Verizon earlier today took out full-page ads in papers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and called upon the wireless industry to be upfront with consumers about which devices are truly 5G compatible. The Verizon ad is essentially a not-too-subtle jab at AT&T which, as we reported a few weeks back, is planning to replace the LTE indicator with a 5G E symbol in markets that have support for the fastest LTE technologies. And keep in mind, AT&T doesn’t sell any 5G compatible phones at the moment.

AT&T’s move in this regard is exceptionally misleading, and Verizon wants to let everyone know that they’re only going to use a 5G designation when “new device hardware is connecting to the network using new radio technology to deliver new capabilities.”

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Verizon calls out AT&T’s shady 5G strategy in new full-page ad originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 20:08:15 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NASA’s Kepler space telescope is dead. It ran out of fuel back in October of last year, but the incredible wealth of data that it sent back during its life is still being sifted through, and new discoveries are just waiting to be made.

A timely reminder of that fact comes in the form of an all-new exoplanet discovery made by citizen scientists who dedicated their time to combing through Kepler’s logs. The world, called K2-288Bb, appears to be quite special, and researchers who have looked at the data think it might even host liquid water, raising the possibility that the newfound planet is habitable.

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Amateur scientists just found a new planet, and it might even be habitable originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 19:37:51 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever since Tim Cook moved into the corner office at Apple on a permanent basis, both he and the iPhone maker itself have been dogged by cries that the company has lost its innovative edge. That without its late co-founder Steve Jobs at the helm anymore, the company no longer innovates and merely makes incremental improvements to existing products like its phones and laptops. If you need evidence of this, go back just a few days ago to when Apple made that bombshell announcement that its holiday quarter revenue is going to come in softer than expected. Recode’s Kara Swisher declared in a CNBC interview that “The innovation cycle has slowed down at Apple. Where is their exciting new product and where are their exciting new entrepreneurs within that company?” As far as Tim in particular, he’s been the subject pretty much for the entirety of his tenure that he’s not a product guy, that the company is going stale on his watch and that new product categories — like the Apple Watch — are nowhere near the home run the iPhone turned out to be.

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Tim Cook says wearables are now a bigger business for Apple than the iPod ever was originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 19:19:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s finally here. We’re about three months away from the arrival of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, which returns in April and which HBO teased a bit of footage from during Sunday night’s Golden Globes. The footage was brief, but we got our first glimpse at key moments like the arrival of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen in Winterfell, where Sansa Stark pledges her kingdom to the cause of the dragon queen.

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Kit Harington: Final season of Game of Thrones ‘seemed to be designed to break us’ originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 19:06:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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One of the most exciting foldable handsets of the year will be Samsung’s Galaxy F — a device that was already shown off in early November. The phone will have a tablet-sized display when unfolded, but it shouldn’t be bigger than a regular smartphone when folded. The new design is possible thanks to a special transparent film that Samsung will use instead of glass to cover the flexible OLED screen, as well as a hinge mechanism that makes folding possible.

But Samsung has come up with other designs for foldable handsets, including a model that uses magnets to connect what appear to be two independent smartphones.

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Samsung’s next phone innovation involves two screens connected magnetically originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 18:35:09 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At the end of every year, Spotify releases its Spotify Wrapped feature which provides users with a detailed snapshot of what music they listened to the most over the previous 12 months. In addition to listing which genres, artists and songs were played the most often, the feature also lets you know how many minutes you spent on Spotify for the year. The information isn’t necessarily important, but it doesn’t even matter because it’s fun. It essentially adds a sense of whimsy to the Spotify experience.

The same, however, can’t be said for Apple Music which can sometimes feel a bit cold by comparison. Consider this: Spotify Wrapped is such a widely loved feature that Federico Viticci of MacStories decided to make something similar for Apple Music. That Viticci had to resort to doing this on his own speaks to Apple’s failure to appreciate how even a tiny and simple feature can connect with subscribers in a very real way.

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Apple Music still has a lot to learn from Spotify originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 18:04:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon’s latest advertising push should surprise and delight consumers, if it doesn’t terrify them first. Axios reported on Tuesday that the online retailer quietly kicked off a pilot program recently that lets brands pay to send free samples to Amazon users. The users who receive the samples are picked based on what Amazon thinks they’d be likely to buy using what they’ve purchased in the past as a guide. A generous invasion of privacy!

A page on Amazon’s website describing the program went up in December, though Amazon didn’t publicize its arrival. Axios also cited multiple tweets from Amazon users who received samples as early as August of 2018, indicating that Amazon has been testing the program in some capacity for quite a while.

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Amazon now sending out free samples to users based on their buying habits originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:33:45 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple may not have a formal presence at CES, but the company still made something of a splash at the conference in a roundabout way. In something of a surprise move, Apple in recent months apparently struck deals with top TV manufacturers — including Sony and LG — to bring AirPlay 2 support to new HDTV models.

What’s more, Apple inked a particularly intriguing deal with Samsung that will see Samsung’s 2019 HDTV lineup ship with an iTunes app that will allow users to buy or rent movies and TV shows directly from Apple. Some of Samsung’s 2018 HDTVs will also be able to support iTunes downloads once Samsung rolls out a firmware update.

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Apple releases full list of every new AirPlay 2 compatible TV originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 17:02:59 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Life expectancy in the United States may be experiencing a bit of a dip as of late, but cancer isn’t the culprit. That’s one big takeaway from a new study published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians today, and the data shows that cancer death rates have been on the decline since 1991.

By tracking deaths attributed to cancer over the past few decades the researchers were able to determine that the rate of cancer deaths in 2016 was an incredible 27% lower than it was in 1991. The study says that those figures translate into roughly 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths over that time period.

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Cancer death rates in the United States are on a 25-year decline originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 16:40:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The unending saga of Android malware didn’t end in 2018. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro reported late last week that spyware disguised as legitimate apps on the Google Play store has been gathering data from unsuspecting Android users. In fact, researchers say the spyware (MobSTSPY) has been downloaded “over 100,000 times from users all over the world” in 196 countries.

Trend Micro specifically cited six apps that were available on Google Play as being infected, including cloned games such as Flappy Birr Dog and Flappy Bird, as well as a flashlight app and a couple of emulators. According to Trend Micro, all six apps had been removed from Google Play by the time they shared their report.

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Android malware disguised as Google Play apps were downloaded over 100,000 times originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 16:17:04 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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