One of WhatsApp’s founders is leaving Facebook amid the data dispute When Jan Koum, a founder of the messaging app WhatsApp, sold the service to Facebook in 2014, he explained how deeply he cared about the privacy of communication. Growing up in the Soviet Union during the 1980s — when […]
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Facebook expands downvote button to some users in Australia, New Zealand Facebook began trialling a downvote button (not a dislike button) in February, giving the feature to a limited number of its many, many users. The trial appears to be a “so far, so good” scenario, as the company has […]
Huawei may have a backup OS in case it has to drop Android It’d be hard to blame Huawei executives if they’re feeling very nervous lately. The US has created havoc for ZTE by renewing an export ban over trade violations, potentially depriving it of its Android license and leaving […]
LG G7 ThinQ Confirmed With ‘Boombox Speaker’, DTS:X 3D Surround Sound Ahead of May 2 Launch LG continues to tease the key features of the LG G7 ThinQ ahead of its formal launch that is set for May 2. Just days after revealing a ‘second screen’ that may hide the […]
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 Suddenly Confirmed By Chinese Government Excitement is building for the Galaxy Note 9, and with good reason. And now Samsung itself has now confirmed the Galaxy Note 9 in the world’s biggest market… Spotted by famously eagle-eyed Dutch site LetsGoDigital, Samsung has certified two versions of […]
God of War” isn’t perfect, but it’s an unequivocal masterpiece Few games are as deserving of the descriptor “epic” as much as those in the “God of War” series. It plays like a Japanese-developed hack-and-slash but is presented with the grandeur of a Western blockbuster, and that formula is precisely […]
Facebook’s Messenger Kids’ app gains a ‘sleep mode’ Facebook’s Messenger Kids, the social network’s new chat app for the under-13 crowd, has been designed to give parents more control over their kids’ contact list. Today, the app is gaining a new feature, “sleep mode,” aimed at giving parents the ability […]
Intel Delays Broken 10nm Into 2019, Hires Jim Keller to Fix It Last year, Intel told investors and the press that it had begun early shipments on 10nm, though it refused to identify which parts this applied to, or when we would see volume shipments. Similarly, the company declared its […]
LG Watch Timepiece Wear OS smartwatch with mechanical clock leaks LG is planning to launch a new “hybrid” smartwatch called the LG Watch Timepiece, according to a leak. The wearable will run Google’s Wear OS, reportedly having the distinction of being the first watch to run the rebranded system off […]
Apple spent 5 years developing an iPhone feature it may soon abandon forever 3D Touch is quite possibly the most underappreciated technologies Apple has developed in the past decade, and that’s entirely Apple’s fault. It’s a very complex and compelling technology that uses special sensors integrated with the iPhone’s display. […]
