Over more than a decade of writing about technology, reviewing a new iPhone has long been one of my simplest assignments. Year after year, the formula was this: I tested the most important new features of Apple’s latest smartphone and assessed whether they were useful. Assuming the newest iPhone worked well, my advice was generally […]
Content moderators work at a Facebook office in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post) Ctrl + N Drug dealers are using Facebook, YouTube and other social networks to push steroids, raising new concerns about Silicon Valley’s content moderation investments as the tech industry faces increasing pressure in Washington. Steroids and other performance […]
CARDIFF, Wales — A few hours before a recent Wales-Ireland rugby match in Cardiff, amid throngs of fans dressed in team colors of red and green, and sidewalk merchants selling scarves and flags, police officers popped out of a white van. The officers stopped a man carrying a large Starbucks coffee, asked him a series […]
Students take part in an anti-government rally in Hong Kong.(Chris McGrath/Getty Images) September 15 at 4:30 PM A search for “#hongkong” on Twitter reveals a vast visual patchwork of the city’s unavoidable protests, including pro-China agitprop, sympathetic memes and imagery from the hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy marchers who have braved police crackdowns. But the […]
Facebook has removed a Conservative Party advert which misrepresented a BBC News story. The ad carried a BBC logo and headline saying “£14 billion pound cash boost for schools” – despite the story it linked to putting the figure at £7.1bn. The social media giant say the Tories had “misused” its advertising platform and it […]
This weekend Steve Worswick will be pushing the boundaries of what it is to be human, attempting to fool a panel of judges into thinking they are chatting to another person while really they will be talking to a chatbot. But Steve isn’t an engineer at Apple or Amazon, he is a designer from Leeds […]
Tony Avelar/AP This time last year, it looked like Apple seemed to be getting out of the luxury watch game when it quietly discontinued its most expensive Apple Watch, the Apple Watch Edition. The ultra-high-end 18-karat-gold Apple Watch Editions, which cost upwards of $ 10,000, were spotted on celebrities including Kanye West and Beyoncé after […]
Google says it has implemented new algorithms in an attempt to elevate original news reporting. Here, Trystan Upstill speaks about Google News at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., on May 8, 2018. (Jeff Chiu) September 13 at 10:59 PM Editor’s Note: Two sentences originally published in this story used language similar to […]
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi SonKim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters SoftBank plans to buy $ 750 million in WeWork shares in the real-estate company’s planned public offering, The Wall Street Journal reported. The purchase would represent about 25% of the shares WeWork is planning on selling. The move would up SoftBank’s investment in the company to more than $ 11 […]
A child looks at a kids app. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post) September 12 at 5:47 PM Apple rolled back privacy rules Thursday that developers of apps for children had said would hurt their ability to make money and improve their products. The rules, which were originally announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in […]
Astral Chain (Nintendo) By Christopher Byrd September 12 at 4:03 PM Astral Chain Developed by: Platinum Games Published by: Nintendo Available on: Nintendo Switch At the end of each of “Astral Chain’s” missions a menu pops up on screen asking if you’d like to advance to the next “file” with the same “play style” or […]
In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children, MPs say. The industry’s UK trade body responded it would “review these recommendations with utmost seriousness”. But the committee of MPs had accused some of those who had given evidence of a “lack of honesty and transparency”. Free video […]
People with a fear of small holes have claimed the design of Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro is triggering their phobia. At its unveiling on Tuesday, many found their attention drawn to its “ultra-wide” rear camera, with three high-powered lenses packed closely together. The lenses sit alongside the handset’s torch and “audio zoom” microphone. And hundreds […]
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Apple has unveiled its iPhone 11 range of handsets, which feature more cameras than before and a processor that has been updated to be faster while consuming less power. The company said the two Pro models would last between four to five hours longer than their XS predecessors. But it did not launch a 5G […]