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EU reform, migration and the economy | European Union

The European Union makes up one fifth of the world’s economy. Part of its success is that EU citizens see themselves as better off economically within the bloc than outside. But that perception is being challenged. At this week’s EU summit in Brussels – more than 60 years after the EU’s foundation – reform was tabled as a necessary adjustment to meet the challenges of our time. On the financial

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Darkroom Gains New Frames Tool, Duotone Filter Pack and App-Wide Refinements

Popular iOS photography app Darkroom received a major update today, introducing a long list of app-wide improvements, a new Frames tool, a premium filter pack, and more. The new Frames tool, which marks Darkroom’s first top-level tool addition in three years, offers up content-aware frame colors. Content-aware color allows the frames tool to analyze the colors in your photograph and generate a

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How to Enable Dark Mode in macOS Mojave

macOS Mojave, the newest version of the software that runs on the Mac, includes a long-awaited Dark Mode option that works across the entire system, from the dock and menu bar to all of your apps. Here’s how to enable it: Click on the Apple logo on the menu bar. Choose System Preferences. Select General. In the “Appearance” section at the top of the window, click the “Dark” option. Those are

Families Belong Together: Thousands to protest Trump policies | USA News

Washington, DC – Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to march in protests across the US on Saturday, calling for an end to Trump’s “inhumane” immigration policies and the reunification of children and parents who were separated at the border. Under the banner “Families Belong Together”, numerous civil rights and advocacy groups united to organise what are expected to be the biggest

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Researchers Uncover New Attacks Against LTE Network Protocol

If your mobile carrier offers LTE, also known as the 4G network, you need to beware as your network communication can be hijacked remotely. A team of researchers has discovered some critical weaknesses in the ubiquitous LTE mobile device standard that could allow sophisticated hackers to spy on users’ cellular networks, modify the contents of their communications, and even can re-route them to

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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky will reportedly step down from Snap’s board of directors – TechCrunch

Benchmark partner Mitch Lasky, who has served on Snap’s board of directors since December 2012, is not expected to stand for re-election to Snap’s board of directors and will thus be stepping down, according to a report by The Information. Early investors stepping down from the board of directors — or at least not seeking re-election — isn’t that uncommon as once-private companies grow into

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‘Why did you attack us?’: Roma killed by far right laid to rest | Racism

Serne, Ukraine – A horse-drawn wagon heading a large procession delivers David Popp’s body to its final resting place, a graveyard beside a cornfield in a Roma settlement. A framed photograph of the 23-year-old and a handful of flowers sit on his coffin. During the service on Thursday, mourners, speaking in a mix of Hungarian, Russian and Ukrainian, raise their hands to the sky and ask painful

Typeform, Popular Online Survey Software, Suffers Data Breach

Typeform, the popular Spanish-based online data collection company specializes in form building and online surveys for businesses worldwide, has today disclosed that the company has suffered a data breach that exposed partial data of its some users. The company identified the breach on June 27th, and then quickly performed a full forensic investigation of the incident to identify the source of

Microsoft Developing Dual-Screen ‘Pocketable’ Surface Device

Microsoft is working on a pocket-sized dual-screen Surface device according to information sourced from Microsoft internal documents and shared by The Verge. Called Andromeda, Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface project has been in development for at least two years and it’s designed to “blur the lines between mobile and stationary computing,” according to an internal document. Andromeda rendering

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How to Access Control Center and Home Screen in iOS 12 With the iPad’s New Gestures

Apple in iOS 11 revamped the iPad’s interface and changed the way we interact with the tablet through a new Dock, a revamped App Switcher, and Drag and Drop, and with iOS 12, further iPad changes have been implemented. There are new gestures to learn for accessing the Home screen, App Switcher, and the Control Center, along with a new status bar and some new multitasking capabilities, which we’ve

Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition adds support for Spotify – TechCrunch

Amazon is addressing one of the larger issues with its Echo Dot Kids Edition — support for Spotify’s streaming music service, with the option to filter out explicit lyrics. The news was announced on Friday alongside new content from Disney for the Kids Edition device. However, Amazon says the Spotify support would not be available until next week. Lack of access to one of the most popular

Questions about Apple’s new Maps, answered – TechCrunch

Earlier today we revealed that Apple was re-building maps from the ground up. These are some questions from readers that came up when we went live. You can ask more questions here and I’ll try to add them. What part of Maps will be new? The actual map. Apple is building them from scratch, with its own data rather than relying on external partners. What does that mean in terms of what I’ll see?

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RAMpage Attack Explained—Exploiting RowHammer On Android Again!

A team of security researchers has discovered a new set of techniques that could allow hackers to bypass all kind of present mitigations put in place to prevent DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against Android devices. Dubbed RAMpage, the new technique (CVE-2018-9442) could re-enable an unprivileged Android app running on the victim’s device to take advantage from the previously disclosed Drammer

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up – TechCrunch

I am not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching holes with data partnerships and some glimmers of light with long-awaited transit directions and improvements in business, parking and place data, Apple Maps is still not where it needs to be to be considered a world class service. Maps needs

2018 iPhones Said to Feature Both Embedded Apple SIM and Traditional SIM Card Tray

At least one of Apple’s widely rumored trio of new iPhones expected to be unveiled this September will feature dual-SIM, dual-standby, according to Chinese news publication 21st Century Business Herald via LoveiOS. A translated version of the article claims the functionality will be enabled by an embedded Apple SIM in the iPhones, in addition to a traditional SIM card placed into the usual tray.

AT&T’s low-cost TV streaming service Watch TV goes live – TechCrunch

AT&T’s newly announced Watch TV, a low-cost live TV streaming service announced in the wake of the AT&T / Time Warner merger, is now up and running. The company already has one over-the-top streaming service with DirecTV Now, but this one is cheaper, has some restrictions, and doesn’t include local channels or sports to keep costs down. At $15 per month, the service undercuts the existing

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AT&T’s New Live ‘WatchTV’ Service Launches on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV

One week after unveiling its new live streaming service “WatchTV,” AT&T has now begun rolling out the platform’s app on fourth-generation and fifth-generation Apple TV boxes, as well as on iOS [Direct Link] (via BestAppleTV). The service is a free add-on for anyone on AT&T’s new “Unlimited &More” and “Unlimited &More Premium” cellular plans, and is also available as a $15/month service for

A World Cup of defeats | World Cup 2018

Take a breath. Forty-eight of the 64 games at this World Cup have been played in just two weeks, a whirlwind of a spectacle. There is, mercifully, a day’s rest for us all and then, in the blink of an eye, the round of 16 and quarter-finals will winnow the remaining teams down to four. The imagination is drawn, irresistibly, to the fortunes of those left standing, the unfolding stories of

Github Account of Gentoo Linux Hacked, Code Replaced With Malware

Downloaded anything from Gentoo’s GitHub account yesterday? Consider those files compromised and dump them now—as an unknown group of hackers or an individual managed to gain access to the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux distribution on Thursday and replaced the original source code with a malicious one. Gentoo is a free open source Linux or FreeBSD-based distribution built using the

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Apple could bundle TV, music and news in a single subscription – TechCrunch

According to a report from The Information, Apple could choose to bundle all its media offerings into a single subscription. While Apple’s main media subscription product is currently Apple Music, it’s no secret that the company is investing in other areas. In particular, Apple has bought the distribution rights of many TV shows. But nobody knows how Apple plans to sell those TV shows. For

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Apple buries the hatchet with Samsung but could tap LG displays – TechCrunch

After years of legal procedures, Apple and Samsung have reached an agreement in the infamous patent case. Terms of the settlement were undisclosed. So is everything clear between Samsung and Apple? Not so fast, as Bloomberg reports that Apple wants to use OLED displays from LG to reduce its dependence on Samsung. You might remember that Apple first sued Samsung for copying the design of the

Amazon Working to Further Lessen Reliance on Power Cords for Future Echo Speakers

In an effort that would give future Echo speakers with Alexa a new advantage over Apple’s HomePod, Reuters today reports that Amazon is working with chipmakers to build Alexa speakers that would not require a constant power source. As it stands, most smart assistant devices — Amazon’s main Echo, Apple HomePod, Google Home, etc — require a constant draw of power due to their always-on microphones

Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the companies you shop at – TechCrunch

What does brand loyalty even mean anymore? App downloads, points, stars, and other complex reward systems have not just spawned their own media empires trying to decipher them, they have failed at their most basic objective: building a stronger bond between a brand and its consumers. Bumped wants to reinvent the loyalty space by giving consumers shares of the companies they shop at. Through

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Indian rupee hits record low amid inflation, credit downgrade | News

The Indian rupee on Thursday weakened past 69 to a dollar for the first time, slumping to an all-time low amid a spike in crude oil prices, foreign capital outflows and a widening current account deficit. Last week rating agency Standard & Poor’s cut the country’s credit rating outlook to “negative”. The Indian currency, which slid 0.7 percent to as much as 69.0925 per dollar in early trade, is

LiDAR startup Luminar hires former Fitbit and Apple execs – TechCrunch

LiDAR company Luminar and its whiz founder Austin Russell burst onto the autonomous vehicle startup scene last April after operating for years in secrecy. Now, Luminar has nabbed two high-profile hires that signal its grander ambitions in the race to develop and deploy autonomous vehicles. Luminar announced Thursday it has hired Fitbit executive Bill Zerella as its chief financial officer and 

Google Home and Chromecast DOWN? Reboot them to Fix the Glitch

If your Google Home, Home Mini and/or Google Chromecast streaming stick were not working properly, you are not alone. Google Home, Home Mini, and Chromecast were down globally for many users for several hours, leaving a lot of people with trouble watching TV, controlling smart home gadgets, and listening to music. Yesterday, hundreds of Chromecasts and Home users began complaining about their

How to Divide Your Apple Watch Workouts into Segments

Using the Segments feature in the Apple Watch Workout app is a great way to track changes in exercise intensity over the course of a workout. It can also help you find out which activities in a mixed session push your body the most. If your regular running route includes a hilly section, for example, using segments to indicate where it begins and/or ends lets you review how much time it takes to

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India’s Times Internet buys popular video app MX Player for $140M to get into streaming – TechCrunch

Times Internet, the digital arm of Indian media firm Times Group, is getting into the digital content space, but not in the way you might think. The company’s previous venture — an OTT called BoxTV.com — shut down in 2016 after an underwhelming four-year period. Now it is taking a radically different strategy by buying video playback app MX Player for Rs 1,000 crore, or around $140 million. The

The Sonos Beam is the soundbar evolved – TechCrunch

Beam me up, Sonos Sonos has always gone its own way. The speaker manufacturer dedicated itself to network-connected speakers before there were home networks and they sold a tablet-like remote control before there were tablets. Their surround sound systems install quickly and run seamlessly. You can buy a few speakers, tap a few buttons, and have 5.1 sound in less time than it takes to pull a

Samsung will probably unveil the Note 9 on August 9 – TechCrunch

Those Galaxy Note 9 rumors have been coming fast and furious in recent weeks, and now we know why. Samsung just sent out invites for its next big event in New York City, and its beloved phablet seems all but guaranteed to show up. The timeframe certainly lines up. The pen-enabled device was first announced at IFA back in 2011, and while the company has moved away from the trade show toward

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Logitech Updates Slim Combo and Slim Folio Keyboards With Support for 6th-Generation iPad

Logitech today announced that its popular Slim Combo and Slim Folio Bluetooth keyboards have been updated with support for sixth-generation iPad, which means they’re now available for Apple’s most affordable tablet. The Slim Folio was previously available for the fifth-generation iPad and is also now compatible with the sixth-generation model, while the Slim Combo was previously limited to the

Facebook tests 30-day keyword snoozing to fight spoilers, triggers – TechCrunch

Don’t want to know the ending to a World Cup game or Avengers movie until you’ve watched it, or just need to quiet an exhausting political topic like “Trump”? Facebook is now testing the option to “snooze” specific keywords so you won’t see them for 30 days in News Feed or Groups. The feature is rolling out to a small percentage of users today. It could make people both more comfortable browsing

South Sudan rivals agree to ‘permanent’ ceasefire | News

South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar have agreed to a “permanent” ceasefire to take effect within 72 hours, raising hopes of a peace deal to end their country’s devastating civil war. “All parties have agreed on a permanent ceasefire within 72 hours of signing the Khartoum Document,” announced Sudan’s Foreign Minister Al-Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed, on Wednesday. Kiir and Machar,

Unpatched WordPress Flaw Gives Attackers Full Control Over Your Site

Last week we received a tip about an unpatched vulnerability in the WordPress core, which could allow a low-privileged user to hijack the whole site and execute arbitrary code on the server. Discovered by researchers at RIPS Technologies GmbH, the “authenticated arbitrary file deletion” vulnerability was reported 7 months ago to the WordPress security team but remains unpatched and affects all