Facebook can’t seem to get through a week quietly. This week, Germany’s antitrust regulator ordered the world’s largest social network to stop combining data from the Facebook accounts of its German users with information it collects about them from other sites unless they give their OK. The Federal Cartel Office’s order covers not only Facebook’s …
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Sprint sued AT&T on Thursday over its use of 5G E branding on phones that are only tapping into advanced 4G LTE. AT&T started using the 5G Evolution marketing last year, reasoning that it serves as a foundation for true 5G next-generation cellular technology. However, 5G E doesn’t mean your 4G phone can actually connect to a 5G network — causing …
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LG just introduced its LG G8 ThinQ. The high-end phone, which includes face unlock technology, is the successor to last year’s LG G7 ThinQ, and will likely make its physical debut at MWC 2019 in Barcelona, Spain at the end of the month. LG posted its announcement online and while it didn’t include any specs or images of the phone, we do learn …
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Netflix is widening its “smart downloads” feature to Apple mobile devices, the company said Thursday, giving more mobile users the option to let Netflix automate your offline cache so you don’t need to keep on top of the episodes downloaded to your device. The streaming-video giant introduced “smart downloads” on Android devices in July as a way to automatically remove downloaded …
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Apple on Thursday released iOS 12.1.4, an iPhone update that fixes a Group FaceTime bug that allowed users to eavesdrop on each other. The update is available for the iPhone 5S and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod Touch 6th generation. Last week, Apple turned off Group FaceTime after the discovery of a bug that allowed iPhone users to call another device via …
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If you want a cheap iPhone X, you’ve got to be quick. Apple on Monday started offering refurbished models of its popular smartphone from 2017 in its online store (as spotted by MacRumors). The initial devices sold out quickly Monday morning PT, but Apple made more available in the afternoon. MacRumors noted early Monday that unlocked models in space gray …
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You may not have heard of Vivo, but like its Chinese phone-making rivals Xiaomi and Oppo, it’s using flashy designs and features to compete in the increasingly crowded phone market ruled by Samsung’s Galaxy phones and Apple’s iPhones. Vivo has previously brought us a model with two displays and 10GB RAM and more recently a really cool 5G concept with no ports, seams …
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Apple has removed Safari support for a technology called Do Not Track because, perversely, it could actually be used to track your online behavior. The Do Not Track setting in browsers was designed to tell web publishers and advertisers not to track your online behavior. But the effort fizzled as websites largely ignored the setting. And now the mere presence …
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It looks like there will be more Animoji coming our way. In the second developer beta version of iOS 12.2, Apple included four new animals: an owl, a warthog, a shark and a giraffe. The Animoji feature is found on newer iPhones and iPads, including the iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and the iPhone XR. It uses the device’s …
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Spotify picked up podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor as it looks for new listeners, the streaming service said Wednesday. “Our podcast users spend almost twice the time on the platform, and spend even more time listening to music,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said in a statement. “We have also seen that by having unique programming, people who previously thought Spotify …
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