Source: Engadget | Microsoft will 'retire' Groove Music Android and iOS apps December 1st
- Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU, Canada and Mexico Washington Post
- Trump pours kerosene on the global trade wars The Hill
- Trump’s Steel Destruction Wall Street Journal
- Donald Trump launches TRADE WAR on EU: USA slaps massive tariffs steel and aluminium Express.co.uk
- America Declares War on Its Friends New York Times
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Source: Google News | Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU, Canada and Mexico
Netflix's 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ season 4 concludes in January
May 31, 2018
Source: Engadget | Netflix's 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ season 4 concludes in January
As far as blackmail goes, it was a relatively small request.
The hacker who claims to have gained access to a host of data from Ticketfly, prompting the Eventbrite-owned ticketing company to pull its site offline sometime late last night, told Mashable that he was only after a single bitcoin.
“[Yes] i asked them 1 bitcoin for protection,” explained the hacker, who goes by IShAkDz, over email, in addition to sharing a huge repository of allegedly stolen files. “But I did not receive a reply from them.”
At the time of this writing, that comes out to around $7,500. For context, the person who hacked HBO last year wanted around $6.5 million worth of bitcoin. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Ticketfly hacker threatens to release more stolen data
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Online dating is hard. We get it. There are countless tweets about the difficulties of finding an internet soulmate, and a whole subreddit dedicated to telling the worst dating stories. We’ve even written multiple lists, articles, and opinion pieces about the struggles of finding love through an app.
But nothing quite encapsulates the online dating experience like this photo of a sad claw game machine, branded with Bumble’s logo and colors. Writer Hannah Murphy snapped a picture of the game, emptier than all of Twitter’s dating prospects.
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Source: Mashable | An empty Bumble claw game became a sad metaphor for online dating
As Mueller's focus tightens, Roger Stone declares he will 'never betray' Trump
May 31, 2018Source: Google News | As Mueller's focus tightens, Roger Stone declares he will 'never betray' Trump
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Once a month or so, I’m reminded that my phone has a front-facing camera when I accidentally hit the toggle button, only to be greeted with a closeup image of my own, dumb face.
Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I used the thing — not intentionally, at least. I tried scrolling through my camera roll to locate the precise moment in which I felt compelled to take a selfie, but ultimately ended up getting tired of the exercise, giving up some time around May of last year.
I have no use for the front-facing camera. I don’t know, maybe I’m in the minority on this one, but I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. Every time I see another phone with another notch or hear stories about companies frantically pushing for some workaround, I quietly wonder what it would be like to live in a world where that wasn’t an issue, because there was no camera getting in the way of that precious screen real estate.
I realize for most mainstream manufacturers, this is probably just a pipe dream. Too many companies have invested too much in the technology to make it appear unnecessary. In recent years, the device has taken on an importance beyond the selfie, including, most notably, the big push by Apple, Samsung and countless Android manufacturers to add face unlock.
There are the proprietary apps like FaceTime and Animoji and a powerful lobby of third-party social media companies that rely on the inclusion of as many cameras as humanly possible on a mobile device. I suppose I fall out of that target demographic. I don’t Snapchat or FaceTime, and when the Google app changed from Hangouts to Meet and I suddenly saw video of myself staring back, again, total freak-out.
Perhaps it’s best left to some smaller manufacturer looking to distinguish themselves from a million other Android manufacturers. Someone out there could be the first to go truly full screen, without a silly gimmick like the Vivo’s pop-up, or whatever eight million patents Essential has filed over the past couple of years. Full screen, without the inherent vanity of that unblinking eye staring back at you.
I’m not saying its enough for one company to get me to switch over, but it’s 2018 and 90 percent of smartphones look virtually identical. Why not at least give the consumer the ability to opt out, at least until phone manufacturers solve the notch?
Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | I would happily ditch the selfie camera for a full-screen phone
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