{$inline_image}Ever since the rise of femtech, period tracking apps have vowed to make women’s health easier to control and understand. But lately we’ve seen data and privacy breaches, worrying stats about “success” rates, and questionable marketing strategies. This week is no different.A report from the Guardian found that fertility app Femm has been funded by
Read MoreIt’s hard to lose yourself in the game for any length of time because of issues that can keep you overly mindful of the controllers in your hands. Like many VR games right now, ‘Blood & Truth’ coasts on its novelty Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreMaster Chief is suiting up for his next big battle. Halo Infinite: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's next Xbox sci-fi epic – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt hasn’t always been easy for Navid Negahban, but Amazon, YouTube and Netflix are changing Hollywood for the better, the Sultan says. 'First 10 years were very tough': Aladdin star on being an Iranian actor in Hollywood – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSome users want the map back. Facebook quietly killed a map for discovering live videos – CNET Source: CNet
Read More”Can’t innovate anymore, my ass,” proclaimed Apple exec Phil Schiller when he introduced the redesigned Mac Pro back in 2013. It was meant to be “the future of the pro desktop,” but it certainly wasn’t. Four years later, Apple was forced to admit that the Mac Pro was a mess after some of Apple’s most
Read MoreWithout disclosing details, officials say they plan to retaliate against those who blockade Chinese companies, in an apparent response to Huawei’s problems. China Plans a List of U.S. Firms to Block, in Answer to Trump Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreTime’s running out on patching older systems against the BlueKeep vulnerability. Microsoft issues second warning about patching BlueKeep as PoC code goes public Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreKara Swisher / Vox: Q&A with Mark Cuban and Steve Case on investing in tech startups outside of Silicon Valley, how AI is changing the tech landscape, tech regulation, and more — In the short term, learning to code is good for your job prospects. But on the latest Recode Decode, Cuban explained … Q&A
Read MoreThe trade tension between the United States and China looks set to intensify soon, as the latter country is taking steps to respond to the American ban on doing business with Huawei. Bloomberg reports that China has put preparations in place to restrict exports of rare earth minerals to the US, while also setting up
Read MoreThese are two of the best small premium convertible laptops you can buy at the moment. Here’s how they match up. HP Spectre x360 13 vs. Lenovo Yoga C930: Which is the best laptop and tablet in one – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you’ve ever cast your eyes towards experimenting with microwave frequencies it’s likely that one of your first ports of call was a cheaply-available Doppler radar module. These devices usually operate in the 10 GHz band, and the older ones used a pair of die-cast waveguide cavities while the newer ones use a dielectric resonator
Read MoreBitcoin is having a very good week – both in terms of price and the stability of its blockchain. Shortly after surging past $9,000 to hit its highest price for 2019, the cryptocurrency‘s mining difficulty increased by 11.26 percent to 7.46 trillion, setting an all-time high for the network. The previous record came in October,
Read MoreTarget has issued a recall for 90,000 of its Heyday Lightning cables after it received over a dozen reports of the cables smoking, sparking, or igniting, MacRumors reports. According to a recall notice issued by the United State Consumer Product Safety Commission, there have been two reports of people suffering finger burns from the cables,
Read MoreNew store will showcase hardware and offer help to users. Microsoft prepares to open its latest flagship store, just a few doors down from Apple Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThis week sees two more universities get into the blockchain game by offering courses in cryptocurrency, fintech, and distributed ledger technology. Earlier this week, Ireland‘s Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation Heather Humphreys launched the country’s first Master’s in blockchain technology. While on the other side of the Atlantic, the Wharton School of the University
Read MoreAfter a longer than usual incubation, the Windows 10 May 2019 Update gets a round of fixes. Here’s what’s been fixed. Windows 10 May 2019 Update 1903 gets first major bug fixes Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreYesterday Twitter, in response to years of complaints about letting white nationalists use the platform even though they had already been banned, said that it plans to conduct academic research on the subject. At HuffPost, Luke O’Brien took the occasion to note just how many white nationalists are using the platform: The white supremacist accused
Read MoreThe other day a coworker and I were chatting about our phone’s home screens and the way we organize our app icons. We spent a good amount of time describing to one another our implicit rules on how we prioritize homepage icons, how we choose apps that will sit on the edge vs. the middle
Read MoreTesla has started taking preorders of Model 3 cars produced at its new Gigafactory in Shanghai, China. Bloomberg reports that the cars, which are available to order exclusively in China, will have a base price of 328,000 yuan ($47,510), 13 percent cheaper than the model imported from the US for a price 377,000 yuan ($54,616).
Read MoreSocial networks built on public status markers are now starting to hide them. Are Likes and Followers the Problem With Social Media? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreGoogle is expanding its privacy audit to make third-party developer access to Chrome and Google Drive more secure. To that effect, developers must rework their Chrome extensions to request only minimum permissions without compromising their functionality “We’re requiring extensions to only request access to the appropriate data needed to implement their features,” Google outlined on
Read MoreA few weeks ago, OnePlus released its most extravagant phone yet, the OnePlus 7 Pro. Now, it’s time for its more vanilla variant, the OnePlus 7. While OnePlus blew us off with the new design and a stunning screen with the Pro version, this one’s just an iterative update to the OnePlus 6T, and you might
Read MoreDani Deahl / The Verge: In the age of music streaming, missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is estimated to have left billions on the table unpaid to artists and musicians — Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never
Read MoreHackers from North Korea are making headlines again, this time for going after the funds of users of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UpBit. The hackers allegedly sent a phishing email to UpBit users earlier this week. The email falsely claimed that the exchange needed additional customer information to process a nonexistent sweepstakes’ payout, according to
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