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■Amazon Kindle e-readers are getting a long-awaited feature that will allow them to display a book "s cover art on the device "s lock screen. The firmware update, which is rolling out right now, adds the option to set your Kindle "s lock screen as the cover of whatever book you "re reading.To enable the feature, you can go to the Device Options menu in Settings. At the top, you should see a Show Cover toggle. The displayed book cover will be of whatever book, magazine, comic, or manga you "re currently ...
■Chinese vendor Huawei expects 6G technologies to hit the market by around 2030, the company "s rotating chairman, Eric Xu, recently said a Huawei global analyst conference. "We think 6G will be on the market by around 2030, but we don "t really know what 6G is yet. Our industry expects to launch something that will contribute to businesses and consumers by around 2030, just like we have done for 4G and 5G, " Xu said.Xu "s announcement is bound to keep Huawei "s competitors on their feet, ...
■AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have ended the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative (CCMI), the joint venture they formed in 2019 to push RCS texting, according to Light Reading. Verizon told the publication that "[t]he owners of the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative decided to end the joint venture effort. " The spokesperson added that while that "s the case, the owners "remain committed to enhancing the messaging experience for customers including growing the availability ...
■The Federal Communications Commission is asking more Americans to use its speed test app to help improve the accuracy of its broadband speeds throughout the US. The tool is being used as part of a larger effort at the agency to improve its maps to get a clearer picture of broadband in America.The FCC "s official speed test app is live on the App Store, allowing customers to test the performance of their in-home and mobile broadband networks. The app, called "FCC Speed Test, " will show ...
■Microsoft is acquiring voice recognition company Nuance Communications as it competes with other cloud companies for a share of the healthcare market.Nuance is best known for its Dragon software, which uses deep learning to transcribe speech and improves its accuracy over time by adapting to a user "s voice. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple "s digital assistant Siri. (Though to what degree Siri currently relies on Dragon to answer users " ...
■Netflix and Sony Pictures have a new deal that will see the latter "s movies appear exclusively on the former "s platform for an 18-month window, starting in 2022. This deal replaces Netflix "s prior agreement with Starz. Future Sony blockbusters like "Morbius, " "Uncharted, " "Where the Crawdads Sing, " and Bullet Train, " among others, will now appear on Netflix before anywhere else.The deal comes as the coronavirus pandemic forced the ...
■Verizon and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) put out a recall Thursday for the carrier "s Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots, saying the gadgets have a lithium-ion battery that can overheat and create a fire or burn hazard. Verizon said it "s already sent out an update for the device that will reduce some of the overheating risk but that the company will also provide free replacement devices. The recall impacts Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots imported by Franklin Wireless Corp and sold ...
■T-Mobile "s long-teased Home Internet offering is exiting the pilot stage and becoming a real product. As part of its Un-carrier Next event on Wednesday, the nation "s second-largest wireless carrier finally added details to its plans to take on Comcast, Charter, rural broadband providers and AT&T and Verizon in the home broadband arena. The service costs $60 per month, or $65 without autopay, which is $10 more per month than when the pilot program was introduced. The service comes with no data ...
■After more than 15 years on the internet, Yahoo! Answers is shutting down next month. Yahoo previously shut down Yahoo Groups in 2019 and deleted everything after giving users a chance to download their own content.Like many corners of the internet, Yahoo Answers has become a cesspool of conspiracy theories and outlandish questions that dragged down Yahoo "s brand as it tries to move upscale. For example, one of the top questions on the website Tuesday morning asks "Is Yahoo Answers being shut ...
■The personal data of more than 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries has been leaked and published online. That includes Facebook IDs, full names, locations, phone numbers, birth dates, and email addresses of more than 32 million people in the US.The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is. "This is old data that was ...
■Amazon has been examining the idea of opening discount stores or outlets selling unsold electronics and home goods at steep discounts, Bloomberg has reported. The products would reportedly be sourced from inventory in its warehouses, and the company has weighed opening permanent locations and pop-up stores in malls and parking lots. The stock would consist of smaller items that don "t take up a lot of space, like home goods, toys, kitchen items and electronics, but not clothing. "It "s a way to be ...
■T-Mobile has decided to shut down its TVision Live and TVision Vibe streaming TV services just five months after they first launched. The operator will shut down its Live, Live+ and Live Zone services on April 29, and instead offer customers discounted access to YouTube TV Google "s cord-cutting live TV offer. TVision Live subscribers will be given a free month of YouTube TV and subsequently offered a discounted price of $54.99 per month (just $10 below the regular price).The development comes as a ...
■Verizon will shut down its 3G services on December 31st, 2022, VP of network engineering Mike Haberman announced today. According to Haberman, less than 1 percent of Verizon customers still access the 3G network, with 99 percent on 4G LTE or 5G. Verizon has roughly 94 million customers, so by the company "s own math, as many as 940,000 people are still using Verizon "s 3G network.The US operator had already delayed plans to pull the plug at the end of 2019 in order to give affected customers an opportunity ...
■PayPal Holdings Inc. will start letting its U.S. customers purchase items with cryptocurrencies in the latest embrace of digital assets by a traditional payments player.Starting today, the "Checkout with Crypto " feature will be gradually rolling out for customers in the US. For the first time, PayPal will accept Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, or Bitcoin Cash as a payment option for millions of businesses across the globe. The feature works by converting the select cryptocurrency into US ...
■Facebook has announced that it is going to team up with search engine giant, Google to install two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia with North America, along with regional telecommunication companies to better the internet connection capacity in these regions. "Named Echo and Bifrost, those will be the first two cables to go through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and they will increase overall subsea capacity in the trans-pacific by about 70%, " Facebook Vice ...
■Earlier this year, Razer revealed an RGB mask it called Project Hazel. Now, it seems that Project Hazel is going to become a reality.CEO Min-Liang Tan told Yahoo Finance that Razer planned to make the mask, but didn "t elaborate when manufacturing would begin. He explained that the company realized wearing masks would still be common practice for some time, especially since in countries with slower vaccine roll-outs. "So with that in mind, we are going to go ahead and solve the sustainable aspect ...
■Comcast announced Wednesday that it plans to invest $1 billion over the next decade to connect more low-income Americans to broadband internet.Comcast "s $1 billion commitment will include investments in a number of critical areas, including additional support for its ongoing Lift Zone initiative, which will establish Wi-Fi-connected safe spaces in more than 1,000 community centers nationwide for students and adults by the end of 2021; new laptop and computer donations; grants for nonprofit community ...
■After years of struggling to keep up with competitors, Intel will adopt their core strategy by making other companies " chips for them, new Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said Tuesday. Intel largely has focused on making its own chips, but that "ll change with the new and independent Intel Foundry Services (IFS) business unit. IFS would compete for business from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. Those four firms design their own chips, but since they do not own the facilities to actually make them, ...
■The Federal Communications Commission today announced it will begin collecting first-hand accounts on broadband availability and service quality directly from consumers as part of its Broadband Data Collection program. A new webpage, www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData, explains the FCC "s program and provides direct links to consumer resources including a new "share your broadband experience " option.The US has had a digital divide for years, with there being a chasm between the quality of ...
■An Amazon warehouse worker underwent intense questioning after helping organize walkouts in March 2020 over COVID-19 safety concerns, in violation of federal labor laws, according to a report from Vice. The worker, Jonathan Bailey, was reportedly interrogated for 90 minutes and written up for harassing his co-workers, some of whom felt "hurt " by the walkout, he was told. Bailey led 13 workers in a walkout from a company warehouse in New York City "s Queens borough on March 20, 2020, ...
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