In a post on Tuesday about her 2019 goals, YouTube Chief Executive Susan Wojcicki touted several milestones Google‘s massive video site surpassed last year, and she fessed up to one she wasn’t proud of. “One record we definitely didn’t set out to break was the most disliked video on the Internet,” she said. “Even at …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Apple iPhones are now showing AT&T’s fake 5G E logo, too. Samsung invests in Refrigerdating. Google’s earnings don’t miss a beat, despite scandals. Now playing: Watch this: Et tu, Apple? iPhones will tout AT&T’s fake 5G E network… 4:31 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, …
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It seems like every other week there’s some sort of database breach or leak of usernames, passwords and other personal information. Keeping up with which services have leaked what information is intimidating and takes a lot of time. Thankfully services like 1Password’s Watchtower, Have I Been Pwned?, and now Google’s Password Checkup tool exist. Password Checkup was announced by Google on …
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With a Firefox effort called Project Fission, Mozilla is moving ahead this month with a plan to keep a major class of computer attacks at bay. The Spectre and Meltdown attacks, more broadly called side-channel attacks, have been a major issue for the computing industry since they emerged a year ago. Mozilla fixed the immediate security vulnerabilities in Firefox last …
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Your shoes may very well be your next fitness and health tracker. Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences arm, has been reportedly working on smart shoes that can track your weight and movements and detect falls. As reported by CNBC, the Verily has been showing off a prototype pair to potential partners to co-develop the shoes. Sudden changes to a person’s weight …
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It’s widely expected we’ll see Samsung’s first foldable phone — rumored to be called the Galaxy X, Galaxy F, Galaxy Flex or Galaxy Fold — on Feb. 20 when the company launches its much-anticipated Galaxy S10. Whatever it’ll eventually be called, turning the concept of a folding phone into a real, working device that people actually want will challenge Samsung on every …
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Lots more Chromebook owners now can quickly get online even when there’s no Wi-Fi. A feature called instant tethering previously let people with Google’s own Chromebooks and phones quickly get online using their phone’s mobile network. Once it’s set up, it’s just a matter of by tapping a notification to connect. Now instant tethering is spreading beyond Google’s own devices. …
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If you want a sense of how much power Apple holds over Silicon Valley, take a look at what the iPhone maker did to Google and Facebook this week. On Wednesday, Apple yanked enterprise certificates — digital signatures that both the tech giants used to run software on iPhones and iPads. That shut down internal apps employees at Google and …
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Google+ content will start vanishing on April 2, the company said Wednesday. We’ve known the search giant planned to “sunset” the consumer side of its also-ran social network since its October admission that the personal data of up to 500,000 users was exposed between 2015 and March 2018. Originally, Google said the service would close in August 2019, but it …
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There’s a streaming movie service called Movies Anywhere, and if you’re used to having to navigate multiple apps to get to the content you own, it’s almost too good to be true. It not only puts most of your purchased online movies in one place, it puts them everyplace. And now that its predecessor UltraViolet is shutting down, it’s more …
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