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Report: LG’s next flagship phone can add a second screen with a fancy case

Jan17
by on January 17, 2019 at 7:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


I gotta hand it to LG. The company doesn’t always hit its mark, but it’s always doing new things with its phones that no one else tries. From its audiophile-friendly headphone jack to its modular G5, the company has run the gamut of unique ideas. Its latest venture: a phone with a detachable second screen. Cnet reports one of LG’s upcoming flagship phones – to be announced at Mobile World Congress in February – will be compatible with an optional “case with a screen.” This screen would potentially double the phone’s screen size. I say “one of” LG’s phones because the…

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Leak: The Pixel 3 ‘Lite’ brings back the headphone jack and keeps the camera

Jan17
by on January 17, 2019 at 6:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


We’ve been hearing rumblings of a midrange Pixel 3 ‘Lite’ for a few months now, but a new leak by Andro News seems to all but confirm the phone is on the way – and it’s already looking interesting enough for me to want one. The video gives a rather thorough preview of the pre-production phone’s design and features. Spec-wise, the leaker corroborates earlier reports of a midrange Snapdragon 670 and 32GB of storage, but there’s also a 5.6-inch FHD+ display and 4GB of RAM. It’s also worth noting Google provides unlimited cloud storage for photos and videos, which is the main…

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Bitcoin Cash has failed to make use of its 8MB block size, analysts say

Jan17
by on January 17, 2019 at 5:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


In 2017, a veritable civil war was fought between camps of Bitcoin believers: those who sought to keep its “block size” at 1MB, and those who wanted to increase it. Those looking for bigger blocks found themselves rallying behind a then-new cryptocurrency – a “hard fork” of Bitcoin called Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – whose premise rested on re-creating Bitcoin to mine 8MB blocks. The idea was (and still is) that larger blocks technically allow for more transactions to be confirmed at once, as you can fit more of them into a single block. This supposedly makes a blockchain more efficient. As…

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Square just launched a debit card

Jan17
by on January 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


It’s been an astonishingly busy twelve months for Square, the upstart payments firm founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. In March, it launched operations in the UK. Then, last week, it got into the in-app payments game. And today, the company announced the launch of the Square Card — a free debit card aimed at its small business merchants. The Square Card has one interesting trick up its sleeve. As soon as a vendor receives funds (like, for example, from a customer buying something at a Square PoS), it’s automatically available to spend on their Square Card. This could potentially…

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Square just launched a debit card

Jan17
by on January 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


It’s been an astonishingly busy twelve months for Square, the upstart payments firm founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. In March, it launched operations in the UK. Then, last week, it got into the in-app payments game. And today, the company announced the launch of the Square Card — a free debit card aimed at its small business merchants. The Square Card has one interesting trick up its sleeve. As soon as a vendor receives funds (like, for example, from a customer buying something at a Square PoS), it’s automatically available to spend on their Square Card. This could potentially…

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