Smart home automation, Windows bugs and reef safe sunscreen. iOS updated, watchOS updated and Macs getting new chips. Ford brings back the Bronco, fly to the ISS and will big tech pay for your data? These are just a few of the many headlines this week. Click on a headline to read the full story.
Electronics
- 5 coolest smart home accessories you didn’t know existed
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Privacy and Security
- Google removes 106 Chrome extensions for collecting sensitive user data
- Microsoft Defender ATP now scans Windows 10 PC firmware for hardware rootkit attacks
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- Movie theaters will look vastly different if they survive COVID-19
- NBA players could wear smart ring to track COVID-19 symptoms as season resumes
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Software
- Microsoft, stop feeding bugs to a billion Windows 10 users. Here’s how
- Windows 10 2004 glitch: Microsoft admits bug breaks Storage Spaces, corrupts files
- After Windows 10 upgrade, do these seven things immediately
- Microsoft will resume optional non-security Windows 10 updates in July
- Apple watchOS 7 adds more workouts, monitor your handwashing technique
- Apple brings new home screen widgets, Pencil improvements and improved Siri to iPadOS 14
- Apple jazzes up iMessage with pinned contacts, mentions and in-line replies
- Google adds a fact check feature for images
Technology
- SpaceX plans seaborne spaceports for Mars missions and hypersonic flights
- Acura has invented an airbag that works like a catcher’s mitt
- Tesla’s solar panels are now more efficient and affordable
- Samsung Blu-ray players are trapped in a startup loop
- Apple confirms Mac to Arm with Microsoft and Adobe on board; MacOS will look more like iOS
- Apple gives Macs a brain transplant with new Arm chips starting this year
- Google’s 46-camera ‘light field videos’ let you change perspective and peek around corners
- Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
- Do Apple’s new Mac chips mean ARM has won?
- Rad Power launches a lightweight e-bike for $999
Phones
- iOS 14 kills the biggest iPhone annoyance
- Apple launches iOS 14, aims for Siri overhaul, better app organization
- iOS 14 unveiled: A first glimpse at Apple’s upcoming iPhone software
- In iOS 14, Apple’s redesigned iPhone home screen is easier to navigate
- Twitter roasts Apple’s new iOS 14 home screen
- 7 new iOS 14 features coming to the iPhone that Android already has
Fun Stories
- Budget hack: Replace Netflix, Apple Music and more with these free alternatives
- Reef-safe sunscreen: Everything you need to know before your next beach trip
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- When Hollywood finally noticed the web: What it got right and oh so wrong
- 13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using
- How an Agoraphobic Traveler Wanders the Earth
- 10 Fireworks Effects You Should Know the Names Of
- The Once-Common Practice of Communal Sleeping
- Virgin Galactic inks deal with NASA for private trips to ISS
- NASA astronaut captures striking ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse shadow from ISS
- View Any Location On Earth as Seen By International Space Station
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