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Huawei’s P20 is a shiny, extravagant phone
Huawei just unveiled its brand new flagship phone — the P20. It’s a solid, well-designed Android phone with a shiny design, an iPhone X-like notch and some extravagant features, such as not one, not two but three cameras on the back of the P20 Pro. I played with the phone for a few minutes yesterday,…
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Hide 3D paintings anywhere with AR app Artopia
Public places may soon be filled with secret pieces of art unlocked by looking through the lens of AR, if Artopia’s cheerily creative app catches on. It essentially lets you geocache your 3D scribbles so anyone else can find, appreciate and share them. Artopia, currently in beta for Android and iOS, is a straightforward combination…
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ARKit-only apps top 13 million installs, nearly half from games
Over 13 million augmented reality apps built using Apple’s ARKit have been downloaded since the release of iOS 11 on September 19, 2017, according to new data from app intelligence firm, Sensor Tower, which took a look at the state of the AR app ecosystem, now that it’s had time to become more established. It…
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Facebook makes its privacy, data downloading and deletion settings easier to find
With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a…
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Google Maps gets support for 39 new languages
Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek,…
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London proposes stricter vetting for ride-hailing drivers
London’s transport regulator is asking for public views on a series of new proposals aimed at boosting the safety of private hire vehicles (PHVs), such as cars served via ride-hailing platforms like Uber. Among the measures Transport for London (TfL) is considering are: Enhanced background checks for private hire drivers — with a proposal to…
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Facebook fights creeps and apathy with expiring friend requests
Snapchat has ephemeral messages, and now Facebook has ephemeral friend requests. The big blue social network feeds off your social graph, and every time you expand it, it has more content to show you. But if you leave a questionable friend request in limbo for too long, you’ll probably never confirm or delete it. So Facebook…
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Las comunidades X comienzan a parecerse más a grupos de Facebook con una nueva función de verificación de miembros
X es adoptando una característica que se utiliza actualmente en muchos grupos de Facebook para examinar a los miembros antes de unirse: preguntas obligatorias. La compañía anteriormente conocida como Twitter anunció hoy que los administradores de comunidades privadas en X ahora pueden exigir a los usuarios que respondan una pregunta cuando soliciten unirse, además de…
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El CEO de Telegram dice que la aplicación seguirá albergando ‘contenido relacionado con la guerra’ después de ser criticada por videos de Hamas
Como plataformas sociales como X (anteriormente Twitter), Meta y Tik Tok enfrentarse a los reguladores y al teatro de la opinión pública por cómo están manejando el contenido incendiario y gráfico, la desinformación, los escritos y otros medios relacionados con Hamás e Israel, Pavel Durov, el director general de Telegram, ha planteado polémicamente salir a…
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TikTok logra un acuerdo importante con Disney que incluye un centro de contenido y una asociación con un editor
Tik Tok ha aterrizado disney como anunció a principios de este año su último socio editorial de renombre para su producto publicitario premium, Pulse Premiere. La compañía se unirá a otros grandes editores, incluidos NBCU, Condé Nast, DotDash Meredith, BuzzFeed y más, que ofrecen videos seguros para las marcas para que los especialistas en marketing…