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Fresh off its latest privacy scandal, the troubled social media giant has inked a deal with Android to pre-install its app on an undisclosed number of phones and make the software permanent.
This means you wont be able to delete Facebook from those phones.
Thanks, Facebook.2.The worlds first foldable phone is realChinese company Royole has beaten Samsung to the market and has been showing off a foldable phone/tablet this week at CES.
While its not the most fluid experience, the device definitely works at adapting to your needs.3.CES revokes award from female-founded sex tech companyOutcries of a double-standard are pouring out of CES after the Consumer Tech Association revoked an award from a company geared toward womens sexual health.4.Everything Google announced at CES 2019Google went all in on the Assistant this year at CES.
The company boasted that the voice-enabled AI will make its way onto a billion devices by the end of the month up from 400 million last year.
But whats most exciting is the expanded capabilities of Googles Assistant.
Soon youll be able to check into flights and translate conversations on the fly with a simple Hey Google.5.Rebranding WeWork wont workThe company formerly known as WeWork has rebranded to the We Company, but its new strategy has the potential to plunge the company further into debt.6.Despite promises to stop, US cell carriers are still selling your real-time phone location dataLast year a little-known company called LocationSmart came under fire after leaking location data from ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint users to shady customers.
LocationSmart quickly buckled under public scrutiny and promised to stop selling user data, but few focused on another big player in the location tracking business: Zumigo.7.
The best and worst of CES 2019From monster displays to VR in cars, were breaking down the good, the bad and the ugly from CES 2019.