US President Donald Trump is to meet video games company representatives on Thursday to discuss violent content. The meeting comes in the wake of last month’s shooting at a school in Florida in which 17 people died. The president has in the past expressed the view that violent games were “shaping young people’s thoughts”. But the games industry has defended ...
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Huawei leak shows differences between the P20, P20 Lite, and three-cam P20 Pro
After leaks of each individual device, VentureBeat reporter Evan Blass has tweeted a photo of all three rumored versions of the Huawei P20: the regular P20, the P20 Lite, and the P20 Pro. We can now clearly see what will likely be the front and back of each phone. They’re about what we expected. The P20 and P20 Pro both ...
Read More »Top Ethiopian activist blocked by Facebook for ‘posting too fast’
An Ethiopian media owner and online activist known for his active use of Facebook has been blocked by the platform. It is not the first time Facebook is blocking Jawar Mohammed’s account on the basis of hyperactivity – “posting too fast,” as they chose to put it. Jawar on Wednesday confirmed via his verified Twitter account that he had been ...
Read More »Huawei wins 2018 GSMA Award for outstanding contribution to mobile industry
Tech giant, Huawei Technologies, has won the 2018 GSMA awards for its outstanding contribution to the mobile industry. The award was presented at a special ceremony, where Huawei was recognized for decades of advocating new technology standards, driving digital transformation, and building out the digital ecosystem. At the ceremony, Ken Hu, Rotating and Acting CEO at Huawei, accepted the award ...
Read More »The banana phone is back! There’s a new Nokia 8110
A startup that licenses the Nokia phone brand has unveiled a new version of the 8110, a curved mobile phone that was first released in 1996 and featured in “The Matrix.” The phone, which is offered in banana yellow and black, will sell for €79 ($97). It comes loaded with a new version of the game Snake, Finnish startup HMD ...
Read More »Google in historic ‘right to be forgotten’ challenge
A businessman has taken Google to the High Court in London in what is being seen as a landmark case over “the right to be forgotten”. He is challenging Google’s decision not to remove a criminal conviction he has from the 1990s from search results. People can ask for online information to be removed from searches if they feel it ...
Read More »Fancy Bear: Germany investigates cyber-attack ‘by Russians’
Germany is investigating a security breach to its defence and interior ministries’ private networks, a government spokesman has confirmed. A notorious Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, or APT28, is being widely blamed in German media. They are thought to be behind a number of cyber-attacks on the West, including breaches in the 2016 US election. The hack was ...
Read More »Facebook news feed changes ‘decimated’ publisher
Lifestyle site Little Things says it has had to close after changes to Facebook’s news feed algorithms “decimated” its business. The closure of the female-focused publishing business will result in the loss of 100 jobs. The company focused on a mix of “feel-good news” and videos. Since launching in 2014, it attracted 12 million followers on Facebook. But the company ...
Read More »Haier smartwatch has a built-in projector at MWC 2018
A smartwatch that uses the back of its wearer’s hand as a display is on show at the Mobile World Congress tech expo in Barcelona. The gadget manages to squeeze a projector into the device’s side to offer something unique to the wearable tech market. Source:BBC Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »Signal detected from ‘cosmic dawn’
Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe. They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tuned to detect the earliest ever evidence for hydrogen. This hydrogen was in a state that could only be explained if it had ...
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