The Apple Watch and other smart wearables may have an important part to play in the struggle against COVID-19 and should help businesses provide better healthcare protection to staff. Wearables can predict infection Two recent independent studies from Mount Sinai Health System and Stanford University show that Apple Watch and …
Read More »Vox puts a guitar/bass amp on your head with the VGH series headphones
Players looking to tap into the sweet sounds of a vintage Vox AC30 amplifier while out and about might plug into one of the company’s excellent amPlug headphone amps and rock out. But now there’s another option, as Vox announces three new headphone variants that have guitar amps cooked in. …
Read More »For Microsoft’s January patches, no all-clear (yet)
I’m not ready to give an all-clear to the security patches released Jan. 12, and I want to warn you about one specific update that is affecting HyperV servers and some consumer level workstations. KB4535680, also known as Security update for Secure Boot DBX: January 12, 2021, makes improvements …
Read More »Peloton’s Rapid Rise Is Threatened by Its Slow Delivery
“It’s like telling somebody you’re going to get a puppy and now you’re not,” Ms. Sinclair said. She gets frustrated now when she sees ads for Peloton and articles about the company’s founders and their lifestyles, she said. “They grabbed all of our money, and here they are getting put …
Read More »Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
The Wall Street Journal had reported on aspects of the draft complaint earlier. The swell of recent antitrust cases filed against Google and Facebook has cast a spotlight on lucrative deals among Big Tech. In October, the Justice Department sued Google and homed in on an agreement with Apple to …
Read More »Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow Over Big Tech
“Don’t trust Big tech,” read a message on one Proud Boys group on Parler. “We will need to find safer spaces.” On Signal, a Florida-based militia group said on Monday that it was organizing its chats in small, city-by-city groups limited to a few dozen people each, according to messages …
Read More »The Alternate Reality of Fringe Apps
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. After last week’s mob at the Capitol, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit shut down accounts where people spread false narratives of voter fraud or plotted the attack. Some of the discussions of conspiracy …
Read More »When Tech Antitrust Failed – The New York Times
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. If you’ve wondered recently why prices for e-books seem high, let me tell you why a failure of antitrust law might be (partly) to blame. A government antitrust lawsuit a decade ago …
Read More »Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures targeting Muslims. And in Ethiopia, groups pleaded for the social network to block hate speech after hundreds were …
Read More »Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump
SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia frequented by celebrities escaping the paparazzi when a phone call interrupted him on Jan. 6. On the line was Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer and safety expert, with an update from the …
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