Monday, January 22, 2018

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  • Sony's Xperia XZ Pro will ditch headphone jack, probably Sony's Xperia XZ Pro will ditch headphone jack, probably  The INQUIRERSony readying its first handset without a headphone jack?  Android Authority (blog)Sony Xperia XZ Pro preview: Everything we know so far  StuffFCC ID PY7-21831A GSM/WCDMA/LTE Phone with BT,DTS/UNII a/b/g/n/ac, & NFC by Sony...
  • Hunt: Showdown closed alpha testing period will begin at the end of this month Hunt: Showdown closed alpha testing period will begin at the end of this month  Game News PlusThe Hunt: Showdown closed alpha is kicking off soon  Videogamer.comHunt: Showdown Closed Alpha Kicks Off on Steam at the End of the Month  AusGamersFull coverage
  • Minecraft had 74 million active users in December across all platforms Minecraft had 74 million active users in December across all platforms  PCGamesNMinecraft: Better Together Update on Switch will be Coming “Pretty Soon”  Nintendo Enthusiast (blog)Minecraft reportedly reaches 144 million copies sold  Gamereactor UKMinecraft Boss Helen Chiang on Her New Role, Brea...
  • Man Bites An iPhone Battery In China To Test If Its Fake, Phone Explodes!
  • Sony Xperia XZ Premium 2 might not have a headphone jack
  • Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition review
  • Android 8.0 Oreo update for HTC U11: Sprint version set to get new firmware
  • Google Fuchsia OS Downloaded And Installed On PixelBook – Where To From Here Though?
  • Wynk Music Crosses Over 75 Million App Installs
  • Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3-Inch Variant Gets Upgr
  • Rocket League to get Cross-Platform Party Support This Year Rocket League to get Cross-Platform Party Support This Year  Bleeding Cool NewsCross-Platform Parties Still Coming to Rocket League in 2018  Nintendo Enthusiast (blog)'Rocket League' (ALL) Working On More Cross-Platform Support  WorthPlaying.comFull coverage
  • Violent Video Games Have No Influence On Players' Behavior, New Study Claims Violent Video Games Have No Influence On Players' Behavior, New Study Claims  Konbini USStudy Concludes 'No Evidence' of Violent Video Games Causing Violence  Game RantThere is no evidence to support the "link" between violent video games and behaviour  JOE.co.ukFull coverage
  • Android 8.1 update lets you check the speed of public Wi-Fi networks Android 8.1 update lets you check the speed of public Wi-Fi networks  TechRadarSpeed labels for open Wi-Fi networks rolling out now on Android 8.1  Android Authority (blog)Android 8.1 Wi-Fi Speed Labels rolling out now  SlashGearAndroid on Twitter: "Public Wi-Fi can be spotty. For the first time,...
  • The Red Strings Club Review
  • Amiibo-Esque PlayStation 'Totaku' Figures Seem Like A Missed Opportunity For PS4
  • The Overwatch League | Inside the 10 million viewer tournament looking to revolutionise esports
  • Google's Art Selfies Are Fun but Stir Up Potential Privacy Concerns
  • Apple debuts a dashboard for artists that tracks both streams and purchases
  • Top 5 electrified vehicles at Detroit 2018
  • Sony's Xperia XZ Pro will ditch headphone jack, probab
  • LG Aristo 2 with 5-inch HD display, Android Nougat goes official LG Aristo 2 with 5-inch HD display, Android Nougat goes official  The Mobile IndianLG Aristo 2 Is a $60 Phone with 5-inch Screen, 13MP Camera, Android Nougat  gizmochina (blog)LG Aristo 2 phone announced with yet another budget-friendly price  Android CommunityFull coverage
  • Monster Hunter World PS4 Trophies revealed, Xbox One release date pre-load LIVE Monster Hunter World PS4 Trophies revealed, Xbox One release date pre-load LIVE  Express.co.ukI'm Terrified Of 'Monster Hunter World'  ForbesHighly Acclaimed Multi-Platform Series Monster Hunter Returns for Collab with Puzzle & Dragons  DevelopFull coverage
  • Half a terabyte in your smartmobe? Yup. That's possible now Half a terabyte in your smartmobe? Yup. That's possible now  The RegisterThis New Integral Memory 512GB MicroSD Card Is the Biggest on the Market  GizmodoThe first 512GB microSD card arrives in February  EngadgetFull coverage
  • The Inpatient Review – The Doctor Will See You Now (PSVR)
  • Lost Sphear Review – Save Precious Memories (PS4)
  • Apple HomePod Release Date Update: Smart Speaker's Customizable Settings Leaked
  • Tim Cook Makes First Trip to Canada as Apple CEO With Surprise Visit to Toronto [Updated]
  • OnePlus reveals credit card details of 40000 customers were hacked
  • Lack of government support is holding Australian games-making back from world stage
  • Why aren't you using two-factor authentication with 

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    The Verge
  • How to watch the Oscar nominations live How excited are you for a pending awards ceremony that is still over a month away? Very? If so, you can watch the nominations for the 90th Academy Awards at 8:22AM ET tomorrow, January 23rd. The announcement will be live-streamed from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where it will be...
  • Thor: Ragnarok leaks onto the web a month early after huge Movies Anywhere mix-up
  • The surrealist horror film Mandy pits Nicolas Cage against murderous hippies
  • Waymo’s self-driving minivans are coming to Atlanta
  • Nokia removes the cardiac-tracking feature that made its smart scale different
  • Intel tells users to stop deploying buggy Spectre patch, citing technical issues
  • Lyft and Aptiv extend their self-driving taxi pilot in Las Vegas
  • Someone please help these Pikachu
  • How many people does it take to pick up a Pikachu?
  • The tense, emotional thriller Search proves good comp
  • Microsoft now lets enterprise users recover corrupted or deleted files from the past 30 days Microsoft's newest OneDrive for Business feature lets users restore files from any point in time over the past 30 days. Files Restore, as Microsoft calls it, lets users review changes made to files over those 30 days, including who made changes and at what time. They can then revert the file back...
  • Android can now tell you how fast Wi-Fi networks are before you join them
  • The less we know about Counterpart’s alternate universes, the better
  • Craiglist competitor Letgo adds housing sales to its secondhand marketplace
  • Windows 10 VR headsets discounted by 50 percent on Amazon
  • Montana governor signs executive order to keep net neutrality in the state
  • If we start deliberately cooling the Earth, we may not be able to stop
  • Rupert Murdoch calls for Facebook and Google to subsidize the news business
  • Immortality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in Altered Carbon’s violent cyberpunk future
  • Patients turned away, SpaceX delays: here’s how the 
  • The Air Force is sticking by SpaceX after the Zuma mission Rumors have been circulating that something went wrong with the classified Zuma satellite that SpaceX launched on the tip of a Falcon 9 rocket two weeks ago. But few clues have emerged to explain what happened to the mysterious satellite. Now, comments from the US Air Force seem to suggest that i...
  • Trump’s latest blow to clean energy is a tariff on solar panels
  • The more Facebook examines itself, the more fault it finds
  • You can visit the Pentagon’s secret nuclear bunker inside Minecraft
  • Google briefly broke Amazon’s workaround for YouTube on Fire TV
  • Integral Memory’s new 512GB microSD card is the biggest microSD card yet
  • BattleScar is a short animated ode to ‘70s punk, starring Rosario Dawson
  • Amazon doesn’t care if you accidentally shoplift from its cashier-less store
  • Facebook announces that it has invented a new unit of time
  • The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard quest

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    Tech Crunch
  • LA investors smell a winner in direct-to-consumer perfumer Skylar Body  The consumer investment train keeps rolling through Los Angeles, with organic perfumer Skylar Body becoming the latest brand that investors here are banking on for a big win. The company raised $3 million late last year in a round led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from serial entrepren...
  • How to price cryptocurrencies  Predicting cryptocurrency prices is a fool’s game, yet this fool is about to try. The drivers of a single cryptocurrency’s value are currently too varied and vague to make assessments based on any one point. News is trending up on Bitcoin? Ethereum looking sluggish? So how do you invest? Or, mor...
  • Photos purportedly showcase the Xbox Watch that never was  It probably goes without saying that Microsoft, along with the rest of the tech world, was working on a smartwatch. And while, by some accounts, the category is finally having its moment, the software giant’s efforts didn’t appear to make it too far beyond the prototype stage. New photos posted...
  • Letgo takes on Craigslist with addition of housing listings
  • ADP acquires workforce management software startup WorkMarket
  • Cargo raises $5.5M to let Uber drivers sell snacks and essentials nationwide
  • New study predicts Atlanta has best shot at becoming Amazon’s HQ2
  • Uber rival Cabify raised $160M at a $1.4B valuation amid restructuring and CEO change
  • SpaceX can’t test launch Falcon Heavy while government is shut down
  • Nike’s PG2 light-up sneakers are for PlayStation fanati
  • Linus Torvalds declares Intel fix for Meltdown/Spectre ‘COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE’  The always outspoken Linus Torvalds, best known for his continuing work on the innermost code of Linux systems, has harsh words to say and accusations to level against Intel. His evaluation of Intel’s latest proposed fix for the Meltdown/Spectre issue: “the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE...
  • Apple debuts a dashboard for artists that tracks both streams and purchases  Apple today launched a new dashboard that will allow artists on Apple Music to track fans’ listening and buying habits and view a variety of analytics about their music, according to Billboard, which had the launch exclusive from Apple. The dashboard, called Apple Music for Artists, is currently...
  • Ex-Uber Maps exec Brian McClendon running for office  Brian McClendon, a notable engineering executive at startups and large tech companies, including Google and Uber, has announced his candidacy to run for the open seat of secretary of state of Kansas. He will compete in the Democratic primary scheduled for August 7th. McClendon has been a lifelon...
  • Ziro’s robotics kit for kids now works with Alexa
  • Unbound’s Polly Rodriguez talks about the future of sexuality
  • Google is launching an AI research center in France and expanding its office
  • Waymo heads to Atlanta to test its self-driving cars
  • How MyHeritage found a new business in DNA
  • YouTube TV and Hulu Live TV now have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, says report
  • Coinbase hires a new VP of Operations to lead its cust

  • Crunch Report | Netflix is now worth more than $100 billion Netflix is now worth more than $100 billion, Uber Eats acquires Ando and Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay for the news. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
  • Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing  I was all set to dislike the “flick,” a time unit just recently invented by Facebook (technically the Oculus team), because I thought it was going to be something worthless like “the average time someone looks at a post.” In fact it’s a very clever way of dividing time that theoretically could m...
  • Want to learn about African immigrants? Mr. President, meet Africa’s tech sector  President Trump’s comments about immigrants coming from “shithole” countries are continuing to stir up a shitstorm internationally. And while the language itself is bad enough, the president and his advisors need to also reboot their assumptions about the African continent — not just for the imm...
  • Android 8.1 can now display Wi-Fi speeds before connecting
  • The Bowers & Wilkins PX headphones offer big sound at a high price
  • Netflix is now worth more than $100B
  • Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay for the news
  • AltspaceVR CEO joins Facebook months after selling his startup to Microsoft
  • Another short-lived, overfunded startup is shutting down: Primary Data
  • Montana governor’s executive order could force ISPs t
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