Thursday, January 2, 2020

Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G smartphones in 2019

The world's biggest smartphone maker is widening its lead over rivals in the race to put 5G devices in customers' hands.


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A fake Twitter account stirred tensions between Jews and African Americans. Trolls celebrated.

Trolls on the online forum 4chan celebrated on New Year's Day as a fake Twitter account seeking to stoke tensions between Jewish and black Americans amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks in New York provoked outrage. Even as the trolls celebrated, the account went unchecked by Twitter for hours despite dozens of users saying they reported the account to the social media company.


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Apple patents surround sound-like technology for a MacBook

Apple won a patent for making the acoustics coming from a MacBook sound far away. It's an idea that could make watching movies, TV shows or videos on a laptop feel significantly more immersive.


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iMessage from a PC? Yup. If you have a Dell

A new Dell feature means iPhone users won't have to look away from their computer screens in the middle of work (or of a heated solitaire game) to answer a text message.


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2020: The year human spaceflight returns to the United States (maybe)

It's an often-lamented fact in the space community: Since NASA retired its Space Shuttle program nine years ago, the public lost some of its interest in extraterrestrial happenings.


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Google's AI system can beat doctors at detecting breast cancer

Google says it has developed an artificial intelligence system that can detect the presence of breast cancer more accurately than doctors.


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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

India reveals plan for third mission to the moon

India has announced it will make another attempt to land on the moon, following a mission that ended in failure last year.


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Scientists, academics and Hollywood producers are fond of predicting society's future, but often their predictions fall flat.


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The predictions for 2020 we got horribly wrong

You're late for work because you forgot to set the alarm clock embedded in your forearm. Rushing out of bed, you give your family members, located thousands of miles away, a quick virtual hug, and hop into the car -- ordering your ape chauffeur to step on it. It's a stressful day, sure, but at least your vacation to the Moon is just a few days away.


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