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If you’ve been yearning for a Wacom Cintiq Pro but can’t bear the high prices, the company’s new entry-level Cintiq 16 may offer a more wallet-friendly option. Cintiqs are the line of pressure-sensitive pen displays that provide a mobile tablet-like experience for drawing but connect to a standalone computer; the Pro models start at $800 …

Firefox has joined Google’s WebP party, another endorsement for the internet giant’s effort to speed up the web with a better image format. Google revealed WebP eight years ago and since then has built it into its Chrome web browser, Android phone software and many of its online properties in an effort to put websites on a diet and cut …

Last Friday, the FBI issued a report recommending that everyone reboot their routers. The reason? “Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide.” That’s a pretty alarming PSA, but also a somewhat vague one. How do you know if your router is infected? What can you do to keep malware …

Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing five patents with Android phones it sold in 2010 and 2011, a jury decided Thursday in a legal fight that dates back seven years. The unanimous decision, in the US District Court in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, is just about halfway between what the two largest mobile phone …

These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure. The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to create outrage. Remember the Equifax hack? That affected more than 230 million people. And in 2017, US lawmakers reversed Obama-era rules that forbade your …

The British government on Saturday announced the winners of a £25 million competition to test 5G technologies across the UK. The fund will be split six ways, with amounts of between £2 million and £5 million spread across projects exploring the benefits of 5G for rural communities, tourism, health care, agriculture, manufacturing and self-driving cars. The introduction of 5G is …

Last year Apple managed to shrink photo file sizes dramatically so you could cram twice as many photos onto your iPhone. But hold on, because that might not be the only game in town. Google, Mozilla and others in a group called the Alliance for Open Media are working on a rival photo technology. In testing so far, the images …

Five years from now, there will be more machines talking to one another than people using smartphones, tablets and laptops, according to Cisco’s annual internet forecast. Machine-to-machine communication, also called M2M, will soar to 51 percent of internet usage, with humans picking up the rest of the slack. The machines in question? Devices in your smart home, hospitals and offices. …

It’s a phishing scheme that even multifactor authentication and changing your password won’t fix. On Wednesday, a massive Google Docs phishing attack spread across Gmail, hijacking people’s accounts and spamming itself to the victims’ contact lists. Google quickly shut down the attack, which affected about 0.1 percent of Gmail’s users. Even at that low number, with roughly 1 billion Gmail …

Cloudbleed is the latest internet bug that puts users private information in jeopardy. News of the bug broke late on Thursday, but there is already a lot of confusion about it and the actual impact it has on people’s information. We compiled this as a guide to Cloudbleed and how you should respond. News of Cloudbleed is ongoing, and we’ll …