Google Keep rarely gets updated these days, but it’s mostly feature complete following dark themes earlier this year for Android and the web. The mobile client today is rolling out a Material Theme bottom app bar with inset FAB.
Previously, the left side of the bottom bar had a “Take a note…” field that opened a blank screen when tapped. To the right were shortcuts for creating a new…
Recommended Reading: The making of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge
November 23, 2019
A journey to Galaxy’s Edge, the nerdiest place on Earth
Adam Rogers,
Wired
By now, even people who aren’t Star Wars fans have heard something about Galaxy’s Edge: the massive and detailed new attraction at Disneyland. Wired spoke to “Imagineers”…
Just a day after the renders of Galaxy S11 leaked online, we’re getting a glimpse of the smaller Samsung Galaxy S11e in further CAD-based renders.
The second-generation ‘e’ device from Samsung, the Galaxy S11e is set to include a number of firsts including a triple…
Humans are responsible for the antics of our AIs
November 23, 2019
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we’ve done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.
How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us
by John…
No, AI is not for social good
November 23, 2019
Faced with the public furor over problems with artificial intelligence, tech companies and researchers would now have us believe that the big fix for those problems is to develop AI for social good.
This proposal is not new; it’s the latest in a long line of bold, mostly…
And while things are slowly going back to normal around the Huawei ban, the US FCC is making things harder on the other end. The latest development around the US-China trade war is that USA operators can no longer purchase Huawei and ZTE equipment using federal subsidy…
OnePlus reveals its second website data breach in two years
November 23, 2019
Early in 2018, popular cellphone maker OnePlus revealed it had coughed up credit card information on over 40,000 users in a data breach, and now it’s informing users of another one. This time, while the website is the source of the breach, the company believes payment info is unaffected, however information exposed may include “name, contact number, email and shipping address”…
Honor V30 confirmed to ship with Kirin 990 SoC, price surfaces
November 23, 2019
The Honor V30 and V30 Pro arriving on November 26 were expected to ship with the flagship Kirin 990 SoC, and just three days ahead of the unveiling, the company has officially confirmed that the V30 series will indeed have the Kirin 990 chipset under the hood.
Honor made…
OnePlus security breach exposes customer names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses
November 23, 2019
OnePlus has revealed today that its systems have been breached, resulting in information about certain orders having been exposed. Names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses could be in the possession of nefarious third parties.
The company stresses that only a…
New Nokia smartphone launches on December 5
November 23, 2019
HMD Global, the company that makes Nokia smartphones, has started teasing its next product, which will be officially unveiled on December 5. We know this much from the tweet you can see embedded below. Unfortunately, aside from the date and an outline of a handset, we don’t have any other clues as to what phone this will be.
The newest addition to our family will be…
