insert_link Tech Made Simple What the Heck is Going On with Samsung’s Galaxy Fold? What in the world is going on over at Samsung in the wake of the Galaxy Fold delay? The whole situation keeps refusing to normalize, and instead gets weirder nearly every day. The latest is that iFixit has decided to honor a Samsung request to pull its Galaxy Fold teardown off the internet, even though Samsung apparently didn’t ask iFixit to do so directly. This oddity follows AT&T’s seemingly […] todayMay 2, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Verizon Makes it Easier (and Cheaper) to Filter Spam Calls Annoyed daily, hourly, minute-by-minute by those annoying and incessant spam and robo calls? Verizon is finally taking steps to reduce the number of calls its customers receive, announcing last week that it now offers a free version of Call Filter, its robocall- and spam-call blocking service, which used to cost customers $3 per month. With the free version of Call Filter, Verizon customers get spam detection, blocking, and reporting. The […] todayApril 3, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple YouTube’s Child Predator Controversy Continues Last week, a YouTuber named Matt Watson sparked a major backlash against the video streaming giant, when posted a video describing exactly how he “…discovered a wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring on Youtube. Youtube’s recommended algorithm is facilitating pedophiles’ ability to connect with each-other, trade contact info, and link to actual CP in the comments. I can consistently get access to it from vanilla, never-before-used Youtube accounts via innocuous […] todayFebruary 28, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Verizon’s Free Spam Protection Verizon has just announced that it will offer free spam and robocall protection to its subscribers starting this March. The "Call Filter" service, which was previously available as a $3 add-on, will be offered for free to all Verizon customers with phones that support the features, including iPhones and Android phones. It's about time: competing carriers T-Mobile and AT&T have been offering the same free spam filtering service for quite […] todayJanuary 24, 2019