[ad_1] Apple reportedly earmarked $6 billion of its budget to fund the upcoming service’s original shows and movies. It’s spending a lot of money in an attempt to make more money, particularly to contribute to its goal to reach $50 billion in service sales by 2020. The tech giant is trying to find more ways […]
Category: Internet
San Francisco’s 25-year-old FogCam shuts down this month
[ad_1] FogCam’s creators, Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong, known online as Webdog and Danno, announced the shutdown on Saturday. “The Internet has changed a lot since 1994, but Fogcam will always have a special place in its history,” the two wrote on Twitter. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Schwartz added additional context […]
Study finds US carriers aggressively throttle video streams
[ad_1] To compile their findings, the team of researchers behind the report spent a year collecting data with the help of some 126,000 participants in 183 countries across the globe using a platform called Wehe. In all, they sampled 1,045,413 data points, with some 650,000 coming courtesy of Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint subscribers in […]
Apple’s game subscription service will reportedly cost $5 per month
[ad_1] The company is expected to roll out Apple Arcade on September 10, during its release event for the new iPhone. The basic idea behind the service is that users will pay a flat monthly rate to play as many participating games as they want. Each subscription will also include access for up to six […]
Google stops sending Android cell signal data over privacy concerns
[ad_1] Mobile Network Insights had only launched in March 2017, but was apparently valuable to providers. Although they do have other ways of gauging network quality, Google’s feature was helpful precisely because of the sheer number of Android phones in the field. A telecom could get real-world usage stats from the phone’s software. A Google […]
The beauty of a ray-traced ‘Minecraft’
[ad_1] Some things are already clear.24 hours with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Late last week, Chris Velazco picked up a shiny new Galaxy Note 10+ (in that trippy Aura Glow finish, no less). It was too early for a full review, but after 24 hours of fiddling with it, there are a few features […]
Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters
[ad_1] We’ve asked Twitter for comment. However, Xinhua‘s campaign appears to target at least some people in Hong Kong proper. This kind of behavior isn’t shocking. The Chinese government has been clamping down on critics who voice dissent on Twitter, even though the service is blocked beyond Hong Kong. The country has been determined to […]
Three UK rolls out 5G home internet access in London
[ad_1] You can get the equipment the next day for free, but Three will bring it to you the same day for £20 ($24). This isn’t the mobile 5G service you might have hoped for, although Three recently said it would deploy the next-gen wireless service in 25 UK cities by the end of 2019. […]
Kevin Smith is making a ‘He-Man’ anime series for Netflix
[ad_1] It will focus on unresolved storylines from the ’80s show, featuring familiar characters and what Smith says could be “the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor.” Mattel Television is producing the series, while Powerhouse Animation is doing the animation for it. Powerhouse is the same studio behind Netflix’s Castlevania, so that’s good news if […]
Ransomware attack in Texas targets local government agencies
[ad_1] Texas hasn’t named the institutions so far due to “security concerns.” Security teams hadn’t identified the culprits. However, the evidence to date pointed to a “single threat actor” attacking all these entities at once. Ransomware attacks usually come from criminal organizations hoping to make a quick profit, although there have been reported instances of […]