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An activist dressed as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos joins a protest gathering outside the Axel Springer building on April 24, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.Photo: Getty The European Union is informally investigating how Amazon uses the data it collects from third-party sellers hosted on its website, Europe’s antitrust chief said Wednesday. Amazon openly collects data from…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) As exciting as three new iPhones and a new Apple Watch with a built-in ECG may (or may not) have been for you, there were lot of updates for other Apple products that we expected to see last week, but didn’t get. This left many wondering if Apple was going…

The astonishing scope of election interference on the world’s biggest social platforms came glaringly to light following the 2016 presidential election. The issue is hardly resolved, so it should not come as a surprise that Facebook has created a team—and a room—dedicated to weeding out disinformation in the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections. It’s…

Image: Getty, Microsoft The three architects of the Mirai botnet just wanted to devise a scheme to make some money in the competitive business of hosting Minecraft servers. The weapon they built ended up showing the world how dangerous DDoS attacks can be. Now, their lives have taken another unexpected turn as the U.S. Justice…

A section of the San Andreas Fault on the Carrizo Plain in California. Image: Doc Searls/Flickr The detection of strange, unpredicted behavior deep below the surface near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults suggests scientists have an incomplete understanding of the processes responsible for earthquakes in the region. Over the past four decades, geoscientists…

Photo: Getty Many Newegg customers reportedly had their credit card information exposed in a breach that researchers are attributing to the Magecart group. The payment page for the electronic and computer retailer remained breached for more than a month, from August 14 until September 18, according to security researchers. On Wednesday, security firms RiskIQ and…

Apple released to developers a new test version iOS 12.1 and in her was found the evidence of the upcoming release of the iPad Pro next generation. In the code of the firmware developers I found a link iPad2018Fall, whereas in the previous version of the firmware was only mentioned iPhone2018Fall. Thus, Apple is planning…

Google announced the forthcoming closure of the individual Gaming app YouTube (YouTube, gaming). YouTube gaming was launched in 2015. In a separate application for gamers, the developers were testing a new feature. Among them: page games, to facilitate their search, Supercat, sponsored subscriptions, allowing you to support your favorite authors, night mode and a new…

The company Meizu presented its first “frameless” smartphone with cutout screen in iPhone style X. it was the model called Meizu X8. The smartphone is equipped with the smartphone is equipped with a 6.2-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution Full HD+ (2160 x 1080 pixels) and an aspect ratio of 18:9, dual main camera 20+12…

The company Meizu introduced a smartphone Meizu 16X in China. Outside of the Chinese market model will be called Meizu 16. And it is important not to confuse it with the previously released flagship Meizu 16th. Meizu 16X inherited the camera and on-screen fingerprint scanner flagship Meizu 16th, but a bit simpler and cheaper options.…