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Fashion retailing giant Macy’s has issued an advisory to customers that its website servers have been breached by hackers. The attack was initiated on October 7, and the company was notified about it on October 15. Macy’s claims the attackers allegedly inserted an obfuscated script into the Checkout and My Wallet pages of the company’s […]
Google is adding new tools to Google Earth on the web that let you build your own tour of a place right on top of the Google Earth map. It’s introducing creation tools in Google Earth’s web version to help you tell your own tales. You can draw place markers, lines and shapes, attach your […]
Verizon is addressing one of the biggest criticisms about the company’s growing 5G network the lack of traditional coverage maps. As noted by PC Mag, Verizon has finally published maps where customers in 5G cities can get lightning-quick data speeds from its millimeter-wave technology. Verizon has launched 5G in Boston, Houston, and Sioux Falls. Service […]
Facebook has disclosed a vulnerability in WhatsApp that allowed an attacker to take complete control over your smartphone by creating a special MP4 file and sending it to you. Because of the way it is coded, playing the file would force the app to write more data to a buffer than it’s allowed, causing a […]
Google’s game streaming platform Stadia is finally here. I’ve had a chance to play around with the Founder’s Edition. It has the Stadia controller, a Chromecast Ultra, and a charger with a USB cable you can also use to plug into your PC or laptop for playing inside of a Chrome browser. Most of my […]
Samsung is rolling out an update that’ll bring enhanced features to earlier-generation watches. This means that the Galaxy Watch and Watch Active will get the same user experience functionality found on their successor, the Watch Active2, including new health and Bixby features, as well as boosted customization options. After downloading the update, which Samsung says […]
Xiaomi smartphone and set-top box owners in China will soon have access to potentially life-saving early earthquake warnings right on their devices. At its annual Mi Developer conference in Bejing, the Chinese electronics company said its MIUI 11-based smartphones and Mi TV set-top boxes now include an early earthquake warning feature. Xiaomi claims the system […]
A Twitch streamer has created a motion controller for the game Jedi: Fallen Order out of an old toy lightsaber and a glove. The materials to make the controllers cost only about $40. While the project was not expensive, it took him quite a while to complete. Dylan Beck, who goes by the handle “Rudeism” […]
Apple has released another iOS 13 update, bringing the latest version of the software for iPhone to iOS 13.2.3 and with it addressing a number of search, attachment, and background activity glitches. It comes less than two weeks since Apple released iOS 13.2.2, which featured a fix for over-aggressive closing of background apps. iOS 13.2.3 […]
iFixit has quickly pried off a few keys to give us a look at the return of the scissor switch mechanism, but what about the rest of the laptop? Now they’ve completed a full teardown of the latest machine and rather unsurprisingly, it has a lot in common with MacBooks Pro of years past. Other […]
We may have got our first look at the upcoming PS5 controller, thanks to yet another leaked Sony patent. Published by theJapanese patent office (via VGC), the Sony Interactive Entertainment patent lays out designs for a new controller that looks very similar to the DualShock 4. The biggest detail from these images is what Sony […]
After first announcing that its cloud-streaming Stadia game service would launch with just 12 titles, Google has nearly doubled that number, according to a tweet from Stadia boss Phil Harrison. That means early Stadia subscribers will have 22 games at their disposal at launch. Excited to announce that we are INCREASING the Day One launch […]
As soon as Disney+ launched, fans of The Simpsons noticed a big problem. In a repeat of an issue that occurred that their original 4:3 aspect ratio had been discarded for a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, cropping out many visual gags entirely. But now, Disney says that it will be fixing this in “early 2020” […]
President Trump will be visiting the Mac Pro plant based in Texas, in order to promote companies in the United States that can create jobs, as well as keeping them within the country instead of resorting to offshoring. It was believed both Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook would be in attendance, with the trip […]
Disney’s long awaited streaming service launched last week to much fanfare, notching an impressive 10 million subscribers on its first day. However, of those 10 million new customers, not everyone was happy; Disney+ launched with a slew of technical difficulties, and even the Disney+ website was knocked offline at one point. Technical woes tend to […]