For two solid days it rained here in paradise. Not fun for us desert dwellers. Meanwhile, it was Google’s week to announce a series of new products. Facebook released a new Portal as well. Alexa can now speak Spanish and I love it! Unleash a crocodile in your pool! OK, maybe just the head. These and many more stories are listed below. Click on the headlines of interest to read the whole story.
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Privacy and Security
- 10 best practices for creating and securing stronger passwords
- Yahoo could owe you $358 or more as part of privacy breach settlement
- Ransomware: Prepare for hackers launching even more destructive malware attacks
- Google announces new USB-C Titan Security Key
- WAV audio files are now being used to hide malicious code
Electronics
- 5 best cheap home security solutions of 2019
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- Netgear gives Orbi a mesh Wi-Fi makeover — and a much lower price tag
- Ring Pro vs. Nest Hello: The right smart video doorbell could combat holiday package theft
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- Pixel 4 and every Made by Google 2019 announcement: Pixel Buds, Pixelbook Go, Google Stadia
- Facebook Portal 2.0 gets features to compete with Hub Max, Echo Show
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Software
- 10 Apple Arcade kids games that even parents won’t hate
- What to expect from Windows 10 November 2019 Update: A pleasant surprise
- Microsoft Defender ‘Tamper Protection’ reaches general availability
- Windows 10 Start menu problems
- 8 things I learned from playing Nintendo’s weird Ring Fit Adventure
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Design
- Affinity Designer: An Overview and Review
- Inside Pixel 4’s camera: Google improves portrait mode with help from Italian art
Technology
- How self-driving shuttles could enable car-free living in the suburbs
- Alexa now speaks Spanish, including in multi-lingual mode
- Every way to watch movies and shows offline: Netflix, YouTube, HBO Go, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, Hulu
- Why GM and Michelin’s airless Uptis is the future of car and truck tires
- Da Vinci bridge design holds up even after 500 years, MIT proves
- This deepfake shows an impressionist taking on 20 celebrities, convincingly
- Comcast incorrectly charged 2,000 customers for exceeding data cap
- Amazon’s worldwide worker walkout is just the tip of employees’ activism
Phones
- AT&T raises prices 7% by making its customers pay AT&T’s property taxes
- Oppo’s next flagship phone will launch in February in Barcelona
- The FCC has voted to approve the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
Fun Stories
- 9 Drinks That Only People Who Grew Up In The ’70s Will Understand
- Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore
- Campus Chickens Used to Manage Cricket Invasion at Texas Elementary School
- A group of ‘witches’ went paddleboarding, and the photos are delightful
- Bear Attacks And Shreds Plane, Pilot Fixes With Duct Tape And Flies Home
- Newly spotted asteroid could one day hit Earth, but don’t panic
- This remote-control floating crocodile head is just $30
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- The world’s oldest leftovers, left in Pleistocene storage containers
- Why do so many guys hold up fish in their online dating photos?
- From Gangnam Style to Pizza Rat, here are the decade’s 17 top viral videos
- Veteran astronauts endorse NASA’s program for a return to the Moon
- Nigerian astronaut lost in space needs $3m to get home
- There’s a place at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where hundreds of giant spacecraft go to die
- An Oral History of Hard-Shell Tacos
- What Ever Happened to Steampunk?
- Chipotle will cover tuition for tech and business degrees
- Eat, Drink And Be Wary: Ex-CIA Agent Reveals How Eateries Are Key To Spycraft
- The Japanese Bakeries Still Selling Fortune Cookies
- Chicken of the Woods: This Mushroom Tastes Just Like Chicken
- Why Google unveiled only 5 devices this fall, while Amazon announced 15
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Social Media
- Twitter finally returns to Mac with new app
- Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses support of five founding members
- Facebook’s bug bounty gets bigger for third-party apps
- Twitter will limit the reach of tweets by certain politicians who break its rules
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