August, 2018

• 7 August

  Samsung’s faster, cheaper 4TB SSD enters mass production

  

  Samsung has announced mass-production of 4TB consumer SSDs, aimed at improving storage for laptops and other devices.  Samsung hasn’t released official pricing for the in-production drives, but its 4TB 860 Evo is currently selling for over $1,000. By comparison, you can get a 4TB mechanical drive for $100.  The new SSDs are the first to …

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• 7 August

  Alex Jones’ Infowars removed from LinkedIn and MailChimp, still up on Instagram and Twitter

  

  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is quickly disappearing from the internet, though some accesses to his site Infowars is still available on the web. After we inquired this afternoon about the Infowars company page, LinkedIn responded that it has removed the page from its platform. “We have removed the InfoWars company page for violating our terms of service. We value the …

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• 7 August

  Logitech’s Powered wireless charger acts as iPhone stand

  

  Logitech’s new Powered Wireless Charging Stand will be available in August. The $70 charger, which the company designed with Apple, keeps your phone stable and upright in either portrait or landscape mode, the company said in a blog post on Monday. “Unlike traditional flat chargers, there’s no need for exact alignment — just drop your iPhone in the cradle and go,” said Michele …

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• 7 August

  iPhone chip maker TSMC fights virus at factories

  

  iPhone chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. saw several of its factories knocked offline Friday night because of a virus, but it’s unclear whether production of the iPhone components was affected, said a report Saturday by Bloomberg. The virus wasn’t introduced by a hacker, TSMC told the publication, adding that the company had contained the problem and restarted some manufacturing, …

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• 7 August

  Android Pie: 3 hidden features

  

  Shortly after Google released Android Pie in a public beta, we had it installed and began tapping around in an attempt to discover as much as we possibly could. Now, with Android Pie finalized and officially available, here are three features we think are worth pointing out. Now playing: Watch this: New features in Android P 2:17 Split screen Screenshots …

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• 7 August

  NFL 2018: How to watch if you don’t have cable

  

  Are you ready for some football? If you are reading this, then I can only assume your answer is, “Yes, I am once again ready to surrender my Sundays to the NFL, to say nothing of my Monday and Thursday nights.” Games are broadcast on CBS and Fox on Sunday afternoons, NBC on Sunday nights and ESPN on Monday nights. …

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• 7 August

  Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars, touching off censorship debate

  

  In a move presaged by weeks of mounting pressure,  Apple, Facebook, Google’s YouTube and Spotify cracked down on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire, removing wide swathes of content or terminating his accounts entirely. All the actions seemed to happen within 24 hours.  Was it a long-overdue crackdown or a conspiracy of censorship? That depends on who you …

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• 7 August

  AMC Stubs A

  

  I’m an avid moviegoer. I enjoy sitting with my giant bag of sour gummies and using my film degree to break down the “mise-en-scène” of whatever giant robot movie I’m watching. Despite the frequency with which I go to the theaters, I never bothered with MoviePass. I badly wanted a movie ticket subscription service, but MoviePass seemed like a huge …

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• 7 August

  Baidu CEO ‘confident’ of defeating Google, but China disagrees

  

  Baidu CEO Robin Li is confident the company will win in a fight with Google in China, but Chinese internet users don’t seem to agree. The man behind Baidu, China’s version of Google, declared his company is very confident of engaging in another battle with the US-based search giant and winning again if it decides to make a return to …

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• 7 August

  Facebook needs ‘safe harbor’ for public interest journalism, say researchers

  

  Researchers want Facebook to change its rules, making it easier for journalists and academics to undertake investigations and studies on the social network. The Knight First Amendment Institute, a nonprofit organization at Columbia University, on Monday sent a letter asking CEO Mark Zuckerberg to amend Facebook’s terms of service and create a “safe harbor” for social media research and public …

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