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■Popular VPN service provider NordVPN announced today that one of its servers had been hacked. Rival VPN providers VikingVPN and TorGuard may be affected as well. The incident took place in March 2018, when an unauthorized person accessed a server NordVPN rented from a third-party data center in Finland. They exploited an "insecure remote management system " that the data center provider left in place. NordVPN wasn "t aware that such a system existed.Although the Finnish data center ... |
10/22/2019 4:27:17 AM |
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■Samsung will fix a nasty bug that has caused problems with the fingerprint sensor on the company "s Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note 10. The flaw lets anyone with a different fingerprint unlock the device given that the smartphone has a screen protector installed. If you do not have a screen protector, you are safe.According to the company, the issue is caused by the phones " ultrasonic fingerprint sensor incorrectly reading 3D patterns in the screen protector as fingerprints. Samsung notes that ... |
10/19/2019 5:39:17 AM |
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■On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission formally approved the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, an FCC official told The Verge. The official approval order from the FCC isn "t yet public. It "s expected to come out in a few days. The vote comes months after the Justice Department greenlit the deal.The FCC and DOJ are the only two federal agencies required to approve telecom deals before they can close. However, the T-Mobile-Sprint merger faces one more battle before they plan to close the ... |
10/18/2019 4:40:47 AM |
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■SpaceX has asked the International Telecommunication Union for permission to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites. The FCC, on SpaceX "s behalf, submitted 20 filings to the ITU for 1,500 satellites apiece in various low Earth orbits. The effort is part of SpaceX "s ambitious $10 billion Starlink project to create a system capable of beaming cheap broadband to locations around the world where internet connectivity is currently unreliable, too pricey, or non-existent. A growing number of companies Amazon ... |
10/17/2019 5:39:54 AM |
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■At its annual hardware event in New York on Tuesday, Google revealed a brand-new wireless version of its Google Pixel Buds. The new headphones are nice-looking, maintaining the same pastel color scheme Google offers on its Pixel handsets. They have updated speakers and sensors, while still remaining lightweight and comfortable, thanks to a new spatial vent design that reduces the "clogged ear feeling " experienced with other headphones.According to Google "s senior vice president of ... |
10/16/2019 5:10:55 AM |
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■Netgear is today introducing the latest addition to the popular Orbi Whole Home WiFi System - the RBK13. This new Orbi Dual Band Mesh WiFi System which consists of one router and one or more satellites is able to cover a medium to large sized home from 3,000 sq. ft. or higher to provide reliable WiFi for streaming and gaming. It also features Netgear Armor cybersecurity to keep your home safe from online threats and Circle Smart Parental Controls to manage screen time.The RBK13 combines performance with ... |
10/15/2019 4:47:26 AM |
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■Facebook "s cryptocurrency project suffers massive blow as more companies withdraw from Libra. Online marketplace eBay, payments provider Stripe, and financial services giants Visa and Mastercard all said they "re no longer participating in the Libra Association, the nonprofit overseeing the project. Their move follows the withdrawal of PayPal, announced last week. A Stripe spokesperson said in a statement that the company "is supportive of projects that aim to make online commerce more ... |
10/12/2019 5:23:53 AM |
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■Google wants to make streaming games respond faster than a game would if it was running directly on a PC or console. In general, latency is measured in milliseconds. Anything from 20 to 100ms will give you an acceptable gaming experience. However, high-end gaming requires a lot less latency than that. With its cloud gaming service, Stadia, the company plans to achieve this in two ways. "Negative Latency " is the term Google uses to describe its large stream buffer, boosting frame rates ... |
10/11/2019 6:08:55 AM |
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■Sony President and CEO Jim Ryan revealed today that the company "s next-generation console, known as "PS5 ", will be launching in time for the 2020 holiday season. The new console will have improved graphics that use ray tracing, which is a new way of handling lighting effects in a game. The new tech will be supported by the PS5 "s GPU. Game installation is expected to be configurable. The PS5 will allow you to install only parts of a game that you want to play. If, for example, you only want to play a ... |
10/10/2019 5:43:49 AM |
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■Microsoft aims to provide Internet access to 40 million unserved and underserved people by July 2022 through its Airband Initiative. Microsoft won "t simply connect these rural areas, but also drive digital transformation to support agriculture, education, rural entrepreneurship, and telemedicine, while also developing off-grid energy sources where necessary.Initially, Microsoft will focus on rural and remote communities in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, with other regions to follow. The company ... |
10/9/2019 4:16:23 AM |
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■T-Mobile US Inc. "s proposed merger with Sprint Corp. has received a third positive vote at the Federal Communications Commission, moving the deal toward agency approval in coming days. All three Republicans on the five-member agency have voted for the deal, setting in motion procedures that would require agency action by Oct. 9, or Oct. 16 if an extension is requested by a commissioner. Meanwhile, a group of merger opponents have filed in a petition to the FCC asking the commission to delay the merger ... |
10/8/2019 4:49:10 AM |
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■The Mobile Authentication taskforce comprised of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon plans to announce later this month at MWC Los Angeles details about ZenKey - a platform that aims to enhance mobile authentication without using passwords.ZenKey was actually introduced back in early 2018 under the name Project Verify. It is going to let app developers and service providers integrate its technology so that service providers can authenticate their customers more effectively and securely with methods ... |
10/5/2019 5:01:40 AM |
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■Instagram on Thursday released Threads, a new stand-alone photo messaging app for private messages between friends - similar to Facebook "s Messenger. The camera-focused app allows Instagram users to share their status or quickly send photos and videos to people they "ve added to their list of close friends.The app also offers the ability to set a status, or an auto status which "automatically shares little bits of context on where you are without giving away your coordinates. " For ... |
10/4/2019 5:05:51 AM |
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■At an event Wednesday Microsoft officially announced a new dual-screen foldable Android smartphone, dubbed Surface Duo. Surface Duo essentially looks like a smaller version of the Surface Neo, another dual-screen foldable device Microsoft also unveiled. The Surface Duo sports two 5.6-inch displays that curve 360-degrees around a hinge and combine to make an 8.3-inch display. The phone opens up so that the second display can be used as a game controller or a keyboard. The second display can also function as ... |
10/3/2019 5:37:27 AM |
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■A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission didn "t break the law when it ended Obama-era net neutrality rules in 2017. The court also decided that states can create their own net neutrality rules.The Republican-led FCC voted in 2017 to roll back the popular rules, which prohibited broadband companies from blocking or slowing access to the internet in a 3-2 vote along party lines. The rules also barred internet providers from charging companies to deliver their content ... |
10/2/2019 5:20:57 AM |
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■Google experiences yet another antitrust investigation, now over a new Internet Protocol (DNS-over-HTTPS) that could give the tech giant an unfair competitive advantage. Google plans to test its DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol on the Chrome browser in October.The House Judiciary Committee is said to be investigating whether data collected or processed through the new protocol will be used by Google for any commercial purposes. The Justice Department is aware of concerns over the protocol change and has ... |
10/1/2019 4:20:32 AM |
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■Security researcher axi0mX, published today an exploit that allows to jailbreak all iOS devices with Apple "s A5 to A11 chips. That means affected phones range from the iPhone 4s to the iPhone 8 (which is still on sale) and even the iPhone X, with iPad models ranging from the iPad 2 all the way up to the 2017 iPad Pro.As a Bootrom exploit, the "checkm8 " cannot be patched. Bootrom exploits take advantage of a vulnerability in the initial code that iOS devices load when they boot up. ... |
9/28/2019 5:23:15 AM |
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■Amazon has developed a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol, called Sidewalk, that aims to connect all of the IoT devices in and around your house. Sidewalk uses the low bandwidth 900 megahertz spectrum to extend the distance at which IoT devices can be controlled, and requires less power than needed for WiFi.This network will enable developers to build new products that can be placed farther than the reach of your wireless signal. Amazon cites water sensors to keep the plants in your garden ... |
9/27/2019 5:13:46 AM |
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■The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged measurement firm Comscore and its former chief executive officer, Serge Matta, with fraud over a scheme that saw the company overstate its revenue by around $50m and make false claims about key performance metrics.The SEC "s investigation found that during a two-year period from 2014 to 2016, Comscore at the direction of Matta agreed to non-monetary transactions with an unnamed counterparty where it exchanges sets of data without receiving cash in ... |
9/26/2019 5:00:09 AM |
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■Boston Dynamics announced this morning that Spot, its versatile quadruped robot, is now available for sale. Or, to be more accurate - it can be leased. However, not anyone can buy it - the focus is on businesses.Boston Dynamics says it wants to get Spots out to initial customers that "either have a compelling use case or a development team that we believe can do something really interesting with the robot, " says VP of business development Michael Perry. "Just because of the ... |
9/25/2019 5:11:07 AM |
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