Month: January 2020
Super Bowl 2020 trailers: what to expect
The Super Bowl is the venue for a lot of different exciting things: commercials, half-time shows, and oh yeah, football! But it’s also a pretty big deal if you’re a keen moviegoer. Between all the lavish commercials for cars and snacks, big movies and TV shows have taken the spotlight…
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SpaceX successfully catches one fairing half from latest Starlink launch
SpaceX is one step closer to an even more re-usable launch system today, after it successfully recovered one fo the halves of the fairing used on its Starlink satellite launch today. The fairing half was caught by its ‘Ms. Tree’ vessel, a ship at sea in the Atlantic strung with…
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Avast reportedly sold user web browsing data
Popular antivirus application Avast and its subsidiary AVG have been accused of selling highly sensitive browsing histories of millions of their users. According to an investigation from Motherboard and PCMag, both Avast and AVG, which are among the most commonly used antivirus programs, were tracking data including Google searches, GPS…
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Whip Media Group, parent to TV show tracking app TV Time, raises $50M
In the streaming era, data on a show’s viewership and popularity is harder to come by. It’s no longer as simple as setting up a Nielsen box to get data on a show being watched across TVs, phones, tablets, and the web. One company solving this problem for content owners,…
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iOS and Mac calendar app Fantastical is moving to a subscription model
Calendar app Fantastical is getting a big update simultaneously across all Apple platforms that adds a bunch of new features, but also moves its signature software to a subscription model on iOS and Mac. Flexibits’ Fantastical has had a long history as one of the premier calendar apps for Apple…
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Samsung’s upgraded Galaxy Tab S6 5G is the world’s first 5G tablet
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Tab S6 5G, a 5G variant of 2019’s Tab S6 tablet that also takes the crown as the world’s first 5G tablet, as spotted by Android Central. As the name suggests, the new tablet is virtually unchanged from the original Wi-Fi and LTE models,…
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