Even creepier COVID tracking: Google silently pushed app to users’ phones
MA Be subject to of Public Health Over the weekend, Google and the state of Massachusetts…
Category: Gear
A range of good Garmin smartwatches and Fitbits on sale for Prime Day
Amplify / Garmin’s Vivomove series. Corey Gaskin / Ars Technica As we continue digging, we…
Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM4 headphones are down to a new low for Prime Day
Increase / Sony’s WH-1000XM4 noise-canceling headphones. Jeff Dunn Today is the start of Amazon’s Prime…
Apple and Google’s AI wizardry promises privacy—at a cost
Amplify Getty Images Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones…
Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
Distend Getty Images A researcher has uncovered one of the more unusual finds in the…
Amazon joins Apple, Google by reducing its app store cut
Lengthen / The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, which runs Amazon’s Fire OS. Amazon Apparently…
Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours
Blow up expand on / In 2017, Tux was sad that he had a Microsoft…
Here’s what’s inside Google’s first-ever retail store
The preferential of the store is wood-on-wood, with these crazy bendy poles everywhere. If you’re…
A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners”
Cookieyes.com—a spot devoted to providing GDPR/CCPA consent solutions—unsurprisingly has an excellent, minimally invasive cookie banner.…
Apple’s Tim Cook: Sideloading is “not in the best interests of the user”
Expatiate on / Apple CEO Tim Cook being interviewed remotely by Brut. Brut. Apple has…