Facebook announced that it would start restricting who can live stream video on the platform following the white nationalist terrorist attacks in New Zealand only a few months ago. “Our goal is to minimize risk of abuse on Live while enabling people to use Live in a positive way every day,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice […]
Disney and Comcast announced a deal under which Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately. Within five years, Comcast has agreed to sell its Hulu stake to Disney for at least $5.8 billion. While Disney now has full operational control, the agreement states that Comcast’s ownership in Hulu will never be less […]
Apple Pay is now an accepted payment method for iTunes, App Store, and Apple Books purchases, as well as Apple Music and iCloud storage subscriptions, as reflected in a recently updated Apple support document. The change, noted in an Apple support document, has so far propagated to the U.S., Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, […]
Good Novel pop-up front camera Brilliant true all-screen display Fast performance and charging Bad Cost Camera is good, but not great The OnePlus 7 Pro is finally here, ready to take your portrait with its novel pop-up selfie camera. The new OnePlus 7 Pro is powered by the top-of-the-line Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, the same chipset […]
Twitter is finally allowing a number of locked users to regain control of their accounts once again. Around a year after Europe’s new privacy laws (GDPR) rolled out, Twitter began booting users out of their accounts if it suspected the account’s owner was underage that is, younger than 13. But the process also locked out […]
Google is combining its travel-related products the mobile Google Trips app, Google Flights, Google hotels search, and more under a singular tool aptly called Trips. Google Trips lets travelers search by destination to find options for flights, hotels, travel guides, or vacation packages. And once you’ve booked your trip, whether through the Google tool or […]
OnePlus has done it again. It’s created a monster smartphone with an incredible array of flagship specs and features. But the new OnePlus 7 Pro is just one of the two new phones the company announced today. There’s also a regular OnePlus 7 arriving as soon as next month. OnePlus 7 Specification Dimensions: 162.6×75.9×8.8 mm […]
Vodafone has announced that its 5G network will go live on July 3rd, making it the first UK carrier to set a hard date for the launch of its next-gen mobile network. The service will be available in seven cities at first, and Vodafone plans to release four handsets and one home router on its […]
Spotify is testing its own version of Stories the sharing format popularized by social apps ‘stories’ feature on Snapchat, it’s no wonder that other social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and even Twitter jumped on the bandwagon, some of which even overtook the popularity of the originators. After her tweet went viral, Genius […]
WhatsApp is encouraging users to update to the latest version of the app after discovering a vulnerability that allowed spyware to be injected into a user’s phone through the app’s phone call function. A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims’ smartphones: all a snoop needs to […]
Lenovo has just announced what it says is the world’s first foldable PC a prototype ThinkPad that iterates the foldable tech we’ve already seen from phones on a much bigger scale. Lenovo showed off the world’s first foldable PC prototype, and we got to check it out at a recent briefing in New York. The […]
Some Pixel 3 and Pixel 3a owners who have complained of slowdowns on their smartphones are reportedly seeing significant improvements after they deactivate Google’s Digital Wellbeing feature. There’s a very active thread on Reddit right now that includes many reports of improved performance when Digital Wellbeing is switched off. Some say the “night and day” […]
Today Apple released the redesigned version of the Apple TV app. Apple has unveiled big changes to its TV app, rolling out visual improvements and setting things up to integrate the hotly anticipated Apple TV Plus streaming service later this year. The app is now live on Apple TV devices, iPads, iPhones and iPods assuming […]
Facebook hires contractors through outside providers, including Accenture and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, and sets minimum wage standards through contracts with those companies. As a result, Facebook said it doesn’t know exactly how much each of its contractors is paid, and it’s possible that some already make more than Facebook’s new threshold. “Today we’re committing […]
Someone asked me about buying knockoff AirPod, an off-brand replica. I’ve tested loads of earbuds before, but they all had different designs none of them were exact AirPod copycats. This time, I truly wanted to compare, well, apples to Apples. I found a pair AirSounds True Wireless Earbuds and went to purchase them to test […]