The robot rests delicately atop a power line, balanced high above the ground, almost as if it’s floating. Like a short, stocky tightrope walker, it gradually makes its way forward, leaving a string of cable in its wake. When it comes to a pole, it gracefully elevates its body to pass the roadblock and keep …
Read More »
If you’re concerned about privacy and have a camera cover on your MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, you could damage your laptop’s display by closing your notebook with that cover on, Apple said earlier this month on a support page on its site. Read more: Best Mac VPN in 2020 Now playing: Watch this: Why Apple says don’t cover …
Read More »
Several popular iOS apps experienced crashes on Friday morning, including Spotify, Waze, Tinder and Pinterest. Problems persisted for roughly two hours, though the apps for Apple’s mobile operating system appear to be working again. Multiple members of the CNET staff experienced crashes with the Spotify app on iOS, and the Waze app also crashed for one staff member. There were …
Read More »
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Thursday promised to donate $3 million to a collation of mayors advocating for a federal guaranteed income. Dorsey’s donation will help a network of mayors in 15 cities battle the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic. “This is …
Read More »
Peacock, the upcoming streaming service from Comcast’s NBCUniversal, won’t offer downloads of its shows and movies to watch offline on your mobile device when it launches Wednesday in the US, the service said. When downloads as a feature arrive “soon,” Peacock added, they’ll be for people paying for the priciest tier. At launch, the service also will lack high-quality formats like …
Read More »
Google has been dogged for years with a major problem when it comes to Android, its mobile operating system: Updates to the software can be hard to implement, leading to inconsistencies and outdated features for users. The search giant on Thursday, though, said it’s getting better at updating Android because of under-the-hood tweaks and policy changes it’s made with the …
Read More »
Quibi, a star-studded mobile streaming service, has held onto about 8% of customers whose 90-day free trials ran out this week, mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower said Wednesday. Quibi launched April 6 with a 90-day free trial for anyone who preordered the service or signed up before May 1. The first wave of those free trials started to expire this week. A Quibi …
Read More »
For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Since April, Verizon has been offering discounted internet rates to users who qualify for the US government-backed Lifeline program, which aims to keep connectivity affordable for low-income users during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Now the company says it’s extending those discounts through the …
Read More »
TikTok is providing a look at how it moderates content. In a transparency report released Thursday, the China-based video-sharing social network said that between July and December 2019, it removed more than 49 million videos around the world for violating its policies. More than 16 million of those video came from India (which topped the list), followed by the US, with 4.6 …
Read More »
Despite improvements to its platform, Facebook has made “vexing and heartbreaking decisions” with “real world consequences that are serious setbacks for civil rights,” says an independent audit of the social network’s practices and policies, released Wednesday. The 89-page report, led by civil right experts Laura Murphy and Megan Cacace and conducted with Facebook’s cooperation, questions the social network’s commitment to tackling …
Read More »
