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Samsung Galaxy A52 5G receives Bluetooth and Wi-Fi certification

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The Samsung Galaxy A52 5G has been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance and Bluetooth SIG, inching a couple of steps ...

Google threatens to exit Australia over news content law disputes

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Google has announced it is considering pulling out its search engine from Australia, following a law dispute with the country’s ...

Poco X2 gets stable Android 11 update

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The latest smartphone in Poco’s lineup to get Android 11 is the Poco X2. The device got the MIUI 12 ...

HarmonyOS 2.0 beta now available for Huawei P30 and Mate 30 Pro 5G

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Beta versions of HarmonyOS 2.0 have started rolling out to more devices, including the Huawei P30 and Mate 30 Pro ...

How a budget sex toy company fixed some of sextech’s biggest problems

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Sex toy company Satisfyer didn’t invent any new concepts when it released its line of internet-connected, app-enabled pleasure devices last ...

Amazon tried to profit off the latest Bernie meme. Here’s what Bernie thinks of Amazon.

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When attempting to co-opt a meme, it’s perhaps best to first make sure the focus of said meme doesn’t absolutely ...

Former ADT employee admits he watched customers have sex for years through their cameras

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It’s the stuff of nightmares.  A former ADT technician pleaded guilty Thursday to accessing customers’ home video feeds thousands of ...

How to know if you (or Donald Trump) violated the First Amendment

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The First Amendment provides a fairly wide swath of protection for certain kinds of speech and expression, but it’s not ...

Harvard researchers created a robotic school of fish – Strictly Robots

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There are plenty of fish in the sea, but there’s only one robotic school. Harvard researchers created a robotic school ...

Nendo made a build-it-yourself soccer ball that doesn’t need inflation – Future Blink

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The ball was designed to make soccer more accessible to kids around the world who don’t have access to air ...

This gaming laptop with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is on sale for under $700

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SAVE $344.99: Usually $1,044.98, the Dell G5 15 gaming laptop (256GB SSD, 8GB RAM) is on sale on the brand’s ...

Get a 4K TV on sale in time for February’s parade of new streaming content

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Need guidance at a glance? These are our favorite TV deals from Walmart, Best Buy, Dell, and Amazon as of ...

A smart power strip lets you control all your devices in one location

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Save on TP-Link Kasa smart power strips as of Jan. 22: BEST FOR CONCENTRATED AREAS: Kasa Smart HS300 six-outlet power ...

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is still discounted, plus more great laptop deals this weekend

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OUR TOP PICK: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 — save $1,416.36 BEST VALUE: Dell XPS 13 — save $79 ...

The far right’s favorite registrar is building ‘censorship-resistant’ servers

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“The digital divide is now a matter of life and death for people who are unable to access essential healthcare ...

Daily Crunch: Alphabet shuts down Loon

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Alphabet pulls the plug on its internet balloon company, Apple is reportedly developing a new MacBook Air and Google threatens ...

Is any company too big to be SPAC’d?

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While many deemed 2020 the year of SPAC, short for special purpose acquisition company, 2021 may well make last year ...

Backed by Vint Cerf, Emortal wants to protect your digital legacy from ‘bit-rot’

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We are all pumping out data into the cloud. Some of it we’d like to keep forever. Emortal is a ...

Extra Crunch roundup: Digital health VC survey, edtech M&A, deep tech marketing, more

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I had my first telehealth consultation last year, and there’s a high probability that you did, too. Since the pandemic ...

End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

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Roger Lee Contributor Share on Twitter Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, ...

EVgo to go public via SPAC in bid to power EV charging expansion

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EVgo, the wholly owned subsidiary of LS Power that owns and operates public fast chargers for electric vehicles, has reached ...

Xbox Live Gold is getting a big price hike

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In what feels like an attempt at kicking some bad news under the rug on a Friday, Microsoft announced this ...

Boston Globe will consider people’s requests to have articles about them anonymized

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The Boston Globe is starting a new program by which people who feel an article at the newspaper is harmful ...

Drupal’s journey from dorm-room project to billion-dollar exit

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Twenty years ago Drupal and Acquia founder Dries Buytaert was a college student at the University of Antwerp. He wanted ...

Samsung plans on building a fab in the states to build cutting-edge chips

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plans on making an investment of over $10 billion that will result in the construction of a factory to produce ...

Make Siri respond on the right Apple device; did you know that your Apple Watch has a flashlight?

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, if you own multiple devices, Siri will occasionally respond to the wrong one. For example, let’s say that you’re ...

Two of Samsung’s next Android tablets have just leaked in all their (familiar) glory

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As , Samsung will unsurprisingly be looking to further expand and diversify its iPad-rivaling product portfolio this year. In addition ...

Verizon’s gorgeous LG Velvet 5G UW is on sale at a phenomenal price

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This weekend sure looks like a nearly ideal time to get a brand spanking new handset on the largest US ...

Stop what you’re doing and delete these Android apps before they bombard your phone with ads

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Although spring is obviously not here yet, the time to do a little (digital) cleaning may have already arrived, at ...

While Apple cuts production of the 5G iPhone 12 mini, its Pro line takes business away from Huawei

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reveals that consumers are favoring the Apple iPhone 12 Pro series over the iPhone 12 mini. Perhaps we should start ...