UK Lawsuit Wants Google to Pay Up for iPhone Snooping

From PC Mag: Google is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK that claims the search giant illegally snooped on 5.4 million iPhone users between 2011 and 2012.

The company collected users' data by bypassing the default privacy settings on the iPhone's Safari browser, according to Richard Lloyd, a...

Google Home can now handle two commands at once

From The Verge: Google Home devices can now process and complete two commands at once. As first reported by CNET and independently confirmed by The Verge, Google Home users can ask their device to do multiple things. So, for example, you could say, "Hey, Google, turn on the TV, and what's the...

Windows 10 Now Used on 600M Active Devices

From PC Mag: Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting was held on Wednesday, and CEO Satya Nadella took the opportunity to confirm that Windows 10 is now in use on 600 million active devices every month.

To give you some idea of the growth rate, back in May at Build 2017 Microsoft stated Windows 10...

Verizon to launch residential 5G service next year

From CNET: Verizon said Wednesday that it plans to launch wireless 5G service in up to five US cities by the end of next year.

Sacramento, California, is likely to be the first city to get access to the 5G network, which promises to be 10 to 100 times faster than the company's speediest existing...

YouTube Pulls Exploitative Child Videos as Advertisers Flee

From PC Mag: YouTube is doing damage control as advertisers flee the platform over revelations that their ads have appeared alongside pedophilic and exploitative child content.

"In the past week, we've tightened up and strengthened the enforcement of our policies to terminate the accounts of users...

Microsoft sets a cutoff date for free Office app viewers

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft is warning customers that it will retire several Office application viewers in little more than four months, shutting off the spigot to the free document readers used by those without the productivity suite.

"The Excel Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer, PowerPoint 2007 Viewer...

Bitcoin blasts past $10,000 mark amid bubble concerns

From CNET: Bitcoin's value has been skyrocketing of late, and on Tuesday it broke the $10,000-per-coin mark for the first time, just two days after passing $9,000. The cryptocurrency was trading at $10,034 as of this writing, an increase of more than 900 percent since the beginning of the year...

Airbnb is globally rolling out split payments for group trips

From The Verge: Airbnb is globally rolling out the ability to split payments, a feature it began testing earlier this year.

With the newly implemented change, when a trip organizer requests to book a listing that allows for split payments, the reservation is marked as “awaiting payment,” which acts...

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