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- Apple will ask before it targets you with its ads in iOS 15
- Audi’s Grandsphere concept car is another luxurious living room on wheels
- Twitter has plans to let users hide their old tweets
- Samsung announces tiny and huge versions of one of its best TVs
- Asus is going all-in on OLED laptops
- Asus’s new Zenbook 14X is the latest thin and light laptop with an OLED screen
- TV streaming service Locast suspends service after court ruling
- Moonfall is a disaster movie about the Moon falling
- FTC bans spyware app SpyFone, orders it to delete illegally harvested data
- Nintendo’s new Big Brain Academy is like Mario Party with brainteasers
| Apple will ask before it targets you with its ads in iOS 15 Posted: 02 Sep 2021 10:41 AM PDT  Apple will start asking for permission to enable Personalized Ads in iOS 15, the company's method of serving relevant ads in the App Store and Apple News by analyzing what you read, purchase, and search for on your device (via 9to5Mac). The company used to collect that information by default, but now it plans to ask for permission. Apple required other developers to seek users' permission with the debut of App Tracking Transparency, so it seems like it's showing that it will hold itself to a similar standard. The Personalized Ads pop-up should show up when you open the App Store if you're running the most recent iOS 15 beta. In the pop-up, Apple writes that the ads will help you discover relevant apps, products, and services while...  |
| Audi’s Grandsphere concept car is another luxurious living room on wheels Posted: 02 Sep 2021 10:30 AM PDT  Automakers love concept cars that tease a future in which very rich people ride around in autonomous vehicles that look like luxurious living spaces. The latest is Audi's Grandsphere, a spacious electric sedan with an interior that looks like it was designed by a Kardashian. The car is designed to be adjustable based on the preferred driving style. If you want the car to drive itself, the steering wheel and pedals retract, leaving you sitting in a minimally designed living room setting with wood trim and wool textures. Instead of a screen, the car's operating system is projected on the surface of the wood dashboard under the windshield. And when you're ready to drive yourself, the manual controls simply appear.  |
| Twitter has plans to let users hide their old tweets Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:25 AM PDT  Twitter is planning new features to give people more privacy options, according to Bloomberg. The social network's plans reportedly include the option to archive old tweets so they're not visible to other users after a given period of time (like 30, 60, or 90 days or a full year). They also include possible options to limit who can see which tweets you've liked, to let people remove themselves from a conversation on Twitter, and to let people remove followers without outright blocking them. Bloomberg describes the new features as a suite of "social privacy" changes that are aimed at making people more comfortable engaging on Twitter. Internal research at Twitter apparently found that many users don't even understand whether their...  |
| Samsung announces tiny and huge versions of one of its best TVs Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:21 AM PDT  Samsung has announced new sizes for some of its best TVs, giving more choices to consumers who want the option of either a small or massive flagship TV. Samsung has added 43-inch and 98-inch sizes to its QN90A lineup of "Neo QLED" 4K TVs and an 85-inch option for its The Frame TV. The Neo QLED TVs have Samsung's flagship panels, which use Mini LED backlights to improve contrast and picture quality. These kinds of flagship-class panels used to be limited mostly to the 55- to 77-inch range, but they seem to be making their way to size classes that used to be reserved for budget TVs. Samsung hasn't yet announced pricing for these TVs. At the moment, the 50-inch QN90A sells for $1,400 (with an MSRP of $1,500), and the 85-inch model can be...  |
| Asus is going all-in on OLED laptops Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:00 AM PDT  Asus has announced the ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED and the ProArt StudioBook 16 Pro OLED, two of the first 16-inch laptops to include 4K OLED HDR displays. Per Asus, the displays will cover 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut and deliver a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio (neither of which is uncommon among 4K OLED panels). The laptops target creative professionals who work in "color-critical" applications. The two devices come with an interesting new peripheral called the Asus Dial, a physical wheel on the left side of the keyboard deck. Users can map this controller to adjust various parameters in Adobe apps, which Asus says include After Effects, Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom Classic, and Premiere Pro. The StudioBook 16 and StudioBook 16...  |
| Asus’s new Zenbook 14X is the latest thin and light laptop with an OLED screen Posted: 02 Sep 2021 09:00 AM PDT  Asus's Zenbooks are known for being quite lightweight and quite affordable. But the company is adding another calling card to the line: OLED display technology. The new 14-inch Zenbook 14X OLED will be available with either a 4K OLED HDR display or a 2.8K OLED 90Hz display. Given those resolutions, either should be a significant step up in picture quality from the Zenbook 13 OLED, the ultraportable OLED model Asus released earlier this year. That device has an FHD OLED display (which was still quite vivid and bright in our testing). The Zenbook 14X OLED will cover 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut and a 0.2ms response time. Asus claims it will emit "70 percent less harmful blue light than normal LCD". Screen aside, the 14X weighs...  |
| TV streaming service Locast suspends service after court ruling Posted: 02 Sep 2021 08:41 AM PDT  Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the nonprofit service shortly after it launched. "As a non-profit, Locast was designed from the very beginning to operate in accordance with the strict letter of the law, but in response to the court's recent rulings, with which we respectfully disagree, we are hereby suspending operations, effective immediately," an email to Locast users sent out this morning reads. Locast was launched in 2019 as an internet-based alternative to over-the-air television, rebroadcasting local, free over-the-air signals over the internet to users in those...  |
| Moonfall is a disaster movie about the Moon falling Posted: 02 Sep 2021 08:14 AM PDT  You pretty much always know what to expect from a Roland Emmerich movie: namely, that a good chunk of the planet is going to be destroyed. The director of films like 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow is now taking that to its logical extreme with Moonfall, a movie about the Moon... falling. According to the synopsis, the movie is set when "a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it." It stars Halle Berry as a NASA exec who seems to know how to stop it, but the only people who believe her are a former astronaut (Patrick Wilson) and a conspiracy theorist (John Bradley). "These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving...  |
| FTC bans spyware app SpyFone, orders it to delete illegally harvested data Posted: 02 Sep 2021 07:59 AM PDT  On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had banned spyware maker SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance business. The commission called SpyFone a "stalkerware app company" that allegedly harvested and shared data about people's movements, phone use, and online activity via a hidden device hack. "The company's apps sold real-time access to their secret surveillance, allowing stalkers and domestic abusers to stealthily track the potential targets of their violence," the FTC said in a statement. "SpyFone's lack of basic security also exposed device owners to hackers, identity thieves, and other cyber threats." In addition to the ban, the FTC ordered SpyFone to delete illegally harvested data and notify...  |
| Nintendo’s new Big Brain Academy is like Mario Party with brainteasers Posted: 02 Sep 2021 07:05 AM PDT  Nintendo sneakily announced Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain, a new educational puzzle game for the Switch that sees the revival of a franchise that previously appeared on the DS handheld (and later ported to Wii U's Virtual Console). It'll release on December 3rd, 2021 for $29.99, and in it you'll race through puzzle mini games and challenges to flex your smarts. In addition to single player modes, the game will support couch multiplayer and online play. Nintendo is even implementing a ghost data system, so you can test your skills against people who have gotten higher scores.
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