A group of four former Google employees who were recently fired plan to file labor charges against the company, accusing the search giant of retaliating against legally protected organizing activity. The four claim that Google fired them, in part, to send a message to other employees not to take part in labor organizing. “It’s about […]
Sony released the original PlayStation 25 years ago on December 3rd, 1994, and iFixit has marked the occasion by tearing down the very first, Japan-only model that never officially made it to other countries. To say it’s a throwback to another era would be an understatement. It’s not just the inclusion of now-quaint technology like […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation that bans the sale of smartphones, computers and Smart TVs without Russian apps pre-installed. The law will come into force on July 1st of next year, but before that, the government will create a list of Russian applications that must be pre-installed on various devices, according to Reuters. […]
Intel announced it has completed the sale of the majority of its smartphone modem business to Apple for $1 billion following regulatory approval. The transaction was first announced in July and includes intellectual property, equipment, and approximately 2,200 Intel employees joining Apple. By owning Intel’s modem technology, Apple will be able to source more components […]
T-Mobile promised its 5G network would go live in 5,000 cities and towns if its merger with Sprint went through. That deal is not yet final, but today, a few days ahead of schedule, T-Mobile says it’s launching its nationwide 5G network. T-Mobile’s 5G network has gone live ahead of its planned launch date. Indeed, […]
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore’s government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state’s controversial “fake news” law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe news site States Times Review (STR), contained “scurrilous accusations”. The post claims a whistleblower who […]
European antitrust regulators still aren’t done looking into Google’s practices. The European Commission told Reuters in a statement that it’s conducting a “preliminary investigation” into Google’s data collection. While it didn’t go into detail, a leaked document indicated that the focuses were on local search, ads including ad targeting, sign-in services and web browsers, among […]
Apple Music has long had three-month free trials, but what if you want to give News+ a similar trial? You can but only if you act quickly. Apple is offering a three-month trial to News+ to American and Canadian users who sign up through Black Friday weekend. That’s much longer than the usual one month, […]
Cards Against Humanity set man and machine against each other to see who could write the most wicked jokes. Over a 16-hour livestreamed competition, customers were able to buy new $5 card packs written in real-time from the regular writers or an AI, with whoever raking in the most profits getting to keep their job. […]
From tomorrow, November 30th, it will be illegal to fly a drone weighing over 250g in the UK without being registered. That makes today the deadline for registration. In order to do so, you’ll need to head over to this page on the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) website where you can register for an operator […]
The FCC approve a measure that would deny subsidies to carriers who use equipment from Huawei, ZTE, or any other “bad actors.” The FCC’s Universal Service Fund has $8.5 billion ready to subsidize carriers in making improvements to the communications infrastructure in the US, but none of the cash will go to those using equipment […]
Some Facebook and Instagram users are experience outages on Thursday, with the social media sites experiencing intermittent malfunctioning on Thanksgiving morning. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook’s family of apps, including Instagram,” Instagram tweeted in the morning. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.” #Instagramdown […]
Valve’s intent with the Steam Controller was to do things differently by providing the accuracy of a keyboard/mouse configuration with the flexibility of a hand-held device like an Xbox/Dualshock controller. Despite reportedly selling 500,000 units in its first six months of release, it could never keep the momentum going, as gamers of either playstyle (PC/Console) […]
Samsung has become dominant in using OLED technology on mobile displays the big name in OLED is its competitor, LG. LG’s TVs have wowed testers with their ability to control light precisely because each pixel is self-illuminating, unlike the “QLED” branded quantum dot LCD tech Samsung relies on exclusively, which still puts LED backlights behind […]
Twitter is notifying users that it’ll start removing accounts that haven’t signed in for at least six months. It’ll begin the purge after December 11th, although a Twitter spokesperson stressed that the account closures will take place over “many months” you won’t see legions of usernames become available on December 12th. You don’t have to […]