Eager to get an Apple Card? Invites are now rolling out, at least to some select few. After CEO Tim Cook announced the card would arrive in August, Apple on Tuesday began the initial deployment of its new branded credit card, sending out email invites to some of those who signed up to be “notified” …
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6 August
Apple still tops growing global smartwatch market
The global smartwatch market is experiencing what one analyst called “impressive” growth. And Apple is still leading the way, by a wide margin. Manufacturers shipped 12 million smartwatches during the second quarter of 2019, a 44% increase over the same quarter last year, market analyst Strategy Analytics reported Tuesday. Much of that growth is attributable to consumers increasingly accessorizing their …
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6 August
Fight Android malware by quitting Google Play and using F
Things haven’t been looking great for Android users’ privacy recently. After Google purged 50 malicious apps from its Play store with upward of 25 million downloads a couple of years back, another 200 Android apps were found infected with malware in March, followed by July’s discovery of 1,000-plus Android apps harvesting data even after you deny permissions and a Chrome …
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6 August
Political campaign texts are working, researchers say
A new report from Democratic technology company Tech for Campaigns has found that people who received text messages from election campaigns were 1% more likely to vote. The company’s researchers found Democratic campaigns and organizations sent 350 million texts in 2018. That’s six times more than were sent in 2016 and 2017. “While 1% may not seem like a lot, …
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6 August
Huawei’s Twitter followers think it’s owned by the Chinese government
Huawei apparently decided that one way to address the controversy over its alleged links with the Chinese government was to run a poll on its official Twitter account, asking people who they think owns Huawei. The poll started Friday and got 56,790 votes before it closed down. “Who do you think owns Huawei? #WhoRunsHuawei,” the Chinese phone manufacturer wrote. Who do …
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6 August
Google Voice is getting rid of a voicemail feature due to robocalls
Google will apparently be removing a Google Voice feature over carriers’ efforts to fight robocalls. In a message shared on Twitter by journalist Brian Krebs, the company has seemingly begun alerting users that by the end of the week it will no longer support the “get voicemail by message” feature that automatically transcribes voicemails and texts them to your phone. …
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6 August
Comcast’s Xfinity apparently suffers outages across US
Comcast’s Xfinity is suffering nationwide outages, according to Down Detector and Twitter users, with the internet service down altogether or slowing right now. The problem is hitting areas of California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington state. damnit xfinity I was literally 5 minutes from the end of the second to last episode of …
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6 August
How to sign up for Apple Card after you receive your invite
Apple on Tuesday began to send out Apple Card preview invites to a select few ahead of a full launch later this month. Apple published its Apple Card website prior to the preview launch, giving us a few details about the signup process. Apple first announced the Apple Card in March, positioning it as a credit card that lives almost entirely on your iPhone — with …
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6 August
Hardware vulnerability bypasses Spectre and Meltdown patches
A new hardware vulnerability bypassing previous Spectre and Meltdown protections has been found by Bitdefender researchers, CNET sister site ZDNet reported Tuesday. It affects all Windows systems with AMD or Intel processors since 2012 and can access protected memory. Spectre and Meltdown are vulnerabilities uncovered in the chips that handle sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys. Chips originally affected when the …
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6 August
Google, Facebook, Twitter aren’t prepared for deepfakes, US Rep. Schiff says
Facebook, Twitter and Google aren’t prepared for deepfakes ahead of the US presidential election, a top Congressman said after the tech giants sent letters last week about how they deal with high-tech doctored videos and other kinds of media manipulation. The companies “have begun thinking seriously” about the challenges, said Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, but it’s their responsibility …
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