The Mighty Vibe looks like an iPod Shuffle but works with Spotify. This code saves you 20 percent. Plus: a PlayStation game bundle for as little as $1 and the Google Home Mini for $29! Listen to your Spotify playlists offline for – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreFacebook said it is shutting the app down for Apple users. Facebook paid teens to use research app that could monitor online activity and communication Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIt’s the Faustian pact for the 21st century, except this time the devil is Facebook. As unearthed by TechCrunch’s Josh Constine, the world’s biggest social network has been paying people (including 13-year-olds) to install a sketchy mobile VPN that spies on everything they do. The VPN app, called Facebook Research, but referred to as “Project
Read MoreApple: Apple Music subscribers can stream music without paying for Wi-Fi on domestic American Airlines flights in the US starting February 1 — Apple Music Subscribers can Stream Over 50 Million Songs, Playlists and Music Videos on US Flights — Starting Friday, Apple Music subscribers can enjoy … Apple Music subscribers can stream music without
Read MoreThis Sunday, the Boston-based startup will air the first Super Bowl ad for a home security company, ever. SimpliSafe is running a Super Bowl ad for its DIY home security kit – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreVisor just raised millions in financing backing a simple premise: that the aid of a qualified tax professional shouldn’t be a privilege of only the rich and famous or cost an arm and a leg. Right now, you can sample Visor and get help completing your next tax return for just $89, over half off
Read MoreThe e-commerce giant posted numbers that pale in comparison to earlier surging figures, a sign of the country’s economic slowdown. Alibaba, an Icon of China’s Growth, Now Reflects Its Slowdown Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft wants to make it easier for organizations to deal with new privacy regulations. Struggling to comply with GDPR? Microsoft 365 rolls out new privacy dashboards Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreBusiness Wire: Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B — HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018. Alibaba Q3:
Read MoreBrian Fung / Washington Post: Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from ’17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in ’18 — Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether. Spam
Read MoreWhile the era of the TiVo (and frankly, the idea of recording TV broadcasts) has largely come to a close, there are still dedicated users out there who aren’t quite ready to give up on the world’s best known digital video recorder. One such TiVo fanatic is [Gavan McGregor], who recently tried to put a
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered if your phone is spying on you, you’re not alone. One of the most hotly debated topics in technology today is the amount of data that firms surreptitiously gather about us online. You may well have shared the increasingly common experience of feeling creeped out by ads for something you recently
Read MoreGertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged 400%+ in 2018 to $1.7B — NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400 percent in 2018 to around $1.7 billion … CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges
Read MoreFor those who want branding and aesthetic uniformity from their external hard drives. Seagate's officially licensed PS4 game drive adds 2TB storage – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf recent increases are any indication, chances are your next iDevice will cost even more. We analyzed how prices have shot up and offer ways to buy for less. Tech Fix: How to Save on Your Next Apple Purchase Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreRob Marvin / PCMag: Interview with Alphabet’s Jigsaw product manager CJ Adams on how its AI-assisted Perspective tool, used by some publishers to weed out abusive comments, works — The Perspective API from Jigsaw, part of Google parent company Alphabet, gives online comment mods an evolving set of tools to combat abuse and harassment. Interview
Read MoreChina’s recent scientific achievements – including its embryo gene-editing research and historic moon landing – appear to be surrounded by secrecy. The global scientific community first learned about its experiments modifying the DNA of human embryos through rumors in 2015. While China’s National Space Administrative (CNSA) acknowledged in December 2018 that its spacecraft was preparing
Read MoreA whole generation of programmers learned to program by writing — or at least typing in — game programs for relatively simple computers like a TRS-80, a Commodore 64, or any of a handful of similar machines. These days, games are way more complicated and so are computers. Sure, it is more fun to play
Read MoreDuring its earnings call yesterday, Apple revealed that its quarterly revenue for fiscal 2019’s Q1 (which ended on December 29, 2018) was down by 5 percent compared to a year ago, at just over $84 billion. It also shed light on why that happened: people bought fewer iPhones. About 15 percent fewer, to be precise.
Read MoreCasey Newton / The Verge: Facebook says it will shut down its controversial market research app on iOS, but it will apparently continue to be available for Android users — Facebook Research paid users $20 gift cards for near total access to data on their phones — Facebook will end a controversial market research program
Read MoreHe was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail. Man reportedly paid for a PS4 after pretending it was fruit – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTom Bissell / New York Times: Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook’s damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly — ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn’t a prediction. Zucked, a book by
Read MoreThe RetroPie project is a software suite for the Raspberry Pi that allows the user to easily play classic video games through emulators. It’s been around for a while now, so it’s relatively trivial to get this set up with a basic controller and video output. That means that the race is on for novel
Read MoreAnumeha Chaturvedi / The Economic Times: Paytm has acquired NightStay, which offers last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, and says it plans to invest ~$70M in scaling up its travel operations — Paytm has launched hotel bookings on its platform and acquired NightStay, which offers deals on last-minute bookings at luxury hotels … Paytm has acquired
Read MoreNo more choosing which photo to delete… Samsung unveils 1TB smartphone storage in 'industry first' – CNET Source: CNet
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