From PC Mag: Last week, the latest in a long string of Facebook privacy scandals came to light: According to a report in The New York Times, the company skirted its own privacy rules to give more than 150 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify, special privileges to its users'...
From TechCrunch: Amazon had another record-breaking holiday season, the retailer announced this morning. The company says it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships, both paid and on a trial basis. Its worldwide customers also shopped and ordered more items than ever...
From Tom's Hardware: It was only a matter of time before Nvidia released mobile versions of its new RTX cards, but it looks like Taiwanese ODM CJScope has let the cat out of the bag a little early. The company recently posted and then removed spec sheets for two unreleased laptops that list the...
From CNET: GoFundMe has returned $403,000 to 14,000 people who believed they were helping a homeless veteran.
The crowdfunding site said Monday that all donations have now been refunded, as have processing and administration fees, according to CBS News.
A New Jersey couple, Katelyn McClure and...
From TechCrunch: Amazon this morning said its Alexa devices were among the holiday season’s best-sellers, particularly the Echo and Echo Dot. But the influx of new users setting up their devices for the first time on Christmas Day appeared to be more than Alexa could handle. The service crashed...
From PC Mag: Have you been recieving a lot of annoying insurance-related spam calls lately? You're not the only one.
According to new data from Truecaller, insurance-related spam calls have skyrocketed in the last year: They now account for 39 percent of all spam calls in the US, up from just 2...
From AnandTech: Huawei has announced today that shipments of its smartphones in 2018 have exceeded 200 million units. In recent months the company became the No. 2 supplier of smartphones, ahead of Apple and behind Samsung, marking a remarkable progress Huawei has made since it entered this market...
From The Verge: HQ Words, the new Wheel of Fortune-style game from HQ, launched out of beta last night with a debut round hosted by the company’s CEO Rus Yusupov, reports TechCrunch. Unlike the company’s first game, which has players answer 10 multiple-choice questions to win a share of the prize...
I was recently on my way to the doctor's office when I saw a message from my friend who was moving her sister's desktop computer. Things were going fine until she noticed a lot of dust at the back. She asked me what could be done to clean it out, so I started texting out a reply. However, the doctor came into the room so I quickly told her she could remove the side panel and get a can of compressed air for cleaning. Approximately two hours later...
From TechCrunch: Days after FedEx CEO Frederick Smith dismissed the Amazon threat to its business during the company’s earnings call, Amazon announced an expansion of its two-year-old Amazon Air operation, which will now add to its fleet 10 767-300 dedicated Amazon cargo aircraft. The planes are...
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