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After less than two years, Samsung says that its SmartThings Find network has amassed over 200 million “nodes” for helping you find lost devices and Galaxy SmartTags. In a press release this evening, Samsung announced that the SmartThings Find network has effectively doubled in size over the last year, with…

On the Clock is Motherboard's reporting on the organized labor movement, gig work, automation, and the future of work. Infamously, Amazon punishes and sometimes fires warehouse workers who it believes are wasting time at work. A new filing obtained by Motherboard gives detailed insight into how Amazon tracks and records…

In a new scam targeting restaurants, criminals are leaving negative ratings on restaurants’ Google pages as a bargaining chip to extort digital gift cards. Restaurateurs from San Francisco to New York, many from establishments with Michelin stars, said in recent days that they’ve received a blitz of one-star ratings on…

Google has announced that YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode for iOS and iPadOS, which lets you watch videos in a floating window while using other apps, is rolling out to more people. According to a community post on Monday, people running iOS 15 should start seeing the feature soon, though there is…

Army officers stand guard as people throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 11, 2022. Sri Lanka is in a political vacuum for a second day Monday.Rafiq Maqbool/The Associated Press As tens of thousands filled the streets…

The Nexus 4 was a groundbreaking phone – a near flagship for $300. Okay, it did have its quirks, e.g. no LTE support (though that wasn’t as important back in 2012), storage was limited too. Instead of focusing on just one phone we wanted to look at the trends in…

Editor’s Notes Week 27, 2022 Read time: 5 minutes Nigeria launched the eNaira last year; Ghana’s eCedi just entered pilot phase this week. There’s no jollof joke to be made here—just giving you the news. 👍🏿 Enjoy the long weekend, Kelechi Njoku, Senior Editor, TechCabal. Editor’s Picks Flutterwave accused of…

LG is long gone at this point, but the company isn’t quite done supporting its existing smartphones. Today, LG has released the Android 12 update for the LG V50 ThinQ in the US. The LG V50 ThinQ first hit the scene in 2019 and pushed forward LG’s middle-ground on the…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Google has “proposed splitting parts of its business that auctions and places ads on websites and apps into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella.” This concession is meant to avoid a US Department of Justice lawsuit that would prefer an outright…

Your browser does not support the audio element. Mobile application data analysis company Sensor Tower released a report on July 8 claiming that Douyin and its overseas version TikTok earned more than $283 million in June from the App Store and Google Play – 1.9 times that of last June…