TCL’s BlackBerry Key2 already has a low-end follow-up coming, and after FCC paperwork seemed to confirm the name Key2 LE, we may now have our first look at the forthcoming keyboard phone. Android Police released the image above Friday morning, along with these purported specs: Snapdragon 636 processor 4GB of RAM 32GB or 64GB of …
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10 August
Facebook adds requirements for page managers amid concern over fakers
Facebook page managers will need to clear some extra hurdles to prove they aren’t fraudsters, the company announced Friday. “Now, people who manage these Pages will be asked to complete an authorization process in order to continue to post, making it harder for people to administer a Page using a fake or compromised account,” wrote Emma Rodgers, director of product …
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10 August
These popular Android phones came with vulnerabilities pre
Keeping your phone safe from malicious apps is hard enough, with Google stamping out hundreds of thousands of bad apps every year. Your phone makes for an attractive target. Apps open up a lot of access to your devices, reaching into your contacts, your location, your data usage, among the many private details you share with your phone. So you …
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10 August
Samsung talked a big game at its Note 9 event, but where was Gear VR?
Note 9 phones, Bixby smart speakers, Galaxy smartwatches, Spotify partnerships, Fortnite exclusives and even a little toss-in mention of AR. Samsung’s latest Unlocked phone event had everything. Except for one technology the company’s been pushing for years. VR. I realized it only after I left the event in Brooklyn. After I’d worn smartwatches and looked at speakers and played Fortnite …
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10 August
Blue light from phones and tablets can speed up blindness, study finds
Blue light from your smartphones and laptops can accelerate blindness, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Toledo say long periods of time exposed to blue light, the kind phones, tablets and televisions give off, can damage vision and generate poisonous molecules in the eye’s light-sensitive cells. The researchers suggest this could accelerate macular degeneration and other …
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10 August
Galaxy Note 9’s 5G dilemma: Upgrade now or wait for 2019’s mobile revolution
It’s a fine example of a first-world problem: Spend $1,000 on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 now, or endure the wait until next year and the potentially massive upgrades to come. That’s a decision some of you will have to make after Samsung unveiled its Note 9 on Thursday. To be fair, this is a question everyone could ask themselves. …
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10 August
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 starts at $1,000. Is it worth it? (The 3:59, Extended Weekend Edition)
Here’s an extended edition of The 3:59’s episode 440, which was originally recorded Thursday. CNET’s Jessica Dolcourt and Shara Tibken join co-host Roger Cheng to discuss the highlights from Samsung’s Unpacked event in New York, including: The new Galaxy Note 9 phone. The Galaxy Home smart speaker. The Galaxy Watch. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the …
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10 August
Intel’s 32TB ‘ruler’ SSD is super weird
Intel has invented a new shape for solid state drives: the “ruler.” It’s a foot-long housing primarily for use in datacenters. Intel describes its 32TB DC P4500 as “the world’s densest SSD.” By combining 32 of these “rulers” together you can hold up to 1 petabyte of data — that’s a thousand terabytes. The new design is intended to reduce …
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10 August
Nokia’s rebooted banana phone slip
Fans of The Matrix or retro tech are in for a treat because Nokia’s rebooted 8110 banana phone becomes available in the UK this month. The phone, first unveiled back at Mobile World Congress in February, is available for pre-order on Thursday and will go on general sale on Aug. 15. You’ll be able to pick it up from Carphone …
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10 August
Facebook gets rid of its Friend List Feeds feature
Now playing: Watch this: Why Alex Jones and Infowars were kicked off YouTube,… 2:41 Facebook has removed a feature that allowed users to tailor their feed. NurPhoto Say goodbye to Facebook’s Friend List Feeds feature. The feeds allowed you create a personalized version of social network that only showed posts from a predefined friend list. But the feature has now …
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