Google has partnered with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which plans to embed the Android operating system in cars starting in 2021. The Alliance will add Android to its cars’ dashboard navigation system. It will feature Google Maps with turn-by-turn navigation, access to automotive apps in the Google Play Store, as well as the ability to answer calls/texts, […]
Linus Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of the Linux kernel, is taking a break from overseeing its development to work on correcting his “unprofessional” behavior towards others. Torvalds made the announcement in an open letter to the Linux community shared through the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). In it, he acknowledged that he is “not an […]
The Communications Workers of America believe the proposed Sprint/T-Mobile merger will lead to as many as 28,000 job loses nationwide. The union has written the attorneys general in all 50 states asking them to investigate the deal and weigh in on the pros and cons at a local level. The CWA, which has 700,000 members, […]
Tesla is currently building its massive Gigafactory 1 in the Nevada desert. The Gigafactory aims to produce more batteries than the entire industry did back in 2013, Now they have tweeted it will be the largest rooftop solar panel array in the world. Upon completion – 70MW or roughly ~200,000 solar panels will make power […]
Verizon‘s fixed 5G service is launching soon. This is is not mobile 5G for smartphones, but its fixed service for your home Verizon has said that it’ll begin offering installation of its 5G home broadband in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento on October 1st. Customers will be able to begin receiving service once the installation […]
Media center app maker Plex informed its users Tuesday that it is shutting down its Plex Cloud service at the end of November. Plex Cloud was meant to simplify the management of personal media collections, but struggled with technical issues and had been in maintenance mode for a few months already. “We’ve made the difficult […]
T-Mobile today announced that it plans to spend $3.5 billion on networking equipment from Ericsson over the next few years. Ericsson will supply T-Mobile with its 3GPP-compliant 5G NR hardware and software for its 5G network. T-Mobile plans to use various spectrum bands for 5G, all of which can be covered by Ericsson’s equipment. In addition to […]
A Russian man extradited to the US has been charged with hacking into US banks, brokers and financial news firms. Andrei Tyurin is accused of being part of a gang that conducted an “extensive hacking” campaign from 2012-15. One of the most high-profile victims was JP Morgan Chase, which lost data on 80 million customers. […]
Apple says the proposed list of tariffs the Trump administration plans to levy against imports from China will impact a “wide range” of its products. The iPhone maker called (PDF) out the Apple Watch, Apple Pencil, and AirPods, as well as Beats headphones, the MacMini, and Apple-branded adapters, cables, and chargers. Apple did not say the iPhone, […]
North American Theater Owners president and CEO John Fithian, representing exhibitors at the Toronto Film Festival this week, has urged Netflix to follow the lead of rival Amazon and show their movies at the local multiplex. Talking with THR, Fithian says: “Our model can work for their movies too. But if you want to play […]
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