From PC Mag: Have you been recieving a lot of annoying insurance-related spam calls lately? You're not the only one.
According to new data from Truecaller, insurance-related spam calls have skyrocketed in the last year: They now account for 39 percent of all spam calls in the US, up from just 2...
From AnandTech: Huawei has announced today that shipments of its smartphones in 2018 have exceeded 200 million units. In recent months the company became the No. 2 supplier of smartphones, ahead of Apple and behind Samsung, marking a remarkable progress Huawei has made since it entered this market...
From The Verge: HQ Words, the new Wheel of Fortune-style game from HQ, launched out of beta last night with a debut round hosted by the company’s CEO Rus Yusupov, reports TechCrunch. Unlike the company’s first game, which has players answer 10 multiple-choice questions to win a share of the prize...
I was recently on my way to the doctor's office when I saw a message from my friend who was moving her sister's desktop computer. Things were going fine until she noticed a lot of dust at the back. She asked me what could be done to clean it out, so I started texting out a reply. However, the doctor came into the room so I quickly told her she could remove the side panel and get a can of compressed air for cleaning. Approximately two hours later...
From TechCrunch: Days after FedEx CEO Frederick Smith dismissed the Amazon threat to its business during the company’s earnings call, Amazon announced an expansion of its two-year-old Amazon Air operation, which will now add to its fleet 10 767-300 dedicated Amazon cargo aircraft. The planes are...
From PC Mag: If you ask the FCC for permission to launch and operate four small satellites and your request is denied, what do you do? If you're Swarm Technologies, you launch them anyway and deal with the consequences later. Those consequences have now been decided upon, and they include payment of...
From ExtremeTech: Intel has been on something of a tear of late. After its Architecture Day earlier this month, where the company debuted its plans for new CPUs, GPUs, 3D interconnects, and overall foundry strategy, it’s now announcing a new set of manufacturing expansions intended to serve growing...
From CNET: Facebook-owned WhatsApp is being criticized for failing to curb the spread of child pornography on the messaging app.
A report by two Israeli online safety groups, Netivei Reshet and Screensaverz, concluded that it was easy to find WhatsApp groups in which people shared images and videos...
From AnandTech: AMD has announced availability of the Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE processors it announced back in September. Based on the Zen microarchitecture and featuring built-in Radeon Vega graphics, these parts are priced well below $100 per unit, focusing on the mass market, and the new...
From The Verge: AT&T customers will start to see a 5G logo appear in the corner of their smartphone next year — not because they’re using a 5G phone connected to a 5G network, but because AT&T is going to start pretending its most advanced 4G LTE tech is 5G.
According to FierceWireless, AT&T will...
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