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Spotify’s Official Apple Watch App Is On Its Way—And Missing Key Features
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Please Get Some Exercise, Any Exercise at All, New Federal Guidelines Plead
Image: StockSnap (Pixabay) The U.S. government has released its latest recommendations on how physically active we should be to stay healthy, and do we detect a hint of desperation in their tone? The guidelines, as before, call for adults to aim for 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic exercise, or 75 minutes a week…
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Facebook Told Congress It Bungled Monitoring of More User Data
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies to Senate Committee on foreign influencePhoto: Drew Angerer (Getty) Facebook neglected to properly monitor multiple device makers that were allowed to access Facebook users’ personal data, the company recently admitted to U.S. lawmakers. The New York Times reports that a previously unreported disclosure Facebook sent to Congress last month revealed…
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Senators Urge FTC to Investigate Manipulative Ads in Children’s Apps
Photo: Getty Three senators sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, urging the agency to investigate advertising in children’s apps. The senators believe that, according to a recent study that looked at the prevalence of these apps, the techniques are in violation of a section of the FTC Act that prohibits…
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Incredible Bird-Dinosaur Specimen Thrills Scientists After 25 Years in Museum Storage
Illustration depicting Mirace eatoni perched on a Utahceratops gettyiIllustration: Brian Engh A museum might wow you with all of its fossil specimens on display, but that’s often just a small part of what’s really there—specimens in the back might lay in drawers or plaster-wrapped in boxes, quietly holding yet-to-be-revealed secrets or further mysteries about the…
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Juul Says It Will Stop Selling All Its Good Flavors of E-Cigarettes in Stores
An for Juul’s e-cigarette pods, including those flavored. Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) The vaping industry looks set to undergo a seismic shift in how it sells and markets its products, starting with its biggest U.S. player, Juul Labs. On Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company announced that it would stop selling a majority of its…
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Essential Lurches Back From the Grave to Offer Up $150 Headphone Dongle
Would you pay for a $149 dongle?Image: Essential Halloween has passed, but Essential hath risen from near death to deliver unto us a $150 dongle. Audiophiles who also happen to own an Essential phone, now is the time to rejoice—if you’re actually out there. The dongle, available now in the U.S. and Canada, is called…
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What Now Glows, He Soon Will Own
Photo: Julie Jacobson (AP) Look outside, New Yorkers. Squint hard enough to see the Manhattan skyline from your barely affordable studio apartment an hour into the outer boroughs, and you can just make out one last act of shameless groveling on the horizon: In celebration [of the winning bid for Amazon’s HQ2 competition], several key…
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Declassified specifications and the design of the next flagship Xiaomi Mi 9
Latvian designer Benjamin Gaskin (Benjamin Geskin), known for the diversion, published through its Twitter account a conceptual render and estimated characteristics of the next flagship of the company Xiaomi is preparing to release for next year. According to earlier leaks, the Xiaomi Mi 9 will be released in the first half of 2019 and are…
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Foldable Samsung smartphone with flexible display shown in the video
In the Internet appeared the video, which foldable Samsung smartphone with a flexible display that can be seen in all its glory. Renderings created by members of the famous group Concept Creator — for them it is not the first work of this kind, in the past they have laid out images of smartphones, preparing…