On this podcast, we talk about: Android P is Pie! Are we happy about that? Facebook, Apple, YouTube and others banning Alex Jones and Infowars. What does this mean? FCC Chairman Ajit Pai admits there was no DDoS attack on the agency’s comment system. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top …
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August, 2018
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7 August
5 features coming to your Android phone with Android Pie
There are many new features in Android Pie you can expect to make their way to your Android phone, the timing of which depends on how often your phone’s manufacturer updates its operating system. Google Pixel ($695 at Amazon) owners, however, can get these features right now. Now playing: Watch this: Android P: A slice of ‘Pie’ 1:19 New navigation Android …
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7 August
How to sign up for Android 9 Pie’s Digital Wellbeing beta
Google on Monday announced Android 9.0 Pie’s name and availability. The latest flavor of Android is currently available to Google Pixel ($695 at Amazon) devices and will begin rolling out to more devices this fall. Now playing: Watch this: Android P: A slice of ‘Pie’ 1:19 One feature Google left out of the final release is its Digital Wellbeing platform. …
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7 August
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 cases already on sale
Update, Aug. 9: The Galaxy Note 9 is now official, and we’ve gone hands-on. Original story follows. We’re still two days away from the presumed official announcement of Samsung’s next phone, but it seems you can buy cases for it already. Case manufacturer Olixar, as spotted by Sammobile, has made cases available for sale alongside images of what appears to be the …
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7 August
Will the Samsung Note 9 suffer the same fate as the Galaxy S9?
Update, Aug. 9: The Galaxy Note 9 is now official, and we’ve gone hands-on. Original story follows. Get ready for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9. But if it’s anything like the Galaxy S9, don’t expect to be blown away. On Thursday, Samsung will introduce the Galaxy Note 9, its premium large-screen smartphone sporting an S Pen stylus. The stylus could include …
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7 August
Huawei Honor Play hits stores in Asia
Huawei’s Honor Play, a gaming focused phone, will go on sale Tuesday in four new countries in Asia. This marks the Play’s first appearance outside China since it was first announced back in June. The gaming focused phone will likely also be announced at IFA Berlin at the end of the month. Loaded with a feature called GPU Turbo, the …
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7 August
Is the Trump administration’s re
The Federal Communications Commission has already repealed net neutrality, but the Trump administration can’t leave it there. It also wants the US Supreme Court to remove a ruling that upheld the controversial Obama-era rules. The petition, filed last week by Department of Justice lawyers, asked the Supreme Court to remand the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s 2016 …
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7 August
The easiest way to copy an iPhone photo album to your PC
It was a pretty typical weekend project: My daughter’s graduation party was coming up, so I wanted to put together a photo slideshow. Of course, like most parents, my wife and I had years’ worth of photos trapped on our iPhones. How could we quickly and easily move them to a laptop and into a slideshow-builder? It proved a surprisingly …
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7 August
Phones at all major US carriers filled with vulnerabilities, say researchers
Major US phone carriers may have a major problem. Researchers funded by the Department of Homeland Security discovered security vulnerabilities in mobile devices used by Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and more, DHS program manager Vincent Sritapan told Fifth Domain at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The flaws are built into phones by manufacturers before they’re bought, …
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7 August
FCC’s net neutrality DDoS attack didn’t happen. Here’s what you need to know
Net neutrality may be dead, but questions remain about how seriously the Federal Communications Commission considered comments from the public. The FCC’s system for submitting those comments was a hot mess. Two million of the 22 million comments submitted used stolen identities, some for people who were dead, including actress Patty Duke, who died in 2016. Nearly 8 million comments …
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