Month: August 2020

Woz’s wife Janet Wozniak is holding an online “11-days of Wozdom,” celebrating her husband’s 70th birthday and also raising funds for the charity Jewel’s Inspiring Children Foundation. It’s being billed as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s “surprise birthday” party, so keep this to yourself for now. But on his 70th birthday, August 11, there will be
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Amazon is reportedly in talks with mall owners to use empty department stores previously operated by J.C. Penney and Sears as distribution hubs, and it, coupled with Apple’s high retail draw give American malls the best chance to withstand the coronavirus pandemic. Online retail has been a thorn in brick and mortar retail’s side, with
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Apple’s move to using SSDs across the iMac lineup instead of hard drives offer considerable speed benefits to users. AppleInsider explains what these terms all mean to Mac users, and how they apply to your computing needs. Storage on computing devices, including desktops, notebooks, and mobile devices, is a precious commodity that could easily be
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Government’s plan to regulate “non-personal” data has jolted US tech giants Amazon, Facebook, and Google, and a group representing them is preparing to push back against the proposals, according to sources and a letter seen by Reuters. A government-appointed panel in July recommended setting up a regulator for information that is anonymised or devoid of
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US President Donald Trump’s ban on transactions using popular Chinese messaging app WeChat will cut ties to families and friends in China, millions of users in the United States fear, as they become the latest casualties in the standoff between the two nations. WeChat, owned by Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, is popular among Chinese students,
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Android smartphones running on a specific Qualcomm digital signal processor (DSP) chip are reported to have as many as 400 vulnerabilities. Security research firm Check Point in its research discovered that these vulnerabilities allow hackers to access sensitive information, render the mobile phone constantly unresponsive, and allow malware and other malicious code to completely hide
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Intel seems to have become a victim of a massive internal data breach, with around 20GB of confidential information reportedly stolen and leaked by an anonymous hacker. The leaked information is said to include various internal documents – some of them marked “confidential” and “restricted secret” and were under non-disclosure agreement (NDA). There is also
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During standard use, your computer should run fairly quietly. While you can expect the fans to get louder when doing intensive tasks like gaming or video editing, you shouldn’t hear scratching, beeping, or rattling from inside your computer case. If you do hear unusual or loud noises from your computer, it could be a sign
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Are you sick of TikTok? With the recent call to uninstall TikTok for privacy reasons Time to Uninstall: TikTok Is a Huge Privacy Risk TikTok has privacy issues. It’s recording data you input in your phone. But is it really worse than the other social networks? Read More , it’s understandable why you might want
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TikTok is preparing advertisers for a possible ban of its app in the United States, ad buyers said, offering refunds for ad campaigns that are unable to run. The short-form video app’s advertising business is still nascent. TikTok’s anticipated $1 billion (766 million pounds) in 2020 revenue is a small fraction of its Chinese owner
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iPhone 12 lineup is reported to have met with camera quality issues during production. One of Apple’s key suppliers, Genius Electronic Optical, has run into quality issues with camera lens production. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has mentioned that Apple looks to turn to its other main camera lens supplier Largan to make up for
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