Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices are reported to be suffering from a significant touchscreen flaw. Phones affected by this so-named “touch disease” experience completely unresponsive touchscreens.
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Apple’s iPhone 7 Lands in Last Place in Battery Life Test
It’s far behind its Android competitors.
Continue readingFacebook launches Marketplace, a friendlier Craigslist
450 million people already visit “buy and sell” Groups on Facebook each month, and now the company is launching a whole tab in its app dedicated to peer-to-peer shopping.
Continue readingComcast to launch wireless service in 2017
Comcast plans to launch a cellphone service roughly in the middle of next year, although it would be limited to areas of the country where it’s a cable provider. That could potentially offer real competition to carriers like Verizon and AT&T for a subset of the country. Comcast has just over 28 million customers. The cable giant plans to create a service that would run on its 15 million Wi-Fi hotspots and use Verizon’s wireless network, which it has a deal to resell.
Continue readingiPhone 7 Owners, Drilling A Hole Into Your New Smartphone Will Not Reveal A Hidden Headphone Jack
In what could be the most face-palm-inducing report that you would read today, iPhone 7 owners have been said to be drilling holes into their new smartphones, thinking that doing so will reveal a hidden headphone jack.
Continue readingControl What You See in Your Facebook News Feed
The news feed feature on Facebook is now 10 years old. Since its inauspicious beginning as a hub for friends’ Facebook activity, the page has gone through many major evolutions. Users have responded with widespread criticism, including a Facebook group to protest the very existence of the news feed and recent media fallout over Facebook’s censorship of art and promotion of fake news stories via automated software that decides what’s appropriate and interesting for individual users. Facebook may not be a bona fide media organization as Mark Zuckerberg insisted after the company deleted a post of a famous war photograph because the news feed algorithm flagged it as child pornography. But as a font of referral traffic to publishers like The Economist and Rolling Stone, Facebook has become the main news platform for 44 percent of American adults. For more than 60 percent […]
Continue readingWhy you shouldn’t hire based on qualifications alone
At heart, we all know it is ineffectual to write job ads and fill them up with long lists of ultra-specific technical and functional skills when there are equally, if not more, important qualities the ideal hire should have. Somebody could walk in the door with every single qualification you’ve listed in a job ad, and he could still be a terrible hire. Someone else who walks in with twenty-five percent of your so-called “Essential Requirements” could do the job brilliantly. Somebody who possesses every single qualification listed in your job ad might be the worst person to hire if he (or she) only makes it into work two or three days out of five. He might be a terrible new hire if he’s mean to his co-workers. If you want to make good hires, you have to get your nose out of […]
Continue readingCallJam Android Malware
Point mobile research team has discovered new Android malware that it has dubbed CallJam. CallJam malware includes a premium dialer to generate fraudulent phone calls as well as a rough adnet capable of forcibly displaying ads. The malware is hidden inside the game “Gems Chest for Clash Royale” which was uploaded to Play in May. Since then, the game has been downloaded up to 500,000 times. If you use an Android phone, you’ll want to know about this new Malware.
Continue readingHere’s a quick fix for that defective Galaxy Note 7 Exploding Battery
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners now have a quick fix for the exploding battery issue: never fully charge the device.
Continue reading5 Money-Saving Apps Millennials Use That You Don’t
These apps can save you time, money and frustration. How many are you using already?
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