| It's Friday, April 26, 2019. Hey, good morning! We’re going into Friday with some bad news for Sinemia, and the potential for one-day default Amazon Prime shipping. Also: turn the tables on the CIA and follow them on Instagram. Nothing to see here. Remember iFixit’s teardown of a pre-release Samsung Galaxy Fold? Great, now forget it. Samsung requested -- via the “trusted partner” that provided the donor device -- that iFixit pull its teardown, and the site complied voluntarily. Of course, the Internet Archive is still there if you really want to see the Fold’s hinge undressed, or you could wait for a new release date so iFixit can grab a retail model and find out what, if anything, is different. | | The PS4 is nearing 100 million sold. Sony’s earnings report warns it expects to make even less profit in the next year, as PlayStation 4 sales slow down, and it invests in its replacement. In the last year, 17.8 million consoles were sold, less than the 19 million sold in 2017. | | It couldn’t outlast MoviePass. After quickly rushing through a series of plan changes and account terminations, the subscription movie-theater ticket service has announced it's shutting down. A note on the front page of Sinemia’s website confirms what subscribers have suspected, citing "unexpected legal proceedings" (including a patent lawsuit filed by MoviePass) and lack of capital. Instead, the company may pivot to building subscription services for theater owners. | | Sponsored Content by StackCommerce | | Oh isn’t that convenient? In a call to investors following Amazon's first quarterly earnings report, CFO Brian Olsavsky said the company is working on changing the two-day default to just one. "We're currently working on evolving our Prime shipping program, which has historically been a two-day program, to a one-day shipping program," he said. "We'll be building most of this capacity through the year in 2019." | | Finally, technology we can use. If your kids use it as a skateboard, or one rolls away in the parking lot, a sensor can detect objects in the way and bring it to a smooth stop. | | Time to follow them for a change. In a bid for transparency that will probably only reveal how thirsty it is for likes, the CIA made its first Instagram post Thursday afternoon. There’s a wig disguise and a paper bag labeled "Top Secret Pulp". The caption is "I spy with my little eye...". | | But wait, there's more... | | | |
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