April, 2019

• 8 April

  Huawei ‘open’ to selling its 5G chips to Apple, says report

  

  The future of 5G on the iPhone is getting messy. Starting in 2016, Apple used chips from both Intel and Qualcomm to power its iPhone’s modem, connecting it to 4G cellular networks. But in 2018, the company switched entirely to Intel’s wireless chips for its $999 iPhone XS, $1,099 iPhone XS Max and $749 iPhone …

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• 8 April

  Twitter drops the number of people you can follow in a day

  

  “Don’t worry, you’ll just be fine,” says Twitter. The social media platform on Monday said it decreased the number of people you can follow everyday from 1,000 to 400 in an effort to curb spammers.  “Follow, unfollow, follow, unfollow. Who does that? Spammers,” the company wrote in a tweet. “So we’re changing the number of accounts you can follow each …

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• 8 April

  New Logitech Zone Wireless headphone is built for the open office

  

  Logitech stopped by recently to give me an early look its new Zone Wireless stereo Bluetooth headset that’s specifically geared toward folks working in open-office environments. It hits stores later this month for $200 (£200, $AU320). While Logitech is calling it a headset, it’s really an on-ear active noise-cancelling headphone with an integrated boom microphone. What makes it unique is …

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• 8 April

  Netflix axes Apple AirPlay support

  

  If you stream Netflix on your iPhone or iPad, the app will no longer support Apple AirPlay. This means that you won’t be able to cast shows on Netflix from your iOS device to your Apple TV.  The change on the streaming site’s support page was spotted late last week by MacRumors.   Netflix’s note says AirPlay is “no longer supported” due to “technical …

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• 8 April

  Microsoft releases its Google Chrome

  

  Microsoft, having given up on its own core browser technology, has released test versions of its Edge browser built instead on the same foundations as Google’s Chrome. “In these first builds we are very much focused on the fundamentals and have not yet included a wide range of feature and language support that will come later,” said Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s …

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• 8 April

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  Back in 1995, printing company Quad/Graphics didn’t let its employees in Saratoga, New York, access the internet. But that didn’t stop the workers from figuring out a way to get online during business hours. The employees dialed long distance — that was a thing back then — to a free dial-up internet service called Libraries Without Walls that was offered …

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• 8 April

  iPhone XS: 9 biggest annoyances and how to fix them

  

  It’s been over a year since Apple released the first iPhone ($899 at Amazon) without a home button, the iPhone X, and switched to gesture controls. We now have the iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR that all rely on gesture navigation and facial recognition to unlock the phone and move around. Whether you just upgraded from an older iPhone or …

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• 8 April

  Yank out that USB drive in Windows 10 without ejecting first

  

  if you’ve upgraded to Windows 10’s October 2018 release (and are current on updates), you can now remove USB storage devices without ejecting them first. If you ever bothered to do it in the first place. In the past, you needed to eject writable removable USB storage because Windows defaulted to “Better performance,” which delayed writes to improve speed, rather …

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• 8 April

  UK to unleash internet safety czar on Google, Facebook, Twitter

  

  The UK government is taking a hard line when it comes to online safety, moving to establish what it says is the world’s first independent regulator to keep social media companies in check. Companies that fail to live up to requirements will face huge fines, and senior directors who are proven to have been negligent will be held personally liable. …

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• 8 April

  Samsung Galaxy S10 sensor reportedly duped by a 3D

  

  The all-new ultrasonic fingerprint reader baked into the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus is meant to be so secure that you can’t fool it with a fake finger. A video posted to the image-sharing site Imgur claims to have done just that in under 15 minutes. Imgur user Darkshark said a 3D print of his own fingerprint fooled the Samsung Galaxy …

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