British Airways faces record-breaking GDPR fine after data breach

From The Verge: The UK’s data watchdog has announced plans to fine the airline British Airways a record £183 million over last year’s data breach. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that “poor security arrangements” at the company lead to the breach of credit card information, names...

Mozilla Is Testing a $5/Month Ad-Free News Subscription

From PC Mag: Mozilla is testing a new $5/month subscription service for news in partnership with advert-free news subscription startup Scroll.

The upcoming service will give subscribers access to advert-free versions of articles from publications that are already working with Scroll. They include...

Google denies report it's in talks to help create 4th US mobile carrier

From CNET: Google shot down a report that it's in talks to help create a fourth US wireless carrier with TV provider Dish Network, using assets acquired from T-Mobile. The New York Post reported Sunday that Alphabet director Alan Mulally has been part of the talks.

"These claims are simply false,"...

LaCie Mobile SSD 500GB Review (Page 1 of 8)

Have you noticed a city's east side tend to be cheaper and shadier compared to the west? While there are certainly exceptions to this observation, take a look at where you live and see if that is the case. This is certainly true here in Calgary, and it holds true for many cities in the world such as London, Paris, New York, and Toronto as well. Although there are many explanations to this phenomenon, researchers generally agree on one factor...

Google Makes Paying Using Chrome Much Easier

From PC Mag: If you have a payment method stored in your Google account, there's no longer any need to synchronize Chrome on different devices for it to be accessible.

As explained on the Chromium Blog, Google decided to make shopping "fast, seamless, and safe" by tweaking payments in Chrome to be...

More iPhone 11 leaks and why Apple could ditch FaceID

From CNET: Whether you're a fan of the square camera bump or not, this is shaping up to be the final design for the 2019 iPhone lineup. Alleged CAD renders of the iPhone XS, XR and XS Max sequels appeared on tech leaks site Slashleaks this week. The new images show pretty the same iPhone 11 design...

iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem

From The Verge: iOS 13’s third developer beta includes a new feature that makes it look like you’re staring directly at your front-facing camera during FaceTime calls, even when looking away at the person on your screen. The feature, which was spotted by Mike Rundle on Twitter, only appears to be...

AOC's New Gaming Monitors Have a 0.5ms Response Time

From PC Mag: If you're in the market for a new gaming monitor, AOC is set to offer two new monitors with 0.5ms response times meaning no ghosting or screen tears.

As Windows Central reports, the two new gaming monitors are the AOC Agon AG271FZ2 27-inch and the AOC Agon AG251FZ2 24.5-inch. As well...

Huawei remains on Commerce Department's blacklist despite Trump's deal

From CNET: The Commerce Department is apparently still treating Huawei as blacklisted. This news comes despite President Donald Trump's announcement that he'd ease limitations on companies selling equipment to the Chinese telecom.

A senior official emailed enforcement staff Monday to assert that...

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