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Facebook announced Thursday afternoon that it had designated some high-profile people, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who’s notorious for using anti-Semitic language, and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as “dangerous” and said it will be purging them from its platforms. “We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and […]
LG’s G8 ThinQ went on sale April 11, and while it seems like a stellar smartphone on paper, its premium qualities are sabotaged by gimmicks like vein recognition and difficult-to-use hand-gesture controls. That doesn’t mean people won’t buy the G8, especially because retailers such as Best Buy have slashed the list price of $820 by […]
Samsung unveiled what it said is its thinnest, lightest tablet ever: the $399 Tab S5e. Sadly for the company, the tablet appears to suffer from a major design drawback. It’s been nearly a decade since Apple received a lot of flak for its “you’re holding it wrong” response to problems with the iPhone 4’s reception. […]
Intel announced the news at this week’s FMX graphics trade show in Germany. Xe is primarily designed for data centers, but according to Tom’s Hardware, there will be a second architecture for discreet graphics card aimed at the consumer market. For gamers, ray tracing brings cinematic rendering by rendering how light is absorbed, reflected, or […]
The Apple / Qualcomm settlement was an unexpected shift that came early in the trial between the two companies. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple had decided that Intel’s modems (which Apple had been exclusively using in the interim due to its fight with Qualcomm) wouldn’t be ready in time for a 5G iPhone, […]
Google is introducing a new feature for your Google account that will allow you to automatically delete your Location History and Web and App Activity data after a set period of time. You’ll be able to delete the data after either three or 18 months, and it will then continue to be deleted on a […]
Chinese technology giant Huawei is reportedly looking to enter the cutthroat television market. Huawei is planning to release an 8K 5G TV by the end of this year, a new report from Nikkei claims. According to sources familiar with the company’s plans, the set would include a 5G modem to allow it to stream remote […]
Netflix is rolling out a new feature today that will offer a serious audio upgrade to some of your favorite shows. The feature, simply called high-quality audio, will upgrade 5.1 audio streams from 192 kbps up to 640 kbps, and Dolby Atmos streams from 448 kbps up to 768 kbps. Netflix determined that anything above […]
After five long years, Google has finally done what every other major smartwatch maker has already figured out: How to add widgets. The improvements have gone a long way in making Wear OS feel smoother and more useful. Today, Google is announcing another new addition: Tiles. Tiles are glanceable widgets that you can swipe between […]
We’re probably still a few months away from the iPhone 11’s release, but an Apple patent just gave us a hint about one of its features. The Cupertino, California, company is developing fingerprint sensor that’d let you unlock your phone by touching anywhere on the screen, as seen in a patent granted Tuesday and previously […]
Huawei has now taking the position of world’s second-largest smartphone vendor for a while, having taken over from Apple for the first time in 2017, before switching back and forth in 2018. The company’s improvement in 2019, however, appears to set it up with a firmer control of the second spot: Huawei jumped from 39.3 […]
Oculus announced at F8, the new Oculus for Business, an enterprise solution designed to streamline and expand virtual reality in the workplace. Launching this fall, the expanded Oculus for Business will add Oculus Quest to the hardware lineup and provide a suite of tools designed to help companies reshape the way they do business through […]
Following last months accidentally leaking images of the headset last month, Valve has officially announced how much the new Valve Index VR headset will cost and when it’ll go on sale. It will be available in a bundle with the new controllers starting on June 28 for $749 (around £575) with pre-orders opening up tomorrow. […]
A Facebook insiders said the social media titan was working on making messaging work across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. This now it appears they’re about to be a reality. At F8, Messenger’s head of consumer product Asha Sharma said that in the future, users will soon be able to send messages across Facebook’s three different […]
Facebook announced an overhaul of its main mobile app today that puts more emphasis on two of its most critical features: events and groups. The company says it’s placing groups front and center as a cornerstone of how it wants users to think of the main Facebook app, while events is getting a fresh coat […]