The 50x Zoom On The Huawei P30 Pro Is Unbelievable
A video that purportedly shows off the Huawei P30 Pro’s 50x zoom capabilities has been bouncing around the internet for a week or so. It’s incredible.
April 15, 2019 at 10:20AM
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The Incredible Old-School iTunes Feature I Hope Apple Doesn’t Kill
Time is moving on, as it tends to do, and iTunes — a media suite that made its debut in 2001, almost two decades ago — is potentially on Apple’s chopping block. It feels like the right move, but there’s one iTunes feature worth saving: smart playlists.
April 15, 2019 at 10:20AM
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Hands-On With The Samsung Galaxy Fold: More Than Just A Concept
Here’s the TL;DR most of you are waiting for: it feels much more stable and polished than I expected going in, but there is still some work to be done on the software.
April 15, 2019 at 09:20AM
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How To Quit Your Phone And Change Your Life By … Doing Nothing
Anxiety about tech dependence — how social media is rewiring brains and worsening lives, or how tech companies are building monopolies and spying on users — is as old as the iPhone itself. A new book by artist and author Jenny Odell suggests a radically simple solution.
April 15, 2019 at 07:27AM
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Tracking Phones, Google Is A Dragnet For The Police
The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.
April 15, 2019 at 07:02AM
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How An Old ‘Spyro’ Game Cleverly Detected (And Messed With) Pirate Copies
The original PlayStation had a piracy problem, and various different strategies were deployed against pesky pirates — but Insomniac Games may have come up with the most devious anti-piracy measure of them all.
April 14, 2019 at 09:01PM
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A Researcher Needed Three Hours To Identify Me From My DNA
My case highlights the threat to privacy from genetic databases.
April 14, 2019 at 09:02PM
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A Researcher Needed Three Hours To Identify Me From My DNA
A Researcher Needed Three Hours to Identify Me From My DNAMy case highlights the threat to privacy from genetic databases.
April 14, 2019 at 09:01PM
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5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex
I spent two weeks in the underbelly of Amazon’s fake review economy and emerged questioning our collective trust in the stars.
April 14, 2019 at 11:06AM
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China’s Hi-Tech War On Its Muslim Minority
Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity — but now the Chinese state is using technology to strip them of it.
April 14, 2019 at 09:55AM
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