It’s time for online shopping season to kick into high gear and hackers want to get in on the action. How to avoid the scams and to protect your online store are just two of our headlines this week. Tom Hanks not only plays Mr. Rogers, he is a relative! Facebook getting a rival from Wikipedia. These and many more headlines are listed below. Click on a headline to read the full story.
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Privacy and Security
- 6 Tips to Spot Online Scams this Shopping Season, and 9 Ways to Stop them
- Windows security warning: Ransomware is growing fastest, and just got harder to tackle
- Facebook gets about 500,000 reports of revenge porn a month, report says
- Cybersecurity firms form coalition to fight stalkerware
- Google Assistant on Android devices could be tricked into taking photos, videos
- Exposed database left terabyte of travelers’ data open to the public
- Officials warn about the dangers of using public USB charging stations
- The scariest hacks and vulnerabilities of 2019
- When one isn’t enough: This shady malware will infect your PC with dual Trojans
Electronics
- Echo Flex review: This might be Amazon’s smartest device in years
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- Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active is getting a big update
Software
- RCS messaging on Android? Free me from my Google messaging mess first
- Upgrade to Windows 10 free, here’s how
WordPress
Design
Technology
- Million Song Dataset
- Apple Maps, Netflix price hike, Edward Snowden: Tech scandals 2010-13
- Ford’s Mustang Mach-E begins ‘new era’ of software updates
- Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google push back against antitrust concerns
- Future BMW electric cars will be powered by cow poop
- Amazon’s one-day shipping sets off new holiday retail war
- PayPal to buy deal-finding service Honey for $4 billion
- Probing the Secrets of the Universe From Deep in the Australian Outback
Phones
- T-Mobile CEO John Legere to step down on May 1
- John Legere brought T-Mobile back from the dead. Now he’s moving on
- Motorola Razr: 6 burning questions we still have about this foldable phone
- iMessage vs. Google’s new texting update: Can Android’s messaging app take on Apple?
- iPhone 11 vs Pixel 4: Here’s how Apple and Google’s newest phones compare
- Apple just announced an iPhone 11 Smart Battery Case that includes a dedicated camera button
- Motorola’s Razr folds in half without a crease. The secret is in the hinge design
- Verizon’s new 5G coverage maps show just how sparse the network is
- Razr to Galaxy Fold: The wows and woes of 2019’s foldables
Fun Stories
- New LEGO Set Recreates the Classic 1989 Batmobile
- Bill Gates beats Jeff Bezos as world’s richest man (again)
- Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner is Out
- Tom Hanks is a distant relative of Mister Rogers
- ‘Molecular coffee’: No bean, no problem
- Ancient Egypt’s Ibis Mummies Were Probably Not Raised in Giant Sacred Ranches
- Along the Remains of Route 66, Road Trip Trash Has Become Treasure
- The Uncertain Future of the World’s Largest Secondhand Book Market
- You Can Own This Former ICBM Silo in the Arizona Desert
- 15 Great Ugly Christmas Sweaters You Can Buy Online
- Who is ‘Baby Yoda’ in The Mandalorian? Our wildest theories so far
- More and More Lighthouses Are Moving Away From the Shore
- The Cheese Makers Keeping Monterey Jack’s Local Legend Alive
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Social Media
- Twitter rolls out its ‘hide replies’ feature globally
- Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network
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