Amazon Halo, GeForce RTX 3090, Tiger Lake, scam deliveries, Walmart Plus, Galaxy Z Fold 2, ancient wonders, Napster and periodic table puzzle. In a week full of news, those are just a few of the headlines. Check them all out below and click on a headline for the full story.
Electronics
- With Halo, Amazon’s entry into the fitness space is ambitious, but odd
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- Oxo Brew 8-Cup Coffee Maker review: Oxo’s latest coffee maker is our new favorite drip machine
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- Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 coming Sept. 18, starting at $649
- NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 is a $1,499 GPU for 8K gaming
- Lifx Clean is a new, $70 smart bulb that kills bacteria and disinfects your home
- Asus just announced the first router that supports next-gen Wi-Fi 6E connections
- Intel’s Tiger Lake chip delivers a long-awaited laptop speed boost
- Each LED in the new Philips Hue lightstrip can match different colors on your TV
Privacy and Security
- Iranian hackers impersonate journalists to set up WhatsApp calls and gain victims’ trust
- Tesla worked with the FBI to block a million dollar ransomware attack
- Surprise! Even Google’s engineers don’t understand its privacy controls
- Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to reliably identify users
- Facebook says it’s catching Russian-linked fake accounts earlier
- Avoid this text message scam about package deliveries
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- Why I love my Apple Card in the age of COVID
- No, no one has secretly installed a COVID-19 tracker onto your smartphone
- Setting up a locked room at home for confidential work projects
- Five budget mistakes to avoid during COVID-19
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Software
- Mactracker: An app only a Mac geek (or tech journalist) could love
- Apple blocked Facebook’s attempt to tell users about 30% App Store ‘tax’
- Seven Windows 10 annoyances (and how to fix them)
- Run Android apps on your Windows 10 PC. Here’s how
- New Windows 10 Dev Channel test build adds updated dictation and more input features
Technology
- Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Wants To Build The International Space Station Of The Sea
- Amazon introduces Amazon Fresh, a new traditional grocer, in LA
- The Colorado startup dreaming up a return to supersonic flight
- Amazon Prime Air lands FAA approval for drone deliveries
- Ranks of mobile workers to swell to 93.5 million by 2024 amid move to remote work, says IDC
- Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime with $98-a-year membership fee
- Amazon drivers are hanging phones in trees to get more deliveries
- Amazon Alexa’s next home could be your apartment complex
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Phones
- T-Mobile unveils a $400 5G phone
- Ready for 5G? These are the plans you’ll need at each of the major US carriers
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2: $1,999 for a device that has made progress, but not enough
- Apple plans to launch four new iPhones this year, says report
- Apple preps 75 million 5G iPhones along with new iPad Air, Apple Watches, report says
- T-Mobile adds 81 cities to midband 5G network
- 10 Aspects of Old Telephones That Might Confuse Young People
Fun Stories
- A US teen wrote 27,000 Wikipedia entries in a language they don’t speak
- The Facts and Fiction of Chicago’s Prohibition-Era Bootlegging Tunnels
- The Strange Afterlife of a Mysterious Tomb Inscription
- The Unexpected Elegance of Irrigation Systems From Above
- The new residency schemes inviting workers abroad
- The Mountains Where Manna Flows From Trees
- 20 Remakes That Are Better Than the Original Movie
- This hilarious Photoshop face mask has Adobe’s seal of approval
- Found: A 1200-Year-Old Olive Oil Soap Factory in the Negev Desert
- Watch Ancient Wonders Get Digitally Restored to Their Original Glory
- What Does Fabric Softener Actually Do?
- 5 Unique Currencies From Precolonial Africa
- A Left-Handed Viking’s 1200-Year-Old Sword Discovered in Norway
- For Sale: One of the First and Most Valuable Dollars in U.S. History
- How Competitive Walking Captivated Georgian Britain
- Napster sold for a song to UK virtual events company
- Solving the Decades-Old Mystery of the White Box That Fell From the Sky
- Piece Together Some Science With This Periodic Table Jigsaw Puzzle
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