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Mobility Steers Apple’s New Education Strategy

Apple on Tuesday announced a refresh of its iPad as part of a new approach to the education market. CEO Tim Cook and other Apple officials also outlined a number of new education initiatives at an event held at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago The new 32-gigabyte, 9.7-inch iPad, which will sell to consumers for US$329 and to students f...

Facebook Phone-Scraping Takes Users by Surprise

Facebook on Sunday confirmed that its Messenger and Lite apps for Android smartphones routinely collect call and text histories The call and text history logging are opt-in features for people using Messenger or Facebook Lite on Android devices, the company said in a post.

Researcher Cracks ‘Hacker-Proof’ Crypto Wallet

A hardware wallet for virtual currencies with millions of users has been compromised by a 15-year-old security researcher Saleem Rashid explained how he cracked the firmware on the wallet produced by Ledger in an online post Tuesday....

#DeleteFacebook Movement Gathers Steam

Many Facebook members reportedly have shuttered their accounts in the wake of reports that Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling company working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, harvested data from 50 million users, unbeknownst to them The data firm used the information to develop techniques that formed the basis of its work for Trump's ...

Google to Weed Out Cryptocurrency Ads

Google on Wednesday said it will stop serving ads for cryptocurrencies and related content in June The ban includes but is not limited to initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, and cryptocurrency trading advice....

Fitbit Highlights Versatility in New $200 Smartwatch

Fitbit on Tuesday added a new smartwatch to its wearables line with a pricetag of US$199.95 The Fitbit Versa, which will reach global retail outlets in next month, will be the lightest metal smartwatch in the U.S. market. It includes a new dashboard that simplifies the way health and fitness data is accessed on the device....

Russians Pose as Americans to Steal Data on Social Media

Americans were targeted on social media by Russian agents on a mission to harvest personal information, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday The agents pretended to work for organizations promoting African-American businesses as a ruse to obtain personal information from black business owners during the 2016 presidential election campaign, ac...

NICE Alliance Aims to Get Smart Cameras to Play Well Together

Sony Semiconductor Solutions, Nikon, Foxconn, Scenera and Wistron have formed an alliance to create standards that allow surveillance and IP cameras to play well with each other The NICE Alliance, unveiled Monday, aims to create a new smart camera ecosystem, along the lines of the mobile ecosystems that have become so familiar. The "NICE" acronym s...

Apple Plans Healthcare Clinics as Employee Perk

Apple's plans to open a number of healthcare centers for its employees surfaced this week Called the "AC Wellness Network," the centers will offer "a unique concierge-like healthcare experience for employees and their dependents," according to a website Apple set up for the initiative.

Camera, Audio Star in New Galaxy Phones

Samsung on Sunday raised the curtain on the latest models of its flagship Galaxy smartphones, the S9 and S9+, featuring improved imaging and audio performance Two standout features in the 12-megapixel rear-facing camera are improved low light performance and super slow-mo video....

AI’s Malicious Potential Front and Center in New Report

As beneficial as artificial intelligence can be, it has its dark side, too. That dark side is the focus of a 100-page report a group of technology, academic and public interest organizations jointly released Tuesday AI will be used by threat actors to expand the scale and efficiency of their attacks, the report predicts. They will employ it to comp...

Russian Twitter Trolls Exploit Florida School Shooting

Within an hour of the shooting at a Florida High School last week, divisive messages began pouring out of Twitter accounts believed to be controlled by Russia At a rapid speed, messages began flooding Twitter using popular hashtags like #guncontrolnow, #gunreformnow and #Parklandshooting to exploit the rampage by a lone gunman with an assault rifle...

Google Launches Offensive Against Annoying Ads

Google's Chrome Web browser on Thursday began blocking some of the Net's most annoying types of ads Chrome's built-in ad filter blocks ads based on standards devised by the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group whose membership roster includes Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and The Washington Post....

Google Offers New Mobile Story Tech to Publishers

Google on Tuesday rolled out a developer preview of its new AMP story format, which is designed to give content publishers an easy way to deliver news and information on mobile devices with visually rich, tap-through stories "On mobile devices, users browse lots of articles, but engage with few in-depth," noted Rudy Galfi, product manager for AMP a...

Critics Love HomePod’s Sound but Rap Its Smarts

Critics have begun weighing in on Apple's HomePod smart speaker, and they're loving the device's sound but don't have much affection for its smarts The HomePod's sound outclassed top-shelf competitor SonosOne, according to Matthew Panzarino, writing for TechCrunch....

Intel’s Smart Peepers Look Smart, Too

Intel has designed a pair of smart glasses that won't make you look like a hopeless geek Called "Vaunt," the peepers, which are still in the prototype phase, look like ordinary glasses, save for a faint, red glimmer that occasionally appears on the right lens....

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Aim to Untangle Employee Healthcare Knot

Three corporate giants on Tuesday announced they were banding together to provide healthcare for their 1.1 million employees The companies -- Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase -- plan to form a company "free from profit-making incentives and constraints" in order to improve employee satisfaction with their healthcare coverage as well a...

Apple’s HomePod Set to Barge Into Hot Speaker Market

HomePod, Apple's long-awaited entry into the torrid smart speaker market, will be available Feb. 9, the company announced Tuesday The HomePod, which is not quite 7 inches tall, will be offered in white and space gray. It can be pre-ordered at Apple's website for US$349 starting Friday....

Batteries in New iPhones Could Have Shorter Life Spans

There was some bad news for owners of the latest iPhone models on Monday Batteries in the iPhone 8 and X may have shorter life spans than those in prior models, according to an article in ZDNet....

Google Device Bug Chokes Home WiFi Networks

A bug in the software used by Google Cast devices such as Chromecast and Home can slow down or crash WiFi networks The problem -- initially believed to be isolated to a particular router model made by TP-Link -- appears to affect models made by other manufacturers, including Asus, Linksys, Netgear and Synology....

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