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Daily News Update: Galaxy Folded

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Samsung—the first Galaxy Fold hands-on posts looked promising, but then review units started breaking. Now, the company has canceled launch events in China and delayed the Fol...

Cameron Summerson 16h ago

Nobody Wanted Microsoft’s Doomed Sets Feature (We Just Wanted Tabs)

It’s official: Sets is dead. That’s no surprise. Sets was doomed from the start because Microsoft turned it into a complicated mess that no one wanted and few Windows users could understand. Sets was all about wh...

Daily News Roundup: Your Passwords Are Probably Trash

Recently, the UK’s National Cyber Security Center paired up with Have I Been Pwned?’s Troy Hunt to conduct a survey that analyzed passwords of accounts that had been breached. Turns out that most users (still) suc...

Cameron Summerson 2d ago

Windows 10’s “Sets” App Tabs Are “No More”

Sets was going to bring tabs to File Explorer and other Windows applications. An early version of Sets once appeared in Windows Insider builds, but Microsoft pulled it. Now, according to Microsoft’s Rich Turner on Twitt...

Chris Hoffman 3d ago

What’s New in Chrome 74, Arriving April 23

The stable version of Chrome 74 is set to land on April 23rd. It will include a dark mode on Windows, Incognito detection blocking, support for media keys in PiP, various Chrome OS improvements, and a lot more....

Windows Updates Are Breaking PCs With These Antivirus Programs

On April 9, Microsoft issued a Windows patch that broke PCs with certain antivirus programs installed. This affects PCs running Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2—not Windows 10, this time....

Chris Hoffman 4d ago

Daily News Roundup: YouTube is On Fire

After years of feuding, Google and Amazon have finally made up. As a direct result, YouTube is coming (back) to Fire TV, and Prime Video is getting support for Chromecast and Android TV. Finally.

Cameron Summerson 5d ago

How the UK’s New Internet “Porn Block” Will Work

On July 15, 2019, the UK government will enforce an age-verification requirement for online pornography websites. Websites that don’t comply with the UK’s rules will be blocked in the country. Here’s how thi...

Daily News Roundup: Know When to Fold ‘Em

The first reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Fold—the company’s $2000 folding phone—landed a few days ago. Yesterday, some of those same review units were already broken. Four journalists all experienced display ...

Cameron Summerson 6d ago

What’s New in Ubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo,” Available Now

Ubuntu 19.04 is available for download today. With Linux 5.0 and GNOME 3.32, Disco Dingo boasts performance improvements and visual tweaks. Whether or not you upgrade, Disco Dingo lays the groundwork for future long term supp...

Daily News Roundup: What the Apple-Qualcomm Settlement Means

Apple and Qualcomm met each other in court this week in what was supposed to be a brutal trial. Turns out that wasn’t the case, as the two companies surprisingly agreed to a settlement yesterday. This means three things...

Cameron Summerson Apr 17th

The All-Digital Xbox Fulfills Microsoft’s Original Xbox One Vision

Microsoft just announced a new Xbox One without a disc drive. This brings Microsoft closer than ever to the original vision of the Xbox One and shows how far digital downloads have come. Unfortunately, it’s too expensiv...

Daily News Roundup: MS Office Exploits Now Make Up 70 Percent of Attacks

According to new research from Kaspersky Labs, finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office is the new hotness. According to a presentation on its findings, around 70 percent of all attacks detected in Q4 2018 t...

Cameron Summerson Apr 16th

How to Stop Google’s Sensorvault From Sharing Your Location With Law Enforcement

Google’s Sensorvault is a location history database that police can query to see phones near the location of a crime. Google is the only company with such a database—and innocent people have been arrested because ...

Daily News Roundup, 4/14/19: Big Brother is Watching

Plus Apple goes all in on Arcade, I/O sessions show what Google has cooking this year, Outlook.com was hacked, and a whole lot more. Here’s your Monday roundup of the biggest stories from the weekend....

Cameron Summerson Apr 15th

Alexa, Why Are Employees Looking at My Data?

Everyone’s been talking about Bloomberg’s report that Amazon workers are listening to the voice recordings created when you speak to Alexa. But Amazon is far from alone. Here’s how tech companies can—a...

Here’s How to Watch the NBA Playoffs Without Cable

The NBA Playoffs start on Saturday, April 13th. This is the time of year when the game shifts from good to great. Here’s how to catch all the action without a cable subscription, so you never miss a game....

Cameron Summerson Apr 12th

Daily News Roundup, 4/12/19: Disney+ Will Land on November 12th for $6.99 a Month

Plus Facebook might roll Messenger back into the main mobile apps, Acer announced a slew of new stuff, future Android updates might come from Google Play, Falcon Heavy’s successful landing, and a lot more....

Cameron Summerson Apr 12th

Here’s How to Watch Game of Thrones’ Final Season Online

HBO’s Game of Thrones returns for season eight on Sunday, April 14. The series broke piracy records because HBO once made it so difficult to watch online, requiring a cable TV subscription. Thankfully, that’s no ...

Daily News Roundup, 4/11/19: The Black Hole

Amazon employees may be listening to things you say to (and around!) Alexa, YouTube TV got a price hike, Instagram cleans up “inappropriate” recommendations, and a lot more. Here are the biggest stories for the mo...

Cameron Summerson Apr 11th