YouTube Wednesday announced massive changes to how it treats kids videos, as the US Federal Trade Commission hit Google with new rules and a record $170 million penalty to settle a probe into the privacy of children’s data on giant video site. It’s the largest penalty ever levied for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or …
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Look out Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV streaming system is coming to more products than ever. The retail giant just dropped 15 new Fire TV-equipped gadgets on attendees at the IFA show in Berlin. Most of them are televisions destined for Europe and the UK — including the first OLED TV with Fire TV, which will only be available in Germany …
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There are a lot of efforts trying to rein in advertising tech that tracks you online, and the newest option is coming from the ad industry itself. The IAB Tech Lab, a partner to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that has long represented online ad companies, proposed a new digital token on Wednesday designed to offer a better balance between advertisers’ …
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We’ll see Apple’s new iPhones in exactly one week, but a suspected benchmarking test might hint at one model’s specs. Geekbench took a closer look at the “iPhone 12.1,” which 9to5Mac said is the successor to iPhone XR (last year’s lowest spec model), and it doesn’t sound like much of a leap forward. The test suggested that the new iPhone is …
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Update, 3:06 p.m. PT: This discount is no longer available; the movie has reverted back to its full price. If you don’t own it already, here’s a steal-of-the-year deal on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Amazon has the 4K version on sale for $4 for a limited time. If you don’t have a 4K player or TV, don’t worry, it’ll stream …
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The Apple Watch can already track your steps, heart rate and location. It soon may be able to monitor your sleep, too. According to a report on Monday from 9to5Mac, Apple is preparing to add a new feature to the Watch that will allow it to monitor your sleep. Codenamed “Burrito” the new feature will be able to measure the …
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Mozilla has switched on Firefox’s tracking protection feature for everyone on Windows and Android, dialing up its effort to protect privacy from website publishers and advertisers that would like to keep tabs on your online behavior. Mozilla enabled tracking protection for new Firefox users in June, but now it’s on for everyone, the nonprofit said Tuesday. Tracking protection is all …
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On Thursday, Aug. 29 Apple finally sent out invites for its iPhone 11 launch event. We were right! The iPhone 11 will launch on Sept. 10 in Cupertino. What follows is our original prediction piece below. Though Apple hasn’t set out invitations to any iPhone events yet, the tech giant needs to whip up something exciting if it wants to …
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After a long two years, Wacom has updated its MobileStudio Pro 16 Windows tablet (the company calls it a “pen computer”) bumping the processor up a couple generations from dual core to quad core (Core i7-8559U) and the graphics processor up a generation to an Nvidia Quadro P1000. It’s now a lot faster, its USB-C connections have bulked up to …
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The Galaxy Note 10 doesn’t have a hardware button for Bixby, Samsung’s AI smart assistant. The reveal came during the Samsung Unpacked event on Wednesday. Bixby debuted on the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in 2017 and was an attempt to answer Apple’s Siri on the iPhone, the Google Assistant is on pretty much any Android phone and Amazon’s Alexa. …
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