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More people are leaving Facebook than ever
Many American’s use social media to communicate with loved ones and to get their news. Facebook used to be one of those number one sites for that.
In a recent survey taken by Pew Research they found that in the U.S. 74% of adult Facebook users have either gone on a hiatus from Facebook or have stopped using it all together. This survey was taken on the same day Facebook testified...READ MORE! |
Teenager Hacked Apple
A 16-year-old teenager who attempted and successfully hacked Apple’s servers was plead guilty for doing this multiple times in one year.
The boy had downloaded 90 gigabytes of data that contained secure files and only the secure files…not customer info. He was able to gain access to keys used by Apple employees to get into the servers and steal the data and kept hid identity a secret by using VPNs. Apple found out by tracing the serial number on the computer the boy used to hack Apple. After this they contacted the FBI to investigate the situation and they handed the situation to the Australian Federal Police. They raided the teenager’s home...READ MORE! |
The Galaxy S9 will cost over $1,000Samsung is one of the biggest Android manufacturers and they also have a history on following what Apple does to make their phones as close to the iPhone as possible. All the specs of the Galaxy S9 has been leaked, including the price.
In Europe the phone is going to be priced at 841 euros and the S9+ will be 997 euros. When the phones are...READ MORE! |
Recycled guns can be used for headphonesHeadphone company Yevo Labs, is making headphone made with GUNS. Other than that, they’re regular Bluetooth headphones. They consider the gun material to be the most valuable material in the world. People are concerned about these headphones containing this material though because of all of the mass shootings that have happened lately like the Las Vegas Massacre. The...READ MORE!
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A Bike with the Google AssistantWho would want an ordinary bike anyway? This bike is the second generation of Max Lippe's 2,800-mile Electron wheel bike trek. It promises to electrify your bike in 30 seconds!
The electron wheel replaces the regular bike's front wheel. The bike includes hill assist, with a top speed of 20 mph (whoa) and a battery that lasts for 50 miles. I...READ MORE! |
Apple didn’t show at CES this yearOf all the companies that have seemed proud of all their accomplishments in the past year, Apple couldn't make it to the convention this year.
The Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa dominated the Digital Assistant aspect of CES showing off in other products that both assistants are now available with them. If you went to the convention, you would have noticed that there were no signs of Siri or...READ MORE! |
Facebook is changing your feedThe social media network Facebook is making a change for the better; not only for the company, but for the people who use it.
Facebook wants to change how we see posts, making it so we really only see things that our friends have either shared or posted, instead of seeing viral videos or posts from pages that we've liked or sponsors trying to grab our attention. When CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this announcement, Facebook's shares went down...READ MORE! |
LG has created their own Jibo robotLG is one of the big companies they we were just waiting for them to make a competitor to the Google Home and the Amazon Alexa. This one might actually make prime time.
The LG robot is called CLOi. Its a voice commanded robot that can control devices in your home from your TV to your washing machine. If you have a refrigerator that's compatible with her CLOi can tell you what you can make for a meal with what you have in your refrigerator and prepare the appliance needed to make the meal. Alongside CLOi LG is relaunching...READ MORE! |
Samsung Galaxy S9 launches next month!Samsung has officially announced that they will launch the Galaxy S9 at Mobile World Congress next month!
Samsung unveiled the S8 and S8+ at Galaxy Unpacked last year before they were released in April but in the past with their other smartphones they unveiled them at Mobile World Congress. They didn't go last year because of the incident with the Note 7, which was a smart move on their end. When Samsung unveils a phone...READ MORE! |
Apple replacing iPhone batteries even if its good
Apple has been slowing down your iPhone to prevent random shutdowns when the battery can’t perform as well as it used to.
Apple’s out-of-warranty battery replacements used to be $79. They dropped them to $29 because people aren’t happy with their decisions to slow down their iPhone’s just because the phone’s battery isn’t the same. A memo has been sent out to all Apple stores that if someone asks for a battery...READ MORE! |
Google cracking down on offensive contentYouTube is trying harder to pick out explicit content, calling it a cat and mouse hunt game. People who upload inappropriate content lost their ads, and eventually, so did every other YouTuber, calling it an "adpocalypse."
Chief product producer Neal Mohan says there is a lot of gray area of what needs to be removed and what doesn’t. YouTube relies on people's reviews and machines to decide what stays on the website and what goes...READ MORE! |
iPhone X prices to dropApple is predicted to have a hard time selling the iPhone X because of its high price of $1000. Analysts say that the first round was rocky and took a while for people to buy them because that’s a lot of money for a smartphone… The iPhone 7 only costed people $650 so for people to have to jump from half of $1K to $1000? Apple’s noticed that people aren’t buying the phones, so they’re only producing 30 million phones instead of 50 million...READ MORE!
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Apple keeping secretsApple...Apple... Apple... What are you doing? Maybe you need to take a break. First with green line on the iPhone X, now the glitching and slow down on slower phones ? I thought the point of making iPhones was to make customers and die hard Apple people (LIKE ME) happy. You aren’t doing your job well. December 26th 2017 5 iPhone users are suing Apple for “slowing down” all of their phones, which I mean, is true. APPLE CLAIMED IT.
Last week, Apple...READ MORE! |
Samsung wants to add palm reading as another security measure
Fingerprints, eye scans and passwords are the current ways to lock and unlock your iPhone and Android devices and no one thought there would be another way to unlock your phones. Now there is.
Samsung has registered patients for a palm reading technology that future Samsung devices could come with to make your devices even more secure. This won’t be used as a standalone way to unlock your device but will be used like a security...READ MORE! |
Google removes YouTube from the Echo Show again and Fire TV
Google had removed access to YouTube from the Echo Show and Fire TV devices because it looked like that they were working on a Google Home device that would be similar to the Echo Show.
Amazon was able to still make it possible to view YouTube by displaying the desktop site but shortly after, Google decided to block that too. Their reasoning was that Amazon wasn’t responding with innocent intentions. Google wants people using Amazon products to enjoy the YouTube experience but it seems they are having trouble...Google removes YouTube from the Echo Show again and Fire TV...READ MORE! |
Windows 10 is the last version of Windows
Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon has stated that Windows 10 is officially the last version of Windows and Microsoft is going to focus on making Windows a service instead of making major OS updates.
The company has been looking into doing this for a while but what was holding them back was the execution and how this new way for Windows will play out. The way they have said this will work is that Microsoft will only update portions of...READ MORE! |
Users with MacOS High Sierra are at risk
A Twitter user has found a large security risk with the Apple operating system that allows anyone to log into your computer as an administrator by typing in root as the username and no password.
Any MacBook or iMac can be accessed in this way without any technical knowledge at all. If this were to happen to you, someone can go in and change your account’s password so they can get into your personal files without a sweat and without having to fiddle with brute...READ MORE! |
Intel processors are in troubleWorst case scenario, the hacker loads code onto the user's computer that damages the computer forever, in English terms. Although the processors haven't had an issue recently, Intel is still making sure their customers aren't having any issues. The first Intel processor was made in 1971 and was called the Intel 4004 processor. A year later, the Intel 8008 was introduced and was twice as powerful as the Intel 4004.
The Pentium Intel Chip is what's giving all of...READ MORE! |
Android possibly following Apple in 3D sensors
Can Android possibly do 3D sensors better than Apple? With iPhone X's new 3D face recognition sensor, sales have skyrocketing, and now with reports from Asia, Android's going to be following in the same footsteps in the following year. According to Android manufacturers, they are eager to get the same technology installed onto their phone. I guess it will...READ MORE!
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Google Assistant can help fix your Pixel 2
All phones break down eventually and Google has acknowledged that because in the settings of Android, you can send a message to tech support or call them right from settings! Now the Google Assistant can diagnose your phone before calling them and waiting for them to call you back.
One example of this working is when a developer’s phone wasn’t charging to 100% and they asked...READ MORE! |
Twitter dealing with abusers onlineThe guidelines that everyone is supposed to read before joining Twitter tells you how to act on the site and many people did not understand what they were trying to say so now Twitter is going to make this clearer.
In the Help Center, Twitter added two new pages that talks about how they look at other users reports for violations to the network and how Twitter will respond. A few examples of what Twitter will be...READ MORE! |