Sprint Contractor Leaks 261K Phone Bills, Bank Statements

From PC Mag: A total of 261,300 documents containing the personal information of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon subscribers from as far back as 2015 have been made publicly available by a Sprint contractor.

As TechCrunch reports, the leak consists mainly of phone bills, which include the name...

Amazon launches new battery-powered Echo exclusively for India

From The Verge: Amazon has launched a new Echo smart speaker exclusively for the Indian market. The Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition is a compact speaker with 360-degree sound and, unusually for the Echo line, a built-in rechargeable battery. Amazon says the 4,800mAh capacity should be good...

Qualcomm Reveals Next-Gen Snapdragon 765 and 865 Chipsets

From PC Mag: Qualcomm execs today teased the chipset that's going into the Samsung Galaxy S11 and said 2020 will be the year 5G goes mainstream.

"Our Snapdragon 5G mobile platforms announced today will continue to show leadership in the industry and deliver on the promise of scaling 5G in 2020,"...

Nintendo is about to sell a whole lot more Switches

From CNET: After months of negotiations, the Nintendo Switch is hitting a massive new market: China. Japanese game company Nintendo teamed up with China's Tencent to bring the hybrid console to the country's 1.3 billion people on Dec. 10. Preorders opened Wednesday, and the machine costs 2,099 yuan...

Huawei’s Mate 30 contains no American parts

From The Verge: When the extent of the Trump administration’s sanctions targeting Huawei became clear, we wondered whether the Chinese telecoms giant would be able to make a smartphone without American components. The answer, according to a new teardown reported on by The Wall Street Journal, is...

Firefox 71 Adds Picture-in-Picture for YouTube and Netflix

From PC Mag: Mozilla has released a new version of its Firefox browser, version 71.0, which brings picture-in-picture functionality to everyone using it on the Windows operating system.

Those who have updated to the most recent version of the browser will be able to hover over the video they're...

TikTok accused of secretly gathering user data and sending it to China

From CNET: TikTok, known for its quirky 15-second videos, has been illegally and secretly harvesting vast amounts of personally identifiable user data and sending it to China, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit filed in California federal court last week.

The lawsuit also accuses the...

Facebook’s new tool lets you transfer pictures to Google Photos

From The Verge: Facebook is releasing a new tool today that will allow its users to transfer photos directly to Google Photos. The tool is being released initially in Ireland, and will be available worldwide in the first half of 2020. “For almost a decade, we’ve enabled people to download their...

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