Goodbye fingerprints and smudges. For phones, matte is the new black

From CNET: Fingerprint-smudged smartphones may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new technology from glass maker Corning.

Handset vendors like Apple and Samsung have been incorporating more and more glass in their phone designs over the past couple of years. While devices originally had glass...

EU Fines Google $5.1B for Abuse of Power

From PC Mag: Google and the European Union are certainly not on friendly terms right now, and haven't been for quite some time. That's because Google's business practices are being called into question and the search giant isn't winning any arguments. The latest focus of the EU is Android, and the...

Google Assistant will now give you a snapshot of your day

From CNET: Google Assistant will now pull together curated personal information, like flight times, restaurant reservations, scheduled meetings, expected package deliveries, reminders and more, and lay them out in a single overview you can scroll through.

Announced on Monday, the new feature will...

Nest CEO steps down as division is brought under the Google Home team

From The Verge: Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz is stepping down as the smart home gadget maker is reshuffled yet again, now operating under the Google division responsible for the company’s Home smart speakers, according to a report from CNET. Just five months ago, Fawaz oversaw Nest’s reintegration under...

Walmart Moves to Microsoft's Cloud

From PC Mag: Walmart knows that its biggest rival is Amazon, so to better compete with the company run by the world's richest person, Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft.

Today, Walmart announced that it has established a strategic partnership with Microsoft to, "further accelerate Walmart's...

Amazon says US Prime Day 2018 sales strong, despite 'ruff start'

From CNET: Amazon said sales during its annual Prime Day event in the US are surging so far, even after a series of glitches crippled its site and app for many customers on Monday.

"Prime Day sales in the U.S. so far are bigger than ever – in fact, in the first ten hours Prime Day grew even faster...

Sony Quietly Rolls Out New PS4 Model

From PC Mag: If you go out and buy a PS4 today, chances are the model number written on it will be some variation of CUH-2100. But in the coming weeks and months, that will change as Sony just rolled out a CUH-2200 model.

PlayStation model number changes are made for different reasons, and the...

ZTE stocks jump after US lifts crippling supplier ban

From CNET: ZTE's stock surged by 17 percent Monday morning after the company was freed from a crippling US supplier ban.

The Chinese telecom escaped the ban's shadow Friday when the US Department of Commerce announced that the company deposited $400 million in an escrow account, to be held to cover...

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