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Tech NewsInternetSamsung Taps Twitch Rivals for Exclusive Gaming Events
Samsung Galaxy is now the exclusive mobile partner of Twitch Rivals, a year-long agreement that will see the companies collaborate on exclusive events and Twitch content. The partnership checks a lot of boxes for Samsung. For one, it helps boost the Samsung Galaxy product lineup and more specifically its 5G-enabled suite of mobile devices. Secondly,…
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Tech NewsThe SMS Has Been Able to Rent a Car By Itself for Three Years
Happy birthday, SMS! Today marks the 28th birthday of the SMS aka the Short Message Service, the way GSM phones used to send text messages to each other. In other words, texting is now as old as the Big Bopper and Caligula were when they died. Neil Papworth of Sema Group sent the first SMS…
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Only Good Modular Phone Now Has New Cameras and Is Even More Sustainable
Get excited, repair nerds: Fairphone is rolling out a new 3+ model with two new camera modules. And yes, they’re compatible with the company’s current Fairphone 3 model. The sustainability-focused maker of the very best modular phone on Thursday announced its boosted cameras modules, which improve upon those that came standard in the Fairphone 3.…
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Tech NewsCulturePeople Are Apparently Jerking Off With Their Phones During the Pandemic
People are doing things with their phones that I didn’t even know you could do with phones. I mean, I get it: In these crazy coronavirus times, people need to get creative to meet their sexual needs. I totally support having a healthy sex life and masturbation. But… with your phone? To be completely honest…
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Tech NewsTech PolicyAjit Pai, Who Abandoned FCC Prison Phone Rate Caps, Urges States to Clean Up His Mess
Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai is urging that states impose caps on the price of intrastate prison phone calls—ones that existed on the federal level until Pai’s FCC abandoned them in court. Per Ars Technica, on Monday Pai sent a letter to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (a group of state utility…
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Tech NewsGadgetsHow to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Webcam
You’re maybe using video calling software a heck of a lot more than you were, say, a month ago—and you don’t want to be the only remote worker out there without a video feed to your name. If your home computer setup doesn’t come with a webcam built-in, then you can use the camera on…
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ReviewsSmartphonesLG’s Dual Screen V60 Is So Charming, I Don’t Mind Its Flaws
Life is getting weirder and scarier, and we’re clinging to what we can for happiness. In some of us, that comfort is found in gadgets, and my current comfort gadget is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip. It is so damn cool it makes me forget what’s going on outside, just for a few seconds. Yet…
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Tech NewsGadgetsSamsung Blames the Coronavirus for the Galaxy S20’s Horrible Sales Numbers
As you all might have noticed, the coronavirus outbreak is affecting a lot of things in the tech world, from huge conferences to international and domestic travel, among others. Now, Samsung is also blaming coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, for the new Galaxy S20 line’s horrible initial sales numbers in South Korea. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s20-ultra-review-glorious-excess-with-a-1841946457 According to…
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Best Apps for Customizing Your Android Phone
One of the reasons for choosing Android over iOS is the extra customization options you get—you can really dive deep when it comes to tweaking the appearance of Android, pixel-by-pixel, and there are a huge number of apps around to help. Make use of some or all of these to give your Android device a…
By David Nield
