BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Samsung’s smart TV privacy policy should scare you to death If you’re already worried about your smartphone or PC spying on you, just wait until you see what smart TVs are capable of. The Korea Times reports that Samsung’s smart TV privacy policy has been coming under heavy scrutiny because it says that your TV can record your voice and sell the contents of what you say to undisclosed “third parties.”  MORE → Huge leak: This is our first clear look at the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge On Thursday, we showed you what was very likely the world’s first look at the next-generation Galaxy S6. The phone has not yet been announced and nothing is confirmed until Samsung makes it official, but the leak came from a South Korean case maker called Verus with claimed Samsung ties. And of note, that same case maker has been responsible for early looks at unreleased phones in the past, and those leaks have panned out. Now, Verus is back and it now has seemingly given the world its first unobstructed look at Samsung’s upcoming new Galaxy S6, as well as the all-new “Galaxy Edge” smartphone.  MORE → Apple and Tesla are already fierce rivals, but not in the way you think Let’s get this out of the way: Apple won’t be making its own car anytime soon, nor will Tesla be making its own smartphone. However, that doesn’t mean Apple and Tesla aren’t already fierce rivals when it comes to recruiting one another’s employees.  MORE → New wireless industry video says opposing net neutrality is totally hip Your wireless carrier would love to give you all sorts of crazy-cool stuff… but now the mega-bogus FCC is trying to spoil the party. Bummer! The CTIA Wireless Association has put out a new video arguing against FCC chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal to reclassify both wireline and wireless broadband services under Title II of the Telecommunications Act and it tries to make the case that opposing this move is a totally hip thing to do.  MORE → Google is already working on Google Glass 2, which might not be a disaster Google Glass has come and gone, and definitely wasn’t an iPad. Google wanted to launch a trend-setting new device that would break new ground and shape the industry for decades to come. Some people thought it would, and a few trigger happy venture capitalists even built an entire fund focused on Glass development. Then Glass died, and Google is the one that killed it. But the idea of Google Glass will live on, and as it turns out, Google already has plans to resurrect its face-worn wearable in the not-so-distant future.  MORE → Congrats, Comcast: You’re now only America’s second most hated pay TV provider For the past year, Comcast has ruled the roost as America’s most disliked pay TV provider but this year it seems it has some major competition. Via Bloomberg, a new Harris poll of more than 27,000 American consumers found that Dish was actually the most disliked pay TV provider and was in fact America’s third-most hated company overall.  MORE → Microsoft has suddenly become a red-hot mobile app developer Microsoft was slow to get into the mobile world in terms of its own mobile platform but the company is making up for it by diving head-first into the realm of mobile apps. Business Insider’s Steve Kovach notes that Microsoft has been on a real roll lately with great mobile apps, first by releasing its highly acclaimed Outlook email app and then by buying up popular calendar app Sunrise.  MORE → Netflix predicts that the next PS4 and Xbox One models will support 4K The new console generation is barely a year old, but it’s already time to start considering how Sony and Microsoft are going to refresh the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One in the coming months. As in previous generations, we should expect to see some slimmer, sleeker models with improved functionality, but what will they do that our current models don’t?  MORE → Sprint users: These Android phones are about to get updated to Lollipop Android fans looking to get the official Android 5.0 Lollipop upgrade on their Sprint handsets should know the carrier is already preparing to release the software update for no less than four flagship Android handsets released in the past couple of years, Android Police reports.  MORE → Stop freaking out about your Internet speeds Yes, slow Internet is extremely annoying — unless you intentionally pull a prank on your kids to get them to do homework and chores — and 3G might seem like it’s awfully slow when you know there’s a 4G LTE connection within reach. But current data speeds are certainly much better than they were a few years ago, even though it can seem like wireless carriers and ISPs are taking their time with network enhancements — though sure, some are much better at it than others. Before you freak out about your Internet speeds again though, you should check out the following graphic, put together by U.K. carrier Lycamobile, that shows you how Internet speed on your mobile evolved.  MORE →