Facebook’s fake account problem keeps getting bigger. The company is removing more fake accounts than ever, taking down more than 2 billion accounts so far in 2019 alone, Facebook disclosed in a new transparency report. Company executives said there’s been a sharp uptick in the number of fake accounts created this year. There were 2.19 […]
Google’s remarkably human-like Duplex restaurant reservation service is one of the most impressive pieces of artificial intelligence ever created. But not all is as it seems. Despite deeply impressive demonstrations of how the system, a part of the Google Assistant, can call up a restaurant and make a reservation on your behalf, it regularly relies […]
After Google pulled Huawei’s Android support for future models, the Chinese brand has had a big problem: how to offer users apps to downloads, the lifeblood of the modern smartphone. A fresh report from Bloomberg today adds to the mounting evidence of Huawei preparing for being shunned by the United States. It suggests that Huawei’s […]
he company behind Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game, and it aims to bring Game Boy-style charm to the 21st century. Revealed today, Playdate is a small, yellow handheld with a easy directional pad, two foremost face buttons and an innovate hand-crank which is bound to open up new and thrilling gameplay avenues. It’s additionally acquired […]
Atari has talked a lot about what the console itself will be like, it has been curiously silent on the controllers it revealed in its crowdfunding campaign. It’s ready to break that silence now that it’s nearing production of the Classic Joystick and the Modern Controller. When was the last time you used a joystick […]
Following President Trump’s national emergency declaration that effectively bans US companies from buying and using telecoms equipment from “foreign adversaries,” along with Huawei being added to an ‘Entity List’ barring it from doing business with American firms without government approval, top tech names have been cutting ties with the world’s second-largest smartphone firm. After Google […]
Online services for Razer’s Ouya and Forge TV services will shut down at the end of June, Razer announced today. The shutdown brings to an end the ambitious, turbulent, and mostly unsuccessful travails of the crowdfunded console for Android video games. Ouya as a device was discontinued back in 2015, when Razer bought the startup […]
The race to bring 5G to the UK is gathering pace, and EE looks like it’ll be the first to launch the new high-speed and ultra-connected service. At a press event in London, EE announced it’s set to flick the switch on 5G on May 30, cutting way ahead of Vodafone’s 5G launch date on July 3. The networks […]
DJI today strengthened its role as the drone industry’s safety leader at a Washington, D.C. event by committing to install airplane and helicopter detectors in new consumer drones. This is the first part of a 10-point plan to ensure the world’s skies remain safe in the drone era. All new DJI drone models released after […]
Google is introducing some noticeable changes to how it displays mobile search results, meant to better highlight the source behind each link. Mobile search results will soon display a website’s icon and name above the title of the specific page being surfaced. Until now, Google has somewhat downplayed the source of search results, displaying a […]
UK mobile carriers EE and Vodafone have dropped Huawei devices from the launch of their respective 5G networks. It’s the latest example of carriers distancing themselves from the Chinese tech giant after Google pulled the company’s Android license in response to a US government ban. Both the carriers were set to include Huawei Mate 20 […]
Just because Apple has stopped selling the UltraFine 5K doesn’t mean it has given up on LG’s monitors altogether. Apple resurrected the UltraFine 4K Display, the one made in partnership with LG, as a 23.7-inch model with two new Thunderbolt 3 ports (as well as three vanilla USB-C sockets) around back. It costs the same […]
Google disclosed that it recently discovered a bug that caused some portion of G Suite users to have their passwords stored in plain text. The bug has been around since 2005, though Google says that it can’t find any evidence that anybody’s password was improperly accessed. It’s resetting any passwords that might be affected and […]
Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, Julie Brill, wrote Monday that people have a right to privacy, as they become increasingly alarmed by how much data tech giants have gathered on them. The post comes nearly a year after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation came into effect. While there are multiple […]
Apple will offer free repairs to owners of 2016 MacBook Pros with backlight issues a problem that’s increasingly started to appear on the laptops as they age. The repair program, announced this afternoon, covers only the 13-inch MacBook Pro model that debuted in 2016, though both the Touch Bar and non-Touch Bar versions are eligible. […]