Spotify subscribers, Apple Music's closest competition, hit 108 million – CNET
Apple, meanwhile, has 60 million. Spotify subscribers, Apple Music's closest competition, hit 108 million – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreApple, meanwhile, has 60 million. Spotify subscribers, Apple Music's closest competition, hit 108 million – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe $499 Moto Z4 and the $349 5G Moto Mod make this the most affordable 5G phone besides last year’s Moto Z3. The Motorola Moto Z4 looks like the dark and stormy type – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto credit should read DENIS CHARLET/AFP/Getty Images The inventor of the jet-powered “Flyboard Air” hoverboard will try to fly across the English Channel once again this weekend, after his previous attempt ended in failure. The Associated Press reports, via France24, that Franky Zapata will make the crossing attempt on Sunday, when he will try to
Read MoreIllustration by James Bareham / The Verge A few days ago, Facebook disentangled itself from a nettlesome investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into how the company violated users’ privacy. And then, with that matter now squarely behind it, Facebook on Tuesday stepped forward to share some information about its effort to read our minds.
Read MoreThere are a number of ways attackers can exploit public information about your organization’s employees. CSO Online’s Susan Bradley walks through how an attacker can gain access to your organization’s Office 365 accounts and how you can protect your enterprise from these potential attacks. How an attacker can target phishing attacks Source: Security
Read MoreThe Bitcoin currency symbol or glyph (฿) has been around for a while now. It was first used by Nakamoto in an early release of the Bitcoin client. Apple even added it to the iOS12 keyboard last year. But the community is yet to decide on a symbol for smaller denominations of Bitcoin, otherwise known
Read MoreFrom desk to car to pocket. How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreEven the launch of LG’s first 5G handset wasn’t enough to reverse its fortunes. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Both Sony and LG sold far fewer smartphones last quarter than they did the previous year, according to earnings releases from the two companies. LG reported that sales from its smartphone division declined
Read MoreLast week, a security researcher tweeted that the Netflix app on his Android phone requested access to the device’s physical activity sensors. Later, when I checked it on my Pixel 3 XL, even I had the permission turned on without any prior prompt. It’s rather odd that a streaming video service would want to know
Read MoreRussell Brandom / The Verge: Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in the open-source Data Transfer Project, will develop interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud — Just over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features. Apple joins Google, Facebook,
Read MoreLast month, Dame, a female-founded sex toy company, announced it was suing the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) for censoring its campaign on NYC’s subway. On the subway today, you’ll probably spot a few ads promoting medication for erectile dysfunction and low male libidos from companies like Hims and Roman, but you won’t see sexual wellness
Read MoreAuthorities seized a trove of over 2,000 illegally imported Bitmain ASIC cryptocurrency miners from a Russian mining operation earlier this month. The founder of mining firm Intelion Mining, Alexander Shashkov, said that armed customs agents raided his company’s offices in two Russian cities, CoinDesk reports. Shashkov, made the news public when speaking at the TerraCrypto
Read MorePlaying a video game online is almost second nature now. So much so that almost all multiplayer video games have ditched their split-screen multiplayer modes because they assume you’d rather just be alone at your house than hanging out with your friends. This wasn’t always the case though. In the early days of online multiplayer,
Read MoreJaybird is back with another attempt at truly wireless headphones with the Vista, a redesigned model that looks to fix the various issues that held back the company’s Run and Run XT models. The new buds improve on the old ones in nearly every way, including more reliable connectivity, a lighter design, better battery life,
Read MoreDuring its developer conference in 2017, Facebook announced its plans to develop a brain-computer interface (BCI) that would let you type just by thinking. Now, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) working under this program have posted a study today noting their algorithm was able to detect spoken words from brain activity in real-time. The
Read MoreFacebook rejects Australian political party’s claim about fake news. Facebook says 'not our role' to remove content some politicians 'consider to be false' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRepresentatives from major tech companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have joined with some of the biggest health insurers and hospitals in an initiative to provide consumers with easier access to their medical information. Called the CARIN Blue Button API, the data model is a standard for sharing health claims data, which includes tests,
Read MorePlus, there were “dark psychic forces.” And yelling. Here’s what social media is buzzing about from the second round of debates. Democratic debate 2019 memes: Bernie Sanders wrote the damn bill AND threw his hands up – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and “newscaster style” in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech — Not to be outdone by Google’s WaveNet, which mimics things like stress and intonation in speech by identifying tonal patterns … Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and
Read MoreThere are many venerable soundchips in the chiptune pantheon, of which the AY-3-8910 is perhaps one of the lesser known. Having not served on active duty for Nintendo or Commodore it’s somewhat unloved in the USA, but it made its name in a variety of arcade and pinball machines and has quite a European following
Read MoreIt’s going to be a busy week. Samsung teases new Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Tab ahead of Note 10 Unpacked event – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDaniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: US files ~$100M lawsuit against BTC-e crypto exchange and a co-owner for alleged crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful money transactions — According to a court document filed on July 25 in the Northern District of California, BTC-e and its executive Alexander Vinnik … US files ~0M lawsuit against BTC-e
Read MoreGoogle wants us to love the Pixel. Will we love it more if we don’t have to touch it? Google's Pixel 4 hands-free gestures is a feature we don't need – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung Electronics has released second-quarter earnings results in line with its prior guidance, which is to say that they are not great. Operating profit fell 56 percent year-on-year to 6.6 trillion won — the lowest since the company had to deal with the fallout from the 2016
Read MoreA few weeks ago, we reported Chrome 76 would make it harder to run Flash – because Flash just won’t die – as well as potentially making it much easier to bypass article paywalls. That update is now available. Basically, if you come across a paywall, you can visit the page in incognito mode. That’s it.
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