s publishing the accounts to its archive of foreign influence campaigns, Twitter said in a blog post published Thursday. Of those accounts, Twitter said 23,750 were linked with being part …

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• 11 June

  Snapchat’s augmented reality lenses can span whole city blocks

  

  Snapchat, like many companies, is pursuing augmented reality at a fever pitch, with AR-enabled smartglasses on the horizon. The company’s newest AR tools, introduced at its developer summit Thursday, are going even further, introducing world-mapping, collaborative AR capabilities into city-block-sized experiences. They’re called Local Lenses and promise to transform whole real-life neighborhoods into interactive art pieces. Snapchat’s previous Landmark Lenses worked …

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