While the summer months are usually calm in terms of new device announcements, the past week saw its fair share of new phone and tablet launches so here’s a recap of all the notable devices that got announced. Huawei kicked things off on Monday with its nova10 and nova10 Pro midrangers. These come with nearly…
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Kojima Productions founder Hideo Kojima. | CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images Hideo Kojima’s game studio has issued a response after fake posts circulated across social media and news outlets that misidentified Kojima as the assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In a tweet, Kojima Productions says it “strongly condemns the spread of fake…
GoHenry, the U.K.-based financial education app and pre-paid debit card provider for kids, has expanded into Europe for the first time with the acquisition of French startup Pixpay. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded out of London back in 2012, GoHenry has emerged as one of the preeminent fintech companies for children, targeting…
Smartphone footage is now a central pillar of US police accountability activism. It brought nationwide attention to the death of George Floyd, for instance, and was crucial to convicting Derek Chauvin of murder. But in the state of Arizona, starting in September, a new law will go into effect prohibiting the filming of police officers…
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Joe Biden. Pool via REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque; REUTERS/Andrej Isakovic President Joe Biden is visiting Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to stabilize oil markets and improve regional security. Biden’s proposed re-engagement is just code for giving Riyadh more security commitments and US resources. Yameen Huq is a cybersecurity professional and strategic…
US Army Green Berets fast-rope out of a Hungarian Mi-17 helicopter during Exercise Trojan Footprint, April 28, 2022. US Army/Sgt. Hannah Hawkins More than 3,300 special operators from 30 countries took part in Trojan Footprint 22 in May. The exercise was twice as big as it was last year, sending a message about NATO’s resolve…
Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), places a rose on an LDP candidate’s name, to indicate a victory in the upper house election, at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, July 10, 2022. Toru Hanai / Pool/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Liberal Democratic Party and…
A new trove of leaked documents has shed an unfavorable light on the early days of Uber. Dubbed the Uber Files, the leak consists of approximately 124,000 internal company documents, including more than 83,000 emails and text messages exchanged between former CEO Travis Kalanick and other executives, that date to a period between 2013 and…
More than 124,000 confidential documents related to Uber were leaked to The Guardian, and on Sunday, the media outlet — along with more than 180 journalists at 40 other publications — began publishing a series of reports that detail how the tech reportedly giant tricked cops, exploited drivers, lobbied governments, and said a lot of…
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File Durbin on Sunday said Clarence Thomas being impeached from the Supreme Court wasn’t “realistic.” He said there was “a clear conflict of interest” regarding Jan. 6…