Viral FaceApp is evil! It is moon week and we’ve got it covered. Design covered from multiple angles. Twitter has a new look. These are just a few of the headlines covered in this week’s Tech News. Click on the headlines below to read the full stories.
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Privacy and Security
- Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People’s Faces And Names
- FaceApp: Myths and risks in app that gives you peek into older self
- Facebook reportedly gets a $5 billion slap on the wrist from the FTC
- US mayors resolve not to pay hackers over ransomware attacks
Electronics
- 10 of the Greatest Gadget Flops Since the 1980’s
- The Snapdragon 855 is getting an upgrade to the Snapdragon 855+
- Dish’s AirTV launches an $80 streaming stick for accessing Sling TV, Netflix & broadcast channels
- Canon Will ‘Definitely’ Add IBIS to ‘Select’ DSLRs Soon: Report
- Nintendo Switch Lite vs. New Switch: How to choose
Software
- Microsoft Releases Free RAW Image Viewer Extension for Windows 10
- Windows 10: Has Microsoft cleaned up its update mess? (Spoiler: no)
- Dropbox announces new integrations with audio, video and transcription tools
WordPress
- 7 Principles of Risk Management for Running Successful Projects
- WordPress Download Manager: Plugin Overview and Review
- Why You Should Upgrade WordPress to PHP 7 Now Rather Than Later
- How much does a domain name cost?
- Using the Better Speed Plugin to Reduce WordPress Core Request Files
- Critical Vulnerability Patched in Ad Inserter Plugin
Design
- Facebook Banner Dimensions and Cover Photo Best Practices
- Retro Comic Book Art: Using Ben Day Dots in Web Design
- How to Make a GIF in PhotoShop from Video
- 140,000 Visuals of Outer Space are Free to the Public in NASA’s Image Library
- Graphic Design Trends for 2019
Technology
- Amazon Gets U.S. Patent to Use Delivery Drones for Surveillance Service
- Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
- A national effort: Apollo 11 moon landing was made possible by 400,000 workers
- Why Dogs Now Play a Big Role in Human Cancer Research
- Going to the Moon Was Hard — But the Benefits Were Huge, for All of Us
- Apollo took us to the moon in 1969. Why haven’t we gone back?
- 50 years after Apollo 11: What really rocketed us to the moon
- Complete history of the Chevy Corvette, from 1953 to present
Phones
- No, 5G isn’t going to make your 4G LTE phone obsolete
- Drastically speed up your Android phone’s hotspot with this simple setting
- 5G is spotty now but will get so much better. Here’s why
Fun Stories
- The Great Hack was one of the wildest movies I saw at Sundance
- Legal marijuana looks to be boosting snack sales
- Did the FDA Change Packaging Laws Because of the Blue Bell Ice Cream Licker?
- Found: 15 Wallets From the 1940s, Stolen and Stashed Behind a Bathroom Wall
- Two Dutch Shipwrecks From WWII Just Vanished Near Malaysia
- Amazon Prime Day evolves from goofy sideshow to Black Friday-esque phenom
- German Professor Who Is A Hardcore Star Wars Fan Has Just Repainted An Observatory Into R2-D2
- The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
- The Painted Panoramas That Will Make You Yearn for Yosemite and Dream of Denali
- All 5,924 Places in Europe on One Map
- US Air Force stands ready to protect Area 51
- I lived like a moon astronaut and have the scars to prove it
- Apollo 11 anniversary: A quick guide to the first moon landing
- The Indigenous Tribes Fighting to Reclaim Stevia From Coca-Cola
- Some Edible Insects Beat Orange Juice and Olive Oil in Antioxidant Test
- The Tuscan Town Famous for Anarchists, Marble, and Lard
- The Story Behind the ‘Space Window’ at D.C.’s National Cathedral
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Social Media
- Twitter will start testing its ‘hide replies’ feature next week, in Canada
- YouTube is giving creators more ways to make money
- 10 Ways to Grow Your YouTube Channel Today
- Facebook Will Develop More Stand-Alone Apps Via Its New NPE Team
- #TwitterDown 2019: How did we ever survive?
- Ready or not, here comes the new Twitter
- The Inside Story of Twitter’s New Redesign
- Twitter Rolls Out a Desktop Redesign – Does it Live Up to the Hype?
- Instagram will now hide likes in 6 more countries
- YouTube cracks down on stream-ripping sites that pirate music
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