Month: May 2020

TLDR: With TrueMail’s bulk email verifier, you can check the validity of every email address on your marketing list before your emails go out. Sure, social media is young and flashy with some unquestionable advantages. But if you ask companies about the tactics that truly make an impact on their bottom line, they’ll tell you that … Continue reading Bouncebacks could be killing your email marketing. TrueMail makes sure it never happens again Continue Reading →

Earlier this week, a new interview with OnePlus co-founder and CEO Pete Lau hit the internet. During the interview, Lau talked quite a bit about the company’s plans in the near and far off future. He also talked about some cheap OnePlus phones on the way. While it’s far from a secret at this point that a budget-oriented … Continue reading OnePlus CEO’s recent comment on cheap phones genuinely confuses us Continue Reading →

Night mode on our smartphone cameras has gotten so good over the years. How good?! Night mode on our smartphone cameras has gotten so good over the years, that people are very rarely using their camera flash for taking photos. We asked you last week on the website, Twitter, and YouTube to tell us what you use your camera flash for. Nearly 20,000 Android Authority fans … Continue reading We asked, you told us: Camera flashes are basically now just flashlights Continue Reading →

Sling TV has a great selection of content available for free, but you must pay to “get the whole enchilada”, as the company says. But while it’s one of the best live streaming TV services, it can get very pricey. The lowest plans go for $30 a month, and even with discounts the price doesn’t go … Continue reading How to cancel your Sling TV subscription 39 Edgar Cervantes Continue Reading →

Editor’s note: Proceed with caution – this issue is real, and we don’t know yet why it’s happening. Here’s a cool and a bit scary story for you this Sunday morning. Simply setting this image as wallpaper on your phone could cause it to crash and become unable to boot. The issue was reported by well-known … Continue reading Setting this image as wallpaper could soft-brick your phone Continue Reading →

The Samsung Galaxy A51 is one of Samsung’s biggest mid-range entries for 2020. This is the first time Samsung’s A-series has been available in the US, arriving as an affordable option for people who want a Samsung smartphone but don’t want to pay $1,000 to get one. With so much competition in the mid-range, is … Continue reading Samsung Galaxy A51 review: Great screen, bad performance Continue Reading →

Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are part of a bigger push by Microsoft to rely on artificial intelligence to pick news and content that’s presented on MSN.com, inside Microsoft’s Edge browser, … Continue reading Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI Continue Reading →

The week’s noteworthy writing on technology and more. Worst. Deal. Ever. Noah Kirsch, Forbes In November, Eric Baker’s online ticket marketplace Viagogo purchased rival StubHub for $4 billion. Baker was actually one of StubHub’s co-founders before he was fired from the company. The deal closed in February — just in time for COVID-19 to stop all … Continue reading Recommended Reading: He bought StubHub right before the pandemic Continue Reading →

As Apollo astronauts trundled and trod awkwardly across the desolate lunar landscape, an insidious menace scuffed up their spacesuits. Moondust. Fine as talcum powder, sharp as glass and seemingly everywhere, these super-fine particles coated the astronauts like soot and permeated their crew cabin, where it became more than a mere nuisance. Not only did it … Continue reading Earth’s first off-world colonies will be built on soil Continue Reading →

No, not Richard Branson. Four decades after Tesla and Edison waged their “War of Currents,” a similar struggle unfolded in the skies overhead as a pair of daring entrepreneurs — Hugo Eckener, protege of Count von Zeppelin, and Juan Trippe, founder of Pan American World Airways — fought for technological supremacy between airplane and airship. … Continue reading Hitting the Books: The Englishman who figured out flight Continue Reading →