New footage of old trips to the moon and new trips to a different moon. Facebook died for several hours and the world went crazy. Windows 1.0 is making a return? These are just a small number of the stories covered this week. Click on the headlines below to read the full stories.
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Privacy and Security
- Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying $460,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers
- Help desk: How to fight the spies in Chrome browser
- BlueKeep: Researchers show how dangerous this Windows exploit could really be
- How sharing your DNA solves horrible crimes… and stirs a privacy debate
- Amazon Alexa keeps your data with no expiration date, and shares it too
- An optimistic view of deepfakes: Always look on the bright side of simulated life
Electronics
- USB inventor regrets making them so difficult to plug in correctly
- Goodbye, tablets
- Nvidia unveils GeForce RTX SUPER gaming GPUs
- Ecobee SmartThermostat (2019) review
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Software
- How VisiCalc’s Spreadsheets Changed the World
- KKR has acquired Corel (including its recent acquisition Parallels), reportedly for $1B+
- Tidal highlights behind-the-scenes personnel with new credits feature
- Spotify, Apple Music and rivals are secretly fixing your mainstream taste in songs
- With new feature update calendar, Microsoft finally settles on a sensible Windows 10 release schedule
- Microsoft teases Windows 1.0, and we don’t know why
Introducing the all-new Windows 1.0, with MS-Dos Executive, Clock, and more!! ???? ???? pic.twitter.com/guU4QxwsGG
— Windows (@Windows) July 1, 2019
WordPress
- 5 Top WordPress CRM Tools and Plugins
- How to Use WordPress as a Back End: Resources for Getting Started With the REST API
- How to Optimize JavaScript and CSS and Improve Website Performance
Design
- Jony Ive is Leaving Apple
- Jony Ive’s real legacy, according to Apple designers who worked with him
- Jony Ive is leaving Apple: 15 of his most iconic products and designs
- 5 new iOS 13 features to revolutionise your workflow
- How to Remove the White Background from an Image to Make it Transparent in Photoshop
Technology
- NASA Announces New Mission To Titan, Saturn’s Mysterious Moon
- NASA Will Send an Alien-Hunting Helicopter to Saturn’s Titan
- Tesla shows off next-gen automated emergency breaking stopping for pedestrians and cyclists
- Google’s third subsea cable will pump data from Portugal to South Africa
- The Infrastructure Mess Causing Countless Internet Outages
- Another mysterious deep space signal traced to the other side of the universe
- Intel’s New Chip Wizard Has a Plan to Bring Back the Magic
- Apollo: Missions to the Moon documentary creates a virtual time machine
Phones
- Smartphone users are upgrading less frequently — will 5G help?
- Samsung Patents A Cool New Futuristic Smartphone Design
- Samsung’s Galaxy Fold problems are reportedly fixed — so now what?
- Don’t even bother cleaning your phone screen any other way than these
- This is how fast T-Mobile’s 5G network is now
- We ran 5G speed tests on Verizon, AT&T, EE and more: Here’s what we found
- Samsung accused of misleading customers on Galaxy S ‘water resistance’
- The T-Mobile-Sprint deal may close soon: Here’s what you need to know
Fun Stories
- What is the Origin of the Word “Tip”, as in Leaving a Tip
- Why a former Nazi sub base in Marseille is becoming a data center
- New Stackable Beer Can Would Eliminate Plastic Six-Pack Rings
- NASA’s restored Apollo Mission Control is a slice of ’60s life, frozen in amber
- Around the world in 48 hours? Former astronaut to attempt global speed record
- Wisconsin man gets jail for clogging women’s toilets
Social Media
- The Internet broke today: Facebook, Verizon, and more see major outages
- Health Brands “Hims” and “Hers” Flout Facebook’s Drug Ad Rules
- Facebook combats ‘miracle cures’ and other misleading health claims
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