Credit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Google will now take requests to remove your phone number, email contact, and physical address from search results. The company will process requests within a few days. You can also ask Google to remove other personally identifiable information. Google is expanding its options for removing personally identifiable information from
Read MoreJoanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: An overview of iPhone’s autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the iPhone’s autocorrect software — Tpying truble? During the iPhone’s first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.
Read MoreKim Masters / The Hollywood Reporter: An in-depth look at what went wrong at Netflix; sources say VP of content Cindy Holland’s departure in 2020 led to Netflix prioritizing quantity over quality — As rivals toggle between schadenfreude and fear, top creators and insiders are increasingly becoming vocal about what’s gone wrong with the streaming
Read MoreDrones have revolutionized the world of videography in perhaps the biggest way since the advent of digital hardware. They’re used to get shots that are impractical or entirely impossible to get by any other means. The [Dutch Drone Gods] specialize in such work. When it came to filming an urban mountain bike race in a
Read MoreThe XPS 13 Plus is available in silver or graphite. Dell announced that the bold XPS 13 Plus it debuted back at CES 2022 is now available for purchase. It starts at $1,299, and while Dell didn’t detail the exact specifications for this configuration, it’ll likely get the lowest specs listed in a spec sheet
Read MorePYMNTS.com: Ondo Finance, which is building a decentralized investment bank focused on stakeholders in DeFi, raises a $20M Series A led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital — Ondo Finance has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round designed to support its project of “building a decentralized investment bank …
Read MoreSaritha Rai / Bloomberg: Indian IT pioneer Nandan Nilekani, who helped develop the Aadhaar biometric ID system, is spearheading a government effort to build an open e-commerce network — He co-founded software powerhouse Infosys Ltd., became a billionaire and went on to spearhead a colossal government program …
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Google now accepts requests to remove Search results that include users’ contact info, like physical addresses, phone numbers, and emails, and login credentials — If you put in a request and it agrees they’re harmful — Google says it’s expanding the types of personal information …
Read MoreLauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: Internal email: Amazon permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic — The concession to warehouse workers follows the first union victory at an Amazon warehouse in US history. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
Read MoreIt’s very early days for CAD Sketcher, a new parametric CAD add-on for Blender by [hlorus], but it looks very promising. We do a lot of 3D work and like Blender as an environment. It’s always annoying that Blender doesn’t do parametric modeling, so we’re forced into a dedicated CAD package. Blending the two for
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon won’t face penalties or fines after an OSHA probe into a deadly Illinois warehouse collapse killing six workers finds Amazon met minimal safety standards — – The Labor Department on Tuesday sent a letter to Amazon ordering it to review its severe weather policies after an investigation …
Read MoreYou can add many effects to spice up your TikTok videos, and it may be overwhelming to know where to start. Take some time to experiment with different features, and don’t stress being too precise. You don’t need perfect edits or flawless lighting to capture your personality. Here’s how to edit TikTok videos using the
Read MoreBoeing is still working on the next generation Air Force One (the current one is pictured here). | Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images Boeing’s CEO, Dave Calhoun, says that the company’s deal with Trump to build Air Force One was a risk the company “probably shouldn’t have taken.” The comment was made on Wednesday during
Read MoreReuters: Samsung reports Q1 operating profit of ~$11.1B, up 51% YoY, on revenue of ~$61.4B, up 19% YoY, driven by memory chip sales with revenue of ~$21.23B, up 39% YoY — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) reported a 51% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, posting its highest …
Read MoreWill Sattelberg / Android Police: Google blocked 1M+ apps that violated its policies from being published on the Play Store in 2021, and banned 190K developer accounts for malicious behavior — No one wants some off-brand Candy Crush knockoff melting their phone — As smartphones become the primary device for millions of users …
Read MoreMeta Mark Zuckerberg told the world last October that he was all in on the metaverse, and that the endeavor that would only get more expensive over time. Now that his company’s stock price has been hammered in recent months, he is dialing back that rhetoric. Meta will “slow the pace of some of our
Read MoreTikTok offers a stream of entertaining videos to scroll through, but you can do more than just watch. Why not try your hand as a creator? Don’t worry; you don’t need a film degree or have to dance to engage your followers. By making your first TikTok video, you can craft the content you’d like
Read MoreAs the world becomes more and more digital, there are still a few holdouts from the analog world we’ve left behind. Vinyl records are making quite the comeback, and film photography is still hanging on as well. While records and a turntable have a low barrier for entry, photography is a little more involved, especially
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta says Reels takes up 20%+ of the time that people spend on Instagram, and says that video, overall, makes up 50% of the time that users spend on Facebook — Meta announced during its Q1 2022 earnings call that Reels, its short-form video feature and TikTok rival, now makes up
Read More1Password Whenever we talk about password managers, especially ones that sync their data to the cloud, there’s always discussion about whether or not your information is secure and what happens if the servers go down. The second thing is exactly what 1Password users in the US experienced earlier today, as a problem affecting 1Password.com kept
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple shipped almost one million “Made in India” iPhones in the first quarter of 2022. It represents a fifty percent increase in shipments from within the country when compared to last year. “Made in India” is becoming a bigger thing for Apple. “Made in India” iPhones are growing in shipments.
Read MoreReuters: Elon Musk will likely not buy Twitter as his interest appears to be waning; other considerations, like China holding Tesla to ransom, could also pose problems — Four years ago, Elon Musk vowed to set up a peanut brittle company to take on Warren Buffett’s iconic U.S. confectioner See’s Candies.
Read MoreWhat you need to know Beats by Dre has released a new “Made in LA” video. The latest video features Kayvon Thibodeaux, the defensive end for the Oregon Ducks and NFL hopeful. The video also promotes the company’s Beats Fit Pro earbuds. There are a lot of people who are “Made in LA.” Beats by
Read MoreIn a bid to meet demand from businesses that want to reduce or eliminate the overhead of managing databases, content delivery network and web security provider Akamai is releasing its first DBaaS (database-as-a-service) offering, close on the heels of acquiring cloud hosting provider Linode for $900 million in February this year. Called Linode Managed Database, the
Read MoreKurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Facebook’s daily active users in Q1 grew to 1.96B, vs. 1.94B est., a return to user growth after Facebook had its first ever QoQ user decline in Q4 2021 — Facebook’s main social network added more users than projected in the first quarter, potentially staving off concerns that the company …
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