Month: June 2020
HBO Max won’t hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will
HBO Max, AT&T’s big bet on the future of streaming, will be excused from AT&T’s mobile data caps, while competing services like Netflix and Disney Plus will use up your data. That’s the follow-up from a Vergecast conversation with Tony Goncalves, the AT&T executive in charge of HBO Max. Asked…
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Windows 10 May 2020 Update finally makes it easy to ditch Cortana
Windows 10 May 2020 Update comes with some big changes for Cortana, and one of those is giving users the ability to easily switch off the digital assistant – or indeed ditch the feature entirely (finally). With the May 2020 Update, Cortana got a divorce from the taskbar, becoming a…
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Ban them all
Emerging after days of darkness, President Donald Trump threatened Americans on Monday night with a military crackdown involving “thousands of heavily armed soldiers.” Shortly before Trump appeared on camera, federal police under his authority attacked a peaceful group of people near the White House with tear gas and rubber bullets,…
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The tech we wish we had in college
All this talk of final exams and (virtual) graduation ceremonies has us at Engadget opining about our college days. We sometimes take things for granted as we cover the latest tech news, but oh, how our worlds would have been different back then if w… Source
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Google cracks down on Mitron app popular in India – here’s why
Google has cracked down on Mitron, the app that sought to own the made-in-India tag in the video creation and sharing space to compete with TikTok. The app, which got a lot of downloads, was pulled off Play Store because Google felt it was violating its spam and minimum functionality…
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Activision temporarily pauses new ‘Call of Duty’ seasons
Activision has officially announced that the new seasons of Modern Warfare, Warzone and Call of Duty: Mobile have been delayed to an unspecified later date, explaining in a Twitter post that “now is not the time,” and that right now “it’s time for th… Source
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