From PC Mag: In a Tuesday blog post, Facebook Messenger Head Davis Marcus admitted that the app has "become too cluttered" as of late.
"Over the last two years, we built a lot of capabilities to find the features that continue to set us apart. A lot of them have found their product market fit; some...
From CNET: The OnePlus 5T is one of the best phones you can buy today -- but for now, you can't buy it with a credit card.
Following customer complaints about fraudulent activity on their credit card after using it on the company's site, OnePlus is disabling credit as a payment form. OnePlus'...
From PC Mag: It's time for more tipping with Tencent—again. Apple and Tencent have reached a deal over tipping on WeChat, a super-popular social media app that allows users to send each other monetary donations, or tips, for content they enjoy.
To put it another way, WeChat's tipping feature is...
From The Verge: OnePlus is investigating reports of customers’ credit card details being stolen after they bought goods from the smartphone maker online. The investigation began after a poll posted by users on OnePlus’ forums found that many customers had experienced the same problem. In the poll...
From CNET: Lyft went from Uber's smaller and less-familiar rival to solid competitor in the US last year.
Growing at a rapid rate, the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company provided passengers with 375.5 million trips in 2017. The increase marked a 130 percent rise in the number of rides from...
From PC Mag: Patches and upgrades are normally pretty predictable —or, at least, most companies can give a decent estimate for when services might come back online after a routine upgrade cycle. Kraken, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, was stuck in upgrade Hell for much, much longer than it...
From The Verge: Intel is running into problems protecting its chips from the major Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that became public last week. The company has been warning customers of three specific flaws in a recent firmware update and recommending that customers hold off installing the...
From CNET: The Office of the US Trade Representative has blacklisted Alibaba's popular online shopping platform again this year over its problem with fake goods. And Alibaba is not happy.
The Chinese e-commerce titan published a point-by-point rebuttal in response to the US Trade Representative's...
In a race car, there are two things that require a high level of protection: The driver and the fuel cell. For one, the chassis of a race car should be strong enough to handle crashes and collisions to prevent as much damage as possible to the driver. However, when protecting the fuel cell, the placement needs to be carefully considered in the design. In addition, the fuel cell itself should be strong enough to handle forces from all the...
From The Verge: Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has penned an open letter to the rest of the technology industry, addressing concerns over the two major CPU security flaws. Intel has been issuing cleverly-worded statements, and altering its guidance on performance issues related to security fixes, but the...
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