Video doorbells, thermostats, MacOS tips, I’m not a cat, bird identifier, AT&T fiber, Starlink, iPhone Flip and weird laws. There were a wide array of headlines this week and we’ve rounded up the best. Check out the full list below and click to read the full stories.
Electronics
- JBL Go 3 review: Tiny $40 Bluetooth speaker with big improvements
***** Get JBL Go 3 at Amazon ***** - Your Ring doorbell can now have Alexa greet visitors, take a message
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***** Get Echo at Amazon ***** - Nest Learning Thermostat vs. Nest Thermostat: What’s the difference?
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***** Get Nest Learning Thermostat at Amazon ***** - Fitbit Charge 4 review: A better fitness tracker without the bulk
***** Get Fitbit Charge 4 at Amazon ***** - Is Facebook’s surprise Apple Watch rival dead on arrival?
- Ring’s $60 Video Doorbell Wired is a hell of a deal
***** Get Ring Video Doorbell Wired at Amazon ***** - Wyze’s new color-changing LED bulbs cost $35 for a pack of four
Privacy and Security
- Google apps prompted updates and warned of security risks, but the updates don’t exist
- DOJ charges more hackers in Sony, WannaCry attacks
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- Bill Gates’ daughter jokes about vaccine conspiracy involving her dad
- A frozen food fallacy? The coronavirus origin story that doesn’t stack up
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Software
- 10 MacOS tips and tricks everyone needs to know right now
- Zoom blooper turns lawyer into a kitten: ‘I’m here live, I’m not a cat’
- Zoom cat filter lawyer passes torch to upside-down congressman
- Google dark mode is coming to desktop – and you may already have it
- Microsoft finally acknowledges the Windows 10 21H1 update
- Microsoft’s unified Office app comes to iPad
- Forget your Mac’s Password? Here’s how you can get back in
- LastPass’ free service will add a major limitation next month
- Microsoft to add ‘Kids Mode’ to Chromium-based Edge browser
- Apple adds emoji for heart on fire, exhaling face and more to iOS 14.5
- Apple releases the most 2021 emoji ever (and Twitter isn’t happy)
- Easily Identify the Birds in Your Backyard With the Cornell Ornithology Lab’s Free Merlin App
Technology
- AT&T scrambles to install fiber for 90-year-old after his viral WSJ ad
- Jay Z and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey want to make Bitcoin the ‘internet’s currency’
- Starlink explained: What to know about Elon Musk’s satellite internet venture
- Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you ‘hear’ colors and shapes
- Shape matters: Why this dome could be the future of small data centers
- Amazon Build It program kicks off with smart cuckoo clock
- Google inks deals, while Facebook blocks content in Australia media dustup
Phones
- iPhone 13 rumors: Release date, price, design, specs and everything else we’ve heard
- iPhone 13 set to steal one of Apple Watch’s best features
- Apple’s iPhone flip set to get the ULTIMATE new feature
Fun Stories
- 11 Incredible Things Found in Bogs
- Sea Cucumbers on One Coral Reef Drop Several Eiffel Towers’ Worth of Poop Each Year—and That’s a Good Thing
- The 20 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time
- The 25 Greatest Revenge Movies of All Time
- Ready Player Oink: Pigs Can Be Taught to Play Video Games
- Deputies: Man Proposes Using Rings Stolen from Other Lover
- The first photo of Mars delivered by the UAE’s Hope probe is glorious
- An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later
- The Real Reason Cars Have Those ‘Grab Handles’ Above the Doors
- 19 Weird Laws You Might Have Broken
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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