Gone are the days when Microsoft would be accused of anti-competitive practices because of the internet browser packaged with Windows. Internet Explorer is long dead too, and Google’s Chrome is now the most popular browser in the world, one that Microsoft is ready to emulate. Microsoft replaced Internet Explorer with Edge, but the Windows 10 browser failed to really compete against Chrome. So Microsoft announced a few months ago that Edge would be rebuilt from the ground on top of the open-source Chromium project. And now we have the first images of what Microsoft’s Chrome-like Edge could look like.

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1. This is our first look at Microsoft’s completely redesigned Edge browser for Windows

This is our first look at Microsoft’s completely redesigned Edge browser for Windows originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 07:31:14 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A pair of somewhat conflicting reports on Tuesday say that Samsung’s Galaxy S10 sold better than its predecessor during preorders in Korea, but that it also got less interest than the Galaxy S9 when it comes to first-day registrations. How can both of those things be true at the same time?

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1. Galaxy S10 preorders higher than Galaxy S9 in Korea, but first-day registrations are lower

Galaxy S10 preorders higher than Galaxy S9 in Korea, but first-day registrations are lower originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 06:50:23 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A new chapter in the ongoing flap between the US and Huawei is about to get under way, with the Chinese smartphone maker reportedly planning a lawsuit to be filed against the US government later this week in Texas.

That’s where the company’s US office is located, and word of the suit comes via The New York Times, which reports that the lawsuit will focus on a defense spending authorization approved by Congress last year. In it, the federal government barred itself from using products made by Huawei as well as another Chinese hardware maker, ZTE.

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1. Huawei has had enough, reportedly plans to file suit against the US

Huawei has had enough, reportedly plans to file suit against the US originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 23:07:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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SpaceX’s weekend was a busy one to say the very least. The company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft headed to space atop one of its own Falcon 9 rockets early Saturday morning in the first true test of the crew module that will soon ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

The successful launch was a very big deal for both SpaceX and NASA, which desperately needs a new way to get its scientists to the ISS without relying on Russian rocket launches, but it wasn’t the only big test of Crew Dragon this weekend. The spacecraft also docked with the International Space Station and, for the first time ever, astronauts got a chance to explore it in space.

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1. SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with ISS, astronauts climb aboard

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with ISS, astronauts climb aboard originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 22:05:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, we all should have seen this coming. Facebook is under fire again for arguably misusing user data, this time related to the phone numbers that many of us provided as a way of adding a two-factor authentication layer to our profiles.

The problem is that Facebook is apparently using those phone numbers for the purpose we intended (account security), but also, well, for other things. Jeremy Burge, who runs the Emojipedia website, called attention to this in a series of tweets in recent days in which he notes that you can now apparently search user profiles via the phone numbers users have provided — and that there seems to be no way for users to tell Facebook to not allow this.

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1. Facebook isn’t doing a great job protecting the phone number you gave it

Facebook isn’t doing a great job protecting the phone number you gave it originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 21:03:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Technology giants, thankfully, are increasingly moving us toward a future with less of a reliance on passwords via technologies like face authentication, Touch ID and the like. Apple, for its part, may have had something along these lines in mind with its purchase of the patent portfolio of the defunct company Lighthouse AI, which focused on home security camera technology.

Official word of the portfolio’s reassignment appeared in the US Patent and Trademark Office database in recent weeks, according to an Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine report on Monday.

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1. Apple’s newest patents hint at constant, AI-based user recognition

Apple’s newest patents hint at constant, AI-based user recognition originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 20:15:09 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google toyed with Lime integration late last year, but only users in certain markets were able to find Lime scooters, pedal bikes, or e-bikes from within the application. That changed on Sunday, as Google announced that Lime support would be rolling out to Google Maps more broadly.

Google listed in a blog post all the US and international markets that are getting Lime support in Google Maps, and we’re looking at plenty of new cities where Google Maps will let you find your quick commute fix. Major cities in Europe are all covered by the update, and several major markets in the US are getting the same treatment. It’s likely that other cities around the world where Lime is available will be added to Maps in the future.

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1. Google Maps now supports Lime scooters and bikes in dozens of new cities

Google Maps now supports Lime scooters and bikes in dozens of new cities originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 20:08:21 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The push by smartphone makers to dedicate as much of the front of their handsets as possible to the actual display has made the inclusion of front-facing elements like the camera an increasingly tighter fit. Some devices, of course, have tried to solve that problem with the introduction of a notch to house the relevant components. Other device-makers like Huawei, meanwhile, are trying something different — a slide-out system that can reveal hidden elements like the selfie camera, so that they don’t have to take up precious real estate on the front.

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1. Render shows Huawei smartphone design with a slide-out, dual selfie camera

Render shows Huawei smartphone design with a slide-out, dual selfie camera originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 19:06:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a somewhat novel way to make headlines, JetBlue is offering folks the opportunity to fly free for a full year. Is there a catch? Of course there is. This isn’t so much a promotion as it is a contest, and if you want a chance to win you’ll have to delete every single one of your Instagram photos. In short, if you care more about travelling to and fro on someone else’s dime than you do about your social media presence, this is definitely a contest you’ll want to keep in mind.

Word of the contest — which is called All You Can Jet — first came up via Instagram last week. As for the particulars, JetBlue will select three lucky winners who will essentially be able to travel cost-free across North America, Central America, and select locations in the Caribbean. The only costs the winners will incur will be the taxes and fees associated with the flights. So while not 100% free, it’s still quite the opportunity for anyone looking to get away.

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1. You could win a year of free flights from JetBlue, but there’s a wild catch

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As AI continues to permeate just about every aspect of our lives, we’re now beginning to see some serious advances in the ability of computer systems to diagnose various diseases. One of the biggest areas of focus for scientists is in cancer diagnosis, and we’ve already seen machine learning algorithms capable of identifying cancers like breast cancer.

Now, researchers from Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have announced their development of a deep neural network that can identify lung cancer on tissue slides with accuracy that matches a human pathologist.

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1. Scientists trained an AI to identify lung cancer, and now it’s as smart as a pathologist

Scientists trained an AI to identify lung cancer, and now it’s as smart as a pathologist originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 17:38:46 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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