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Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release "dogfood" (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we're told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore. The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple's program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a "research" app. That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple's enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company...

Apple is planning to release an iPhone that has three rear cameras in 2019, according to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The company's current top-of-the-line iPhones, the XS, and XS Max, have two cameras on the back, one being a portrait lens. But Android phone makers including LG and Huawei have already released triple-camera systems that allow for more creative flexibility and ultra-wide-angle shots. Apple is set to join them with the successor to the XS Max, according to Gurman, with the newest camera capturing a wider field of view. The third rear camera will also "capture more pixels so Apple software could, for example, automatically repair a video or photo to fit in a subject that may have been accidentally cut off from the initial shot." Additionally, Apple’s Live Photos feature will be extended from three seconds to six seconds. All three 2018 iPhones are set to receive updated models for 2019, and Gurman says their designs will remain large...

A snowsquall (or snow squall) is a sudden moderately heavy snowfall with blowing snow and strong, gusty surface winds.[1] It is often referred to as a whiteout and is similar to a blizzard but is localized in time or in location and snow accumulations may or may not be significant. Types: Lake-effect snow When arctic air moves over large expanses of warmer open waters in winter, convective clouds develop which cause heavy snow showers due to a large amount of moisture available. This occurs southwest of extratropical cyclones, with the curved cyclonic wind flow bringing cold air across the relatively warm Great Lakes which then leads to narrow lake-effect snow bands that can produce significant localized snowfall.[2] Whiteout conditions will affect narrow corridors from shores to inland areas aligned along the prevailing wind direction.[3][4] This will be enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by higher elevations. The name originates from the Great Lakes area of North Ameri...

Earlier this week, Apple began a clearance sale on the iPhone SE, its nearly three-year-old, 4-inch smartphone modeled after the iPhone 5S, at a $100 discount. It was the second round of recent sales after an initial batch sold out the previous weekend. And like any budget-adverse tech journalist with an impulse buying compulsion, I felt this was the appropriate moment to hop on the backup phone bandwagon. So I bought one. (Unfortunately, it sold out quick, again.) I’ve always appreciated the classic 5S design, with its overtly rounded corners and its sturdy, not-so-delicate dimensions. It never felt like it really required a case, and its smaller screen and more comfortable, one-handed use is something I’ve thought far too much about as I’ve ferried around an iPhone X and now an XS over the past year and a half. Plus, it’s got a headphone jack. I purchased a space grey model, with 32GB of storage, purely because I want to pop my nano SIM into it on nights and weekends when...

Facebook is working to allow cross-messaging between Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to a report in The New York Times this morning. Each service will continue to operate as a standalone app, but according to the Times, Facebook is rebuilding the underlying infrastructure so that people who might use only one of Facebook’s properties could communicate with others within the company’s ecosystem. All of the apps will support end-to-end encryption as well. Facebook has yet to provide a timeline for when this will happen. “We want to build the best messaging experiences we can; and people want to message to be fast, simple, reliable and private,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “We’re working on making more of our messaging products end-to-end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach friends and family across networks. As you would expect, there is a lot of discussion and debate as we begin the long process of figuring ou...

Netflix has become the first streaming service to join the ranks of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Tuesday, Hollywood’s most powerful lobbying group, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s the first time an internet-based, non-studio has been granted membership to the 97-year-old trade association which represents six legacy Hollywood studios â€" all of whom endorsed the streaming company’s new membership. “On behalf of the MPAA and its member companies, I am delighted to welcome Netflix as a partner,” MPAA’s CEO Charlie Rivkin said in a statement. “All of our members are committed to pushing the film and television industry forward, in both how we tell stories and how we reach audiences. Adding Netflix will allow us to even more effectively advocate for the global community of creative storytellers, and I look forward to seeing what we can all achieve together.” Netflix’s new membership with MPAA comes as the streaming service has expa...

Xiaomi’s folding phone has been revealed in a teaser video from the company. Xiaomi co-founder and president Lin Bin have posted a nearly minute-long video to Weibo today, detailing the double folding phone. Both sides of the device can be folded back to transform it from a tablet form factor into more of a compact phone. Unlike other foldable phones we’ve seen recently, this certainly looks a more practical use for the technology. Xiaomi doesn’t provide many details about its foldable phone, but Bin reveals the device in the video is simply an engineering model. Bin does note Xiaomi has conquered “a series of technical problems such as flexible folding screen technology, four-wheel drive folding shaft technology, flexible cover technology, and MIUI adaptation.” Xiaomi appears to have adapted its MIUI software for the foldable phone, and a video is seen playing on the device before it converts from tablet to phone mode. Xiaomi’s folding phone leaked earlier this month, ...

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Federal Trade Commission officials have discussed imposing a record-setting fine on Facebook after a year of major data breaches and revelations of improper data sharing, according to the Washington Post. Facebook may have violated a 2012 agreement with the government to protect users’ data and make clear statements about their privacy. If imposed, this would be the first major fine Facebook has faced in the US after it was revealed last spring that the personal data of over 87 million users had been given to Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, without their explicit permission. Last October, United Kingdom officials fined Facebook £500,000 as a result of Cambridge Analytica, but that amount pales in comparison to what US regulators are reportedly debating now. According to the Post, the fine could be larger than the $22.5 million one the FTC imposed on Google in 2012 after regulators found that the company had tracked users of Apple’s Safari web browser, despite...

A picture of a plain little egg has poached the title of the most-liked Instagram post from Kylie Jenner. The photograph, uploaded on January 4th, had the explicit aim of overtaking Jenner’s record-breaking birth announcement to become the most-liked post on the service. The egg post officially passed Jenner’s 18 million likes on Sunday evening, and currently has just over 24.5 million likes. In an Instagram story responding to the win, the account’s owner “Egg Gang” said, “This is madness. What a Time to be alive,” and thanked their followers for support. In response, Kylie Jenner posted a short video of her cracking an egg onto the ground with the caption, “Take that little egg.” Egg Gang is not the only user to have attempted to amass a huge number of likes or followers with a joke account or simple post. On Twitter, Half an Onion amassed 635,000 followers in an attempt to overtake the popularity of Donald Trump’s account. And, as Taylor Lorenz documents over...

A student has died after falling from cliffs in Ireland while taking a selfie. The man in his 20s fell from the landmark Cliffs of Moher in Co Clare around 3.15pm on Friday afternoon. The man fell from an area south of the main viewing spots near to the visitor center at the popular Irish beauty spot. Hundreds of tourists taking in the scenery and walk witnessed the search operation from the cliff top, Gardai are treating the incident as a "tragic accident". The man who died is believed to be an Indian national who was living and studying in Dublin. Once the casualty was located, the Rescue 115 winchman was lowered down to the water to recover the body. It was flown to Doolin where the crew was met by gardai. The victim was then transported the short distance to the Coast Guard station where he was pronounced dead by a doctor. A hearse arrived at 5.35pm to take the body to University Hospital Limerick for formal identification and a postmortem. Gardai interv...

Huawei has demoted and cut the pay of two of its employees after an iPhone was used to send a New Year’s greeting from the company’s official Twitter account. In a memo seen by both Reuters and Bloomberg, the company’s corporate senior vice president Chen Lifang said that the incident had “caused damage to the Huawei brand.” In addition to the demotion and a 5,000 yuan (around $728) monthly pay cut, the January 3rd memo said that one of the employees would also see their pay rank frozen for 12 months. The internal memo says that the incident occurred after its external social media agency, Sapient, experienced “VPN problems” with its PC. VPNs allow access to Twitter from inside China. As a workaround, an iPhone fitted with a foreign SIM card was used to send the tweet. The Huawei memo notes that “the incident exposed flaws in our processes and management.” The original, now-deleted, tweet was widely mocked across Twitter and tech publications like 9to5Mac. The rep...

Today, PepsiCo announced that it will be rolling out a fleet of snack-carrying robots on the University of the Pacific’s campus in California. The robots â€" or “snackbots” â€" carry snacks and beverages from the company’s Hello Goodness portfolio, which includes choices like Smartfood Delight popcorn, Baked Lays, Pure Leaf Tea, and Starbucks Cold Brew drinks. Students can place their orders on the iOS app and have them delivered to select locations around the 175-acre campus between 9 AM and 5 PM. The snackbots are nearly identical to the other delivery machines we’ve seen before. They can travel 20 miles on a single charge, and they have headlights and a camera. Once the students meet the robot, they open its green lid and grab their order. PepsiCo said it was the largest food and beverage company on the market that has begun to deliver snacks and drinks by way of a robot. Last year, Kiwi spearheaded a similar service at UC Berkeley, and students at the univ...

Depending on how you count its birth, bitcoin turned 10 years old today. The first lines of code were committed to the bitcoin blockchain on January 3rd, 2009, a few months after the publication of the original whitepaper. These lines of code, known as the “genesis block,” are credited to the person or persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto. On January 12th, Nakamoto sent 10 bitcoin to Hal Finney, and a new finance counterculture was born. At this point, the bitcoin’s worth was negligible. Users essentially gave each other bitcoins as rewards for good comments in forums. The first “real” transaction took place on May 22nd, 2010. Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin, or about $30. (At current prices, 10,000 bitcoin would be worth $38 million. I hope that pizza was tasty.) For most of its life, bitcoin drew from three main overlapping communities: the small community of original investors and true believers, the blockchain technology aficionados, and the speculato...

China now has two history-making robots sending back images from an area of the Moon where humankind has never been before. This side of the Moon is distant and mysterious, but, despite pop culture references to the contrary, it isn’t always dark. In fact, after touching down on the lunar surface, the probe sent back a snapshot of its new home that shows a rocky, cratered, and distinctly lit landscape. China’s probe â€" which includes a lander and a rover â€" landed at 10:26 AM Thursday, Beijing time, as part of China’s Chang’e-4 mission to scout out the side of the Moon we can’t see from Earth. Since it takes the Moon roughly the same amount of time to spin around its axis as it does to orbit the Earth, we only see one half of the Moon: its near side. China’s landing on the Moon’s far side was a world first, in part because of the technical difficulties posed by that distance. It’s really difficult to get radio signals from Earth to robots on the far side â...

Research shows that 80% of us give up on our resolutions on Valentine’s Day. But you don’t need to make mammoth overhauls to upgrade your health, fitness, diet and emotional well-being. Try these small, smart tweaks for starters: Eat within a 12-hour window “Even if you don’t change WHAT you eat, just changing WHEN you eat can make a huge difference to your health,” says Jules Anderson, a holistic health coach at feelglorious.com. “Our body clocks operate to a daily 24-hour cycle so, at night, while our bodies are resting, a cascade of repair and regeneration goes on. “If we don’t give our bodies enough time to do this, then waste products can remain in our systems, causing inflammation and, ultimately, diseases such as cancer. “Scientific research suggests leaving at least a 12-hour window to allow for this. So if you eat breakfast at 8 am, don’t eat after 8 pm.” Turbo-charge your cooking Keep turmeric next to your salt and pepper, and get into th...

If you regularly find yourself frantically Googling shop or restaurant opening times, Google Maps’ latest update will come as music to your ears. The navigation app is testing out an instant messaging feature. This week, some users have discovered the feature under a ‘Messages’ tab, although it’s unclear exactly who it's being tested with. The tab appears to allow users to message businesses, which could be very useful for finding information. Screenshots of the feature were posted on Reddit by sanju2cool, although we’re yet to see any screenshots of chats with businesses. It doesn’t appear that users will be able to message their friends through the app - so don’t worry about it becoming an annoyance! We’ll have to wait to see when - or even if - Google rolls the feature out to all users. Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/google-maps-new-feature-make-13803674 https://adstoppi.com/blog/google-maps-new-feature-much-easier-to-find-shop-opening-times ...

Netflix has been criticized for pulling an episode of a satirical comedy series in Saudi Arabia because it was deemed critical of the kingdom's rulers. Episode two of US comedian's Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act was removed after it criticized Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over the alleged murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Khashoggi, a vocal critic of the kingdom's royal family, was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October. Netflix confirmed to the Financial Times it had pulled the episode after receiving a complaint from the kingdom's Communications and Information Technology Commission that it violated Saudi anti-cybercrime law. The streaming giant said: "We strongly support artistic freedom and removed this episode only in Saudi Arabia after we had received a valid legal request - and to comply with local law." The episode in question is reportedly still available in Saudi Arabia on YouTube. In it, Minhaj criticizes Saudi ...

Last year, LG launched a Software Upgrade division and said it would be “investing significant resources toward extending smartphone lifespan” with consistent, stable updates. Many were hopeful that this concentrated focus on software would mean customers would receive major new versions of Android in a more timely manner; LG has never been particularly quick at delivering the latest features to its devices â€" even with the company’s flagship Android phones. Unfortunately, the company’s roadmap for Android 9 Pie â€" posted to its Korean website â€" suggests more of the same and shows that buyers of several phones will be waiting months longer for the upgrade. The G7 is scheduled to receive it first; LG says Android 9 will start rolling out globally sometime in the first quarter; a beta release is already available for the G7 in some regions. But when it comes to the G6 and the more recent V40, LG simply lists “performance updates” and bug fixes as slated...

This evening, China became the first nation to land a spacecraft gently on the far side of the Moon, according to China Global Television Network America. A Chinese robotic lander and rover, which launched from China in early December, descended into a crater on the side of the Moon that’s always facing away from Earth. The touchdown marks a significant technological feat for the country and puts China in an elite category of spaceflight achievement all its own. The landing is part of China’s Chang’e-4 mission â€" one of a series of planned missions to explore the lunar surface. Prior to this program, China sent a lander and a rover to the Moon, making it the third country to ever softly land on the lunar surface. That lander, part of the Chang’e-3 mission, went to the Moon’s near side, the one we see at all times. No one has ever been able to pull off a far side landing before, because it’s so difficult to communicate with robots on the side of the Moon we cannot ...