Month: August 2019

Security researchers working in Google’s Project Zero team say they have discovered a number of hacked websites which used previously undisclosed security flaws to indiscriminately attack any iPhone that visited them. Motherboard reports that the attack could be one of the largest ever conducted against iPhone users. If a user visited one of the malicious websites using a vulnerable device, then their personal files, messages, and real time location data…

By May 2021, anyone looking to purchase a Juul e-cig will have to have their ID scanned. Juul announced today that it will soon require all retailers to use an updated point-of-sale (POS) system. When Juul products are scanned, the POS will prompt the retailer to scan the customer’s ID. Anyone under the locally mandated age will be prohibited from buying Juul products. The POS will also block sales of…

It’s no secret that Google gathers up huge quantities of your records in line with your seek historical past. However some distance much less recognized is that the corporate has additionally been routinely tallying up your virtual and real-world monetary transactions in line with receipts discovered for your Gmail accounts and different Google services and products. It’s simply some other signal of the large succeed in of tech titans, together…

Back in 2017, Walmart launched a pilot project that made some of its old-school brick-and-mortar retail stores seem like futuristic testbeds. The chain began trialing robots that could scan shelves to make sure items display the correct price and that they’re in stock, a test that started out in 50 stores. This year, those robots will have rolled out to 350 Walmart stores, making robots an increasingly familiar presence in…

Tesla has finally announced its car insurance offering that CEO Elon Musk teased back in April. The company describes it as a “competitively priced insurance offering designed to provide Tesla owners with up to 20 percent lower rates, and in some cases as much as 30 percent.” Tesla’s insurance will be available in California to start, and it will “expand to additional US states in the future,” the company says,…

Facebook is developing a new messaging app called Threads that is meant to promote constant, intimate sharing between users and their closest friends, The Verge has learned. Threads, which is designed as a companion app to Instagram, invites users to automatically share their location, speed, and battery life with friends, along with more typical text, photo, and video messages using Instagram’s creative tools. The app, which is designed for sharing…

Taxes are due on April 15, 2019 (April 17 in Maine and Massachusetts). The new tax law has changed many forms, credits, and deductions. Check this page carefully before filing your federal income tax return. Infographic: Tax Reform – Big Changes to Credits and Deductions for 2018 Learn the changes that affect you and your family under the tax reform law. File a Federal Income Tax Return The federal government…

The Nintendo Switch is one of the only gaming systems that you can routinely find more than one of in a household, and you can save some cash by sharing games between the two. Over the weekend, a Redditor pointed out that game sharing functions on Switch much like it does on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, allowing two systems to play the same game at the same time. To…

Raise your hand if you share your Netflix password. Now, quick — put your hand down before Disney sees you. When the company launches its Disney+ service later this year, it will begin what it calls “piracy mitigation” on day one, in part by preventing users from sharing passwords. Which raises the question: Is it really piracy to share your streaming login info with someone else? If you were hoping…

Normally, New Releases highlights five of the biggest games launching on a given week, but there’s just too much on the horizon to limit ourselves this time. We’ve got new games from respected developers like Patrice Désilets’ Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey and Remedy’s Control. We’ve got horror games like Blair Witch and The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. Nintendo is bringing the Switch-exclusive Astral Chain and a new mobile adventure…

Yesterday, Waymo announced it would “open” a large dataset of self-driving training data. This gathered attention because Waymo has, by a huge margin, the largest number of self-driving miles under its belt, and thus one of the most envied collections of tagged data that can be used to train and test neural networks, one of the key tools used in building robots and self-driving cars. People setting up to build…