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After taking a serious tumble in the middle of the night, a 67-year-old Norwegian man and his family credit his Apple Watch for getting help. As reported by Norway’s NRK, around 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, Toralv Østvang got up to use the bathroom. He fainted and fell, an action that his Apple Watch detected. If the user is unresponsive for 1 …

Ahead of India’s national elections later this year, WhatsApp is trying to wrangle bulk messaging and fake accounts.  Over the last three months, the Facebook-owned messaging has banned more than 2 million accounts each month for bulk or automated behavior. WhatsApp released a white paper on Wednesday detailing its efforts to curb this type of abuse, which can be used …

Can a printer be fun? It can when it’s a little internet-connected job that cranks out cute receipt-style notes and doesn’t need any ink. And don’t forget the fun of scoring it for the cheapest price anywhere, courtesy of yours truly. For a limited time, and while supplies last, ZDNet Academy has the Memobird mobile thermal printer for $48 when you …

Flickr is giving you another month to download your photos if you don’t want to pay $50 a year for a pro subscription to the photo-sharing site. Three months ago, Flickr’s new owners, SmugMug, announced a 1,000-photo limit for free usage. If you had more than that at the site, you had a Feb. 5 deadline to retrieve the photos. But …

It looks like there will be more Animoji coming our way. In the second developer beta version of iOS 12.2, Apple included four new animals: an owl, a warthog, a shark and a giraffe.  The Animoji feature is found on newer iPhones and iPads, including the iPhone X,  iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and the iPhone XR.  It uses the device’s …

As someone who is on his third pair of Warby Parker frames and an owner and operator of an iPhone X, an update this week to the glasses-maker’s app has me excited. Warby Parker added a new Virtual Try-On feature to its iOS app that uses augmented reality and the face-mapping capabilities of the iPhone X, XR and XS.  I …

Spotify picked up podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor as it looks for new listeners, the streaming service said Wednesday.  “Our podcast users spend almost twice the time on the platform, and spend even more time listening to music,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said in a statement. “We have also seen that by having unique programming, people who previously thought Spotify …

The US will need to implement a strategy to protect 5G technology from hackers and state-sponsored bad actors, US Sen. Maria Cantwell said at a 5G hearing Wednesday. Cantwell, of Washington state, is the top Democrat on the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. “I’m all in for 5G … But in the push for 5G, we need …

Got Spotify? You’ve probably discovered the limitations for listening to your tunes offline. Basically, it requires a phone, which isn’t always convenient — like when you’re at the gym or out for a run. Even if you do have your phone, you’ll have to devote a chunk of precious storage to your Spotify playlists. The Mighty Vibe solves those problems. …