Gift guides, ransomware gangs, adios Flash, Arecibo collapse, digital transformation, Emoji Kitchen and Frosty the Snowman. I don’t keep track, but I believe this might be the most I’ve ever included in Tech News. It just felt like information (and gift guides) kept coming and I wanted to share all of them with you. Read through the admittedly long list below and click to get the details!
Electronics
- Best smart home gifts of 2020
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- Best gifts for working at home in 2020
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***** Get Razer Kishi Mobile Game Controller at Amazon *****
***** Get Bose SoundLink Micro at Amazon *****
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***** Get Echo Show 8 at Amazon *****
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- Samsung built a 110-inch version of its MicroLED ‘Wall’ TV
Privacy and Security
- Google Is Tracking Everything You Do With Its ‘Smart’ Features—Here’s How to Make That Stop
- Norton Secure VPN vs. NordVPN: Speed, security and price compared
- Hacker opens 2,732 PickPoint package lockers across Moscow
- NSA warns of Russian state-sponsored hackers exploiting VMWare vulnerability
- Google’s 2020: Search giant clashes with DC over antitrust, misinformation
- Bitcoin exchange founder sentenced to prison for money laundering
- Lightning does strike twice: If you get hacked once, you’ll probably be attacked again within a year
- Cybersecurity firm FireEye says state-sponsored hackers stole its tools
- Ransomware gangs are getting faster at encrypting networks. That will make them harder to stop
- What’s the key to tackling cyber attacks? Building a diverse team to think smarter
- Oblivious DoH: Cloudflare supports new privacy, security-focused DNS standard
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- Hackers are going after COVID-19 vaccine’s rollout
- Defying the odds: These companies actually thrived during the pandemic
- COVID-19 vaccine: 90-year-old woman becomes first to receive Pfizer vaccine in the UK
- Hackers accessed documents related to authorized COVID-19 vaccines
- EU agency in charge of COVID-19 vaccine approval says it was hacked
- Google updates Search with approved COVID-19 vaccine information
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Software
- macOS Big Sur review: A mix of new and familiar
- Microsoft December 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 58 vulnerabilities
- Adobe bids farewell to Flash Player in its final update
- Amazon’s redesigned Fire TV interface adds user profiles and a new look
- Google’s Year in Search makes 2020 seem like an entire decade
Technology
- Amazon Sidewalk on Echo is coming. For some, it’s already here
- Google One: What it is, membership cost, how much storage you get and more
- Amazon Halo’s tone of voice feature made me a better person (or at least sound like one)
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- See unreal drone footage of Arecibo Observatory’s catastrophic collapse
- The Boring Company offers a look inside a Las Vegas loop station
- What’s inside MJF’s tiny home office? Too much podcast equipment
- Top 8 trends shaping digital transformation in 2021
- Apple preps new Mac chips that would top Intel’s fastest, report says
- Incredible solar telescope image shows sunspot you could fit the Earth into
- Apple’s 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips
- CRISPR gene editing shows promise for sickle cell disease
- Ford’s autonomous cars are delivering fresh produce in Miami
- Alexa gets 4 new Amazon Echo skills. Here’s how they work
- Amazon Publishing in Talks to Offer E-books to Public Libraries
- AWS starts gluing the gaps between its databases
Phones
- Android users can now shoot and publish their own Street View images
- Samsung’s Android 11 and One UI 3 rollout begins with the Galaxy S20
- Android Emoji Kitchen update will let you customize more emoji
- Your iPhone 12’s 5G signal might not be fast enough yet. How to turn it off and use 4G instead
- Stolen or lost Android phone? Here’s how to get it back
Fun Stories
- 3D Map Shows the Milky Way Galaxy in Unprecedented Detail
- All Warner Bros. films in 2021 will debut on HBO Max
- India’s Sati Stones Commemorate a Macabre Historical Practice
- A smart Rubik’s Cube has become my 2020 fidget toy
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- Follow these easy Christmas light tricks to deck out your apartment
- Snap, Crackle, Keith: When the Rolling Stones Recorded a Rice Krispies Jingle
- 7 Christmas Songs Banned in the Past
- The best stocking-stuffer ideas: Gifts for under $25
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- We Shouldn’t Have Been Surprised to Find a Sculpture of Hermes in a Sewer
- 5 TV Hosts Who Walked Off Their Shows
- The Final Days of John Lennon
- Mt. Everest Just Got a Tiny Bit Taller, After Years of Disputes Between China and Nepal
- Bill Gates shares holiday reading list for ‘a lousy year’
- To Restore Remote Palmyra Atoll, Getting Rid of Rats Was Just the First Step
- An Elegy for India’s Single-Screen Cinema Palaces
- 6 Heroic Military Cats
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