March, 2019

• 18 March

  Microsoft brings Windows Defender to Chrome and Firefox

  

  Microsoft has launched its Windows Defender extensions for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The company said its goal was to extend its container technology to other browsers and give customers a way to protect themselves against browser-based attacks. The extensions automatically redirect untrusted navigations to Windows Defender Application Guard for Microsoft Edge, Windows Insider program …

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• 18 March

  Walmart is reportedly preparing its own cheap iPad rival

  

  Walmart will reportedly bring out its own tablet to rival Apple’s iPad. The Android tablet will be cheap, designed to withstand kids and come from a Chinese supplier, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, based on photos discovered in a database of wireless product applications filed with the US Federal Communications Commission. It’ll be sold under Walmart’s ONN store brand, which focuses on …

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• 18 March

  iPad Air 2019 replaces 2017 iPad Pro 10.5, not $329 iPad

  

  The fresh iPad Air has pushed the 10.5-inch iPad Pro from 2017 into the dustbin of Apple history. It disappeared from the Apple Store this morning after the debut of the more powerful new iPad Air, which is the same size and offers similar or better specs than its Pro predecessor. Plus, the modern update of the 10.5-inch Pro — with …

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• 18 March

  Apple’s iPad family welcomes back refreshed iPad Air, Mini (The 3:59, Ep. 535)

  

  On this podcast, we talk about: Apple unveiling a new iPad Air and iPad Mini. How facial recognition software is being used by law enforcement to solve petty crimes. What to expect from the 2019 Game Developers Conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s iPad family welcomes back refreshed iPad Air,… 5:27 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the …

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• 18 March

  Apple and Stanford release Apple Watch heart study’s full results

  

  Before Apple announced the Apple Watch‘s ability to perform echocardiograms on the go last year, it was working with Stanford University to study the technology. The Apple Heart Study enrolled 400,000 people. According to study results, presented Saturday, 2,000 of those participants received a notification about an irregular heart rhythm, which can be a sign of a larger problem, like …

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• 18 March

  How Facebook, Twitter rely on you to stop spread of mosque shooting video

  

  When Ruth Meeker heard that a gunman had opened fire inside a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, she turned to social media site Twitter to learn more about the attack. What she saw next horrified her. After clicking on a hashtag about the shooting, a gruesome video of the massacre that the alleged gunman livestreamed on Facebook started …

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• 18 March

  MySpace reportedly loses 50 million songs uploaded over 12 years

  

  MySpace may have lost your digital memories in a server migration. “As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace,” it said in a note at the top of the site. “We apologize for the inconvenience. If you would …

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• 18 March

  This could be the logo for Google’s new streaming video game service

  

  Forget reading tea leaves, let’s squint at a sign. Google showed off a massive squiggle above a space it constructed at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday. Though the company didn’t respond to a request for comment about whether the big purplish “s” is indeed a logo (perhaps for the word “streaming”?) Variety says an employee confirmed …

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• 18 March

  Nvidia brings a little RTX DirectX ray tracing to GTX graphics

  

  If you’ve got GeForce GTX graphics in your desktop or laptop, Nvidia’s got an update you’re going to like.  The graphics chipmaker announced Monday at GDC 2019 it will enable DirectX ray tracing (DXR) on some of its older graphics cards with its Pascal architecture via a driver expected in April. DXR is one of the major features of its …

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• 18 March

  Xiaomi’s new gaming phone probably has more RAM than your laptop

  

  On Monday Xiaomi announced the Black Shark 2, its third gaming phone. It comes with up to 12GB of RAM — 4GB more RAM than you’ll find in new MacBook Pro and Dell XPS laptops. That’s the first of several big numbers on the Black Shark 2’s resume. It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor and a 4,000mAh battery. …

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