Technology

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) For the first time, both Facebook and Twitter acted to remove content shared by the campaign to re-elect President Donald Trump from their platforms, citing policies against spreading false claims about COVID-19. Both the @TeamTrump campaign Twitter account and the official Donald Trump Facebook account shared a video …

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The Pixel 4 XL. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] The Pixel 4 is dead. That’s the official confirmation that Google sent to The Verge after people noticed that the Google Store listed the phone as “out of stock.” The Pixel 4 started shipping October 24, 2019, so it was available for only nine-and-a-half months. The Verge …

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Rafe Swan) The Trump administration and broadband industry are resuming their fight against California’s net neutrality law, with the US Department of Justice and ISP lobby groups filing new complaints against the state yesterday. The case is nearly two years old but was put on hold because California in October 2018 …

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Sony’s latest high-end pair of noise-cancelling headphones: the Sony WH-1000XM4. [credit: Sony ] Sony on Thursday announced its latest flagship pair of wireless noise-cancelling headphones: the WH-1000XM4. The new over-ear cans are the follow-up to Sony’s WH-1000XM3, which have been widely regarded as being among the best premium pairs of noise-cancelling headphones on the market—and …

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What can you do with a $200-ish mini-PC with plenty of power, tons of ports, and very few limitations? [credit: Jim Salter ] Today we’re going to take a look at Seeed Studio’s Odyssey X86J4105—a maker/builder-tailored, Celeron-powered mini-PC. The little device seems like what you’d get if a Chromebox and a Raspberry Pi made sweet, …

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Enlarge (credit: Cindy Ord | Getty Images) More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft to put down roots in China may soon bring a partial pay-off, if it succeeds in steering through the purchase of TikTok’s US business. But as relations between the US and China continue to deteriorate, the software company’s long-term bet …

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Honk if you love the environment. When Untitled Goose Game finally sees a physical release later this year (after a highly successful digital launch last year), it will also see the debut of a new line of “eco-packaging” that publisher iam8bit says it “hope[s] leads an entire industry into the future.” Iam8bit’s so-called “Lovely Edition” …

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We’ve known for a while now that machine learning was important to the palm rejection technology on the iPad when using a Pencil. [credit: Apple ] Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) now permeate nearly every feature on the iPhone, but Apple hasn’t been touting these technologies like some of its competitors have. I …

Here’s why Apple believes it’s an AI leader—and why it says critics have it all wrong Read More »

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) More than a decade has passed since researchers demonstrated serious privacy and and security holes in satellite-based Internet services. The weaknesses allowed attackers to snoop on and sometimes tamper with data received by millions of users thousands of miles away. You might expect that in 2020—as satellite Internet …

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