FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: ‘We need smart networks, not dump pipes’

After cancelling his CES 2018 appearance in January, reportedly due to death threats, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today attended a panel at MWC 2018 in Barcelona. During the event, titled "The Future of the Industry: Transatlantic Digital Policy and Regula...

YouTube now lets Live viewers control streamers’ lights and pet feeders

YouTube today announced it’s introducing new features to its Live streams to bring its communities closer together. Among the changes is chat replay, which allows anyone watching saved livestreams to see the chat — an indispensable feature when rewatching streams as you might otherwise wonder who or what the streamers are responding to. Twitch introduced a similar feature two years ago. Other changes include tagging your location in livestreams, and the ability to search streams by location. YouTube is also bringing its auto-generated captions to streams, which means you’ll probably see more than a few screenshots of streams with humorously…

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Coinbase tells overcharged cryptocurrency buyers to contact their banks

It has been more than 10 days since numerous Coinbase users cried out the popular cryptocurrency exchange desk has erroneously charged them multiple times for past purchases, but it seems the situation is far from over – and customers are still waiting on refunds from Visa and their banks. Over the weekend, a group of cryptocurrency holders took to Reddit to complain they are yet to be compensated for purchases they never made – some for as much as 50 times the value of the intended purchase. “Still have not received refund on [C]oinbase triple charge,” one user wrote on…

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Replay Sessions From Mixpanel and Others Have Recorded Passwords

Analytics services are unintentionally collecting a mass of passwords and other sensitive data, new research shows.

Ford is updating Sync with Waze and a driving assistant

Ford is updating its Sync infotainment software with a few new navigation options. Sygic is a name we haven't heard in quite awhile, but the GPS company will bring its voice assistant to certain Ford vehicles. If your blue-oval-clad ride has Sync 3 a...

Google’s DeepMind teaches AI to predict death

DeepMind wants to solve the problem of patient deterioration in hospitals. The Google sister-company fed its AI the historical medical records of about 700,000 US veterans in hopes it will learn to predict changes in patient condition that, unchecked, lead to death. The partnership between DeepMind and the Veterans Administration (VA) brings some of the top minds in artificial intelligence research together with “world-renowned clinicians and researchers” working for the government. Basically, the US government is turning to, arguably, the smartest computer on the planet in order to find a cure for human-error. According to the laws of 1980s movies…

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BlackBerry thinks shipping 850,000 KEYOne phones is a success

TCL unveiled the Blackberry KEYOne at MWC 2017 and now, a year later, we have an idea of how well it sold as well as a glimpse into the company's outlook going forward. IDC's Francisco Jeronimo says that just 850,000 BlackBerry devices shipped last y...

YouTube Live gains automatic captions, chat replay and more

 YouTube today announced several new features designed to improve the live streaming experience for both creators and viewers. The most notable additions include the ability to play back a live chat after the live stream ends, and the launch of live automatic captions on videos. YouTube began offering automatic captioning back in 2009, and has since added captions to a billion videos, the… Read More

The Measuring the Economic Impact of Broadband Act Wants to Prove the Benefit of Broadband For All

A new bipartisan bill calls on the Department of Congress to study the effect of connectivity on communities.

The Galaxy S9+ vs. the competition: Beyond the dual cameras

This year's bigger Galaxy handset focuses on its picture-taking capabilities: The S9+ is Samsung's first flagship with a dual camera, which brings it in line with competing phones like the Pixel 2 XL as well as its sibling Galaxy Note 8. There's also...

We went for a ride in a Huawei smartphone-controlled self-driving Porsche

 Huawei didn’t have a new phone to show at MWC this year, so it did what any good smartphone maker would: it put the Mate 10 Pro in an autonomous car and drove it directly at a dog. Of course, the promotional video was a lot more dramatic than what the company was actually demoing at the show itself. And while the company insisted to us that the dog in the video was, indeed real and not… Read More