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Here are the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro

16 Sep 2019

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Today, Apple has unveiled a new set of phones, including the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 Pro, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. These new devices are powered b...

Google to pay $549 million fine and $510 million in back taxes in France

13 Sep 2019

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Google to pay $549 million fine and $510 million in back taxes in France After years of back and forth with tax authorities in France, Google has sett...

Let’s look inside Volkswagen’s new ID.3 electric hatchback

12 Sep 2019

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The Volkswagen ID.3 that debuted ahead of the IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt looks like a compact hatchback. And it is. But inside customer...

Fairphone 3 is a normal smartphone with ethical shine

11 Sep 2019

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How long have you been using your current smartphone? The answer for an increasing number of consumers is years, plural. After all, why upgrade every ...

Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting

10 Sep 2019

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Joichi Ito, the embattled director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, has stepped down according to a statement by MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif. The news w...

Kobo brings the Forma form factor to a cheaper model

09 Sep 2019

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I’ve long had a soft spot for Kobo for a few reasons. First is the simple fact that the company (now part of Rakuten) was one of the last few compe...

Porsche Taycan configurator: The 9 details that stood out

06 Sep 2019

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The Porsche Taycan is here — actually two flavors, the Turbo S and the Turbo — in case you haven’t seen the deluge of media coverage. The upshot...

Apple could release an update to the Apple TV

05 Sep 2019

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All eyes are on the next iPhone, but Apple could also be working on a new Apple TV. The device could be announced next week, or maybe later this fall...

Another US visa holder was denied entry over someone else’s messages

04 Sep 2019

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It has been one week since U.S. border officials denied entry to a 17-year-old Harvard freshman just days before classes were set to begin. Ismail Ajj...

Climate activists plan to use drones to shut down Heathrow Airport next month

03 Sep 2019

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A UK group of climate activists is planning to fly drones close to Heathrow Airport next month in a direct action they hope will shut down the country...

Nike Huaraches get updated for the smartphone age

02 Sep 2019

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Ever since they went from Back to the Future fantasy to real world wearable tech, Nike has promised that the Adapt line was more than just a one-off g...

‘Filmmaker Mode’ will automatically turn off all the dumb motion smoothing and noise reduction on new TVs

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Most people don’t adjust the settings on their TV after they buy it. Most newer TVs, meanwhile, come with a bunch of random junk turned on by defaul...

More than 130 U.S. companies have reportedly applied to sell to Huawei, but the Commerce Department has approved none of them

29 Aug 2019

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More than 130 U.S. companies have reportedly applied to sell to Huawei, but the Commerce Department has approved none of them Trump said in July that ...

Samsung’s Note 10 is available today, starting at $949

28 Aug 2019

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Samsung’s settled into a nice little twice-yearly schedule for releasing flagships. That’s allowed the company double the opportunity to introduce...

Chinese tariff retaliation, presidential tweets and market unease sends exchanges plummeting

27 Aug 2019

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After a week of modest gains, major stock indexes plummeted on Friday as China retaliated against U.S. tariffs by imposing $75 billion worth of tariff...

The Pad & Quill Gladstone Briefcase offers plenty of storage in a beautiful design

26 Aug 2019

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Pad & Quill makes some of the most handsome leather goods for the modern world, and its Gladstone Leather Briefcase is no different. This bag harkens ...

Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers to launch a protest caravan across California

23 Aug 2019

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If you’re like me, chances are good you just distractedly clicked on this article while scrolling through your feed in, or while waiting for, a Lyft...

Deadline extended one week: apply to Hardware Battlefield @ TC Shenzhen

22 Aug 2019

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Whether you’re a time-crunched procrastinator or a last-minute decision-maker we have great news for early-stage hardware startup founders! You get ...

Netflix’s new feature for tracking upcoming releases could help retain subscribers

21 Aug 2019

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Hoping to keep viewers engaged with its content, Netflix today announced the launch of a new section called “Latest” in its TV app, designed to hi...

Apple Card launches today for all U.S. customers, adds 3% cash back for Uber and Uber Eats

21 Aug 2019

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Apple Card launches today for all U.S. customers, adds 3% cash back for Uber and Uber Eats Apple this morning announced its highly anticipated new cre...

IFTTT warns against migrating Nest devices to Google accounts

20 Aug 2019

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Google says it’s moving Nest devices over to a unified Google ecosystem for the sake of simplicity. But simple can be complicated, as is certainly ...

Twitter to test a new filter for spam and abuse in the Direct Message inbox

20 Aug 2019

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Twitter is testing a new way to filter unwanted messages from your Direct Message inbox. Today, Twitter allows users to set their Direct Message inbo...

Apple, Samsung continue growth as North American wearables market hits $2B

19 Aug 2019

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New numbers out of Canalys show strong continued growth for the North America wearables market for Q2. The market hit $2 billion value for the quarter...

Fitz Frames, with $2.5M in seed funding, wants your kid to have custom glasses

19 Aug 2019

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Fitz Frames, with $2.5M in seed funding, wants your kid to have custom glasses Fitz Frames is today launching out of beta to offer affordable, custom-...

The New Soundboks is a massive, pro-level, battery-powered Bluetooth speaker

16 Aug 2019

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The new Soundboks is impressive. It has everything: a sturdy housing, Bluetooth, large battery, XLR-inputs, and several methods to connect multiple So...

Another day, another reversal in stock fortunes as recession fears grow

15 Aug 2019

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Another day, another reversal in stock fortunes as recession fears grow U.S. stock markets plummeted today as recession fears continue to grow. Yester...

Xiaomi tops Indian smartphone market for eighth straight quarter

15 Aug 2019

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Xiaomi has now been India’s top smartphone seller for eight straight quarters. The company has become a constant headache for Samsung in the world’...

Apple starts selling Mophie’s take on AirPower

14 Aug 2019

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There’s no shortage of AirPower knockoffs on the market. Many have been in the works since Apple took the wraps off its in-house version, positioned...

Japan’s mobile payments app PayPay reaches 10 million users

13 Aug 2019

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Paytm, India’s biggest mobile payments firm, now has 10 million customers in Japan, the company said as it pushes to expand its reach in internatio...

This charming little camera prints instantly to receipt paper

13 Aug 2019

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I’m a big instant camera fan, but the film is expensive and the digital printers just aren’t very good. So I was delighted to see this alternative...

Car2go hikes hourly rental rates by as much as a third

12 Aug 2019

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By-the-minute car rental service Car2go is raising its rates for short trips under the guise of variable pricing, the company announced to its users t...

Uber stock plummets following second-quarter earnings report

12 Aug 2019

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Uber disclosed earnings for the second time since becoming a public company, reporting revenues of $3.16 billion on losses of $5.2 billion for the sec...

There’s a 5G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10+ headed for Verizon

09 Aug 2019

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The 5G iPhone isn’t expected until roughly this time next year. But when it comes to the next-gen cellular technology, Samsung has already been ther...

This is Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 and 10+

09 Aug 2019

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Eight years later, the Galaxy Note is undeniable. The original device, unveiled at IFA 2011, seemed unfathomably massive for a handset — all 5.3 inc...

The Note’s most impressive new feature is only available on the 10+

08 Aug 2019

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The new Note’s 3D scanning feature got what may well have been the loudest applause line of today’s big Samsung event. It’s an impressive featur...

The headphone jack dies not with a bang, but a Note

08 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Next month marks three years since Apple unceremoniously murdered the headphone jack. Courage. The company was roundly mocked for the its own hype, an...

Disney will bundle Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+ for a monthly price of $12.99

07 Aug 2019

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Disney’s upcoming streaming service Disney+ will be available as a $12.99 monthly bundle withESPN+ and ad-supported Hulu. That means the full Disney...

Bird, Uber and Lyft get another chance to apply for electric scooter permit in SF

07 Aug 2019

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In light of a so-far successful electric scooter pilot program in San Francisco, the city has opened up the application process for service providers ...

Ethical fashion is on the rise

06 Aug 2019

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Brian Kateman Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Kateman is President and Cofounder of the Reducetarian Foundation. More posts by this co...

The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky Way

06 Aug 2019

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The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky Way Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improve...

StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data

05 Aug 2019

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It wasn’t “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm. The fashion and sneaker trading pla...

What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Note event

05 Aug 2019

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Samsung’s never been particularly good at keeping things under wraps. That’s no doubt, at least in part, by design. The company loves priming the ...

A Q&A with Multiple, the quiet agency behind many a startup’s success story

02 Aug 2019

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When Multiple first started in 2015 the concept of an agency specifically geared to the strategic branding and culture of startups was definitely not ...

The Samsung Galaxy Dongle

02 Aug 2019

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This, friends, is the Samsung Galaxy Dongle. The NSFW photo arrives courtesy of SamMobile. The story isn’t the image itself, so much as what it repr...

Fitbit lowers guidance after Versa Lite disappoints

01 Aug 2019

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Fitbit continued solid device growth for Q2, up 31%, year over year, representing a 5% bump in revenue. From that angle, the company’s long-term tu...

Google’s Titan security keys come to Japan, Canada, France and the UK

31 Jul 2019

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Google today announced that its Titan Security Key kits are now available in Canada, France, Japan and the UK. Until now, these keys, which come in a ...

AWS’ new text-to-speech engine sounds like a newscaster

31 Jul 2019

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Thanks to modern machine learning techniques, text-to-speech engines have made massive strides over the last few years. It used to be incredibly easy ...

SpaceX launches ISS mission using twice-flown Dragon for the first time

31 Jul 2019

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SpaceX has launched CRS-18, the 18th commercial resupply mission its flown for NASA to deliver experiment, research and supply materials to the Inte...

Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and ‘WannaCry hero’, sentenced to supervised release

30 Jul 2019

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MILWAUKEE, WI. — Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in...

Tesla starts rolling out Chess to ‘Tesla Arcade’ in-car gaming app

30 Jul 2019

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Tesla is making a new game available to its vehicle owners, with a roll-out starting today. The company started pushing out a new ‘Arcade’ app fo...

Trump threatens Apple with tariffs, Google with investigation on Twitter

29 Jul 2019

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The president of the United States called out two of the nation’s largest tech firms in a pair of tweets this morning. Google was the first target....

Old-school Doom and its sequels come to Switch, Xbox One, and PS4

26 Jul 2019

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Thinking about what to do this weekend? Think no more. Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 have all just appeared on the Switch, Xbox One, and PS4, giving you n...

Google says it doubled Pixel sales year-over-year

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It looks like the mid-range Pixel 3a is the hit Google surely hoped it would be. Alphabet reported some pretty good earnings today, but the company...

Stackery lets AWS Lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop

26 Jul 2019

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Serverless developers have always faced a steep challenge when it comes to writing code on their laptops, and debugging said code on cloud services. I...

Samsung readies Galaxy Fold for September launch

25 Jul 2019

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When it was unveiled on stage, the Galaxy Fold was heralded as the next big thing. Samsung seeded units to reviews and prepared for launch. And then a...

LG says smart TVs will gain AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support next week

24 Jul 2019

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In addition to Samsung and Vizio, LG announced earlier this year that it would be adding support for Apple’s ecosystem to its TV operating system. ...

The PureCam Connected Car Security System is a dashcam with extras

24 Jul 2019

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Thanks to a rash of YouTube videos of traffic stops, wild crashes, and wacky antics, dashcams are becoming more and more popular with drivers. But doe...

Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds review

23 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I would have had a review of the WF-1000XM3s up sooner, but they arrived while I was traveling. That was a bummer for two reasons. First and most obvi...

Moon bricks could keep the lights on and the heat up in Lunar colonies

23 Jul 2019

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Moon bricks could keep the lights on and the heat up in Lunar colonies There may be no “dark side” of the Moon, but when and where it is dark, it’...

Don’t hold your breath for the moon

22 Jul 2019

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In the house in which I grew up, a single framed newspaper front page loomed over us. “MAN ON MOON“, it declared jubilantly, in an enormous, suita...

After Baidu tie-up, BMW taps Tencent for autonomous driving in China

22 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

China is BMW’s largest market, and the German automaker knows in order to capture the country’s demanding consumers, its future models must suppor...

WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO

19 Jul 2019

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WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO Adam Neumann, the co-founder and chief executive of the intern...

Slack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach

19 Jul 2019

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Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago. In 2...

Instagram will now hide likes in 6 more countries

18 Jul 2019

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Would the internet be a better place if we all paid a little less attention to fake internet points? Instagram is still trying to figure it out. Just...

FaceApp responds to privacy concerns

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

FaceApp, the AI-powered selfie-editing app that’s been having another viral moment of late, has now responded to a privacy controversy that we cove...

With help from ‘Game of Thrones,’ HBO conquers Netflix in Emmy nominations

17 Jul 2019

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With help from ‘Game of Thrones,’ HBO conquers Netflix in Emmy nominations When the Emmy nominations were announced last year, Netflix had a big w...

Elon Musk is raising the price of Tesla’s “full self-driving” feature by another $1,000

17 Jul 2019

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The price of a Tesla vehicle equipped with “full self-driving” is about to get more expensive, the second time in the past several months the com...

Steam Labs lets you peek into Valve’s experimental projects

16 Jul 2019

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Like most companies, much of what Valve tinkers with behind the scenes never sees the light of day. Concepts are born, torn apart and rebuilt, and som...

Hayabusa2 lands on an asteroid and sends back amazing pictures to prove it

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu is an ambitious one to begin with, and the team recently made the decision to up the stakes with a s...

Behold, the mid-engine 2020 C8 Corvette’s steering wheel

15 Jul 2019

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The new 2020 C8 Corvette won’t be revealed for six more days. But to hold us over, Chevrolet is showing off the steering wheel of the eighth genera...

Boosted’s electric scooter is fast, durable, fun and…really heavy

15 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Boosted, the startup that got its beginnings with electric skateboards, has officially taken its first stab at electric scooters with the launch of t...

There’s a tennis game hidden in Google right now. Here’s how to find it

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Google loves a good Easter egg. From cutesie Douglas Adams references to the search results for “askew” being just a liiiiittle bit crooked, ther...

‘World’s first Bluetooth hair straighteners’ can be easily hacked

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a thing that should have never been a thing: Bluetooth-connected hair straighteners. Glamoriser, a U.K. firm that bills itself as the maker o...

Tesla will not “refresh” its Model S or Model X electric vehicles

11 Jul 2019

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Tesla owners and customers hoping for a refreshed Model S or Model X are going to be waiting indefinitely. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Monday night t...

BMW 2019 i8 Review: Driving yesterday’s car of tomorrow, today

11 Jul 2019

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The BMW i8 is a lovely vehicle to drive even though it’s lacking. It hugs the road and commands attention. It’s thrilling in a way that few cars c...

Digital health is growing fast — but at what cost?

10 Jul 2019

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Chris Hogg Contributor Share on Twitter Chris Hogg is a digital health advocate interested in how new forms of health data are changing the ...

Cloosiv gives local coffee shops a mobile ordering experience on par with the mega chains

10 Jul 2019

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Starbucks’ mobile ordering app has proven wildly popular for the company, with reports indicating that it had more users than the likes of Apple Pay...

HQ Trivia has paid out $6M, but winners complain of delays

09 Jul 2019

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HQ Trivia’s troubles continue after a failed mutiny to oust the CEO, a 92% decline in downloads since versus a year ago, and layoffs of 20% of its s...

The sinkhole that saved the internet

09 Jul 2019

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It was late afternoon on May 12, 2017. Two exhausted security researchers could barely unpack the events of what had just happened. Marcus Hutchins an...

Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development

08 Jul 2019

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Brian Kateman Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Kateman is President and Cofounder of the Reducetarian Foundation. Fish make up 16% of ani...

It was a really bad month for the internet

08 Jul 2019

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If these past few weeks felt like the sky was falling, you weren’t alone. In the past month there were several major internet outages affecting mill...

GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it

05 Jul 2019

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If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you’re driving your Moon rover from...

Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments

05 Jul 2019

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For the first time, Apple has published the number of requests it’s received from governments to take down apps from its app store. In its latest tr...

Samsung’s Galaxy Fold problems are reportedly fixed — so now what?

04 Jul 2019

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In a recent interview, Samsung CEO DJ Koh noted that the company was hard at work on Galaxy Fold fixes (he also said people won’t be using smartphon...

Uber Eats invades restaurants with Dine-In option

03 Jul 2019

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Tired of cleaning up after take-out or getting hangry waiting at your table in restaurants? Well Uber Eats is barging into the dine-in business. A ne...

With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages

03 Jul 2019

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For four months in 2018, U.S. prosecutors in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly relea...

Nielsen reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so far this year

02 Jul 2019

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Nielsen reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so far this year Music streaming services have already delivered a new high o...

Apple tries out the ‘choose-your-own adventure’ Twitter thread format that recently went viral

01 Jul 2019

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It looks like choose-your-own-adventure Twitter games won’t be a one-hit wonder, now that Apple’s social team has adopted the format. A new tweet...

Synergy Research finds enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft, Salesforce

28 Jun 2019

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In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run...

AT&T’s 5G network hits (parts of) Las Vegas

28 Jun 2019

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Hey, so remember earlier today when I said that new 5G cities still qualify as news, for a little while longer, at least? AT&T is making it under the ...

The Office is leaving Netflix in 2021 because NBC wants it back

27 Jun 2019

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Well, it’s official: The Office is leaving Netflix . Michael Scott and the rest of Dunder Mifflin will be heading for another streaming service come...

Twitter’s underrated Lists feature finally gets some attention

26 Jun 2019

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Twitter Lists have never gotten the attention they deserve. A feature largely adopted by Twitter power users, lists allow you to create custom timeli...

Huawei says two-thirds of 5G networks outside China now use its gear

26 Jun 2019

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As 5G networks begin rolling out and commercializing around the world, telecoms vendors are rushing to get a headstart. Huawei equipment is now behind...

Drone Racing League is raising $50 million

25 Jun 2019

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The enterprise drone space has been heating up over the past couple years, but a startup in the entertainment drone space is raising the big cash now....

A Netflix hack lets you feel the action in a scene by vibrating your phone

25 Jun 2019

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A Netflix hack lets you feel the action in a scene by vibrating your phone Netflix Hack Day, the company’s internal hackathon, has a habit of produc...

Hasselblad’s new medium format camera is a tiny, beautiful nod to history

24 Jun 2019

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While mirrorless cameras accelerate into the future, medium format models are hearkening unto the past — and Hasselblad chief among them. Its new d...

Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight

24 Jun 2019

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Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most i...

Google says it’s not making any more tablets

21 Jun 2019

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The writing has been on the slate for some time now. Roughly this time last year, we reported that Google had wiped all tablet sales off its site. Tur...

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G arrives on Sprint tomorrow

21 Jun 2019

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You surely know the whole deal about carts and horses by now. When Samsung’s first 5G handset, the Galaxy S10 5G, arrives on Sprint tomorrow, users...

Announcing Hardware Battlefield 2019 in Shenzhen, China

20 Jun 2019

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Startup Battlefield is known around the world as TechCrunch’s premier startup competition, and today we’re proud to announce that on November 11-1...