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This $250 Wear OS-powered smartwatch promises month-long battery life

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by on July 11, 2018 at 6:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


Most Wear OS-based smartwatches require charging after a single day, but Mobvoi is attempting to buck the trend with its new $249 TicWatch Pro, which it claims can last between five to thirty days on a single charge, thanks to a layered display and a special power-saving mode. The TicWatch Pro’s screen, housed in a large 45mm case, includes an OLED display, as well as a more basic Film compensated Super Twisted Nematic (FSTN) LCD display. The latter is transparent and sits atop the OLED display, and shows you the time, date, step counting, and heart rate monitoring on a…

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WhatsApp’s label for forwarded messages won’t be enough to battle fake news

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by on July 11, 2018 at 5:02 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Continuing its mission to help fight the spread of misinformation on its platform, WhatsApp is introducing a label to help identify forwarded messages. Basically, if a message wasn’t composed by the sender in your conversation, it’ll have a ‘forwarded’ label at the top. That’s a start in the war against fake news. WhatsApp came under fire after a string of lynchings took place across India owing to misleading messages spread through the service. The government called on the company to address this issue in its largest user base in the world, and this is one of the steps it’s taking…

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WhatsApp’s label for forwarded messages won’t be enough to battle fake news

Jul11
by on July 11, 2018 at 5:02 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Continuing its mission to help fight the spread of misinformation on its platform, WhatsApp is introducing a label to help identify forwarded messages. Basically, if a message wasn’t composed by the sender in your conversation, it’ll have a ‘forwarded’ label at the top. That’s a start in the war against fake news. WhatsApp came under fire after a string of lynchings took place across India owing to misleading messages spread through the service. The government called on the company to address this issue in its largest user base in the world, and this is one of the steps it’s taking…

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There are numerous reasons to dislike Elon Musk. This isn’t one of them.

Jul11
by on July 11, 2018 at 1:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion


I’m going to keep this short and sweet. It’s a topic that I could write a book on, and one that could easily send me down a rabbit hole that only ends after multiple alcoholic beverages, dozens of open tabs, and a few thousand words of ranting type. Look, we get it; it’s become fashionable to bag on Elon Musk. He’s a man that’s seemingly lost his goddamn mind, turning on journalists, and attempting to insert conspiracies into the stories of anyone who dares question his once loved Tesla brand. It’s a page out of the Trump playbook, and if…

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