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Worldwide smartphone sales showed 'biggest decline ever' in Q1 2020
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Your unlocked OnePlus 8/8 Pro might not work properly on Verizon (Update: Fixed)
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When should you expect to receive the Android 10 update? (Updated May 1)
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ICANN votes down controversial .org sale proposal
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The organization that oversees internet domain names has rejected a proposal to transfer management of the .org top-level domain from a nonprofit to a private equity group. ICANN said it wouldn’t approve the sale of .org operator Public Interest Registry because it would create “unacceptable uncertainty” for the domain, citing concerns about debt and the intentions of the for-profit firm Ethos Capital.
In a blog post, ICANN’s board said the sale would have given up the current focus of PIR in favor of “an entity that is bound to serve the interests of its corporate stakeholders, and which has no meaningful plan to protect or serve the .org community.” It also noted that the sale would leave PIR with a $360 million debt that could...
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Walmart's two-hour Express Delivery is coming to thousands of stores
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Coronavirus causes worst smartphone market contraction in history
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The coronavirus pandemic has caused the smartphone market to suffer its fastest ever first-quarter year-on-year decline, according to new data from analyst firms. Counterpoint Research and Canalys both put the overall drop in global shipments at 13 percent, though Counterpoint says the drop in China alone was 27 percent while Canalys calculates it at 18 percent.
Whichever numbers you look at, the situation is clear: it’s the first time shipments have come under 300 million since 2014, with a precipitous collapse in China preceding falling demand around the world. “By the end of the quarter, as COVID-19 started to spread to other regions, and lockdowns of varying severity were imposed, the pendulum of disruption started to swing from...
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Netflix removes a 'Designated Survivor' episode in Turkey
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Amazon details the war mechanics of its 'New World' MMO
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Walmart launches two-hour delivery service for groceries, electronics, and more
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Walmart is launching a new delivery service, called Express Delivery, that will get purchased items to a customers’ home in less than two hours, the company announced on Thursday. The new service could be helpful if you need to get items in a hurry while respecting shelter-in-place orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You’ll be able to use Express Delivery for more 160,000 items, including “groceries, everyday essentials, toys and electronics,” Walmart says. Express Delivery will cost $10 in addition to the regular charge for delivery unless you’re a member of the company’s Delivery Unlimited subscription service, in which case you’ll just pay $10 for Express Delivery. (Similar to Amazon Prime, Delivery Unlimited costs $98 annually or...
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Epic cancels 2020 Fortnite World Cup
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GDC Summer will go all-digital
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Motorola Lux65 Connect-2 video baby monitor review: This two-camera set offers monitoring and more
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Ryzen 4000 performance benchmarks: Ryzen 7 4700U beats Intel H-class mobile chips
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The best video baby monitors: Keep eyes—and ears—on your bundle of joy
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Americans are surprisingly open to letting their phones be used for coronavirus tracking
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Programming note: The Interface will be off on Thursday.
Today Apple and Google released an initial version of the API that represents the first phase of their joint effort to enable public health authorities to quickly identify people who may have been exposed to new cases of COVID-19. By mid-May it should be available to most health agencies. And so it’s time to revisit a question we first asked here three weeks ago: will Americans actually use these apps?
That’s the question posed in a new survey conducted by the University of Maryland and the Washington Post. The findings are mixed, report Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Alauna Safarpour:
Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert...
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Facebook’s new tool makes it easy to transfer photos and videos to Google Photos
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Facebook is rolling out a new tool today allowing users in the US and Canada to transfer their photos and videos to Google Photos.
The tool can be accessed by heading to your Facebook settings, then heading to the tab that reads “Your Facebook Information.” There you’ll find the option to transfer your photos and videos. You’ll need to connect your Google account before you can transfer your files.
The photo transfer tool initially launched in early December last year as part of the Data Transfer Project, with Facebook vowing to expand the tool to more countries in early 2020. As of March, the tool started becoming available around the globe, including countries in...
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Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new camera board that should dramatically improve the photographic capabilities available to the popular DIY computer’s enthusiasts and hobbyists. It’s called the High Quality Camera, and it’s built around a 12.3-megapixel backside-illuminated Sony IMX477 sensor with 1.55-micron pixels.
There have been official Raspberry Pi camera boards before, but they used much smaller, lower resolution sensors and relied on fixed-focus lenses. The High Quality Camera, however, supports interchangeable C- and CS-mount lenses and offers adjustable back focus. The first options to be available through approved resellers include a $25 6mm CS-mount lens and a $50 16mm C-mount lens.
The board has a CS mount but...
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New DisplayPort spec enables 16K video over USB-C
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DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 is a new standard from the Video Electronics Standards Association that allows USB 4 to offer all the bells and whistles of the DisplayPort 2.0 standard as well as transmitting USB data. That means support for 8K displays at 60Hz with HDR, 4K displays at 144Hz with HDR, or even 16K (15360x8460) displays at 60Hz with compression. It’s a big step towards USB Type-C becoming a true jack-of-all trades connector.
The USB 4 spec can already transmit DisplayPort data, but AnandTech reports that the new standard remaps USB-C’s high speed data pins to unlock more bandwidth for video. USB 4 is bidirectional, meaning it can carry up to 40Gbps of data in either direction. However, video doesn’t need to go both ways — you...
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'Luigi's Mansion 3' adds more multiplayer minigames with new DLC
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Raspberry Pi's improved camera module supports interchangeable lenses
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Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims
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Zoom has admitted it doesn’t have 300 million daily active users. The admission came after The Verge noticed the company had quietly edited a blog post making the claim earlier this month. Zoom originally stated it had “more than 300 million daily users” and that “more than 300 million people around the world are using Zoom during this challenging time.” Zoom later deleted these references from the original blog post, and now claims “300 million daily Zoom meeting participants.”
The difference between a daily active user (DAU) and “meeting participant” is significant. Daily meeting participants can be counted multiple times: if you have five Zoom meetings in a day then you’re counted five times. A DAU is counted once per day, and is...
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OLED kingpin Samsung could use Chinese OLED screens in Galaxy S30
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Turn your Switch into a Neo Geo Pocket Color with SNK Gals’ Fighters
The Nintendo Switch may not have a proper Virtual Console, but it’s still a great system for classic games, and today sees one of its most unusual retro releases in a while. To celebrate the Neo Geo’s 30th anniversary this week, SNK is re-releasing Neo Geo Pocket Color title SNK Gals’ Fighters for the first time since it came out in 2000.
That’s sort of an odd way to pay homage to the Neo Geo arcade system, if you ask me, but the results are certainly cool. By default, the Switch screen shows a scaled Neo Geo Pocket Color console running the game — you can even play it by pressing the console’s buttons on the touchscreen, though I wouldn’t recommend it. The clicky joystick is not quite going to be the same.
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Microsoft Office for iPad tests multi-window support
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Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Extreme E races will have male and female driver changeovers
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Balmuda's $329 steam-based toaster finally arrives in the US
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British Museum makes over half of its collection viewable online
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Motorola Edge and Edge Plus: Price and release date (Update: Coming to India)
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Uber AI plays any Atari 2600 game with 'superhuman' skill
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US wireless carriers are delivering phone chargers to hospitals for COVID-19 patients
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have all partnered with iHeartMedia to deliver thousands of phone chargers to hospitals so that COVID-19 patients can charge their phones. The companies will donate nearly 40,000 phone chargers, according to T-Mobile’s press release.
T-Mobile says it has already donated 20,000 chargers to hospitals in Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans and San Diego. Verizon says it’s providing thousands of chargers to healthcare providers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, New Orleans, Detroit and Philadelphia, and more. AT&T says it will donate thousands of chargers to “hospitals in cities across the country that have been hit the hardest by the virus.”
The donation efforts by the wireless...
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Tesla's 'full self-driving' feature is coming in subscription form
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SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless review: Modern versatility
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Spotify earnings: ‘Every day now looks like the weekend’
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People are changing how they listen to Spotify as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced in its latest earnings release today. Spotify says that it has met its forecasts in the three-month period ending March 31st, but noted that people’s daily routines are changing. “Morning routines have changed significantly,” says Spotify. “Every day now looks like the weekend.”
It makes sense. As more people work and study at home, people don’t have a morning commute to spend listening to Spotify, and there’s less listening occurring through the service’s car and wearable apps. Spotify says this has had a more significant impact on podcasts than music. However, other devices appear to be picking up some of the slack. The...
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Fairphone 3 can now be bought with a ‘de-googled’ OS
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Spotify users are flocking to ‘chill’ playlists during COVID-19
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Google Meet will soon be free for anyone with a Gmail account
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OnePlus 8 review: Android's mid-range champ has less bang for more bucks
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OnePlus 8 Pro review: A great phone that's no longer a great value
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Samsung Galaxy Fold update brings Galaxy S20 camera features to foldable
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Blink Mini review: Amazon jumps into the budget security camera fray
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Google Meet becomes free for everyone, as the pursuit of Zoom continues
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Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
Google is opening up its Google Meet videoconferencing service to anybody who wants to use it, instead of just offering it to enterprise and education customers via G Suite. The company says anybody with a Google account will now be able to create free meetings of up to 100 people that can last any amount of time — though after September 30th it may restrict meeting length to 60 minutes.
That Google account requirement is a hard one, however. People won’t be able to just click a link and join a meeting — they’ll need to be logged in. That is so meetings can be better controlled by their hosts, hopefully eliminating the possibility of Zoombombing. Google will also introduce other safety measures: people not explicitly added to a meeting...
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How YouTube’s moderators are keeping up with changing guidance around COVID-19
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Oh hey, today is our 500th issue! Thanks to everyone who has been with us from the beginning, and each of you who has joined along the way. We can’t imagine a better use of our time during this weird era than bringing you news and analysis of the day’s big moments in tech, democracy, and the pandemic.
One result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that big tech companies, which long have been reluctant to intervene in questions of content moderation, have quickly become much more aggressive. At Google, for example, the company began showing news stories from trusted sources to anyone who searched for information about the virus. It stepped up efforts to remove videos containing misinformation about the pandemic from YouTube.
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Samsung and LG warn that the worst financial impact of COVID-19 is still to come
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Samsung and LG just reported their first quarter results for the three-month period ending in March, with earnings largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, both companies warn that the impact will be felt over the current quarter ending in June. Namely, Samsung and LG expect customers to cut back significantly on TV and smartphone purchases.
In Q1, Samsung’s net profit was down slightly compared to the same quarter last year, but revenue was up 5.6 percent overall thanks to strong demand for its server and mobile components. The company said that some of its customers are restocking their chip supplies because of supply uncertainty, Reuters notes. Mobile profitability was also up, although shipments were down. Meanwhile,...
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Dice is moving on from ‘Battlefield V’ and ‘Battlefront II’
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Apple will pay $18 million to settle broken FaceTime suit
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We hope this Huawei foldable phone patent doesn’t result in a real product
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