[ad_1] Kotaku looked at 25,000 location records shared with it by 10 players of Niantic games. It found that Niantic kept about three location records per minute of Wizards Unite gameplay. That was nearly twice as many records as it kept for Pokémon Go. In one case, Niantic had at least one location record taken […]
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Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content
[ad_1] If you’re at all interested in preserving your history on the site, you’ll want to download your data either directly from posts or through Yahoo’s Privacy Dashboard. Yahoo hasn’t formally explained the shutdown, but you could see this coming. Yahoo launched Groups in 2001 as a sort of forum and mailing list hybrid, and […]
Google discontinues Clips, the AI-powered camera you forgot about
[ad_1] Google Clips was a short-lived camera that users were meant to position around their homes. It had artificially intelligent auto-capture and promised to record clips when it saw something interesting, like something cute your kid or pet might do before you had a chance to grab your camera. Clips cost $250 and didn’t have […]
Netflix grows to 158 million subscribers as Disney+ looms
[ad_1] Netflix just released its results for Q3 in 2019 (PDF), showing that it added slightly fewer subscribers (6.77 million) than the 7 million it anticipated, while still notching an all-time record for the quarter. The company cited lower retention rates in the US since its most recent price hike, and justifies with a statement […]
Showtime is turning the story of Uber into a TV series
[ad_1] In that book, New York Times reporter Mike Isaac tracks Uber from its creation through its IPO in May. The adaptation will “depict the roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley,” with co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick as a central figure. “The story of Uber […]
The FCC voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
[ad_1] In her statement, Rosenworcel said: “We’ve all seen what happens when markets become more concentrated after a merger like this one. In the airline industry, it brought us baggage fees and smaller seats. In the pharmaceutical industry, it led to a handful of drug companies raising the prices of lifesaving medications. There’s no reason […]
Google needs a sustainable phone moonshot
[ad_1] “Our goal is to clear the way for the entire industry, and [for] our planet to benefit,” Ross said. She also revealed that the Google Stadia controller will include recycled plastics. The cloud-based gaming service is eco-friendly, she argued, because it doesn’t force players to upgrade their console or PC over time. “Another sustainability […]
UK finally abandons its unworkable ‘porn block’ plan
[ad_1] Part 3 of the 2017 Digital Economy Act laid out a plan for a system where people could not access adult content unless they proved they were over 18. Rather than administer the system itself, the government farmed out responsibility to a third-party, the British Board of Film Classification. The BBFC is, itself, a […]
The Panama Papers lawyers want to stop Netflix’s ‘The Laundromat’
[ad_1] The Steven Soderbergh movie stars Meryl Streep as a widow investigating an insurance fraud and chasing leads to the Panama City law firm Mossack Fonseca. As you may remember, that firm had 2.6 terabytes of its data leaked, sparking the Panama Papers scandal. That was one of the largest data leaks in history, and […]
Google rolls out real-time captioning starting with Pixel 4
[ad_1] Live Caption is available on Pixel 4 at first, and it’ll arrive on Pixel 3 and 3a phones later this year. Google says it’s working with Android manufacturers to bring Live Caption to other devices in the coming months. It’ll be available in English at first, with support for more languages arriving later. Google […]