Facebook announced Thursday it is creating an independent body to make potentially precedent-setting calls on what content should be yanked from the social network. The announcement came as Facebook reported it has ramped up its…
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#Travel: TripAdvisor launches all-new platform
TripAdvisor today announced that travelers worldwide can join the all-new TripAdvisor. Over a decade ago, TripAdvisor changed the way consumers researched and planned travel. The new platform transforms travel again by becoming the one place…
#Gadgets: GoPro HERO7 Black wins CES 2019 Innovation Award
GoPro has been named a CES® 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree for its HERO7 Black camera. The annual CES program celebrates outstanding design, with an independent panel of judges evaluating new products on their consumer appeal,…
#Gadgets: Samsung folding screen lets smartphone open into tablet
Samsung on Wednesday showed off a folding screen that lets a smartphone open into a tablet, heralding it as the future for portable devices. Senior vice president of mobile product marketing Justin Denison pulled a…
#Gadgets: New USB Flash Drive claims it’s hacker-proof
The eye-Disk team has announced their Kickstarter launch eyeDisk – the unhackable USB flash drive with Iris recognition technology. eyeDisk is the most secure USB flash drive available on Kickstarter now. Data security is more important than ever. Iris recognition is a method…
Hublot celebrates Bitcoin with exclusive Big Bang Meca-10 P2P
Hublot is celebrating ten years since the creation of Bitcoin by launching the Big Bang Meca-10 P2P limited edition watch, available for purchase exclusively online with Bitcoins and also featuring the transaction number engraved on…
Video game action heads for the cloud
Video games are following television and music into the cloud, with console-quality play on its way to being a streaming service as easy to access as Netflix or Spotify. Computing power in data centers and…
Typical tweet shorter since character length doubled
Twitter on Tuesday confirmed that a year after doubling the character limit for tweets, the average length of messages fired off in English actually got a smidge shorter. The news promised to allay concerns that…
Armed drones, iris scanners: China’s high-tech security gadgets
From virtual reality police training programmes to gun-toting drones and iris scanners, a public security expo in China showed the range of increasingly high-tech tools available to the country’s police. The exhibition, which ran Tuesday…
Driverless hover-taxis to take off in Singapore
Test flights of a driverless hover-taxi will take place in Singapore next year, a German aviation firm said, the latest innovation to offer an escape from Asia’s monster traffic jams. Millions of commuters in the…