Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content, where even a photo of an empty chair could cause big trouble. The New New World: Censoring China’s Internet, for Stability and Profit Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreRoku’s mobile app will introduce video streaming, including its stab at offering premium channels like Showtime and Starz. Roku goes mobile to take on Amazon Prime Video's paid channels – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe price cuts are aimed at counteracting reduced tax incentives in 2019. Tesla cuts US car prices following record production in Q4 2018 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreChris Welch / The Verge: Roku Channel adds premium subscriptions, with networks including Showtime, Starz, and Epix available on Roku devices and apps, Samsung smart TVs, and more — Pay for everything on one bill with your Roku account — The Roku Channel, which offers free-to-watch, ad-supported movies … Roku Channel adds premium subscriptions, with
Read MoreWindows 10 overtakes Windows 7 amid very slow adoption of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Windows 10 is now most popular PC OS as Windows 7 wanes Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreInstagram is home to over 800 million users — and more than 1 in 3 American adults have an account on the exploding platform. PostFly helps you harness all that engagement and marketing power automatically. Right now, you can pick up a lifetime of PostFly access at over 90 percent off its regular price, only
Read MoreI hate New Year. I don’t do resolutions and am generally “bah, humbug” about the whole hullabaloo. This year, my curmudgeonly attitude was dramatically amplified by social media in general, and Facebook in particular. And finally, after years of railing against the privacy invasive nature of the machine, I decided to quit. I suppose it
Read MoreA design method is simply a set of steps you can refer to, so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you are trying to solve a similar design problem. Design methods are great. They help define a baseline way of doing something. They help create a shared vocabulary across a team
Read MoreLike many retro favourites, the Game Boy is in no way dead — development continues apace through its many fans.But what about the hardware side? This is a particularly interesting one: [Alex] wondered if a Game Boy could be readily used as a wireless controller. Set out to make it happen, the final product is a
Read MoreWe track the price of major phones over three countries and two years. Why your iPhone or Android phone will get more expensive in 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBrian Heater / TechCrunch: Review of Amazon’s $30 Echo Wall Clock: could prove handy, but isn’t necessary, as it is limited to timers and alarms and requires pairing with an Echo device — Amazon gets into the business of time with a $30 Alexa companion — This was the year Amazon went all-in on the
Read MoreAn incomplete Android version is available for some people. Facebook Messenger reportedly tests dark mode in some regions – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCaring about our online privacy might be popular right now, but on a wider level, it’s not as easy as we think to escape the hole we’ve dug ourselves into. Did you #DeleteFacebook? Shady players can still exploit your data Source: The Next Web
Read MorePeople love their tech, and feel like something’s missing when it’s not there. This is the story of one person’s desire to have the venerable trackpoint in their new keyboard. [Klapse] loves a Lenovo old-style non-chicklet keyboard, so, despite the cost, five were ordered. They very quickly ended up with keys that didn’t work, although
Read MoreAnother year has passed and humanity, for better or worse, remains in charge of the planet. Unfortunately for the robots, TNW has it on good authority they won’t take over next year either. There’s always 2020. In the meantime, here’s what the experts think will happen in 2019: Dialpad, an AI startup created by the
Read MoreShadma Shaikh / FactorDaily: Sensor Tower: by the end of 2018, 44 of the top 100 apps in the Play Store in India were Chinese, with five among the top ten and TikTok taking the top spot — “TikTok is a Youtube killer.” — “Helo is giving ShareChat a tough time and has a higher
Read MoreI’m lucky enough to be able to try out all the latest audio gear, so sometimes friends and family are surprised to see I’m not donning Bluetooth headphones. Why would someone who reviews tech for a living not be living the wireless life? While I certainly have access to more Bluetooth headphones than I need,
Read MoreWe live in the future. You can ask your personal assistant to turn on the lights, plan your commute, or set your thermostat. If they ever give Alexa sudo, she might be able to make a sandwich. However, you almost always see these devices sending data to some remote server in the sky to do
Read MoreCate Cadell / Reuters: Didi Chuxing rolls out a suite of financial products in China as it continues to diversify beyond the ride-hailing business, after a year of safety scandals — BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Didi Chuxing has launched a suite of financial products, including crowdfunding and lending … Didi Chuxing rolls out a suite
Read MoreBabu Mohan / MySmartPrice: Leaked video of Nokia 9 PureView shows a smartphone flagship with 5 rear-facing cameras, a 5.99″ display with 2K resolution, and an in-screen fingerprint sensor — The Nokia 9 PureView will sport a 5.99″ PureDisplay with 2K resolution and run on a Snapdragon 845 SoC under the hood. Leaked video of
Read MoreFeeding things in the outside world is difficult, especially when there are clever creatures like raccoons out there that will break in and steal everything given half a chance. [_ah6] wanted to build a feeder for feral cats that would dispense food, but without encouraging the local raccoons. So, they built a feeder that included
Read MoreTheodore Schleifer / Recode: All Raise: 14 women were added to US VC firms in senior roles in Q2 2018, the most of any recent quarter, but about 75% of firms still have no female partners — Venture capitalists spent 2018 welcoming women to the fold, but the welcome has been fitful, uneven and, scariest
Read MoreLyme Regis is an almost obnoxiously gorgeous town in Dorset in the west of England, perched atop the cliffs of the world-heritage listed Jurassic Coast. Thanks to a campaign set off by a local 10-year-old girl and her mother, the people of this town is raising funds to erect a statue to their famous citizen
Read MoreCatherine Shu / TechCrunch: After a limited rollout in Singapore in November, Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek says it has extended its ride-hailing service to all of Singapore — After a limited rollout, Go-Jek said today that it will extend its ride-hailing service to all of Singapore tomorrow while continuing its beta phase. After a limited
Read MoreIt took a long time, but it’s 2018, and we’re starting to get used to the concept of talking to a computer to make it control things around the house. It’s not quite as cool as it seemed when we saw it in films way back when, but that’s just real life. The problem is, there’s
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