Samsung’s latest Galaxy phone, the Galaxy J2 Pro, lacks one skill you’d expect any smartphone to be able to do: connect to the internet. That’s right. No 3G, no LTE, no Wi-Fi, no nothing. Samsung says the phone is intended for students and senior citizens as a way for them to make calls and use apps, …
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April, 2018
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13 April
New Gmail update said to add self
A few days ago we reported on how Gmail was about to get a big makeover. “We’re working on some major updates to Gmail (they’re still in draft phase),” a Google representative said in an email. “We need a bit more time to compose ourselves, so can’t share anything yet — archive this for now, and we’ll let you know when …
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13 April
AMD Ryzen 2nd
AMD’s second-generation updates to its mainstream Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 desktop processors isn’t quite as dramatic as Intel’s recent eighth-generation mobile launch; in part, that’s because AMD been-there-done-that with multicore, such as the 8- and 6-core Ryzen 7 1700 and Ryzen 5 1600 series from last year last year. So its second-gen products replacing them feel transitional, eking slightly …
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13 April
How tech makes life with diabetes easier
One sunny day last July, I was chatting with my cousin Kathryn as we watched her daughter Ruby, now eight, dashing around the garden of my childhood home in Manchester, England, a cute red and white polka-dot bag slung over her shoulder. It was an idyllic scene, one that stands in stark contrast to just six months earlier, when Ruby, …
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13 April
Netflix, Comcast new bundles may make your streaming easier
Video-streaming service Netflix and cable giant Comcast will offer bundles that could make it easier — or cheaper — to subscribe to both. The companies are expanding their 2016 partnership to include Netflix subscriptions in their cable packages, they said Friday in a statement. This means that Comcast customers who don’t subscribe to its high-end X1 service may be able to shift …
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13 April
Here’s the leaked Apple memo about how leaks don’t pay
Apple wants employees to know that leaks are bad. Leaks will get you caught, fired, and even arrested. Remember that epic superleak that totally spoiled the iPhone X surprise? According to a leaked Apple memo obtained by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the employee responsible was ID’d and fired within days. Allegedly, the company caught 29 leakers in 2017, and 12 of …
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13 April
Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails (again)
Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is finally unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. And in an online world where privacy expectations have been radically reshaped in light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica mess, it’s …
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13 April
Will Android P be Android Popsicle?
Read what you will into this, but one of the wallpapers in Google’s new spring collection is an image of popsicles. Could it be Google dropping a hint that the P in its next-generation Android P mobile OS will stand for Popsicle? Possibly. At least that’s the theory presented by the sleuths over at 9to5Google, who point to the popsicles …
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13 April
If you can’t delete Facebook yet, start by deleting the app
It’s been a miserable year so far for Facebook, and it just keeps getting worse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before both houses of Congress this week to address a range of volatile issues, from the 87 million user profiles accessed by data analyst firm Cambridge Analytica to the company’s role in spreading fake news in the US, the UK and other countries. …
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13 April
Why did SUVs take over from estates?
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