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New York privacy bill could ban selling phone location data

Selling your phone location data is a lucrative business, but it might not have a place in New York City: The City Council is considering a bill banning the practice within the five boroughs. Council member Justin Brannan on Tuesday proposed a bill that would prevent mobile carriers and apps from sharing people’s location data if that location is within …

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Honor 9X and 9X Pro feature notchless HD displays and pop

Chinese phone brand Honor continues to deliver innovative phones with advanced camera technology that sell for hundreds less than those produced by Apple, Samsung or Google. The 9X Pro, announced Tuesday, features a 48-megapixel pop-up selfie cam, a trio of rear cameras that includes an 8-megapixel wide-angle lens and an edge-to-edge HD display. And you could buy three of them for the …

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Department of Justice kicks off antitrust review of tech giants

The US Department of Justice has announced an antitrust review of how online platforms achieved market power, and whether they are reducing competition, stifling innovation and harming consumers. While the Justice Department hasn’t named specific companies, it’s targeting tech giants including Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, according to The Wall Street Journal. Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the antitrust division …

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Chrome extension privacy crackdown begins October 15 with Project Strobe

Google’s Project Strobe, an attempt to keep Chrome browser extensions from slurping up your personal data, will take effect Oct. 15. The change is part of a broader tech industry move to protect private information that can be gathered for creepy business purposes or leaked through data breaches. Project Strobe imposes two requirements on developers who write the extensions that …

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AfterShokz Aeropex: New bone

Every two years or so, AfterShokz releases a new bone-conduction headphone that’s a little better than the last one. New for 2019 is the Aeropex, which AfterShokz says are its “lightest, highest-quality headphones yet.”  The Aeropex is available now in “cosmic” black for $160 or £150. There’s no word yet on Australian pricing, but the UK price converts to about AU$260. Note that …

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Apple Watch ECG vs. hospital EKG: Not the results I was expecting

When I first started testing out the ECG feature on the Apple Watch Series 4 — which launched in December with the update to Watch OS 5.1.2 — the last thing I expected was to find something abnormal about my heart rhythm. But that’s exactly what happened when I was cross-referencing the Watch’s readings with medical-grade EKG equipment at the doctor’s office. …

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Project Loon has been in the sky for 1 million hours

Alphabet’s Project Loon has reached the milestone of flying its balloons in the sky for a collective 1 million hours, the company announced Tuesday. This equates to 40 million kilometers travelled. Project Loon delivers mobile connectivity to remote and disaster-ravaged areas, with the balloons operated by a solar-powered pump. They drift on winds at heights of 50,000 feet to 70,000 …

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