A day after the Trump administration announced plans to investigate whether France’s planned digital tax amounts to unfair trade practices by discriminating against US companies, the French government has passed the laws. On July 11, the Senate passed the bill creating a 3% tax on big tech companies providing services to French users. It could …
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Google is updating the desktop version of its News tab to make it more obvious which outlet you’re reading and make the headline more prominent — basically making it look a lot like the search giant’s main news site. It showed off the refreshed look in a tweet Thursday. Over the next couple weeks we’re rolling out a redesigned News …
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Nothing is more frustrating than opening the YouTube home page and seeing recommended videos about knitting when you’d rather see cute puppies running around. You’ve never looked up anything about knitting, so why does YouTube think you like it? Fortunately, YouTube has come up with a solution by giving you more control over your home page and Up Next videos. Making …
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The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 10 has ditched the headphone jack, new leaked images reportedly coming from the Federal Communications Commission itself show. Much like Apple, Google and Huawei, Samsung has apparently banished the 3.5mm jack from the bottom of its next device. The jack-less Note 10, as seen in one of the reportedly leaked images. XDA Developers Last month …
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Browser startup Brave now can show its privacy-first ads on Android, not just personal computers. The company’s browser blocks websites’ ads and trackers by default, but if you opt in to see Brave-supplied ads instead, you’ll get 70 percent of the resulting revenue. With most of Brave’s users on smartphones, the Android move is a significant expansion of Brave’s advertising …
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Tumblr has jumped on the dark mode bandwagon, announcing that its mobile app will now support the feature. Tumblr’s Color Palette allows users to choose the hue for their dashboard in both Android and iOS. Dark mode inverts the colors of apps by putting white text on a black background, which Google has previously said reduces smartphone battery usage and …
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Android Q Beta 5 has launched, with Google including gestural navigation updates, so you can swipe from the corners to get Google Assistant. The fifth beta, launched Wednesday, is “very close” to what we’ll see in the final release, Dave Burke, Android vice president of engineering, said in a blog post. Google will be launching Android Q later this summer, …
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Some of the computing industry’s biggest innovations have come from research labs. The transistor was created at AT&T’s Bell Labs, the hard drive by IBM Research and the graphical user interface at Xerox’s PARC. NTT, one of Japan’s telecommunications giants, wants similar success. It’s already got thousands of researchers in Japan working on projects with near-term potential, but now it’s …
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The new Beats Powerbeats Pro wireless earphones are similar to Apple’s AirPods in terms of function, but they are much more rugged earbuds and designed to withstand abuse from workouts. They’re water-resistant so they can handle your sweaty ears, and include Apple’s H1 chip for easy pairing. But don’t let the minimalist black design fool you into thinking these workout-friendly Beats …
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Using Google‘s Chrome browser to buy things just got easier with an update that skips over a step to autofill your credit or debit card digits directly into the purchase page. Before, you could use only Chrome’s extremely convenient autofill feature if you turned on Chrome Sync in the browser. Now, Google lets you sidestep Chrome Sync. As long as you’re signed in …
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