What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia’s new COVID vaccine, and that too for free? UN staff in New York and around the world have that choice after the Russian president offered to provide them the Sputnik-V vaccine while speaking to this year’s General Assembly, as per a report in AP.  Just …

Samsung’s free, ad-supported streaming service is headed to some phones. The Samsung TV Plus mobile app will launch Wednesday in the Galaxy Store and on Google Play and work with Galaxy Note 20, Note 10, S20 and S10 series phones, the tech giant said Tuesday. The streaming service was previously only available on some Samsung TVs. Samsung TV Plus offers …

Aiming for the more upscale, higher-powered Chromebook user — people buying the class of models currently using Intel Celeron and Core processors, like those needed for remote learning and working from home — AMD is adding new Ryzen and Athlon 3000 C-series Chromebook-specific CPUs to join its existing, entry-priced A series. Though Chromebooks generally don’t require as much processing power …

Walmart has been experimenting recently with drones, announcing plans this month to handle deliveries of health and wellness supplies in Arkansas early next year while also launching a pilot project for grocery deliveries in North Carolina. Now it’s using the flying robots to help get COVID-19 testing kits to patients, with the retail giant announcing on Tuesday that it has partnered …

Well, that didn’t take long. Various Apple Watch models routinely go on sale at Amazon (and other stores), like the perpetually discounted Series 3 for $169, but I didn’t think we’d see the latest ones get reduced so soon. I thought wrong. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Apple Watch Series 6 (40mm GPS) for …

Twitter faces a class-action lawsuit for providing advertisers access to people’s phone numbers without consent. The complaint, filed Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, seeks $5,000 in damages for every person in the state affected by Twitter’s privacy misstep.  The lawsuit alleges that Twitter violated a Washington law against unauthorized procurement or sale …

When everyone living in Aberhosan, a small town near Machynlleth in Wales, kept losing their internet connection at 7 a.m. every day for 18 months, broadband provider Openreach had to find the cause. On Tuesday, Openreach revealed it was caused by electrical interference from an old second-hand TV. Local Openreach engineer Michael Jones spent months trying to track down the …

TikTok removed more than 104 million videos from its platform during the first half of 2020, according to the company’s latest transparency report, released Tuesday. TikTok said that’s less than 1% of all videos uploaded to the popular app between Jan. 1 and June 30. The update comes as TikTok’s fate in the US remains in jeopardy, pending the finalization …

Dish may not have made many major moves since acquiring Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint earlier this year, but that may change as the calendar turns towards 2021.  On Tuesday the carrier publicly named Stephen Stokols, the former founder of wireless venture FreedomPop, to be Boost Mobile’s new executive vice president. Stokols will report to John Swieringa, who oversees …

Steelseries has been quiet this year, but maybe that’s about to change. Last week it announced the SteelSeries Arctis 9 dual-wireless gaming headset for PC and PS4 and now it’s releasing the Rival 3 Wireless gaming mouse, a cordless version of its entry-level Rival 3 mouse announced in January.  The company always seems to offer a bit more than the competition and …