Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin Among Those Charged In College Admission Scheme

Most of the kids reportedly didn’t know their parents were offering bribes.

Woman Attacked By Zoo’s Jaguar Apologizes For Crossing Barricade For Photo

She denied climbing over the barrier at an Arizona zoo but said she was “in the wrong” for leaning over it.

Amazon’s Eero acquisition closes as a $100-off deal opens

Amazon has completed its acquisition of Eero, and to mark the occasion it has slashed $100 off the price of the home WiFi mesh networking system. News of the acquisition broke back in February, with Amazon adding the multi-router system to its growing list of hardware brands it owns. Eero was at the front of the domestic mesh router wave. … Continue reading

Verizon Galaxy Note 9 Android 9 Pie release arrives today

Ever since the calendar rolled over into 2019, major carriers here in the US have been slowly updating the Galaxy Note 9 to Android 9 Pie. AT&T was the first out of the gate with its Pie update, followed by Sprint and then by T-Mobile. Verizon, however, has been lagging behind its competition, but thankfully that’s all changing today with … Continue reading

Spotify Premium now gets Hulu thrown in – but act fast

Spotify subscribers can get a free subscription to Hulu, with the streaming music service bundling the video service for its Premium users. The deal replaces last year’s Spotify and Hulu bundle offer, which offered a discounted Hulu membership to those also paying for Spotify, and comes only weeks ahead of Apple’s expected streaming video service being revealed. Last year, Spotify … Continue reading

U.S. Warns Germany: Don't Let Huawei Build Your 5G Networks or Else

The U.S. government has sent a warning to Germany that it may limit what information is handed over via intelligence-sharing agreements if the latter country allows Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to build its next-generation 5G networks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

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Why I Regret Upgrading to an iPhone XS

I’ve had my iPhone XS for a little over three months, and it’s driving me crazy. Not the whole thing. The phone is beautiful, fast, a joy to use. What’s driving me crazy is an increasingly complex network of scratches on the display glass. The first ones were small, almost unnoticeable at a glance. Then, about six…

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Yup, Verizon Texting Was Busted

If you’re a Verizon customer and had a hard time texting this morning, you weren’t imagining things. The company had a widespread texting outage that left customers up and down the East Coast unable to send or receive messages.

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Alphabet's AI-powered Chrome extension hides toxic comments

Alphabet offshoot Jigsaw is launching a Chrome extension designed to help moderate toxic comments on social media. The new open-source tool, dubbed “Tune,” builds on the machine learning smarts introduced in Jigsaw’s “Perpesctive” tech to help sites…

'The Atomic Tree' explores the bonsai that survived a nuclear blast

Filmmakers don’t accidentally make a movie for virtual reality headsets. Creating VR media is a multi-step process involving specialized cameras and equipment, not to mention an entirely new approach to storytelling. Creators tell a story in VR becau…