Canon and Reddit hacked, border isolation, Windows patches, Alexa skills, Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and Microsoft Surface Duo. These are a small sampling of this week’s news. Click on the headlines below to get the full stories.
Electronics
- Amazon now offers a smart clock add-on for the Echo Flex
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***** Get Smart Clock for Echo Flex at Amazon ***** - Nvidia is holding a special GeForce event on Sept. 1, RTX 3080 card rumored
- Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 ongoing review: It’s almost there
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Privacy and Security
- Canon is the latest to be hit by a possible ransomware attack
- Hackers are defacing Reddit with pro-Trump messages
- Bulgarian police arrest hacker Instakilla
- Is This Email About a Google Plus Settlement Real?
- A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks
- Have I Been Pwned to release code base to the open source community
- NHS hit with wave of scam emails at height of COVID-19 pandemic
- Cybersecurity: These two basic flaws make it easy for hackers to break into you systems
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- It’s not your imagination: Work-from-home tech prices have surged in the pandemic
- Should you send your kids back to school? A physician’s guide
- A Border Town Is Now Isolated From Both the U.S. and Canada
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Software
- Apple’s first watchOS 7 public beta is now available
- Microsoft August 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 120 vulnerabilities, two zero-days
- Google’s Bedtime wellness feature is no longer a Pixel exclusive
Technology
- Google Play Music will start shutting down in September
- Amazon may turn dying JC Penney and Sears stores into warehouses
- Apple hit with $1.4B Siri patent lawsuit from Chinese company
- Virgin Galactic wants to whip passengers across the planet at Mach 3
- Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
- What’s inside Perlow’s office? 15 years of working from home
- I actually use these 6 Alexa skills. So should you
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Phones
- Galaxy Note 20 Ultra ongoing review: 7 standout and not-so-great features today
- The Galaxy Note 20 doesn’t come with headphones and that’s a good thing
- Google turns Android phones into an earthquake detection network
- Surface Duo may change the world, or it could destroy Microsoft’s reputation
- Microsoft Surface Duo’s dual-screen hinge design is already winning me over
- Galaxy Note 20 Ultra camera: What do the three lenses do?
Fun Stories
- 8 Times People Ruined Priceless Works of Art
- Can You Spot All 10 Differences in These Illustrations of a Lively Park?
- For Sale: Dozens and Dozens of Enormous Animatronic Dinosaurs
- What Is the Citizenship of a Baby Born on an International Flight?
- Sold: A Famous Fossil-Hunter’s Letter That’s Totally Full of Crap
- The Psychological Tricks Disney Parks Use to Make Long Wait Times More Bearable
- This Museum’s Broom Closet Is Actually Full of Historic Boats
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