The camera on the cheaper iPhone XR can do almost everything that the dual camera on the iPhone XS can, except when it comes to two important tasks. iPhone XR vs iPhone XS: Is the XS camera worth the extra money? – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOneDrive gets new sharing prompts and fields to add metadata to scans. Microsoft: These new OneDrive features on iOS, Android, web, are headed your way Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreOn average, we spend 47,000 hours answering emails throughout our careers. To put that number in perspective, we spend about 22,000 hours in school and university. Dealing with this steady influx of emails is not just annoying: It’s killing productivity and can even cause anxiety. Also, switching back and forth between tasks — for example,
Read MoreAssociated Press: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27 — LONDON (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a request to appear before an international parliamentary committee delving … Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejects request to
Read MoreA new hub has been opened in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to assist the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as startups, to market and sell to Chinese consumers among many of its benefits. This comes after Rwanda became the first Afrikan country to be admitted to the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP). The eWTP is the brainchild
Read MoreJon Porter / The Verge: Facebook Messenger will soon let users remove sent messages within 10 minutes after posting, release notes for an update to the iOS app say — Soon you can have Zuckerberg powers — Facebook Messenger will soon allow you to delete sent messages up to 10 minutes after you’ve originally sent
Read MoreSteganography involves hiding data in something else — for example, encoding data in a picture. [David Buchanan] used polyglot files not to hide data, but to send a large amount of data in a single Twitter post. We don’t think it quite qualifies as steganography because the image has a giant red UNZIP ME printed
Read MoreHe’s already declined to appear in London, but that’s “not good enough.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg under pressure to attend international hearing – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCryptocurrency hackers have attacked one of the internet’s most used traffic analytics services, StatCounter, in order to siphon Bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate.io. In a targeted attack, hackers breached StatCounter to such an extent that over 688,000 websites were caught loading the malicious script, ZDNet reports. StatCounter is much akin to Google
Read MoreChina’s stranglehold on its citizens’ internet usage is notorious, and now the officials in charge of it are gathered at China’s main internet conference in Wuzhen. Today, President Xi Jinping called for greater global cooperation in making the internet fairer in a speech that was read on his behalf at the conference, Reuters reports. “There
Read MoreAs the first phone with a foldable screen, the FlexPai features a 7.8-inch screen, Android Pie and dual cameras. A closer look at Royole's foldable, bendable FlexPai phone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt seems like everyone wants to get on the AirPod bandwagon. Apple’s wireless earbuds have proven so popular that shedloads of companies are copying the format and releasing similar-looking versions of the audio gear. The latest in this line? The Xiaomi AirDots. The earbuds have many of the same features as the AirPods. First off,
Read MoreGiles Turner / Bloomberg: Uber Eats’ EMEA head says it plans to increase EMEA staff from 300 to 900 next year, as it competes against local rivals such as Deliveroo and Just Eat — Uber Technologies Inc. said it’ll triple headcount working on food delivery across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in its fight
Read MoreFive years ago, global funding for the femtech sector had barely reached $100 million total. But now? The femtech industry is set to see a huge increase to more than $400 million — the largest amount of funding the industry has ever received. This rise is long overdue. Historically, femtech hasn’t received much venture capital funding, since a staggering (but
Read MoreA Canadian university had to shut down its entire campus network after it discovered hackers had hijacked its computing power to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency – Bitcoin, to be exact. In a statement released earlier this week, Nova Scotia-based St. Francis Xavier University revealed the hackers snuck in malicious software on its servers to run their
Read MoreOutsiders have little leverage to force the industry to change. The companies’ own workers are another matter. State of the Art: Why the Google Walkout Was a Watershed Moment in Tech Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSite details? Incentives? Much of the process has been secret, and local officials and developers signed nondisclosure agreements. What We Don’t Know About Amazon’s Split HQ2 Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreGoogle is helping relieve the knowledge workers of the world from the drudgery of email — by revealing how inhuman it was in the first place. On Technology: You Already Email Like a Robot — Why Not Automate It? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that major banks in the country have suffered a cyber attack affecting more than 20,000 users. “More than 100 cases (of cyber-attack) have been registered with the FIA and are under investigation. We have made several arrests in the case, including that of an international gang last
Read More[Bill] purchased a house in Central Florida, and like any good hacker, he started renovating, pulling Ethernet cables, and automating things. Lucky for us, he decided to write up his experiences and lessons learned. He found a few problems along the way, like old renovations that compromised the structure of the pool house. After getting
Read MoreA Spanish-Argentine collaboration has identified a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur in Neuquén, Patagonia, which would have lived over 110 million years ago. The new dinosaur belongs to the family of Rebbachisauridae, a type of herbivorous quadruped. The fossils discovered were that of an adult of around 10 to 12 meters as well as two young
Read MoreFor those who ascribe to progressive values, the results of yesterday’s US midterm elections will undoubtedly be heartening. One positive development, besides the Democrats wresting control of the House of Representatives from the GOP, is the passage of Proposition C in San Francisco. This proposal, which was approved by 60 percent of voters, seeks to
Read MoreMike Minotti / VentureBeat: Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $73M in revenue in October, up 67% YoY, with Japan and the US accounting for 33.2% and 32.9% of total revenue respectively — Pokémon Go made $73 million in revenue in October, according to mobile research firm Sensor Tower … Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made M
Read MoreThe city’s tech elites were divided over the initiative, which is seen as an effort to hold their companies accountable for exacerbating the local housing crisis. San Francisco Approves Business Tax to Fund Homeless Services Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe company said Tuesday that it had taken down more than 100 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency, a troll farm. Russian Trolls Were at It Again Before Midterms, Facebook Says Source: NY Times Tech
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