Verizon is putting Oath bloatware like Go90 on its Galaxy S9 phones Verizon has signed a deal with Samsung to preload four apps from Verizon’s Oath brand onto Galaxy S9 smartphones as part of the company’s ongoing effort to get people to actually watch content (and, more importantly, ads) from […]
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Apple Watch credited with saving another life after user suffers a ruptured ulcer Apple Watch continues to prove successful in not only helping users achieve health and fitness goals, but also in saving lives, the most recent being William Monzidelis, who nearly died from an erupted ulcer earlier this month. […]
LG’s newest G7 ‘ThinQ’ smartphone looks great, but it has a short list of features that makes it stand out LG announced the G7 “ThinQ” smartphone on Wednesday, and it looks to be a solid, well-rounded, high-end device based on the brief amount of hands-on time I got to spend […]
Here’s everything Facebook announced at its 2018 developers conference Facebook’s annual F8 developers conference is typically chock full of splashy product and new feature announcements. This year, the social media giant entered F8 under a cloud of high-profile scandals, including how the company deals with hate speech, election integrity, and […]
Google bakes security into new .app internet domain Google took a new step Tuesday in its effort to curtail internet skullduggery, opening up its .app online real estate that requires the kinds of encrypted connections that can thwart such problems. The .app domain is one among many joining traditional top-level […]
Facebook and Instagram Stories open to sharing from other apps Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat’s. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud and GoPro, third-party apps can now let their users share to Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories. Rather than screenshotting, users will be able to […]
Facebook’s AI-created virtual memories are magically haunting Ever since Facebook bought Oculus, it’s been investing in virtual reality in a big way. Beyond just hardware like the Rift and the Go, it’s also putting a lot of money and research into software. It delved into the realm of social last […]
New Bigscreen update streams your desktop to the Oculus Go Oculus says that its new Go headset already boasts support for more than 1,000 titles out of the gate as of today. One of the most interesting of the small subset of those that I’ve taken a look at today […]
Apple surprises with solid iPhone sales, announces $100 billion buyback Apple Inc on Tuesday reported resilient iPhone sales in the face of waning global demand and promised $100 billion in additional stock buybacks, reassuring investors that its decade-old smartphone invention had life in it yet. Apple’s quarterly results topped Wall […]
Analyst says Apple may forego Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter for new iPhones “We currently model no dongle this year,” wrote Barclays’ Blayne Curtis. The analyst didn’t provide any immediate evidence for the assertion. Apple has included adapters with the iPhone 7, 8, and X, which otherwise lack 3.5mm jacks. The step is […]
