Google announced Thursday that it hit its target in bringing free Wi-Fi to 400 train stations across India, with 8 million people using the service each month. The initiative began in 2015, the company says in its blog, when it partnered with Indian Railways and RailTel to offer public Wi-Fi to the country’s travellers. It …
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I am sitting in the audience at the Castro Theater for the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot just finished and Gus Van Sant and Danny Elfman, the film’s director and composer, respectively, take the stage for an interview. I panic. “Is my iPhone on? Or is it off? I’m pretty …
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Project Fi is expanding its phone lineup just a tad. The Google phone network announced Wednesday that it’s adding the LG V35 ThinQ, the G7 ThinQ and the Motorola Moto G6 to its services. Announced earlier Wednesday by AT&T, the V35 is a half-step update to February’s V30 ThinQ and features a 6-inch OLED display, the Snapdragon 845 chipset and 6GB of RAM. Similar to …
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A website meant to set up Xfinity internet service may have exposed customers’ Wi-Fi names and passwords. Luckily, Comcast already has this bug under control. The Xfinity site asked for a person’s account ID and home address in order to activate that home’s router, but once you entered this information it showed that home’s router name and password in plaintext, reported …
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Facebook and Qualcomm are teaming up to bring super-fast Wi-Fi to built-up urban areas, the two companies announced Monday. Qualcomm said it will integrate Facebook’s Terragraph technology, which uses high-frequency radio waves to speed up networks where populations are dense, into its upcoming chipsets. Terragraph is a millimeter-wavelength, 60GHz wireless system that serves as an alternative when laying fiber becomes …
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Samsung last year debuted a button on its Galaxy S8 phones that triggers the company’s house-made Bixby Voice assistant. Bixby took months to roll out, but has since become a constant feature on high-end Galaxy phones. Now, LG has done the same, adding a hotkey on the LG G7 ThinQ that opens Google Assistant after you speak a command. Google Assistant …
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Like the idea of a device that doesn’t need to be picked up or carried around? You might be impressed by the prototype for the LumiWatch, a new smartwatch from Carnegie Mellon University researchers that turns your arm or hand into a touchscreen. The fully functional and self-contained LumiWatch uses a bright, 15-lumen projection module and touch sensor to give you …
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If you’ve ever had to juggle two mobile phones, you know it’s a special form of torture. Two phones to carry. Two phones to keep charged. Two phones to answer! Unfortunately, that’s the reality for so many folks who need a second number. It might be one phone for work, another for personal. Or maybe you’re active on Craigslist, Etsy …
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Here’s the good news: Australia is now home to the world’s first 5G-capable Wi-Fi hotspots. The bad news? There are currently no 5G-capable phones or tablets on the market, so no one using them will see 5G speeds. Aussie carrier Telstra installed the hotspots at its 5G Innovation Centre in South Port on Australia’s east coast, utilising its 5G test …
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