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The Galaxy Book S might be the Samsung laptop I’ve been waiting for

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by on August 12, 2019 at 11:06 pm
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Samsung might dominate smartphone sales and be a major player on other facets of consumer technology, but it hasn’t had as much luck in the laptop space. After spending some time with its new Galaxy Book S – and despite a few concerns – I think that could be about to change. We already covered the Galaxy Book‘s launch and specs in our announcement post, so I won’t delve too deep into the minutiae of the internals. The main things you need to know: It’s powered by a Qualcomm 8cx ARM processor, has 8GB of RAM, supports LTE, and packs a…

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Verizon sells Tumblr to WordPress, but don’t expect NSFW posts back

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by on August 12, 2019 at 10:46 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media


After spending a few years doing pretty much nothing of note with the site, Verizon’s offloading Tumblr to Automattic, the company that owns WordPress. However, despite the new management, the site apparently won’t reinstate its NSFW content. We have big news to share today: @tumblr is joining Automattic, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. Here’s @photomatt’s announcement (on his very own Tumblr site!): https://t.co/gcWqj6wOBO pic.twitter.com/FThTGACK7M — Automattic (@automattic) August 12, 2019 The Wall Street Journal reports Automattic bought Tumblr for an undisclosed amount. According to Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, the acquisition is the priciest in Automattic‘s history, and the company’s also taking on…

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Study: Trump’s paid Peter Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s mass-surveillance network

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by on August 12, 2019 at 8:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


Perhaps no other company has profited more from the Trump administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants — and US citizens of similar appearance — than Peter Thiel‘s Palantir. A recent investigation, conducted by Mijente, revealed the US government has at least 29 active contracts with the company worth approximately $1.5 billion. This covers Palantir’s work with all four branches of the military, Border Patrol, ICE, and Homeland Security, but it doesn’t even touch on the hundreds of contracts it has with local law enforcement throughout the country. All in all the company’s valued at over $20 billion. Peter Thiel, the tech…

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Twitch blunder leads to porn being broadcast on Ninja’s old channel

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by on August 12, 2019 at 7:09 pm
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Twitch has not had the best August, to put it lightly. First the world’s biggest streamer fully defects to its heretofore-niche competitor, Mixer, and now, over the weekend, it’s apparently been busted for letting pornography through its filters — and promoting it on said streamer’s channel. How in the heck did we get here? When Tyler “Ninja” Blevins announced he was moving from Twitch to Mixer, the focus was mostly on the latter. Given Mixer’s not a very large or well-known website, there was some curiosity as to how it’d handle the sudden influx of fans that would follow Ninja to the…

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Samsung and Xiaomi want to put a 108-megapixel camera in your phone

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by on August 12, 2019 at 7:02 pm
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Ask many a photographer about resolution, and they’ll tell you “megapixels don’t matter.” For most people 8 megapixels or so is enough. But that line of thinking isn’t stopping Samsung and Xiaomi from teaming up to create a massive 108-megapixel  meant for your smartphone. The ‘Isocell Bright HMX‘ is not just massive in terms of its megapixel count – it’s a physically huge sensor (for a smartphone, coming in at a 1/1.33-inch diagonal. This puts it close to enthusiast cameras like Sony’s RX-100 series, which feature 1-inch sensors. It’s physical size alone should account for shallower depth of field and…

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