Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign, announcing today that it will experiment with some elements of the new look in response to user feedback. Google made one of the biggest changes to how it displays search results in the company’s history earlier this month, with the changes taking effect over the course of the last week. It involved a visual overhaul that makes it more difficult to differentiate between advertising and organic search results with the removal of color overlays and the introduction of small branded iconography, known on the web as favicons, next

A small battle is brewing in the scooter world. It involves an app called Scooter Map, which its developer said was created to help people find scooters from all companies grouped together in one app. Problem is, one of the world's largest rental scooter companies doesn't like it. By December, Lime had reached out to Apple's App Store and requested Scooter Map be taken down because of trademark and privacy violations.
https://www.cnet.com/news/scooter-app-wars-begin-and-lime-isnt-happy-about-it/

Signs suggest that Samsung's upcoming flagship phone, rumored to be called the Galaxy S20 and not the Galaxy S11, could be the first in 2020 to run its photography, gaming features, 5G-ready data connection and live maps navigation off the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip. What does that mean? Up to 35% more power efficiency and up to 25% more powerful speeds overall. I got a chance to test the new Snapdragon chip on a working reference device.
https://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-s20-could-be-crazy-fast-we-tested-the-snapdragon-865-chip-said-to-be-on-samsungs-phone/

Universities and Science Minister Chris Skidmore has said that the UK will not implement the EU Copyright Directive after the country leaves the EU.The EU Copyright Directive that covers how "online content-sharing services" should deal with copyright-protected content, such as television programmes and movies.It was Article 13 which prompted fears over the future of memes and GIFs - stills, animated or short video clips that go viral - since they mainly rely on copyrighted scenes from TV and film.Critics claimed Article 13 would make it nearly impossible to upload even the tiniest part of a

RealNetworks decided to make its facial recognition technology available for free to schools across the US and Canada. If school officials could detect strangers on their campuses, they might be able to stop shooters before they got to a classroom.From working with schools, RealNetworks, the streaming media company, says it's learned an important lesson: Facial recognition isn't likely an effective tool for preventing shootings. If schools don't know who a likely shooter is, the company says, its software doesn't know who to find.
https://www.cnet.com/features/facial-recognition-in-schools-e

The Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2020, has begun and now you can get discounts on all of your favorite games!
Each day of the sale, Steam users will be given a red envelope containing Year of the Rat tokens that can be spent in the Lunar New Year Night Market.
It will offer seasonal Steam stuff including animated profile backgrounds, chat room effects, chat stickers, and more. If you plan on going heavy on games purchases, you can also opt to buy a Lunar New Year Coupon that can be used throughout the sale.

https://www.pcgamer.com/steams-lunar-new-year-sale-is-live/

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