From PC Mag: Google is banning extensions that mine cryptocurrency from the Chrome Web Store.
Until now, Google has allowed cryptocurrency mining extensions as long as mining was the extension's only purpose, and users were adequately informed about this behavior, Google's Extensions Platform...
From PC World: For years, PC gamers have needed to pick a poison: Buy a desktop with the most powerful components available, or sacrifice some performance for a laptop they could take on the road. Intel’s new six-core mobile Core i9 chip, its fastest notebook CPU ever, paves the way for 5GHz gaming...
From CNET: Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox web browser, said Tuesday it's building a new web browser. This one, though, won't run on your computer in the traditional way. Instead, it's built "from the ground up" to work with new VR and AR headsets, which bring computer images...
From PC Mag: Future Mac computers will eventually ditch Intel chips for Apple-developed processors, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
The company plans on making the switch by as early as 2020. The goal? To make Macs, iPhones and iPads work more seamlessly together, according to Bloomberg...
From PC Mag: URL shorteners have become commonplace on the web as a way of making otherwise very long web addresses easily shareable. This was especially important on Twitter when web link characters used to count. Google offered its own URL shortener called goo.gl back in 2009, but the search giant...
From CNET: Facebook is building a certification tool that will require advertisers confirm they received user permission before using emails to target advertising on the huge social network.
The tool, reported earlier by TechCrunch, will be part of Facebook's Custom Audiences program, which allows...
From The Verge: Cloudflare is launching its own consumer DNS service today, on April Fools’ Day, that promises to speed up your internet connection and help keep it private. The service is using https://1.1.1.1, and it’s not a joke but an actual DNS resolver that anyone can use. Cloudflare claims it...
When I was growing up, I played the piano, although I was terrible at it and put in little effort to improve. In school, I learned the trombone and the trumpet through the band program, which I think I was a bit more successful at. However, I also picked up a few instruments on my own, including the electric bass, the ukulele, and the cello. I have been asked several times in the past about the instruments I started with and often I do not have a...
I have never really understood the idea behind "diet" or "light" versions of food. Every lunch time at work, my co-workers would pull out a can of Pepsi Zero or Diet Coke. Personally, I do not drink soft drinks on a daily occasion just because I know it is not the healthiest of things. However, if I were to do so, I definitely would not drink the diet versions of those drinks either. To me, they have a weird aftertaste, even with the newer...
From PC Mag: The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica controversy has triggered Facebook to cancel an advertising tool that pulled data from people's backgrounds, like whether you own a home or what products you like to buy.
"We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner...
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