May, 2020

• 6 May

  New Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Buds launch with price cuts

  

  Along with new Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 laptops Microsoft on Wednesday released two new headphones: The Surface Headphones 2 and the Surface Earbuds. (The earbuds were announced last October and subsequently delayed till now.) Microsoft hadn’t previewed the full-size noise-canceling Headphones 2 at its Surface event last fall, but the originals are now …

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• 6 May

  TiVo Stream 4K takes on Roku, Amazon Fire TV with $50 Android TV dongle

  

  The TiVo Stream 4K is the well-known DVR company’s first piece of hardware that doesn’t have anything to do with recording TV broadcasts. Instead this little box, designed to plug into HDMI and hang from the back of your television, is all about streaming video — and could be a serious competitor to some of our favorite such devices like …

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• 6 May

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  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. T-Mobile spent two years working to seal its acquisition of Sprint. Now that the deal is closed, we get our first glimpse of what the combined company looks like, whether Sprint’s losses will weigh down the Un-carrier and how it’s dealing with the …

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• 6 May

  Twitter to dispel 5G coronavirus conspiracies with UK government resources

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter has partnered with the British government to take its fight against conspiracy theories linking coronavirus and 5G to the next level. The social media giant will prompt users who search for 5G on its platform to visit a government webpage featuring credible, …

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• 6 May

  Facebook SDK bug may be responsible for popular apps crashing

  

  Several popular apps crashed for many users Wednesday afternoon, including TikTok and Spotify, and the issue may be connected to Facebook’s developer toolkit, which lets third-party software programmers integrate their apps with the social network. Users complained on Twitter that TikTok, Spotify, Tinder and Pinterest weren’t working for them. Some people described apps crashing when they tried to launch them. The …

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• 6 May

  HyperX, Ducky partner on One 2 Mini limited edition mechanical gaming keyboard

  

  Gaming accessory and hardware maker HyperX announced today a new collaboration with keyboard manufacturer DuckyChannel International and its first product, a limited-edition Ducky One 2 Mini mechanical keyboard. The ultracompact two-tone keyboard uses HyperX’s red linear switches combined with Ducky’s custom double-shot PBT keycaps. It’s got a 60% design, meaning it’s 60% of the size of a standard full-size keyboard. …

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• 6 May

  Apple still dominates growing global smartwatch sector

  

  The global smartwatch market continues to grow, and Apple continues to dominate it. The company shipped 7.6 million Apple Watches in the first quarter, to give it a 55% market share, a slight increase over the year-ago period, according to data released Wednesday by market analyst Strategy Analytics.   Overall, manufacturers shipped 14 million smartwatches during the quarter, an increase …

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• 6 May

  Flaws in 4 popular VPNs could’ve let hackers steal your data, researchers say

  

  Researchers say four virtual private network services had security flaws that could’ve exposed users to online attacks. In a statement Wednesday, industry research firm VPNpro said vulnerabilities in PrivateVPN and Betternet could’ve let hackers install malicious programs and ransomware in the form of a fake VPN software update. The researchers said they were also able to intercept communications when testing the …

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• 6 May

  Surface Go from Microsoft comes back for round 2, starting at $399

  

  I had to dig deep into the archives to remind myself what the Microsoft Surface Go was all about. It was only 2018, but that feels like a lifetime ago now. In its original incarnation, this was a miniaturized version of the excellent Surface Pro Windows two-in-one. It mimicked the larger model’s slate-plus-keyboard design with a similar magnetic connection and …

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• 6 May

  NBC streaming service Peacock will be available on Apple devices in July

  

  NBC‘s new streaming service Peacock will be available on Apple devices when it launches nationally on July 15, NBCUniversal said Wednesday. Peacock started rolling out a preview version to Comcast customers in April, but this is the first we’ve heard of the service expanding beyond Comcast and Cox systems.  At launch time, Peacock will be integrated with the Apple TV …

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