Month: December 2018

    • Google removes two apps from China's Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech from Google Play after internal investigation found they executed ad fraud via click injection (Craig Silverman/BuzzFeed News)

    Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: Google removes two apps from China’s Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech from Google Play after internal investigation found they executed ad fraud via click injection  —  Google removed two popular Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech apps from its Play store today after finding “deceptive and malicious behavior” … Google removes

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    • IDC: in Q3 2018, global wearables shipment volume was 32M units, up 21.7% YoY, as Xiaomi became the top vendor by shipments, shipping 6.9M units, up 90.9% YoY (Jeremy Horwitz/VentureBeat)

    Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: IDC: in Q3 2018, global wearables shipment volume was 32M units, up 21.7% YoY, as Xiaomi became the top vendor by shipments, shipping 6.9M units, up 90.9% YoY  —  While IDC’s latest report on wearables spotlights continued growth in international demand, much of the surge is coming … IDC: in Q3

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    • Google to expand eSIM support for Pixel 3 to Sprint and carriers in Germany, the UK, and India in the coming months (Abner Li/9to5Google)

    Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google to expand eSIM support for Pixel 3 to Sprint and carriers in Germany, the UK, and India in the coming months  —  With eSIM technology, users no longer have to manage the tiny-sized card thanks to all the necessary information becoming digitized.  Google today announced expanded eSIM support … Google

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    • Huawei launches StorySign to make storytime more accessible for deaf children

    Huawei today launched StorySign, an app designed to help deaf and hard-of-hearing children enjoy bedtime stories, while simultaneously assisting them in learning to read. The AI-driven Android app works by translating the written word into accurate sign language, which is delivered on-screen by an animated character called Star. According to Huawei, the app can recognize

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    • Huawei launches StorySign, an Android app developed with non-profit European Union for the Deaf, that translates children's books into sign language (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Huawei launches StorySign, an Android app developed with non-profit European Union for the Deaf, that translates children’s books into sign language  —  Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has launched a new Android app that leverages AI tools such as image recognition and optical character recognition … Huawei launches StorySign, an Android app

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    An MIT-born start-up has a bold new claim: An electric scooter that repairs itself

    Superpedestrian — a Cambridge, Mass.-based micro-mobility company known for making electric bicycles — told The Washington Post that it plans to begin producing an “industrial grade e-scooter” that can repair itself. The device will hit city streets in 2019. An MIT-born start-up has a bold new claim: An electric scooter that repairs itself Source: Washington

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    • Valve, which used to take a 30% cut of all revenue on Steam, says it will now take a 25% cut for games with $10M-$50M in sales and just 20% for games with $50M+ (Thomas Wilde/GeekWire)

    Thomas Wilde / GeekWire: Valve, which used to take a 30% cut of all revenue on Steam, says it will now take a 25% cut for games with $10M-$50M in sales and just 20% for games with $50M+  —  You may have missed it, since Nov. 30 was a big news day (the G20 economic

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    • Bored? How to quickly (and effectively) inject energy into ‘ho-hum’ industries

    Some startups seem to have all the luck. They have the ability to easily integrate cutting-edge technology, or their products and services spark consumer interest. When the ‘million-dollar idea’ itself is enough to get potential customers excited, marketing and promotions come easy. But most small business owners and e-commerce entrepreneurs aren’t so lucky … This

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    • WhatsApp to air three commercials in 10 local languages in India on TV, YouTube, and FB, warning against spreading fake news and the need to verify dubious info (Ivan Mehta/The Next Web)

    Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: WhatsApp to air three commercials in 10 local languages in India on TV, YouTube, and FB, warning against spreading fake news and the need to verify dubious info  —  WhatsApp has faced a lot of criticism for the way it’s handled fake news in India.  In its latest move

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    • Rest in peace, Tumblr

    Tumblr today announced it’d be banning adult content from the site, effective December 17. While this appears to be an attempt to curtail the images of child sex abuse found on the site, users contend it will only stifle and punish artists who have filled the site with positive and accessible forms of erotica. Recently, Tumblr‘s app

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