Verizon is partnering up with Apple for an offer that’ll be music to customers’ ears. Unlimited customers can get six months of Apple Music for free from Aug. 16, when it’ll reveal the registration process. The offer gives them full, ad-free access to the streaming service’s 45 million songs, but Verizon suggested there’s more to …
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Google Doodle on Thursday celebrated what would’ve been the 110th birthday of Mary G. Ross, the first female Native American engineer. Ross — the great-granddaughter of the Cherokee Chief John Ross — was born in Oklahoma on Aug. 9, 1908, and quickly showed talent in math, and a passion for aviation and science. After Ross earned her master’s degree from …
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Previously delivered WhatsApp messages can reportedly be tweaked to change the content or the sender’s identity. Check Point Software Technologies found that hackers can create an altered version of the WhatsApp app and change a quoted message, one that is being replied to, The New York Times reports. Hackers could change the content or the sender, the researchers reportedly found. Facebook-owned …
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China is pulling ahead of the US in the race to build infrastructure for 5G wireless, a report says. The country has outspent the US by $24 billion since 2015 and built ten times more sites to support 5G communications, according to the Deloitte Consulting report, as cited by Reuters. China built 350,000 new cell phone tower sites, while the …
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Many US news sites have yet to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation after more than two months, leaving European visitors blocked. Digital outlets run by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media are among the hundreds of US news websites that remain unavailable within the EU, according to NiemanLab. The General Data Protection Regulation, also known as GDPR, …
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Facebook apologized for animated balloons and confetti appearing when Indonesian speakers posted messages about Sunday’s deadly earthquake on Indonesia’s Lombok Island. Many people used the word “selamat” — meaning “to survive” — as they wrote about the magnitude 7.0 quake, which, CBS reports, killed at least 131 people. The word “selamat” can be used in multiple phrases that have different …
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The UK is reportedly concerned that technical “shortcomings” in Huawei equipment might leave the country’s telecoms networks vulnerable to cyberattack. An oversight board that analyzes the Chinese telecom’s products used in British infrastructure highlighted potential security problems with the VxWorks operating system, according to Reuters. The version of VxWorks that Huawei is using will stop getting security patches and updates …
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The Samsung Galaxy 7 is reportedly at risk from hackers due to a microchip security flaw. The Meltdown vulnerability can be exploited to attack the Galaxy S7, researchers from Graz Technical University in Austria told Reuters on Wednesday. Samsung phones were previously thought to be immune to Meltdown, which is said to endanger most computing devices. The team will release …
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Logitech’s new Powered Wireless Charging Stand will be available in August. The $70 charger, which the company designed with Apple, keeps your phone stable and upright in either portrait or landscape mode, the company said in a blog post on Monday. “Unlike traditional flat chargers, there’s no need for exact alignment — just drop your iPhone in the cradle and go,” said Michele …
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India’s government reportedly asked telecoms to figure out how to block messaging apps if they are misused. Telecom service providers, along with mobile and internet industry bodies, were asked to explore options for blocking Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram in a July letter from India’s department of telecommunication, according to Reuters. A department official told Reuters that it was looking …
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