Screen grabs seem to confirm the updates we’re expecting for Google’s flagship phone, such as an iPhone 11-like square configuration. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: The battle against gaming addiction entered a new era this week when the U.K. public health system, the National Health Service (NHS), announced the opening of its first center specializing in ‘Internet and Gaming Disorders….’ Starting in November, the London-based center’s psychiatrists and clinical psychologists will work with patients between…

We’ve become sadly accustomed to consumer devices that seem to give up the ghost right after the warranty period expires. And even when we get “lucky” and the device fails while it’s still covered, chances are that there will be no attempt to repair it; the unit will be replaced with a new one, and…

An anonymous reader quotes TechCrunch: AMP, Google’s somewhat controversial project for speeding up the mobile web, has always been open-source, but it also always felt like a Google project first. Thursday, however, Google announced that the AMP framework will join the OpenJS Foundation, the Linux Foundation-based group that launched last year after the merger of…

A computer programmer at America’s tax-collecting agency “stole multiple people’s identities, and used them to open illicit credit cards to fund vacations and shop for shoes and other goods,” write Quartz, citing a complaint unsealed last week in federal court. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The complaint accuses the 35-year-old federal worker of racking…

It’s not easy being green in the very adult Sesame Street parody. …read more Source:: CNet

Trade agreement between both nations aims to drive “greater connectivity” and bilateral economic relations, with cooperation touted to encompass several areas including e-payments, fintech, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital identity. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonytmous reader quotes TechSpot: Google is looking to improve the web-browsing experience for those with vision conditions by introducing a feature into its Chrome browser that uses machine learning to recognize and describe images. The image description will be generated automatically using the same technology that drives Google Lens… The text descriptions use the…

For the last couple of years, consumer desktop 3D printer choices in the under $1,000 USD range have fallen into two broad categories: everything bellow $500 USD, and the latest Prusa i3. There are plenty of respectable printers made by companies such as Monoprice and Creality to choose from on that lower end of the…

Even with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on board, the legendary director struggled to raise money for his latest film — until he made a trade-off with Netflix. …read more Source:: CNet