SolarWinds hack, COVID-19 vaccine, iOS 14.3, Grogu in your house, digital face masks, Alexa translates, Samsung Galaxy S21 and dog whiskers. Those are only a small sampling of this week’s highlights. Check out the full list of headlines below and click on a headline to get the full story.
Electronics
- AirPods Max hands-on: Apple’s $549 headphones raise the noise-canceling bar
- Ugreen X-Kit is a foldable laptop stand with a built-in USB-C hub
Privacy and Security
- Microsoft exposes Adrozek, malware that hijacks Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
- DOJ announces guilty plea for 2016 cyberattack that broke the internet
- SEC filings: SolarWinds says 18,000 customers were impacted by recent hack
- Former Cisco engineer sentenced to prison for deleting 16k Webex accounts
- State-backed hackers reportedly breach US Treasury, Commerce departments
- Microsoft and industry partners seize key domain used in SolarWinds hack
- Facebook escalates feud with Apple over iOS privacy changes
Coronavirus / COVID-19
- In a COVID-19 world, Amazon made our lives a little less miserable
- When Can You Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? This Interactive Tool Will Tell You
- COVID-19 vaccines are safe, even with long-term data lacking
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Software
- Endangered Firefox: The state of Mozilla
- Google adds document editing to Gmail attachments in Workspace
- iOS 14.3 is out with support for Fitness+, AirPods Max and more
- Here comes the Google Chrome change that worries ad blocker creators
- Google search delivers holiday treats for Christmas and Hanukkah
- Google’s top trending US search terms of 2020: ‘election results’ and ‘coronavirus’
- Google adds ‘The Mandalorian’s’ Grogu as a 3D object on Search
Technology
- 4 annoying things Alexa does on your Amazon Echo and how to fix it
- Google, Intel, Dell, collaboration giants like Zoom, Slack form Modern Computing Alliance
- Hyundai confirms its $1.1 billion acquisition of Boston Dynamics
- Google used a 64-camera rig to train its portrait lighting AI
- Disney World was adding digital face masks to guests in ride photos
- Solar System ‘superhighway’ could speed up space travel
- Google pinpoints cause of Monday’s widespread outage
- Gift-giving do’s and don’ts: Avoid these mistakes when buying phones and tech gifts
- 4 ways Alexa can find your lost phone in the house
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- Orfield Labs Quiet Chamber
- 5G will start to live up to its hype in 2021 — for real this time
- Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook spent billions on sparkling new offices. Now they’re nearly empty
- Facebook AI tool called TLDR would summarize news articles, report says
- Amazon’s custom Ka-band antenna will deliver less expensive satellite internet
Phones
- iPhone 12 wallpapers: How to set up still, dynamic, and live wallpapers
- Samsung Galaxy S21 will reportedly launch on Jan. 14
- Samsung hints its expanded foldable phone lineup won’t just be for the 1-percenters
- Samsung Galaxy S21 rumors: Jan. 14 launch date, 10x optical zoom and… a stylus?
- Samsung reportedly hasn’t given up on the Galaxy Note line
Fun Stories
- Marvel and Star Wars composer drops new Christmas song
- Honeybees use poop as a defense against deadly murder hornets
- Unknown Sender: The Mystery of the Circleville Letters
- Spare Change? Here’s Why Coins Are So Scarce Right Now
- Disney confirms Harrison Ford will return in Indiana Jones 5, his final adventure
- The 10 Most Annoying Holiday Songs Ever
- Why Do Dogs Have Whiskers?
- The Beatles’s Bizarre 1960s Christmas Shows
- Researchers Used Advanced X-Rays to Reveal Secrets of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy—Without Unwrapping It
- Cultural Heritage Is Caught Up in the Conflict Over Nagorno-Karabakh
- When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen
- In Texas, Pancho Claus Is the One Coming to Town
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