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This ends an incredible run here in Hawaii for Geek News Central. What's ahead is live shows that are on before you go to bed and host of changes that I will be making to the show. If you have ideas for show changes drop me a note. I will be back with you on Monday for a new show
5G launched today in six UK cities on the EE mobile network, offering "gigabit" speed levels for mobile device users. The lucky six cities are London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham and Manchester, with further rollouts to Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield later in the year. In 2020, ten more towns and cities will get
Google is going implement Manifest V3, that will stop current ad blockers from working efficiently, on Chrome. Enterprise users, however, will be able to continue to use ad blockers. In short, if you want to block ads, and want to use Google products – you have to give Google some money. Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have
Twitter has started conducing in-house research in an effort to better understand how white nationalists and white supremacists use Twitter. According to Vice, Twitter is trying to decide whether those groups should be banned from Twitter, or if they should be allowed to stay so their views can be debated by others. Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of trust and safety,
While both the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro were announced earlier in the month, the 7's availability was only listed as "June". Today, OnePlus confirmed that the 7 would be available to buy in the UK from next week - 4 June. The spiritual successor to the 6T, the 7 is still well-specified with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU, UFS
The Washington Post reported that both Facebook and Twitter said they had disabled a “sprawling disinformation campaign that appeared to originate in Iran”. It included two Twitter accounts that mimicked Republican congressional candidates and may have sought to push pro-Iranian political messages. According to The Washington Post, a private security firm called Fire Eye “did not attribute the activity to
Apple introduced the new iPod touch. At a glance, it could easily be mistaken for a iPhone. The new iPod touch starts at $199 and is available to order on apple.com and the Apple Store now. It will become available in stores later this week. Previous versions of the iPod touch focused on music. The new iPod touch has more
NVIDIA announced at the annual Computex conference in Taipei a full range of Turing architecture-based Quadro GPUs for mobile workstations from global system providers such as Dell, HP and Lenovo. Featuring Quadro RTX 5000, 4000, and 3000 GPUs – the world's most powerful GPUs – the new mobile workstations are built to deliver desktop-level performance and capabilities in a mobile
The US Trade Department added Huawei and 70 affiliates to its "Entity List" in mid-May. Membership of the Entity List effectively bans US companies from dealing with these foreign businesses without explicit approval from the US government. The move came after increasing trade tensions between the US and China, and security concerns about Huawei's role in the provision of equipment
Reuters reported that Poland has submitted a complaint to the European Court of Justice against copyright rules adopted by the bloc in April of 2019. The EU feels the copyright rules will protect Europe's creative industries. The EU copyright rules, according to Reuters, requires Google to pay publishers for news snippets. It requires Facebook to filter out protected content under
Facebook is planning to launch GlobalCoin, its very own form of cryptocurrency, in about a dozen countries in 2020. Facebook wants to start testing GlobalCoin by the end of 2019. Facebook wants to create a digital currency that provides affordable and secure ways of making payments, regardless of whether users have a bank account. According to the BBC, Facebook will
This show reminded more than ever that it is good to be back to basics is creating an audio focused show. It's something I am going to contemplate more as I start the new chapter of the show with the move. Today I mix it up a little and you will want to stay to the end of the show
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