New watch, tablets and iOS from Apple. Great Windows 10 features, Google Fiber, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold, best VOIP and dogs running in their sleep. Those only touch on the many stories in this week’s news. Read all of the headlines below and click to get the full stories.
Electronics
- Microsoft Surface Duo review: Cool design, janky performance
- Holy cow! Gateway laptops return via Walmart exclusive
- This $35 accessory is a must-have for MacBook, iPad Pro, and Windows laptop users
***** Get the Anker 7-in-1 USB-C Hub at Amazon ***** - 5 outdated items Amazon Echo can replace in your house
***** Get the Echo Smart Speaker at Amazon ***** - Galaxy Watch Active 2 gets some of the Galaxy Watch 3’s best features
***** Get the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 at Amazon ***** - US Border Patrol seized OnePlus Buds as ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’
- Asus took the best gaming router and added Wi-Fi 6 speeds
- Apple debuts new Apple Watch Series 6 with blood oxygen sensor
- Apple Watch Series 6 unveiled: ‘The future of health is on your wrist’
- Apple just announced the eighth-generation iPad and a completely redesigned iPad Air
- Google unveils video conferencing hardware for post-pandemic offices
- Oculus Quest 2: Facebook’s $299 VR headset feels too good to be true
- How to save $400+ on a new Series 6 Apple Watch: Get a $20 pulse-ox sensor from Amazon
***** Get Zacurate 500BL Fingertip Pulse Oximeter at Amazon ***** - GoPro Hero 9 Black review: More power, more affordable
***** Get GoPro Hero 9 Black at Amazon ***** - iRobot’s Roomba i3+ is its cheapest vacuum with a self-cleaning dock
Privacy and Security
- Zerologon attack lets hackers take over enterprise networks: Patch now
- FBI says credential stuffing attacks are behind some recent bank hacks
- Even cybersecurity companies spill data and passwords
- US charges two hackers for defacing US websites following Soleimani killing
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- How Many Lives Could You Save Wearing a Face Mask? This Calculator Tells You
- Aftershock: COVID-19’s permanent impact on tech supply chains
- The COVID-19 contact-tracing apps we were promised are finally here
- US unveils plan to provide free coronavirus vaccine to ‘every American’
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Software
- Microsoft is working on making Window 10 feature update blockers clearer and more detailed
- My seven favorite Windows 10 features
- Microsoft: Windows 10 is hardened with these fuzzing security tools – now they’re open source
- How Microsoft is looking to MetaOS to make Microsoft 365 a ‘whole life’ experience
- iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are ready to download
Technology
- Maserati’s new MC20 supercar uses F1 engine efficiency technology
- Online holiday tech shopping expected to boom this year, analyst says
- Apple’s AR plans are becoming more of a reality
- Space, warships and iPhones: A history of the gyroscope
- New Google Fiber plan: $100 for 2Gbps, plus Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender
- Google: We eliminated our ‘entire carbon legacy’ to fight climate change
- GMC will detail the Hummer EV on October 20th
- Fitbit gets FDA clearance for its Sense smartwatch and ECG app
***** Get Fitbit Sense at Amazon ***** - Sony pushes back against report that it’s reducing PS5 production
- Facebook wants to put smart glasses on your face next year
Phones
- Best VoIP providers in 2020: RingCentral, Vonage, Ooma, and more
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 review: Waiting on the world to change
- Google to unveil new Pixel phones, Chromecast on Sept. 30
- All the iOS 14 features arriving on iPhones today that Android had first
Fun Stories
- Rick Moranis returns to acting after two decades, thanks to Ryan Reynolds
- For Sale: Biggie’s Crown, and Other Icons of Hip-Hop History
- Found: The Rare Singing Dogs of New Guinea, In the Wild
- The Reason Dogs Put Their Paws on You
- 50 Perfect Movies, According to Rotten Tomatoes
- Criminal Ring: How Muhammad Ali’s 1970 Comeback Led to a Big-Money Heist
- 62-Year-Old Ball Python at St. Louis Zoo Lays Eggs After Decades of Isolation
- Hard Luck Mine Castle
- Orca-Strated Attack: Killer Whales Are Crashing Into Boats, Seemingly On Purpose
- The Ghost Towns of Lake Urmia, Once West Asia’s Largest Lake
- The Reason Dogs Run In Their Sleep
- 10 Things We No Longer See on Airplanes
- The End of Centralia’s Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic ‘Graffiti Highway’
- My stolen credit card details were used 4,500 miles away. I tried to find out how it happened
- What Wildfire Archaeology Tells Us About the Burning American West
- Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds Come From All Around to Watch
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