From The Verge: In the first 24 hours after the deadly mass shooting in New Zealand, Facebook says that it has removed 1.5 million videos that were uploaded of the attack, of which 1.2 million “at upload.”
The company made the announcement in a Tweet, following up on a prior announcement that it...
In junior high school, we had to make a presentation about our hero. Being an avid hockey fan, I decided to pick my favorite player, Jarome Iginla. To me it was a pretty easy choice, but more so because he was the stats leader and captain of the Calgary Flames. However, if I were to look back, I never really considered who he was when he was not on the ice. Last weekend was pretty special for him as his number was retired by the Flames...
I remember about five years ago, when people were talking about artificial intelligence or AI, nobody believed a computer could actually beat a human in a competition. Some said AI was overrated, since it had been developed for decades, yet we had yet to see robots running on the streets. However, things changed dramatically after AI Go, the AlphaGo Master, beat the world’s number one professional Go player in 2017. It was a milestone for AI and...
From The Verge: At CES 2019, Samsung announced the latest versions of the Notebook 9 lineup of laptops: the Notebook 9 Pro and the Notebook 9 Pen. Today, the company revealed that the two computers will be available starting on March 17th.
The Notebook 9 Pro is the more radical update of the two...
From PC Mag: Western Digital has this week greatly enhanced the performance of its Blue line of solid state drives by introducing the WD Blue SN500 NVMe SSD, which boasts three-times the performance of the existing WD Blue 3D NAND SATA drives.
The WD Blue 3D SSDs use the M.2 2280 form factor, but...
From CNET: More successors to the Moto G6 phones are rolling out for sale. Earlier this month, Motorola and Google Fi began selling the Moto G7, the marquee phone from its line of midrange handsets.
As of today, one more phone from the family, the Moto G7 Power, is on sale (see below). Another, the...
From The Verge: Samsung is working on making the entire front of its phones a screen, with no need for bezels or a camera cutout of any kind. Yonhap News Agency reports that the company’s vice president of its display R&D group, Yang Byung-duk, said that “though it wouldn’t be possible to make (a...
From PC Mag: Verizon is launching 5G service on April 11 in Chicago and Minneapolis, with the Motorola 5G Moto Mod (pictured) as its initial device. The Moto Mod will be followed by the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, the first integrated 5G phone, although Verizon hasn't announced a hard date for the Galaxy...
From CNET: Facebook's loss may be Telegram's gain.
The founder of the messaging service said Thursday that people flocked to Telegram during the long Facebook outage that knocked out not only its namesake social network, but also corporate siblings Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
"I see 3...
From The Verge: Twitter today introduced a revamped version of its camera that’s designed to promote more sharing of photos and videos on the text-centric network. Swipe left on the timeline in the updated app to see the camera, which allows you to snap a photo or take a looping video of up to two...
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