Facebook suspends around 200 apps in data misuse investigation

From CNET: Facebook has suspended around 200 apps as part of its investigation into whether companies misused personal user data gathered from the social network.

The company has evaluated thousands of apps to see if they had access to large amounts of data, and will now thoroughly investigate...

Patriot Viper LED PC4-24000 2x8GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

A few months ago, I was walking in downtown Banff with a moderately large group of friends. For some unknown reason, one of them started to sing The Star-Spangled Banner, and slowly but surely, many others began to join in spontaneously. I was a little bit aware that we were still in Canada, so I cautiously reminded them to avoid singing the American national anthem in public. My friends did not heed my advice; instead, they suggested that maybe...

Microsoft Store Expands Gifting to All Xbox One, PC Games

From PC Mag: In November last year, Microsoft decided to join the 21st century by introducing Xbox One gifting options to the Microsoft Store. Rather than only being able to give gift cards, select Xbox One digital games and DLC, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions could also be gifted...

Xiaomi is bringing its smart home products to the US

From CNET: Chinese phone giant Xiaomi will be bringing several of its smart home products to the US.

A selection of gear, including the Mi LED Smart Bulb and Mi Smart Plug, will be available in the US soon, said Wang Xiang, a Xiaomi vice president, in a tweet on Thursday. The first product to ship...

YouTube now supports HDR video on Apple’s latest iPhones

From The Verge: YouTube has added support for HDR video playback on Apple’s iPhone X, 8, and 8 Plus. The iPad Pro also has a display that’s bright and vibrant enough for high dynamic range content, but MacRumors notes that YouTube hasn’t flipped the switch to enable it on there yet. HDR video is...

Instagram is back up after short outage

From CNET: Instagram users across the globe were reporting that the photo-sharing site was down Thursday.

Website checker Down For Everyone Or Just Me? says the 'Gram should be functioning. But just before 6 a.m. PT, Instagram's website was showing a server error and the mobile app wouldn't refresh...

Apple is no longer building its $1 billion data center in Ireland

From The Verge: Apple has announced it will no longer build a $1 billion (€850 million) data center in Ireland after planning delays lasting over three years, reports Reuters. Since 2015, Apple has wanted to build the data center in Athenry to be close to green energy sources, but the plans have...

Google Turns a Corner With Wear OS

From PC Mag: Four years ago, Google introduced a version of Android designed to work on your wrist. Called Android Wear, the service has weathered changes and challenges and emerges in 2018 with a new name, Wear OS, and a new focus outlined here at the Google I/O developer conference.

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Report: Qualcomm to Exit Server Chip Market

From PC Mag: Back in early November last year, Qualcomm announced the world's first 10nm server processor family called the Centriq 2400. It was the culmination of four years "intense design, development and ecosystem enablement effort." However, less than seven months on, Qualcomm's presence in the...

Firefox moves browsers into post-password future with WebAuthn tech

From CNET: With Mozilla's release of Firefox 60 on Wednesday, web browsers will start letting you log into websites without a password -- an important change in authentication technology that could help curtail costly phishing attacks.

Firefox 60 supports technology called Web Authentication, or...

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