Really cheap laptop, hackers get busted and bugs in Windows 10. 5G updates, tactical phone and Route 66. These are just a small sampling of this week’s headlines. Click on a headline to read the full story.
Electronics
- We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
- Sega Genesis Mini on Sale at Amazon
- Garmin updates some of its most popular watches with solar charging
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- Apple Watch will measure how fit you are
Privacy and Security
- Two Nigerians face US charges over online fraud worth ‘hundreds of millions’
- US Secret Service reports an increase in hacked managed service providers (MSPs)
- Microsoft seizes six domains used in COVID-19 phishing operations
- ‘Keeper’ hacking group behind hacks at 570 online stores
- DOJ indicts ‘fxmsp’ hacker who reportedly breached hundreds of companies
- Billions of passwords now available on underground forums, say security researchers
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- No, Your Coronavirus Face Mask Does Not Limit Your Oxygen Intake
- ‘We’ll be living with masks for years’: COVID-19 through the eyes of a pandemic expert
- Is the coronavirus airborne? What we know about COVID-19 transmission
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Software
- Windows 10 2004 bugs: Here’s Microsoft’s workaround for Storage Spaces file corruption
- Windows 10 2004: Microsoft kills memory bugs behind 5% to 10% of Windows flaws
- Chrome update may extend your laptop’s battery life by up to 2 hours
- Google adds dark mode to Docs, Sheets and Slides. Here’s how to use it
Technology
- When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows?
- What to expect from the next version of 5G
- How technology unlocked my family tree and changed my understanding of myself
- Mind-blowing patent shows the future of the MacBook
- This vertical farm could be the answer to a future without water
- This digital location tech could help emergency crews find you in the wilderness
- New H.266 codec uses half the data to stream 4K video
- Amazon Prime Video finally offers user profiles worldwide
- Qualcomm supercharges 5G mobile gaming with new Snapdragon 865 Plus
- Intel details its USB4-compliant Thunderbolt 4 standard
Phones
- Sprint 5G is no more, as T-Mobile focuses on its own network
- The “Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition” is a shock-and-awe campaign against reality
- All the iOS 14 features coming to iPhones that Android had first
- Use Google Meet to make video calls on your phone. Here’s how
- Radical new iPhone 12 design could be Apple’s greatest hit
Fun Stories
- Why Was Route 66 Decommissioned?
- Jaws tops list of classic movies people wish they’d seen in the theater
- Google’s AR dinosaurs are ridiculously cool
- NASA Scientist Simulates What Sunsets Would Look Like on Venus, Mars, and Beyond
- The Strangely Quiet Afterlife of a Brazilian Prison Town
- The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson debuts first new comics in 25 years
- Turning On the Lights in the Ocean’s Twilight Zone
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