Good monitors, frozen Bitcoin, Defender vulnerability, dark Word, router upgrade, Galaxy S21, Bond gadgets and flying rhinos. It has been a very full week of news and we’ve got the top headlines below. Read through the list and click on a headline to read the full story.
Electronics
- Kohler Moxie Showerhead review: Alexa is a good shower caddy
- When you need more ports on your laptop or tablet, do this
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- Five monitors worth checking out for 2021
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- Samsung’s 8K Neo QLED TV lineup starts at $3,500
Privacy and Security
- Cops can’t access $60M in seized bitcoin—fraudster won’t give password
- Microsoft to add ‘nation-state activity alerts’ to Defender for Office 365
- With one update, this malicious Android app hijacked millions of devices
- Big jump in RDP attacks as hackers target staff working from home
- Web hosting provider shuts down after cyberattack
- The X-tra Battery Kickstarter Campaign May Have Been a Scam
- Facebook vs. Apple: Here’s what you need to know about their privacy feud
- Google: Here’s why some people get more phishing emails and malware spam
- A Windows Defender Vulnerability Lurked Undetected for 12 Years
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- Johnson & Johnson seeks FDA emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccine
- Facebook to remove more false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines
- WHO investigation into COVID-19 says lab origin ‘extremely unlikely’
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Software
- iOS 14.5: Release date, beta download and all the new features
- Google paid $6.7 million to bug bounty hunters in 2020
- Chrome 88 update patches a zero-day that is being actively exploited
- Google is reportedly working on an anti-tracking feature for Android
- Windows 10 tips and tricks: Secret Start menu, taking screenshots and more
- Microsoft launches a cross-platform password autofill feature
- Update your Chrome: Google releases important security fix
- Microsoft is improving Word’s Dark Mode, with a little more darkness
- Alleged Android 12 screenshots show a privacy indicator and conversation widget
Technology
- Is your internet speed slow or fast? Here’s how to tell in under 60 seconds
- Andy Jassy, new Amazon CEO, steps into the spotlight after building a profit machine
- Forget Bitcoin: Inside the insane world of altcoin cryptocurrency trading
- Microsoft chiefs say big tech antitrust issues can be solved with laws, not lawsuits
- Qualcomm’s new X65 5G modem downloads data at lightning-fast 10Gbps speeds
- Mirroring or casting your Android phone’s screen on your TV is easy peasy. Here’s how
- Weber brings wireless smarts to its gas grills
- How to tell when it’s time to upgrade your router
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Phones
- Google to add heart and respiratory rate tracking to Android phones
- New Apple iPhone 13 leak is by far the most exciting yet
- Your iPhone will soon unlock faster for face masks. Here’s how it will work
- Galaxy S21 vs. iPhone 12: Sorry, Apple, but Samsung may have won this round
- Galaxy S21 Ultra vs. Note 20 Ultra: Which Samsung phone is the better buy?
- The game-changing Apple iPhone hack hiding in plain sight
Fun Stories
- 50 Things Turning 50 In 2021
- The World’s Tiniest Reptile Has Disproportionately Large Genitals
- What Does the Title ‘Esquire’ Mean, Anyway?
- The Blacksmith Turning Decades of Chinese Bombs Into Kitchen Tools
- The Reason Service Vehicles Like Ambulances and Fire Trucks Have Chains Hanging From the Bottom
- Enter the Lair of an Enormous, Ancient, Predatory Worm
- Super Bowl 2021 commercials: See the best, funniest, most uplifting ads
- 5 Precariously Placed Monasteries
- Don’t Miss the Conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury in 2021
- Most of the World’s Bread Clips Are Made by a Single Company
- Our favorite James Bond gadgets: Exploding pens, dagger shoes and car submarines
- How to feel motivated to eat better and exercise more in 2021
- These 20-minute HIIT workouts are all you need to get in shape
- Gym closed? These are the best home workout options
- Watch the Only Surviving Footage of the Titanic Before Its Doomed Voyage
- Tennessee Is One Step Closer to Getting a Dolly Parton Statue on Capitol Hill
- How Do Potholes Form?
- A Remake of The Wizard of Oz Is Officially in the Works
- Why Rhinos Fly Upside Down Over Namibia
- Can We Track Elephants With Earthquake Detectors?
If you see some important tech news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.
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