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CBS and Viacom have reached a long-rumored merger agreement. The two companies announced today that they will reunite as ViacomCBS. According to The Wall Street Journal. The two firms, which had been part of one company run by media mogul Sumner Redstone until 2006, will recombine as a new entity known as “ViacomCBS Inc.” Viacom […]
Facebook last week halted a program in which it was paying third-party contractors to listen to and transcribe audio clips from its users, said Facebook. Earlier, Bloomberg reported on the existence of the program and the fact it had been stopped. The contractors had no knowledge of where the audio was being recorded or how it […]
Nintendo documentation has detailed an upcoming wireless SNES controller for the Switch. The unannounced peripheral was spotted today in a new FCC filing (required for its release in the US). Much of the documentation is confidential, although we’ve got one diagram of the controller’s back portion to gaze at. Note the “HAC” model number, used […]
Facebook is developing a dark mode version of its Android app. This is according to researcher Jane Manchun Wong (via Android Police), who dug into the app’s code and discovered some parts of the app have been reworked to have a dark background. Facebook is working on Dark Mode for mobile I wrote a […]
Samsung’s recently announced Galaxy Note 10 is a flagship of unrivaled quality according to respected industry publications DxOMark and DisplayMate. In its analysis of over 1,500 photos and two+ hours of video footage, DxOMark awarded the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G an overall score of 113 (101 for video and 118 for photo), making it […]
Verizon has agreed to sell its blogging website Tumblr to the owner of popular online-publishing tool WordPress, unloading for a nominal amount a site that once fetched a purchase price of more than $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Verizon, which first acquired Tumblr in 2017 after it purchased Yahoo, started to explore a […]
The LG G8X set to be revealed next month at the annual IFA show in Germany. And it’ll apparently offer an in-display fingerprint sensor, a first for LG, if the first renders from OnLeaks are to be believed. Pricebaba and OnLeaks have come together to deliver CAD-based renders and a 360-degree video of the upcoming […]
The National Transportation Safety Board asked Google, Apple and Microsoft in 2016 to add railroad crossings to their navigation apps according to a report in Politico. The NTSB, which investigates accidents but has no regulatory power, requested the safety improvements as part of a probe into the Oxnard crash. In that accident, a truck driver […]
Twitter in more recent months has been focused on making conversations on its platform easier to follow, participate in, and in some cases, block. The social site is testing notifications on Android and iOS for replies to a given tweet, ensuring that you won’t miss a moment. You can limit it to replies from the […]
Samsung has announced a new sensor with more than 50 percent more pixels. The Samsung ISOCELL Bright HMX, which was designed in collaboration with Xiaomi, is a 108-megapixel smartphone camera sensor that Samsung says is the first to surpass the 100 million pixel milestone for phones. As well as producing high resolution photographs, the sensor […]
While users have traditionally purchased the Office suite as a one-off perpetual license, the company is pushing customers toward an annual subscription instead. Microsoft will no longer sell one-off licenses for Office 2019 as part of its Home Use Program. As spotted by Computer World, the company updated it Home Use Program frequently asked questions […]
The US Navy will replace the touchscreen on destroyers within the next 18 to 24 months, reverting instead to conventional helm controls and physical throttles. he move comes after the National Transportation Safety Board released an accident report from a 2017 collision, which cites the design of the ship’s controls as a factor in the […]
Russia’s communications watchdog has requested internet giant Google to stop advertising “illegal mass events” on its YouTube video-hosting platform. Media overseer Roskomnadzor has sent a letter to Google insisting that it stop promoting “illegal mass events” on YouTube. It didn’t like that YouTube channels were using push notifications and other measures to spread information about protests, […]
Dell is Intel’s first partner to offer designs sporting the new processors. With orders shipping in September. Intel CEO Bob Swan confirmed that the chipmaker was on schedule to deliver the long awaited Ice Lake CPUs by Q4 2019, in time for holiday availability. However, it seems consumers will be able to get their hands […]
Huawei confirms that the Honor Smart TV will be the first device to use the new Harmony OS. As of the trade ban, Huawei is now finding ways to thrive without their partners in the US like Google. The Smart TV is slated only for domestic release in China so far. According to Honor president […]