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Amazon Plans to Launch More Than 3,000 Satellites to Create Orbital Internet Amazon has plans to launch a fleet of satellites to get the internet to undeserved communities around the world. We don't doubt that the company can do it, but might it have adverse effects on the communities it's trying to serve and add to the growing space debris problem?

Amazon Keeps Alexa Voice Recordings Indefinitely In May, Deleware's Sen. Chris Coons sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking how long the company keeps recordings and transcripts of its customers. Amazon says it keeps the records indefinitely, deleting them only when a user makes the move to delete the data first.

Google Filed a Weird Multiple-Page Smartbook Patent The race towards a great foldable phone now has its strangest entry yet: Google has filed a new patent for a book-like device that might have as many as five foldable screen "pages" to flip through. Here's how it would work and how likely it is to actually happen.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 — Everything You Need to Know The Samsung Galaxy S10 is supposedly set for an August reveal. But extensive leaking means we already know a fair amount about Samsung's upcoming phablet including the size of the screen, whether it'll have 5G, and whether it'll use a punch hole front camera like the new S10.

More Than 50 E-Scooters Pulled From Portland River The e-scooter vandalism pandemic continues, as Portland authorities have reportedly hauled more than 50 e-scooters out of the Portland River last week. Will this hatred of e-scooters ever abate or will this technology never be adopted by the mainstream?

Apple Identifies MacBook Air Fault, Will Fix for Free MacBook Air owners beware - your laptop may well be subject to Apple's latest repair program, after internal documents reveal an issue with the logic board. While Apple is remaining quiet about specifics of the fault, it has stated that repairs will be free.

EU Mandates All Electric Cars Must Make Noise Starting today, all new electric cars in Europe must emit an audible noise by law, addressing concerns about the threat to pedestrians from silent vehicles. But, with no obligation for electric cars to make a traditional engine noise, there's room for plenty of audio creativity.

Police Body Cam Manufacturer Rejects Facial Recognition Software The pushback against facial recognition technology continues, as Axon, the makers of Taser and a major police body camera manufacturer, has come out against the technology, refusing to implement the software into their devices.

Twitter to Label Rule-Breaking Tweets from Trump Twitter has often found itself under attack for the way it handles provocative tweets from high profile accounts, and now, in a post on the company's blog, it's vowing to do something about it. The company will begin flagging 'abusive' posts from verified government officials.

What Will Jony Ive’s LoveFrom Agency Do Now? Apple's legendary Chief Design Office, Jony Ive, has announced that he'll be leaving Cupertino that brought his iconic designs to life to form a new design agency, LoveFrom. But what will Ive and his team actually be designing? Will it be more of the same, or a radical departure?

US Tech Giants Are Reportedly Selling to Huawei Despite Ban In May, the Trump administration issued a blanket ban on US companies supplying hardware or software to the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Now a new report claims that tech companies including Intel and Micron sold millions of dollars worth of products since the ban was announced.

Android Q vs iOS 13 — Key Features Compared With both big smartphone operating systems' next generations curently undergoing beta testing, we take a look at all the key features and changes and ask the question - which is best? And, perhaps more importantly, which will move the smartphone game forward?