Yesterday’s news:
Today’s topic:
“the coolest phone I’d ever seen”
The browser DuckDuckGo , previously thought to absolutely *not* collect user browsing data without consent has reportedly had its status downgraded to “collecting user browsing data without consent”
If you guessed that mobile gaming revenues “are now set to top $100 billion this year” you may also be a pinball wizard:
Today’s report of a Samsung smartphone being explodey and flammable while sitting on the passenger seat of a moving car comes from Vancouver: http://ow.ly/mmvr30qWwGr
One person’s “wireless future” is another person’s “symbol of disposable wealth”
* with bonus picture of what fossilized AirPods may look like.
Here is an interesting chart of “1GB of mobile data cost in every country”
Spoiler alert:
You are probably paying too much for 1 GB of mobile data.
Reports are in that Kenya is using a smartphone “app in battle against desert locusts” because why the heck not:
After going through that “$2 billion accounting scandal” the stock value of German fintech company Wirecard has been downgraded to “pile of garbage”
This report says that Google Maps has “new features to help people navigate coronavirus hot spots”
Next up:
Features to help people navigate away from driving into lakes.
You say tomato while walking they say “Yamato becomes Japan’s first city to ‘ban’ use of phones while walking”
Today’s internet geography lesson includes “a Nigerian social-media celebrity that was extradited to the U.S. from Dubai to face fraud charges.” http://ow.ly/r4Wn30qWx1b
The next time that there is an awkward pause in conversation, remember that you can always discuss “the 416 quadrillion reasons why Japan’s supercomputer is number 1′
This look “inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam” will make you sick:
Reports are in that “authorities recently arrested an alleged member of the prolific hacking group known as Fin7” that is tied to $1 billion worth of hacks.
But wait, there’s more:
“Victims of the group included Chipotle, Whole Foods, and Trump Hotels.” http://ow.ly/8cUI30qWxfD
It’s about time that “theorists calculate the upper limit for possible quantization of time”
DAB radio in the UK:
“We are the future!”
Traditional AM and FM radio stations:
“Hold, please”
Here is a report on “how fake accounts constantly manipulate what you see on social media”
…or IS it?
Bonus:
“what you can do about it”
…or CAN you?
According to this post, Samsung is “offering support requests via WhatsApp in India”
No word yet on where they are outsourcing these WhatsApp support requests.
This report says that a tech firm is going to build a “virtual wall on border with Mexico”
No word yet on who is going to be virtually paying for it.
Here is the story of a “remote British village” that when faced with slow internet connections decided to start ditch-digging their way to “one of the UK’s fastest Internet networks”
Reports are in that Telegram will “temporarily refuse data requests from Hong Kong courts” because something something “security law ‘terrorism fears”
Reports are in that “retaliation after what it calls possible cyber attack on nuclear site”
This may not end well.
Here is the story of a guy who “traded Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on behalf of investors”
But wait, there’s more:
He then “went into hiding after investors hired a group of private debt collectors to recover their missing $13.3 million”
According to this post “LinkedIn says it will stop repeatedly copying iOS clipboard”
According to this post “LinkedIn says it will stop repeatedly copying iOS clipboard”
Here is a post on “how to buy Bitcoin at Walmart” because why the heck not:
This post attempts to answer “probably one of the most thought of questions of most people that are new to Bitcoin.”
If you have ever wondered how a former Intel engineer would explain “why Apple switched to ARM” there is a web page for that:
There are some things even Google can’t stop, control or curtail, and “the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam” is apparently one of them:
