Apple has built new browser technology designed to let advertisers figure out when their ads successfully convinced you to buy something — but without tracking you across the internet and harvesting personal details to do so. The plan, called Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution and detailed Wednesday, is now built into Apple’s test browser for …
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The Tor Project’s leave-no-traces browser now is available for Android phones. The Tor Browser relies on a network of servers that send network requests over multiple intermediate links to hide who you really are when you visit a website. That can be useful if you don’t want to be tracked — whether you’re an activist trying to avoid government monitoring …
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Google released Tuesday the third beta of Android 10 on the first day of its annual Google I/O developer conference. And at the event, company executives offered a glimpse at a few new features for Q, the next version of the company’s Android operating system due in the summer or fall. Among the new Android 10 features previewed are a …
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Google will build controls into Chrome that’ll let us better control how websites and online advertisers track us using small text files called cookies, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The move, expected to be announced this week at the Google I/O conference, will give the billion-plus users of Google’s web browser an ability to see what cookies are tracking …
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Google’s Calendar offers crazy powerful search, letting you find names, locations and events you’ve added to your calendar events. Now, in the Calendar app on Windows 10 ($144 at Amazon), you can now perform similar searches and hunt for events, names, locations and more. You can search through old and upcoming events by name, location and words that are part …
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It’s time for browser startup Brave to see if this whole privacy-respecting ads business is really going to pay off. The startup, co-founded by former Firefox leader and Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich, got its start by releasing a browser in 2016 that blocks ads by default — a design the company’s studies say dramatically improves not just performance but …
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If you have that rarity in the PC market, a laptop powered by a Qualcomm processor and not the more common Intel chip, you can now use the Firefox web browser on it. Mozilla on Thursday released a beta version of Firefox for computers based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips for laptops. The nonprofit hopes its browser will graduate from beta …
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Microsoft said late last year it planned to swap out the rendering engine used in Edge and swap in one based on Chromium, the open-source foundation used in Google’s Chrome browser as well as in Brave, Opera and other popular browsers. If you’ve been waiting to see what Microsoft is up to with Edge, you can now download an early …
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Border control officers violated an Apple employee’s rights as a US citizen when they detained him for an hour and demanded that he unlock his iPhone and Mac for their scrutiny, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a civil complaint filed Tuesday. Andreas Gal, who founded an AI startup Apple acquired after stepping down as CTO of Mozilla, flew back to …
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Electronics giant Samsung just gave a little more clout to those who prefer openness in the constant struggle between open and proprietary technology. The South Korean company said Wednesday it has joined the Alliance for Open Media at the highest level, a significant addition to a consortium developing video compression technology called AV1. Technology powers Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Cisco …
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