Mobile
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Tim Cook Promises To Let iPhone Users Turn Off Throttling Soon
It only took a scandal blowing up in its face and getting hit with more than 20 different lawsuits, but it seems at long last, Apple will finally give people the option to disable the performance throttling that was slowing down older iPhones.
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Hundreds Of Creepy Mobile Games Can Use Your Mic To Track What You Watch On TV
A New York Times report out Friday identifies more than 250 mobile games in Android’s Play Store that use always-on audio recognition software to track users’ TV- and ad-viewing behaviour. Experts cited in the report also say the software’s developer, a startup called Alphonso, does not clearly describe how the games, some of which explicitly…
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Samsung Smart Speaker, Huh? Let’s Talk
Yesterday, a report from Bloomberg came out saying that Samsung will launch a Bixby-powered smart speaker sometime in the first half of 2018. This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone since DJ Koh already told CNBC back in August that the company was indeed trying to put its digital assistant, which first debuted…
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Google’s Developer Policy Now Prohibits Android Lockscreen Ads
Ads in smartphone apps are already annoying, but did they have to go and put them on your lockscreen too? It looks like some developers may have pushed their luck; Google has updated its Policy Center to explicitly call out — and prohibit — apps from showing advertising on Android lockscreens.