Facing growing scrutiny over censorship and security concerns, TikTok is borrowing a few pages from a playbook now standard at many American tech giants, in an effort to earn the trust of US users and lawmakers. The Chinese-owned video app said in October it would invite outside experts to review some of its content moderation…
War movies are a dime a dozen. So are movies touted for their technical feats. (De-aging, anyone?) So, given that 1917 is a World War I film that employs the trick of looking like it is a single 120-minute shot, it would be easy to greet director Sam Mendes’ latest with yawns and/or eye rolls,…
In an era when our most important personal tech devices are all starting to merge into one hardly distinguishable, super-powered glass slab, smartphone makers will do anything to stand out. They’ll ship flexible displays. They’ll boast about faster screen refresh rates. They’ll peddle nostalgia.They’ll even make camera lenses disappear. That’s the approach Chinese smartphone brand…
Happy New Year, and welcome to 2020’s first edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s pop culture news roundup. The year is young, but a lot has happened already. Read on to get yourself caught up.The MCU May Get a Trans Character ‘Very Soon’Fans have been wondering for some time when the Marvel Cinematic Universe might get…
Babies love it, and Galileo supposedly tried it: Drop some objects from on high, and see how fast they fall. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, all objects in Earth’s gravity, regardless of mass, should descend at the same rate in the absence of air resistance. But there are plenty of reasons to believe…
There’s a rare human trait that doesn’t often make it into debates about what makes our species unique: menopause. Humans are among just a handful of species where females stop reproducing decades before the end of their lifespan. In evolutionary terms, menopause is intriguing: how could it be advantageous for reproductive ability to end before…
The company didn’t mention a release date for the rest of the world, though, and it also didn’t say if the device has markedly different features and components from the original Tab S6. Since Samsung used a photo of the tablet’s non-5G sibling on its Korean website, it may have a similar design and specs.Samsung…
Since September, commuters using Shanghai’s Number 9 bus route have had a new way of catching a ride. Rather than stand at a designated stop, they open a smartphone app and book a ride to wherever they’re going. The service, provided by Alibaba, takes those reservations into account and calculates where the bus should go,…
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In a bid to make their devices more attractive to iPhone users, Dell will soon allow app mirroring for iOS on its laptops. The functionality will be available through an update to Dell Mobile Connect, a software that was released in 2018 for Android users to connect their phones to laptops. In addition to app mirroring,…
