Facebook is looking internally and externally to find a replacement for Mitchell, according to someone who spoke with WIRED. 'When we posted the Kickstarter in 2012, VR was mostly the stuff of science fiction. Mitchell ended his note with, "To everyone here: Thank you for your passion and creativity". Nate Mitchell has announced he's leaving Facebook in a post on Reddit , with the co-f... [Full Article...]
The only way to access your balance, your transaction history, and even your ability to pay your bills is through the Wallet app on your iPhone. It's iPhone or bust. Apple still has a lot of colleges and universities to tackle if it wants students across the country to be using their student IDs through Apple Wallet, so it probably won't be long before we hear of support being added at more of t... [Full Article...]
They'll get notified again at the exact time you asked Assistant to remind them. Don't worry if you have a young kid who likes to talk to Google - you can restrict certain users from sending reminders in case you don't want to get berated with notifications. [Full Article...]
Bitfury's chief executive officer and co-founder, Valery Vavilov, said the need to analyze and extract value from the wealth of data available has led the company to engage in artificial intelligence, an informatics industry that focuses on the creation of intelligent machines. [Full Article...]
It was Yahoo that originally acquired Tumblr for $1. 1 billion from its founder David Karp in 2013. Verizon bought Tumblr in 2017 after it purchased Yahoo . After getting hold of it, Automattic plans to continue with the same policies. It's hard to see how Tumblr will be revived without rescinding the porn ban, especially considering the many adult content creators who were hurt by... [Full Article...]
The FCC, which has named stopping illegal robocalls as its top consumer priority, said last month that carriers have been slow to roll out options for curbing unwanted spam calls. Most calls today aren't subjected to the SHAKEN/STIR test, T-Mobile said . For the time being Caller Verification only works on 12 smartphones from Samsung and LG, but the carriers promise to make it available for oth... [Full Article...]
I know that security updates are not so interesting, but somehow I get excited every time I see it on the phone. Nokia usually pushes these updates pretty quickly and now they are doing something even grander. There are some caveats. Indian and United States versions of Nokia 6 will its last update in October this year. HMD Global has also confirmed that security patch support for the Nokia 2 ... [Full Article...]
In addition to left-click, you can now right-click, double-click and click and drag, making it easier to be efficient and productive on your Chromebook . Here you'll see all of the tabs or apps on your Chromebook that are playing audio tracks and you can control them from the notification. A fix for volume button orientation on Chrome OS-powered 2-in-1s was also supposed to make the cut in ... [Full Article...]