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Apps You Use Every Day Are Tracking Your Every Move: Report
Your apps are tracking you and selling your data.Photo: Getty Images While you probably already know enabling location services for third-party apps might compromise your privacy, an investigative New York Times report details just how creepy and personal smartphone location data can be. According to the Times, at least 75 companies get “anonymous” but extremely…
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Turns Out, Willy-Nilly Blocking of URLs Doesn’t Stop Film Piracy
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I Bought This Custom 18-Million Pixel Workstation on Craigslist, and It Very Nearly Ruined Me
Screenshot: Craigslist Screenshot: Craigslist In other words, the kind of thing one would sit in while a bevy of generals who managed to survive a first strike yell over each other about whether you should launch retaliatory nukes, or perhaps play host to a malevolent artificial intelligence. “After much deliberation, I’ve decided to sell it…
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YouTube’s Own Recap of 2018 Is the Most ‘Disliked’ Video of the Year
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FCC Investigates Mystery Mobile Carrier Suspected of Lying About 4G Coverage
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai listens during a commission meeting December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty/Alex Wong In a statement late Friday, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced an investigation was underway to determine whether a particular mobile carrier had lied about the extent of its 4G coverage. But we’ll have to wait…
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NASA Spacecraft Spots Signal of Water on Asteroid Bennu
Bennu, taken by OSIRIS-REx on Dec. 2Photo: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already detected evidence of water on its target, the asteroid Bennu, just a week after arriving. The OSIRIS-REx mission’s goals include understanding what kinds of stuff asteroids contain, characterizing Bennu’s motion in case its trajectory ever threatens Earth, and learning about…
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Equifax Breach Was Just as Dumb as You Thought, House Report Finds
Former CEO of Equifax Richard Smith testifies during a hearing before Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee November 8, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty/Alex Wong House Republicans spent 14 months investigating the 2017 Equifax breach only to reach the same conclusions that virtually everyone else with a brain did in the…
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Apple and Qualcomm Slap-Fight Continues with ‘Ban’ on iPhone Sales in China
Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) The legal tug of war between Apple and Qualcomm continued this week with what at first may have seemed like a rare win for the chip giant in a Chinese court. After Qualcomm alleged that features in iOS violated a number of its patents, Chinese courts on Monday granted a temporary…
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Figure of the day: How many smartphones Pocophone F1 Xiaomi sold in three months?
The company Xiaomi sold internationally 700 million smartphones Pocophone F1 in just three months since release. This was announced by Vice-President of Xiaomi to your Twitter account.
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Xiaomi Mi 3 Mix with the new processor appeared six weeks after the debut
Chinese sources have published a photo of smartphone Xiaomi Mi 3 in Mix version-enabled networks of the fifth generation. The smartphone demonstrated at the partner conference operator China Mobile in Guangzhou.