Tag: technology
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Pocket’s Trending News on Google
I opened Google today and saw something new: Trending Stories by Pocket. Pocket is a popular “save-for-later service” that allows users to save stories from the web to read on their devices offline at a later time. I use the service frequently, and indeed clicking the ? icon displays this message: The best of the […]
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The F.B.I.’s Many Hurdles
It’s now been widely reported that Omar Mateen, the gunman who massacred 49 people at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando last Sunday, had been investigated twice by the F.B.I. How Mateen somehow slipped through the cracks has aroused concern among many and conspiracy theories among a few. The real explanations are, of course, more nuanced […]
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Net Neutrality Wins Big
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the F.C.C. today, ruling that high-speed broadband is a utility. Tom Wheeler, Chairman of the F.C.C., celebrated what Jon Brodkin called a “total victory”: “Today’s ruling is a victory for consumers and innovators who deserve unfettered access to the entire Web, and it […]
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How Hackers Manipulate Waze (and Other Apps)
Kashmir Hill at Fusion shares the findings from a research team at University of California-Santa Barbara: Here’s how the exploit works. Waze’s servers communicate with phones using an SSL encrypted connection, a security precaution meant to ensure that Waze’s computers are really talking to a Waze app on someone’s smartphone. Zhao and his graduate students discovered they […]
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Curious About Apple Watch?
Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica has you covered. He’s spent a year wearing the device, and he breaks down its successes, its failures and its potential in layman’s terms (i.e. he talks about battery life, the fitness components and wristband design instead of trying to wow the reader with his technical knowledge of the product). I […]