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andrew.e.meek@gmail.comAnother Facebook executive is moving on. This year has seen the departure from Facebook of several key leaders like the founders of Instagram and the co-founders of WhatsApp, and now it’s time to …
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Amazon and Google make nine of the ten most popular smart speaker models in the US
If you ranked the most popular smart speaker models in the US based on the tech companies that make them, you get a list dominated almost exclusively by just two companies: Amazon and …
Tech
Teslas could be getting a ‘dog mode’ for when your good boy needs to stay in the car
Hundreds of pets die each year after baking in cars where they’ve been left unattended, so it’s no wonder that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has hinted in response to a question about this …
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Survey: iPhone loyalty among US teens is strong and keeps getting stronger
If you ask a typical American teen what kind of handset they’re most likely to buy next, it’s pretty much no contest whatsoever. The vast majority, according to Piper Jaffray’s semi-annual Taking Stock …
Business
Apple’s marketing boss attempts to demystify the misunderstood iPhone XR
Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller knows some people may be loaded with questions about the iPhone XR. Like, what the heck does the “R” in the name mean? Just who is this phone …
Entertainment
Atari is releasing a new handheld and retro joystick to make you feel like a kid again
I know what’s going on my Christmas list this holiday season. Atari is planning to bring some retro video game goodness back into our lives, presumably in time for the holiday season, with …
Business
If ads are so important to Facebook, why does it suck this bad at them?
Facebook is the social media mega-titan that it is partly because it has such a strong money-making operation underneath the whole thing that has powered its growth and helped the company steamroll over …
Business
The days of Google letting device makers install its apps for free in Europe are almost over
It looks like Google is going to potentially start making bank by licensing out its app suite to Android handset makers in Europe. That’s according to documents obtained by The Verge, which show …
Business
Walmart is offering $100 off a new iPhone XR if you buy the phone there
Preorders went live today for the iPhone XR, the new iPhone model that much of the tech cognoscenti believes may end up being Apple’s most popular this release cycle. Analysts and pundits are …
Tech
Google Maps’ improved live-sharing makes it harder to fib about your ETA
Remember the glory days of the pre-smartphone era, when the only things you did with your handset besides calling people were texting and maybe playing Snake? Those were the days, back when you’d …
Entertainment
We’ll have to wait even longer for Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which has a weird working title
The third installment in Marvel’s movie franchise about a certain motley crew of heroic space misfits keeps making news for everything except, you know, the movie itself. That’s partly because the darn thing …
Business
As if things weren’t bad enough, MoviePass’ parent company is now under investigation for fraud
The headlines coming out of the struggling movie subscription service MoviePass in recent months have been a confusing assortment of tweaks to its plan terms, as well as financial moves behind the scenes …
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Samsung acquires analytics startup Zhilabs to prepare for the coming 5G era
Samsung has made clear that it’s got a cash horde of more than $20 billion it wants to spend investing in businesses that will in some way lay groundwork for the company’s future …
