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Check Out the iPhone XS’ Weirdo Battery
Here’s an X-ray picture of said battery taken by iFixit and Creative Electron. Photo: iFixit Strangely, the iPhone XS’ battery capacity of 2,659 mAh is actually slightly less than the 2,716 mAh battery in the iPhone X, which sort of makes you question if all that extra effort was worth it. Meanwhile, on the larger…
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Infowars and Prison Planet Belatedly Banned From PayPal for Obvious Reasons
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) Just when we thought Twitter was going to be the last one to hold the toxic bag that is Alex Jones, payment processing giant PayPal reminded the internet today that, yup, it was still helping Infowars make money, and that also it’s very sorry and plans to stop. Better late than never!…
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UN Study Finds Average American Crowdworker Earns Less Than $5 an Hour
Screenshot: amazon Concerns over the economic realities of gig workers have largely focused on more public-facing firms like Uber, Lyft, Taskrabbit, and Instacart. A study released yesterday by the International Labour Organization—an agency of the United Nations—suggests pay and work arrangements are as bad or worse for those working on “microtask” platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical…
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ACLU, NAACP, and Dozens of Other Groups Call Out Tech Giants Over Forced Arbitration
Photo: Getty Dozens of groups, including the ACLU, NAACP, and the Economic Policy Institute, wrote letters to some of America’s largest tech companies on Friday, demanding that they free their employees from forced arbitration. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Uber were among the companies whose CEOs received the letters. Friday’s letters come over eight…
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Twitter Bug That ‘May Have’ Exposed Direct Messages Probably Didn’t Expose Anything
Twitter’s Chronological Timeline Is Back. Just Wait Until You See How Weird It Is Twitter is finally leading the way in making a change to its platform that every social network… Read more Read In regards to the bug, some of the private exchanges between users and companies may have been shared with the wrong…
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Dirty Contacts and Bad Hygiene Are Helping Spread an Amoeba That Can Blind You
Image: Pixabay People who wear contact lenses are often warned to properly clean their reusable contacts. A new study published Friday provides a sober reminder of why those warnings exist. Since 2011, it found, an outbreak of a rare infection that can cause blindness has been spreading among contact lens wearers in England, often thanks…
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Declared release date of the new Nokia smartphone middle class
The Global HMD company began sending invitations to journalists at his next press event. It will be held October 4, 2018 in London. As expected, the highlight of the program will become the flagship Nokia 9 and Nokia 7.1 Plus average. According to earlier leaks, the Nokia 7.1 Plus got a display with cut-out-style iPhone…
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The Nokia 7.1 Plus showed up for rendering and video
Resource MySmartPrice has published a selection of renderings and videos with 3D view of upcoming smartphone Nokia 7.1 Plus have not been submitted yet HMD Global officially. The source material was Steve Hammerdorfer (Steve Hemmerstoffer), founder and editor of online NowhereElse.fr known organization leaks via the Twitter account @OnLeaks. The Nokia 7.1 Plus got a…
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FAS has fined operators for roaming in Russia
The Federal Antimonopoly service held a press conference today on the theme “the results of the abolition of roaming charges”. On it Anatoly Golomolzin reported imposed on operators of the “big four” fines. According to golomolzina, in the case of national roaming on each operator was fined in the amount of about 750 thousand rubles.…
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In the new iPhone XS Max found the marriage display
Apple launched today the retail sales of iPhone and iPhone XS XS Max, and the first customers started to receive the smartphone on pre-orders. The happiness of owning a novelty for some users was overshadowed by obrusheniem marriage display. In particular, the user Mustafa (Musthafa Ali) has published in his Twitter account photos of the…