Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is finally unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. And in an online world where privacy expectations have been radically reshaped in light …
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Apple wants employees to know that leaks are bad. Leaks will get you caught, fired, and even arrested. Remember that epic superleak that totally spoiled the iPhone X surprise? According to a leaked Apple memo obtained by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the employee responsible was ID’d and fired within days. Allegedly, the company caught 29 leakers in 2017, and 12 of …
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This is Palmer Luckey. You might have heard his name earlier today, when Sen. Ted Cruz asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his grilling by Congress why he fired Luckey last year. Zuckerberg said he wasn’t fired for his political views. It was kind of a weird question, for three reasons: Zuckerberg was there to answer questions about the Cambridge …
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Sometimes, when your favorite websites go “down,” they’re actually still right there. You just can’t see them, because your computer doesn’t know the route. What if you could give your PC some better driving directions right now, in just a minute or two tops? What if this trick improved your privacy too? To do that, you just need to change …
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It’s been more than four years — December 2013 — since Apple’s flagship desktop PC has seen a substantial update. And it still won’t see one this year. The new Mac Pro will arrive in 2019, according to a new interview with senior Apple executives. “We want to be transparent and communicate openly with our pro community so we want …
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If you’ve wanted to play a modern video game set in J.K. Rowling’s world of magic and muggles, you won’t have long to wait — the first fruits of a recent deal to make lots of Harry Potter video games will arrive on April 25. It’s called Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery — perhaps you caught the trailer last month? — …
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Apple, Google, and now Facebook — each will let developers turn your phone into a window to another world. Just point your camera at a poster, and computer-generated characters and objects can augment your world. Case in point: Facebook app’s built-in camera can now unlock a secret little portal inside any poster from the new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player …
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Intel was stuck. In early 2017, the chipmaker’s new seventh-gen laptop and desktop Kaby Lake processors were barely faster than the year before. “Don’t be fooled,” I wrote. But this year, it looks like Intel’s priciest new chips have gained some real ground. On Tuesday, the company is announcing its first six-core, 12-thread chips for laptops — one of them …
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Good news, gamers! (Bad news, parents of easily distracted schoolchildren.) Roughly two weeks after it first launched on iOS in an invite-only beta, the free-to-play gaming sensation Fortnite is now available to anyone who owns a recent iPhone or iPad. You no longer need an invite to get in on the action. Works with: iPhone SE, 6S, 7, 8, X; …
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Apple promised it would let you tap into the power of an external graphics card with your late-model MacBook Pro, iMac Pro and 2017 iMac. That day has arrived: MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4 now officially supports eGPUs, letting you plug a box containing a desktop graphics card into a laptop or all-in-one PC to drastically up its graphics performance and …
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