Care to take a 360-degree look at what appear to be Samsung’s latest foldable phones, smartwatches and earbuds? Well-known Twitter tipster Evan Blass is happy to oblige. Blass, whose Twitter handle is @evleaks, served up some delicious animated GIFs for Samsung fans Friday night, along with the simple note “#GalaxyUnpacked 11 August 2021.” That would …
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I use Google’s services every day, including Google Drive. I use them for work. I wrote this story in Google Docs, in fact. I use them at home, whether using Sheets to map out the summer schedule for my kids, or adding to my ever-expanding folder of recipes — it makes it easy to share favorites with friends or access …
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Carriers around the world have launched their 5G networks. Nationwide coverage is available in the US from the big three providers. Compatible smartphones are getting cheaper. The next-generation wireless technology is rapidly maturing. So let’s talk about the next-next-generation wireless technology. Yes, 6G. Each wireless generation lasts about a decade, so 6G is a long, long way from becoming reality. …
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Mint Mobile has a new promotion and this time it isn’t a one-day-only deal of a 25-year contract. On Wednesday the Ryan Reynolds-owned wireless carrier revealed a new offer for those looking to switch from another carrier and buy a new phone on one of its six-month plans. The deal, currently only available online and to new Mint customers, will …
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YouTube‘s almighty recommendations surfaced most of the videos that a crowdsourced army of volunteers said they regretted watching, according to a study released Wednesday by Mozilla based on “regret” reports from YouTube users. Of the videos people said they regretted, 71% were recommended by YouTube’s artificial intelligence. YouTube also recommended people watch videos that it later removed for breaking its …
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Tuesday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 175th birthday of renowned and multitalented musician Ángela Peralta. In a blog post discussing the Doodle, Google recounts the many accomplishments of Peralta, who was an international opera star as well as a pianist, harpist and composer. Born in Mexico City, Peralta gave her first major solo performance when she was just 8 and made …
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A federal judge in California issued an order Thursday saying Google must face a proposed class-action lawsuit related to privacy concerns about its digital assistant. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Google of recording certain users’ conversations and then analyzing the recordings to target advertising, despite the users having activated Google …
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Four of the world’s biggest social media platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok — pledged on Thursday at the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris to bring in improvements to their services that would make women safer online. The promises come after over a year of consultations run by Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation, in which over 120 women experts from …
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Good news, TikTokers. Three-minute videos are on the way. TikTok is rolling out the option for all users to create longer videos, extending its 60-second limit to 180 seconds. The popular social-video app has been testing the new format since December, so some people may have already experienced creating or watching longer videos. “Creative expression brings people together. It’s how …
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Speck sporadically runs deals around various holidays and its Independence Day sale is in full swing, with 30% off most products on its site, though some exclusions apply. There’s a limit of five items per order per customer and the sale ends on July 4 at 11:59 p.m. PT (2:59 a.m. ET July 5). See it at Speck The discount …
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