A Chinese smartphone maker whose products you hardly get to see in stores, let alone buy, came out of nowhere on Wednesday with a fantastic smartphone concept that packs features that aren’t available on any competing device this year, be it an iPhone XS or a Galaxy S10. But that phone packs 2018-grade hardware, and the smartphone of our dreams doesn’t deserve any sort of compromises. The good news is that there’s another Chinese smartphone maker whose products you probably can’t buy right now, who came up with an even better alternative, a high-end smartphone design, unlike anything the competition, including Apple and Samsung, are doing.

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The smartphone of our dreams was just unveiled, and it’s not made by Apple or Samsung originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 06:50:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The online membership platform Patreon has been growing like gangbusters since it was launched in 2013 — and especially lately, at the expense of sites like YouTube that have changed up their algorithms and their advertising guidelines, demonetizing some creators’ content and seemingly making it harder for those creators and artists to generate revenue from their work.

Indeed, Patreon has been growing so fast that the company today announced it expects to pay out more than half a billion dollars to the platform’s artists and creators this year. That’s thanks to another big milestone the company simultaneously announced today — the fact that Patreon now has a whopping 3 million patrons supporting more than 100,000 creators on the service.

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Thanks to 3 million patrons, Patreon will pay out $500M to artists and creators this year originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 00:09:05 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nintendo is still selling more consoles than its rivals, a recent report said, even though the device is nearing its second birthday, and some of the excitement may have died down. A Wall Street Journal report said in early October that the company has been mulling a hardware upgrade for 2019.

Nintendo was still debating hardware and software upgrades at the time, but the report did claim that the 2019 Switch refresh would deliver a better, slimmer, and more energy-efficient LCD screen than the original. A new report now offers some actual specs for the new Switch, but it’s too early to get excited about them.

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Rumor says the Nintendo Switch will receive a major hardware upgrade this year originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 23:07:21 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s like the streaming TV business’ version of that old will-they-or-won’t-they sitcom trope. Is Netflix in danger of losing The Office, the beloved workplace comedy series that ran on NBC for nine seasons — and which, several years after the final episode aired, still remains one of Netflix’s top properties? Or will Netflix pay a handsome fee to keep it around, a la the multi-million dollar deal the streamer recently struck to keep Friends for at least another year?

The wildcard here is the forthcoming Netflix rival being launched by the parent company of NBC Entertainment, which would presumably want to bring a property as hot as The Office back into its fold.

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NBC execs just reassured everyone ‘The Office’ won’t leave Netflix anytime soon originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 22:05:48 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in July of 1969, but that’s not what some would have you believe.

Conspiracy theories about NASA having allegedly faked the Moon landings are not new. They all focus on the idea that NASA shot footage of supposed lunar excursions in a movie studio right here on Earth, but a new theory by a seasoned conspiracy pusher really takes the cake in terms of utter absurdity.

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There’s a new fake Moon landing theory, and it’s dumber than you could possibly imagine originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 21:03:30 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to a new legal filing levied by the US Department of Labor this week, Oracle stands accused of engaging in discriminatory pay practices that shortchanged women and other minority employees to the tune of $400 million. The suit alleges that Oracle not only assigned minority employees to lower-paying positions, but also “channelled” them into lower-paying career paths.

The new allegations — which are part of a lawsuit filed early last year — are quite sensational and come at a time when many Silicon Valley companies are already in the hot seat over a glaring lack of diversity in the workplace. Of course, and as the lawsuit demonstrates, a diverse work environment by itself isn’t sufficient when demonstrable pay gaps within the work force are observed and widespread.

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Oracle accused of shortchanging female and minority employees to the tune of $400 million originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 20:39:41 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If companies like Boeing get their way, a day is coming soon when we won’t have to resign ourselves anymore to the frustration of congested roadways and gridlocked city streets once flying taxis become a real thing.

One of the next battlegrounds for traditional aviation companies, tech firms and start-ups is the race to develop the first working self-flying air taxis — helicopter-like vehicles designed to carry people a short distance and which open up all kinds of possibilities especially for ridesharing companies like Uber, which wants to build a flying taxi service called Uber Air.

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Boeing just got one step closer to making its autonomous flying taxi a reality originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 20:08:11 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Humans have tamed (or utterly destroyed) much of the planet in our brief time here, but there’s still plenty we don’t know about Earth’s history. How the early Earth formed, how its abundance of various chemicals and elements got here, and what shaped its future are things scientists have been trying to explain for a long time, and a new theory has emerged that may finally fit.

In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers from Rice University propose a comprehensive theory that not only accounts for Earth’s incredible, life-giving resources, but even helps to explain how Earth’s moon formed. It all begins with a big crash.

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Collision between young Earth and Mars-sized planet might be why we’re all here today originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 19:06:36 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite trailing the PlayStation 4 for a majority of 2018, the Nintendo Switch ended up being the best-selling video game console of last year. That’s according to the latest report from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and The NPD Group, which reveals that the Switch topped the competition in unit sales and dollars in 2018.

Up through October, the PS4 seemed to be on track to take the title (once again), but after losing out to the Switch in November and December, Nintendo’s hybrid console managed to overtake Sony for the year. The Switch also broke a few records along the way, including having the best December unit sales for a console since 2010, and reaching the highest annual total (unit sales and dollars) for a console since the PS4 in 2015.

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Nintendo Switch tops the PS4 as the best-selling console of 2018 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 18:35:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tech fans are probably well aware that Google wants to replace Android and Chrome with a unified operating system that would work just as well on smartphones, tablets as it would on laptops. Fuchsia, as it’s being referred to for the time being, will also work on other smart gadgets, such as smart speakers — in fact, a report said that Google will first use Fuchsia on speakers before bringing it to smartphones.

But even though Fuchsia has been in the news for quite a while now, Google has not acknowledged its existence (although it hasn’t tried to prevent leaks either), and now we have a new development in the Fuchsia story. Google has hired a former macOS veteran from Apple to help it bring Fuchsia to market.

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Apple veteran who worked on Mac for 14 years will help Google ‘kill’ Android originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 18:04:19 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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