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- China bans a popular rage comics website for making fun of a communist hero
- Tidal is investigating data breach that led to accusation of inflated streaming numbers
- Sprint will give Snapdragon-powered PCs free LTE for 2018
- Google Assistant will alert people that Duplex calls are being recorded
- Xiaomi’s next flagship phone might have an in-display fingerprint sensor
- The first 4K, HDR, and G-Sync monitor is up for preorder, but it’s $2,000
- Activists from Myanmar, Syria, and beyond call for Facebook to fix moderation
- House Democrats are collecting signatures to force a vote on net neutrality
- Verily’s ‘exploding micro-needles’ are a fix for a problem that doesn’t exist
- Hasbro just trademarked the smell of Play-Doh
| China bans a popular rage comics website for making fun of a communist hero Posted: 18 May 2018 04:41 PM PDT  China has banned the most popular rage comics website in the country for poking fun at a communist hero. Under the "Heroes and Martyrs Protection Act," passed by the National People's Congress and enacted on May 1st, it's now illegal to make jokes at the expense of communist heroes or martyrs, those distinctions belonging of course to the state. The comics site Baozou, which had more than 10 million followers on the Chinese social media site Weibo and over 245,000 subscribers on Youtube, was so popular that its rage comic 7723 was turned into a Netflix film called Next Gen, which is currently in development, the streaming service announced at Cannes recently. The animated film feature voice acting from Jason Sudeikis, Michael Peña,... |
| Tidal is investigating data breach that led to accusation of inflated streaming numbers Posted: 18 May 2018 03:47 PM PDT  Tidal says it's investigating how an internal data breach of sensitive company data resulted in a hard drive falling into the hands of a Norwegian newspaper, according to Variety. The paper, Norwegian business publication Dagens Næringsliv, accused the music streaming service last week of inflating both its subscriber growth numbers and streaming numbers for popular exclusive releases, including Beyonce's Lemonade and Kanye West's Life of Pablo. Allegeledy, data proving the numbers were inflated was found on a hard drive the paper obtained through means it has not disclosed. Tidal is disputing the accusations, but it's also now saying that it's investigating how any confidential company data could have made its way onto a hard drive... |
| Sprint will give Snapdragon-powered PCs free LTE for 2018 Posted: 18 May 2018 03:25 PM PDT  Sprint is offering free unlimited 4G LTE to people who own specific Snapdragon-powered PCs for the rest of the year. The promotion will help out users who have one of the first "Always Connected" Windows PCs, which normally require paid data plans, as spotted by Engadget. People who buy either the HP Envy x2, the Lenovo Miix 630, or the Asus NovaGo can get free LTE from Sprint, which lasts until December 31st this year. After this year, the data plan will cost either $5 (with auto pay) or $15 per month unless you cancel it. A data connection is one of the big selling points for these devices, and Sprint is clearly hoping that after several months of service, owners will find it valuable enough to start paying. These devices aren't sold... |
| Google Assistant will alert people that Duplex calls are being recorded Posted: 18 May 2018 03:02 PM PDT  Google Assistant will identify itself at the beginning of conversations when it starts making phone calls on behalf of real users later this year using Google's human-sounding Duplex AI technology. It will also alert those on the other end of the conversation "in certain jurisdictions" that calls are being recorded, according to Bloomberg, which reported on the details that were shared at a company meeting Thursday. Certain jurisdictions?! Many states require consent from both parties for phone calls to be recorded, so it's a necessary step. But I really, really hope that Google plans to share that information in every call — not just in areas where it's forced to by law. The uproar that followed Google's I/O demonstration of Duplex... |
| Xiaomi’s next flagship phone might have an in-display fingerprint sensor Posted: 18 May 2018 02:53 PM PDT  We've been seeing rumblings of Xiaomi's next flagship smartphone, which would be a regular development, until a video uploaded to YouTube teased that the upcoming device — dubbed the Mi 8 — will have an in-display fingerprint sensor. The Mi 8 is supposed to be the sequel to last year's Mi 6 — it's not totally clear why, but the rumor is Xiaomi will skip the Mi 7. Xiaomi has had two other high-end phones since then, the Mi Mix 2 and Mi Mix 2S, which both feature larger displays. But it comes as no surprise that they'd experiment between product cycles before settling on a new flagship. Other features planned for the Chinese Android manufacturer's flagship include a 3D facial recognition unlocking feature, the Snapdragon 845 chipset with... |
| The first 4K, HDR, and G-Sync monitor is up for preorder, but it’s $2,000 Posted: 18 May 2018 01:32 PM PDT  If you're a PC gamer like myself, you appreciate high refresh rates, resolutions, and color accuracy. 4K "gaming monitors" have been on the market for years, but none of them were truly fulfilling those needs. But now, here is Acer's Predator X27 4K monitor — the first to have the 4K, HDR, and G-Sync trifecta. A 4K display with Nvidia's G-Sync — a graphics card and screen synchronization technology — would be sublime, and this is exactly what the Predator X27 is. Full 10-bit HDR support, 144Hz refresh rate, an epic 1,000 nits of brightness (most HDR screen top out at 600 nits), 99 percent coverage of the Adobe RGB colors spectrum, and a true 3840 x 2160 4K resolution makes Acer's monitor one of gaming dreams. |
| Activists from Myanmar, Syria, and beyond call for Facebook to fix moderation Posted: 18 May 2018 01:22 PM PDT  In a press conference today, a coalition of activists from Myanmar, Syria, and six other countries called on Facebook to take a more consistent and transparent approach to moderation. Facebook has come under fire for its role in fueling a genocide in Myanmar as well as enabling broader political manipulation around the world. "Many of the countries here have been engaged with Facebook for years to try to receive justice in our communities," said Thenmozhi Soundararajan, executive director of Equality Labs. "And what we're finding is that Facebook has different standards for different markets." The group also includes activists from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, and Ethiopia, which are countries where Facebook has... |
| House Democrats are collecting signatures to force a vote on net neutrality Posted: 18 May 2018 01:22 PM PDT  A coalition of House Democrats has begun proceedings to force a vote to restore net neutrality protections. The discharge petition, introduced by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), allows the House to force a vote if half the representatives sign on, giving activists until the end of the session in January to collect the necessary signatures. They currently have 90, all from Democrats. The resolution would roll back FCC chairman Ajit Pai's recent internet order under the Congressional Review Act, effectively restoring the 2015 rules against paid prioritization and throttling. The resolution passed the Senate earlier this week but faces steep odds in the House: to win the necessary votes, more than 20 Republican representatives will have to break... |
| Verily’s ‘exploding micro-needles’ are a fix for a problem that doesn’t exist Posted: 18 May 2018 12:57 PM PDT  Somehow, Silicon Valley hasn't learned from the train wreck that was Theranos. The latest rumors are that Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, is developing a painless blood-collection gadget "using a system of exploding micro-needles and magnets," CNBC's Christina Farr reports. So Silicon Valley is back at trying to fix blood tests again — one of the few parts of health care that doesn't need fixing. The device is a prototype, Farr says, and the Verily team is still figuring out what to do with it. Mounted on a watch, the tiny needles could, say, be used to nonintrusively collect blood from patients in the hospital or monitor blood during clinical trials, according to Farr. (Verily declined to comment to Farr, and did not respond... |
| Hasbro just trademarked the smell of Play-Doh Posted: 18 May 2018 12:07 PM PDT  People have tried to trademark a lot of weird stuff over the years, from celebratory poses to the Tarzan yell to, literally, the word "cocky." So it's actually kind of surprising that it took Hasbro 27 years of owning the Play-Doh brand before the company attempted to corner the market on that weird, yeasty, almost-food smell that has compelled generations of children to tentatively lick their (non-toxic!) mush toy over the years. That's right: the smell of Play-Doh is now trademarked. Per Gizmodo, in order to lock down the Play-Doh scent profile — which has existed in some form or another since the product debuted at an education fair in 1956 — Hasbro first had to define it. Now we know that that doughy smell has a little extra... |
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