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It's late in the year for Easter but OnePlus are keeping to schedule for their biannual smartphone releases. Pete Lau, founder and CEO of OnePlus announced on Twitter today... I'd say it's a safe bet that the OnePlus 7 is going to be announced. Rumours abound as to the details. Is it going to have a pop-up camera? Is there
In March of this year, as you may recall, Facebook announced that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text. At the time, Facebook said it would notify “hundreds of millions of Facebook lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users” about this. On April 18, 2019, Facebook made
Free music battle heats up with the race to the bottom with free music offerings from both YouTube Music and Amazon. Great for consumers but it appears that the ad model that radio uses may actually now work in the digital divide which is exciting in itself. Time will tell how effective these offerings are as we are getting nickel
Amazon and Google announced that in the coming months, the two companies will launch the official YouTube app on Amazon Fire TV devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs, as well as the Prime Video app for streaming to Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices. In addition, Prime Video will be broadly available across Android TV device partners, and the YouTube
It feels like we are hearing about Facebook doing nefarious things with people's data at least once a week. The latest news comes from Business Insider which reported that Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their knowledge or consent when they opened their accounts. Business Insider has learned that since May 2016, the social networking company
We are fast approaching the Final Hawaii shows with my upcoming travel we will have less than 5 shows left here that will be video in nature. While audio only shows will continue to the end it's really crazy to know that I am that close to busting down the studio here. The time is going to go really fast.
Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch hat a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft (such as @msn.com and @hotmail.com) had their accounts compromised. The breach happened between January 1 and March 28, 2019. According to an email Microsoft has sent out to affected users, malicious hackers were potentially able to access an affected user's
Disney announced that Disney+ will launch in the U.S. market on November 12, 2019, at $6.99 a month. The launch date coincides with the holiday season, when many children (and some adults) have days off. Plenty of time to watch Disney content! Disney+ will launch in November with a robust library of theatrical and television content, and in its first
Hi everyone, I am filling for one more episode and Todd will be back this coming Monday with an all-new episode from the Blubrry studios. I want to give a huge thank you to Todd for allowing me to come aboard the GNC team as executive producer as I want to give many thanks to all of the Ohana out
Two U.S. Senators, Mark Warner (Democrat – Virginia) and Deb Fischer (Republican – Nevada), have introduced a bill that, if passed into law, would prohibit large online platforms from using deceptive user interfaces, known as “dark patterns” to trick consumers into handing over their personal data. The Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction (DETOUR) Act would ban online social media
Facebook created Watch Party as a way for people to watch videos on Facebook together in real time. It was intended to turn watching videos into a social activity. According to Business Insider, Watch Party is popular with pirates, who use it to run illegal movie marathons. The intended purpose of Watch Party was to allow Facebook users to host
HI everyone, Kirk here filling in for Todd for this episode and for Thursday's episode while he is away down in Las Vegas for the NAB show. Monday's tech news is a little light but no worries, tech news can be light from time to time. In the news this week, tech companies are testifying before Congress, the FTC is
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