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Microsoft’s new OneDrive Personal Vault ups your cloud storage security

It seems when one box closes, another box opens. Microsoft announced Tuesday it will add a new feature to its OneDrive cloud storage service called Personal Vault, which provides a secure solution for your most sensitive and important data. This new service may fill a vacuum left by Dropbox’s recent transition from its original online data storage model to a central collaboration …

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Mophie’s new Powerstation Hub has built

Mophie’s got a new battery pack and it’s not skimping on the ways to charge your phone. Called the Powerstation Hub, the new $100 6100 mAh portable battery loads up on outputs offering three USB ports (one USB-C, two full-size USB-A) and doubling as a wireless charging pad to charge up to four devices simultaneously.  The new Hub can be …

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AT&T 5G: Our tests yield the wildest speeds yet

It’s fitting that I tested AT&T’s 5G network at the Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles. Both Hollywood and 5G aim to take our wildest ideas and make them real. In AT&T’s case, it’s the promise of high-speed mobile data over a cellular network, which could revolutionize how we use our phones, computers and connected devices. In the little time …

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Amazfit Bip smartwatch dips to $64 (Update: Expired)

Honestly, I hadn’t touched my Amazfit Bip for several months. Most days I wear my Apple Watch, but with a four-day vacation looming and no desire to hassle with charging it, I reached for the Bip. I’m glad I did. It worked like the wellness champ I remembered it to be, and after five days off the charger, the battery …

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Instagram chief Adam Mosseri: We don’t have a policy against deepfakes

In a sit-down interview with Gayle King for CBS This Morning, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri discussed some of the controversies surrounding the photo-sharing app. When King brought up the deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that circulated last week, Mosseri explained why the video wasn’t taken down right away.  “We don’t have a policy against deepfakes currently,” he …

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FedEx sues Commerce Department in wake of Huawei package diversion

FedEx on Monday hit US Department of Commerce with a lawsuit saying it’s been forced to “police the millions of shipments” it transports each day by the department’s trade blacklist — which includes embattled Chinese phone maker Huawei. It comes a month after Huawei said it would review its relationship with the delivery company when packages bound for its Asian …

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Carbon pushes new 3D printing technology like using multiple materials

Carbon already sells 3D printers used to make unusual the materials inside Riddell’s custom-size professional-league football helmets and Adidas running shoes. Now, a new $260 million funding round should help the Silicon Valley startup create even more unusual materials.  Among the new possibilities, according to Chief Executive Joseph DeSimone: Products made from multiple materials with different properties and colors directly injected …

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Bill Gates says Microsoft losing to Android was his ‘greatest mistake’

Bill Gates has conceded that his “greatest mistake ever” was failing to put Microsoft in Android’s position as the world’s biggest “non-Apple” mobile operating system. The Microsoft co-founder was reflecting on the era when the market was shifting toward mobile, in an interview at venture capital firm Village Global. “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. …

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A hacker assault left mobile carriers open to network shutdown

Hackers have quietly infiltrated more than a dozen mobile carriers around the world, gaining complete control of networks behind the companies’ backs. The attackers have been using that access over the last seven years to steal sensitive data, but have so much control they could shut down communications at a moment’s notice, according to Cybereason, a security company based in …

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