Tech News Digest for November 15, 2019

Which smartwatch should you get? Text messaging on Android due for a big improvement. Disney Plus is the latest streaming service to launch. Paper from poop? New WordPress version. Free fonts! These are just a few of the headlines in this week’s tech news. Click on the headlines below to read the full stories!

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Privacy and Security

• Ring doorbells had vulnerability leaking Wi-Fi login info, researchers find
• This unusual new ransomware is going after servers
• Network of 265 online sites are mimicking defunct newspapers to spread anti-Pakistan propaganda

Electronics

• The new 16-inch MacBook Pro gets a bigger screen and a brand-new keyboard
• Apple Watch Series 5 vs. Galaxy Watch Active 2: Top smartwatches go head to head
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Software

• From Instagram to Candy Crush: These are the most important apps of the decade
• Mozilla partners with Intel, Red Hat and Fastly to take WebAssembly beyond the browser
• Chrome is not minding your privacy. Here’s how to help it
• Duolingo vs. Rosetta Stone: How to choose the best language-learning app
• Microsoft begins the official rollout of Windows 10 1909
• How does Plume get all these ISP partnerships? Open source software
• Google Maps translation tools aim to help travelers in foreign countries
• Brave 1.0 review: Browse faster and safer while ticking off advertisers

WordPress

• How to Create a Book Out of Your Blog Content
• How to Manage WordPress Sites: 75 Tasks To Keep Your Site Running Smoothly
• WordPress 5.3 Overview: Top 20 New Features and Improvements

Design

• 20+ Best Free Block Letter Fonts
• 13 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials for Motion Graphics and VFX Artists

Technology

• AT&T makes customers work to get refunds they should get automatically
• For faster quantum computing, Microsoft builds a better qubit
• Would you pay $800 for a stainless steel Yeti cooler?
• Amazon fails to unseat pro-tax city council members
• Disney Plus: Launch dates, prices, preorders, movies and shows to expect
• Disney Plus is here. Netflix is watching
• Disney Plus launch glitches out with service failures, login problems
• Disney Plus puts The Simpsons in widescreen and fans are not happy
• Disney Plus warns users of ‘outdated cultural depictions’ in old movies
• Disney+ surpasses 10 million subscribers on first day
• Dell wants half its workforce to be female within a decade
• How fast is Wi-Fi 6? Here are our latest speed test results
• 6 things you shouldn’t buy until Black Friday
• Google will offer checking accounts next year

Phones

• T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network will go live Dec. 6
• Stop being jealous of iMessage. What you need to know about Android’s fancy texting update
• Motorola’s foldable Razr: Inside the remaking of a flip phone icon
• Motorola Razr foldable phone hands-on: Here’s what we love so far
• RCS messaging: Google’s biggest move yet in Android texting officially launched in the US
• iMessage vs. Google’s new texting update: Can Android’s messaging app take on Apple?

Fun Stories

• 5 Common Examples of Bad Grammar and How to Fix Them
• Lin-Manuel Miranda and Google introduce Puerto Rican art to everyone
• 7 best clothing subscription boxes for 2019: Men’s, women’s, plus size and more
• The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’
• ‘Sesame Street’ Was First Brought to You by the Letters PBS 50 Years Ago
• USPS to release ‘Sesame Street’ stamps in honor of show’s 50th anniversary
• How Stalin and the Soviet Union Created a Champagne for the Working Class
• Black Friday: 6 Amazon Prime benefits that will help you shop
• The Glittery Legacy of Lead at a Historic Native American Site
• Carrie Fisher was apparently planned to be ‘the last Jedi’ in The Rise of Skywalker
• How Elephant Poop Becomes Fancy Paper in Sri Lanka

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Social Media

• Facebook bug has camera activated while people are using the app
• Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook is transparent about cleaning up hate speech and violence, others aren’t

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