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Canon Throws Its Hat into the Mirrorless Camera Ring with EOS R

The launch of the EOS R is a very big deal for Canon, which came pretty late to the Mirrorless Camera party, and expectations were pretty high. So what’s the verdict? Well, according to most “expert” reviews, the EOS R is a mixed bag. Pros: Silent mode, easy to use with existing Canon lenses, Great control customization, Dual Pixel AF with 5,655 AF positions, Fully articulating screen.   It’s not […]

todayFebruary 13, 2019

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Captain Marvel’s Retro Tie-In Website

Marvel’s next big superhero movie is Captain Marvel, set for release in theaters on March 8th, and unlike most of the franchise’s films, this one’s set in the 1990s. To go along with the movie’s release, the company has launched a tie-in website that fits the timeframe, a throwback to web design of the era, complete with awkward animations, fonts, and colors. The result is, well, Marvelous.   In a […]

todayFebruary 12, 2019

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Energizer just keeps on Going… and Going… with their Smartphones

Energizer is a name everyone associates with batteries, not smartphones, so it may surprise you to learn they’ve been quietly dipping its toes into the Android smartphone waters for awhile. But now it looks like they’re ready to make a splash, because this year at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019, Energizer is set to debut over two dozen new phone models, including some with crazy features and huge batteries.   As […]

todayFebruary 11, 2019

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At Home DNA Takes a Bite Out of Crime

FamilyTreeDNA, a popular at-home DNA test, is working with the FBI to help the agency solve violent crimes, the company acknowledged in a statement. The policy appears to go beyond the privacy rules generally laid out by other major DNA testing companies.   In its statement, the company said the laboratory that performs DNA tests for FamilyTreeDNA, as well as others, has been accepting samples from the DNA to identify […]

todayFebruary 6, 2019

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Snopes Breaks Up with Facebook

Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook, which has been ramping its efforts to curb misinformation on its services since the 2016 U.S. election.   Facebook and Snopes had been working together since December 2016 to fact check content on the social network, reportedly paying the debunking giant as much as $100,000 for the work in 2017 alone.  Snopes issued a statement […]

todayFebruary 5, 2019

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Apple Puts the Smackdown on Facebook Apps

Things are getting more heated between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook.   According to TechCrunch, Facebook had long been paying people $20 a month to download an app called Facebook Research that essentially gave the company full access to collect data from their phones, including which websites they visited, the messages they sent, and all the apps they used.   However, the Facebook Research app wasn't […]

todayFebruary 4, 2019

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Apple Welcomes Microsoft to the App Store

All you frustrated Microsoft Office fans using Macs, your time has finally come. Microsoft is making its Office suite available on Apple’s Mac App Store. The software giant originally promised to bring Office apps to the Mac App Store by the end of 2018, and after a short delay they’re finally on hand. All your favorites are here: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and even OneDrive as part of the […]

todayJanuary 31, 2019

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Amazon’s Rekognition Still Showing Signs of Racial Bias

As facial recognition systems become more common, Amazon has emerged as a frontrunner in the field, courting customers around the US, including police departments and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But experts say the company is not doing enough to allay fears about bias in its algorithms, particularly when it comes to performance on faces with darker skin. In research published by MIT’s Joy Buolamwini last February, which identified similar […]

todayJanuary 30, 2019

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T-Mobile’s Coolpad Surfs Service to Rural Areas

T-Mobile announced the launch of the Coolpad Surf, a 600MHz mobile hot spot that, aside from having a super cool name, is designed to bring greatly improved coverage service to their long ignored and underserved rural areas. It’s the first mobile hot spot to support Band 71, or 600MHz LTE, which T-Mobile recently won the spectrum license for from the Federal Communications Commission Broadcast Incentive auction last April. The Coolpad […]

todayJanuary 29, 2019

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