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3.3-inch Palm is now available unlocked for $349

August 17, 2019
TCL revived the long-dead Palm brand last year to launch the minuscule (for this day and age) Palm phone, which has a tiny 3.3″ touchscreen and runs Android. Initially this was billed as a companion device to your smartphone when it launched exclusively at Verizon. In the meantime, it became available standalone from Big Red, and back in June Palm started taking pre-orders for an unlocked…
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IKEA creates a business unit devoted to smart home tech

August 17, 2019
It’s clear by now that IKEA is serious about smart home tech between its Sonos-powered speakers and connected lights, but the home furniture giant wants to formalize that commitment. It just established a full-fledged Home Smart business unit that, as you might guess…
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Official samples show Samsung Galaxy Note10's new video recording features

August 17, 2019
The new Samsung Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ come with the first triple camera setups in the phablet lineup. And while the three units are familiar from the Galaxy S10, Samsung has managed to keep things interesting by adding a few cool new tricks for the video recording. The company went ahead and shared a few official samples highlighting the novelties. Arguably the most interesting of the bunch is…
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Hitting the Books: How big tech might monopolize AI

August 17, 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…
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Developers criticize Apple’s changes to location permissions in iOS 13 as ‘anti-competitive’

August 17, 2019
iOS 13 introduces a number of changes for how developers are able to use user locations. Now, a group of app developers have joined forces to call the changes anti-competitive, and are taking their complaints directly to Tim Cook. As detailed in a new report from , developers say that the new location changes in iOS 13 will hurt their businesses. They also accuse Apple of…
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If you’ve bought a Nintendo Switch since July 17th, you might be able to upgrade for free

August 16, 2019
Nintendo made a lightly updated version of the original Switch console that offers improvements like better battery life. But if you bought the old model recently, you might not be out of luck. The company is offering upgrades to the newer model for customers who bought the old version from July 17th going forward (when Nintendo announced the new model), according to a report from Polygon, which…
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