Essential shuts down: No more PH-1 updates coming

Essential dropped quite the bomb today, announcing that it will cease operations entirely. This shutdown means three important things, the first being that Project GEM is no more. Essential’s Newton Mail app will stop functioning in April, and the Essential PH-1 – the only phone that the company brought to market – will no longer receive any updates. The good … Continue reading

Mobile World Congress 2020 cancelled: Coronavirus halts global tech conference [UPDATE]

After a wide array of cancellations of attendance from major companies for the worldwide tech conference, Mobile World Congress 2020 was cancelled outright. This was announced by the GSMA just says after a large announcement of enhanced measures made for the safety of all involved by companies still attending. “The GSMA knows that the Coronavirus has created disruption, in particular … Continue reading

Activision Blizzard pulls its games from GeForce Now

GeForce Now, NVIDIA’s game streaming service, went live for everyone last week. It allows you to play hundreds of games from dozens of publishers in the cloud, but Activision Blizzard’s titles are no longer among the options after the publisher asked…

Emoji Kitchen: Google starts mixing emojis in Android

A new iteration of the Gboard Beta app for Android – made by Google – appeared today with a new concept in the emoji universe. They look like emoji images, but they’re stickers. Because they’re not emoji, they don’t need to be cross-compatible to appear – because they’re stickers, everyone who can see images in any app can see these … Continue reading

The base Galaxy S20 for Verizon won't arrive until the spring

The ‘entry’ Galaxy S20 doesn’t have support for millimeter wave 5G, and it’s now clear that will be a pain for some would-be early adopters. Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) quietly mentioned in its press release for Samsung’s phones that the bas…

‘Apollo 13’ returns to theaters for three days in April

Despite never landing on the moon, Apollo 13 is one of the most notable spaceflights in history. An explosion on the Apollo 13’s service module put the lives of its three crew members in peril. And despite all odds, the astronauts were able to keep t…

The Xbox One S Digital Edition Is Down to $140

Xbox One S Digital Edition Console | $140 | eBay

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Mobile World Congress Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears [Update: GSMA Confirms]

Companies have been canceling appearances at Mobile World Congress 2020 left and right—to the point where GSMA, the conference’s organizer, has decided to pull the plug on the event entirely.

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Homeless Man Files Civil Rights Suit Against Police Officer Who Monitored Him on Facebook

Not all police are bad, but Facebook is the highway to surveillance hell, and cops are on it. In the latest story to highlight cop’s social media activity, a homeless resident of Los Angeles has filed a civil rights suit against the city and a police officer who is accused of conducting a several-year-long harassment…

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Discovery of 'Invisible Oil' Shows BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Was Bigger Than We Thought

We already knew 2010’s Deepwater Horizon disaster was the biggest oil spill in history. When the BP rig exploded, it released 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of 87 days. Eleven workers died. So did thousands of marine animals. By all counts, it was horrible.

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