Roku could be hopping on the Amazon Echo train

From CNET: Streaming device maker Roku could have an Amazon Echo-type smart speaker in the works, a Variety report published Monday suggests.

Meanwhile, Los Gatos, California-based Roku is looking to raise as much as $220 million when it goes public next month, according to an SEC filing Monday...

Hackers hid malware in CCleaner software

From The Verge: Hackers have successfully breached CCleaner’s security to inject malware into the app and distribute it to millions of users. Security researchers at Cisco Talos discovered that download servers used by Avast (the company that owns CCleaner) were compromised to distribute malware...

Google launches special payment app just for India

From CNET: India's Prime Minister shook up the country late last year when he killed 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee notes and coins (about $7 and $15). People quickly turned to digital payments, and now Google wants a piece of that action.

The search giant launched a new digital payment app called...

Vevo Hack Sees 3TB of Internal Files Posted Online

From PC Mag: Vevo will be a name well-known to anyone who enjoys watching the latest music videos on YouTube. It's a joint venture created by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group to act as a video hosting service.

On Friday, it was revealed that Vevo had suffered...

Linksys Velop Review (Page 1 of 5)

A story was told of an engineer, a doctor, and a pastor who went golfing one morning. As they were waiting for a particularly slow group of golfers ahead of them, the engineer began to complain. "What is with these guys?" he began. "We must have been waiting for half an hour!" The doctor, sharing a similar impatience, responded, "I do not know, but I have never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor, being the more patient one of the three, approached...

Kanto YU4 Review (Page 1 of 4)

I recently arrived back in Calgary from a nice long vacation. As usual, after I arrived, I went straight to the baggage carousel. The Calgary airport offers a neat little ETA timer for when your luggage will arrive. Unfortunately, the timer was still a bit high when I reached the carousel. Fortunately, I was not too bothered about it, since I still had to wait for my ride to arrive. After waiting a couple of minutes, I received a phone call from...

SilverStone Ensemble EBA02 Review

In my opinion, reviewers are great at building the connection between the companies that offer the products and the customers who want to buy them. For customers, by reading or watching the reviews, purchasing confidence may be increased or decreased, depending on the outcome of the review. As for manufacturers, they can improve their products according to the feedback from reviewers before the customers start to complain, while getting some...

Chrome 64 Will Block Noisy Autoplay Videos

From PC Mag: Google on Thursday announced that its Web browser will soon block autoplay videos that have sound. The new policy is slated to go into effect this January as part of Chrome 64.

"Starting in Chrome 64, autoplay will be allowed when either the media won't play sound, or the user has...

Google purges malicious Android apps with millions of downloads

From CNET: These fake apps were free, but they ended up costing millions of people using Android.

Researchers from Check Point, a security company, said Thursday that they discovered 50 apps hiding malware on the Google Play Store. The malware was downloaded between 1 million and 4.2 million times...

The Essential Phone will get a clip-on headphone jack

From The Verge: A headphone jack might not have been essential enough to be part of the Essential Phone itself, but the company has confirmed it’s working on a module that includes one. “We are actively developing a high end audio accessory to support a 3.5mm jack,” the Essential team said during a...

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