Back in February, we called out Facebook’s “free” VPN service, Onavo Protect, for literally being the opposite of a VPN. While it claims to cloak your traffic from prying eyes elsewhere, Onavo’s terms of service are straightforward about the fact that the company gathers data on everything you do and …
Read More »Samsung reports Q2 profit slowdown, says Galaxy S9 sales were lower than expected
Struggling against competition from Chinese smartphones, Samsung Electronics posted a lackluster second-quarter earnings report with its slowest profit growth in more than a year. On the bright side, the Korean tech giant said its semiconductor business is doing well. Operating profit rose 5.7% year-over-year to 14.9 trillion won (about $13.3 …
Read More »Wozniacki Stresses Fitness
Hard work and peak fitness are the major concerns for world number two Caroline Wozniacki as she starts her first run to the US Open as a Grand Slam champion. The 28-year-old Dane captured her first major title in January at the Australian Open, downing current world number one Simona …
Read More »Ariya Jutanugarn Wins Ladies Scottish Open.
Its created an odd dynamic where anyone on tour could win at any time, while at the same time with so many different winners, it feels nearly impossible to stand out. The win was unexpected for Jutanugarn, as she doesnt see links golf as a strength. After a difficult, windy …
Read More »New Leak Shows Google Pixel 3 XL in White
As we move into the second half of the year, Google’s 2018 Pixel phones are getting increasingly leaky. After some screen protectors and blurry photos of the black 3 XL, we now have an even clearer look at a white Pixel 3 XL. The new leak confirms Google’s total embrace …
Read More »Leaked Benchmarks Show Intel’s Core i9-9900K Crushing AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X
Last week, we covered rumors that the upcoming Intel Core i7-9700K won’t use Hyper-Threading and will instead switch to offering eight full cores without HT, with a new Core i9-9900K dropping in to replace the Core i7 at the very top of Intel’s mainstream desktop market. Now, leaked results from …
Read More »NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Spacecraft Is Now Operational
After its successful launch in April, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has started collecting data. It took a little longer than expected to get the spacecraft fully tested and ready for action, but the agency says it began data collection on July 27th. We won’t get the first …
Read More »IBM Watson Recommends Unsafe Cancer Treatments
About a year ago, IBM began prominently promoting Watson as a potential means of fighting cancer. IBM has been working on this technology for years, and by last summer felt confident enough to start advertising it. Follow-up reporting, however, indicates that IBM’s Watson advertisements may have been more than a …
Read More »Fabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with a private timeline of personal moments
Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the wake of Facebook’s closure of the Moves location tracker, by offering its own tool to record your activities, photos, memories …
Read More »YouTube’s dark theme has started gradually rolling out to Android
A dark theme option for YouTube users on Android is in the early stages of rolling out to end users, Google confirmed to TechCrunch, following a number of reports and sightings of the dark mode showing up for users in the app’s settings. The feature has taken a bit longer …
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