August, 2018

• 3 August

  Apple’s 2018 iPhones might not include the headphone adapter

  

  Apple might stop bundling a headphone adapter with its 2018 iPhones. According to a Barclays research note reported by MacRumors on Tuesday, the Lightning-to-3.5mm Headphone Jack Adapter will not be included with the new crop of iPhone models. If true, this would be the first time Apple has removed the adapter since the company cut …

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• 3 August

  Huawei forecasts 200 million shipments, hopes to take No. 1 spot

  

  Huawei raised its shipment forecast to more than 200 million for the year and is aiming to become the world’s largest phone vendor by the end of 2019. The Chinese phone company projects that its shipments for 2018 will surpass its 180 million target after shipping over 95 million phones in the first half of the year, according to Reuters. …

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• 3 August

  Google Maps location sharing adds phone battery status

  

  Google Maps has added phone battery status to its location sharing for iOS and Android devices, allowing your contacts to see if you’ll be cut off soon. When a location has been shared, you’ll see that there’s now a battery icon between the distance and the time since the location was shared, as first spotted by Android Police. This way, …

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• 3 August

  Apple becomes a trillion

  

  It’s official. Apple on Thursday became worth over $1 trillion. Yes, that’s right, $1 trillion. As in $1,000,000,000,000.  Shortly before 9 a.m. PT on Thursday, Apple’s stock hit $207.05 a share, giving it a market capitalization at that trillion-dollar mark.  Apple — the biggest public company in the world — had 4,829,926,000 shares outstanding as of July 20, which meant its …

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• 3 August

  Blade Shadow cloud gaming to launch across the US in October

  

  Ready or not, here it comes. Blade’s Shadow desktop-in-the-cloud (but really focused on gaming) service that lets you play on any device makes its east coast debut next week, to be followed by a full rollout across the US in October. The company says it’s fixed a lot of problems that cropped up in its rocky California-only phase. Notably, it …

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• 3 August

  Samsung Galaxy Note 9 promo video may have ‘leaked’

  

  Update, Aug. 9: The Galaxy Note 9 is now official, and we’ve gone hands-on. Original story follows. A 30-second video that appeared to promote the as-yet unannounced Samsung Galaxy Note 9 briefly appeared online this morning. The video — one of those advertising spots that highlight a couple of features in a product — included information about the possible storage configuration and battery …

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• 3 August

  Amazon responds to Congressman’s letter regarding neo

  

  Amazon has removed a number of books espousing neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology after a study revealed such paraphernalia available on its site.   The Partnership for Working Families and the Action Center on Race and the Economy found listings for “baby onesies, toys, children’s Halloween costumes, flags, clothing, and jewelry emblazoned with nazi, neo-nazi, white nationalist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and …

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• 3 August

  Google’s rumored return to China triggers pointed questions from Senate

  

  Is Google’s Dragonfly real, and does it mean the Silicon Valley company is cooperating with China to censor citizens’ searches? That’s what a bipartisan group of US senators wants to know.  Sens. Mark Warner, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Ron Wyden, Cory Gardner and Robert Menendez sent a letter Friday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking those questions, after reports Wednesday …

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• 3 August

  Moto Z3 phone sells at Verizon Aug. 16, with 5G to come

  

  Motorola on Thursday announced the Moto Z3, at a small press event at its headquarters in Chicago. This is the latest Motorola phone to have magnetic backings that attach to Moto Mods, or modules, and will be one of the first phones ever to dial in to 5G. Starting in early 2019, Motorola will release a 5G Moto Mod that …

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• 3 August

  Are AT&T and Verizon fleecing rural America?

  

  Talk about unfair. Millions of broadband customers in rural and underserved urban markets are paying nearly identical prices for slower DSL service as customers who have access to high-speed fiber services. That’s the conclusion from a report published this week by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), which advocates for more equitable broadband deployment. In places where AT&T and Verizon …

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