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- The BlackBerry Storm showed why you should never turn a touchscreen into a button
- The GoPro Volta is a handle, remote, tripod, and external battery all in one
- Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story
- Xbox won’t stop you sharing clips to Twitter from your console after all
- Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet
- Disney Streaming’s new CTO is a former Google exec who worked on the tech behind YouTube
- TweetDeck might become a paid Twitter Blue feature
- I’m done with Wyze
- Apple will allow Dutch dating apps to use other payment options within existing apps
- Apple and Meta shared data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement officials
| The BlackBerry Storm showed why you should never turn a touchscreen into a button Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:00 AM PDT  In 2007, the iPhone ushered in an era of touchscreen gadgets that caused most buttons to vanish from our phones forever. But there was one brief moment in the gray, transitory haze between buttons and touchscreens that an unlikely company tried to fuse the two together. BlackBerry split the difference by boldly asking, "What if a touchscreen was also a hardware button?" Thus was born the BlackBerry Storm, a device whose entire touchscreen doubled as a pressable button. The Storm was one of the first (and last) attempts to bridge the legacy world of physical keyboards and the modern world of touchscreens. But to understand the existence of the BlackBerry Storm and its bizarre clicking screen, we first need to go back and understand... |
| The GoPro Volta is a handle, remote, tripod, and external battery all in one Posted: 31 Mar 2022 06:00 AM PDT  GoPro is announcing a new accessory for its action cameras that's a jack of all trades — the Volta acts as a grippable handle / tripod, a wired or wireless remote, and has a 4,900mAh battery that the company says can triple your camera's battery life, providing four hours of record time when paired with a completely charged internal battery if you're shooting 5.3K footage. The Volta uses an integrated USB-C cable to plug into and charge your GoPro with the press of a button and has an additional USB-C port for charging up its internal battery. GoPro says the integrated battery can be charged in as little as two and a half hours and that there's a quick-charge mode that takes it from 0 to 60 percent in an hour. |
| Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story Posted: 31 Mar 2022 05:00 AM PDT  Google is adding a new "highly cited" label to search results frequently sourced by other publications, the company is announcing today. Anything from local news stories, to interviews, announcements, and even press releases will be eligible for the new label being added to the search result's preview image, so long as other websites are linking to it. More info is also being added to Search's "rapidly evolving topics" and "About this Result" notices. The search giant's hope is that its highly cited label will help highlight original reporting, which can include important context that's stripped out when a story gets picked up more widely. But it should also be helpful to find press releases, where you can get information directly from... |
| Xbox won’t stop you sharing clips to Twitter from your console after all Posted: 31 Mar 2022 02:52 AM PDT  Microsoft's latest Xbox beta software reverses a potentially controversial change to how the console shares gameplay captures to Twitter. Rather than having to use a phone to post content to the social media network, as a previous Xbox Insider build forced users to do, the update restores the ability to share it directly from the console. The change was confirmed by Microsoft's Brad Rossetti on Twitter. Being able to use your phone to share gameplay from the Xbox is a useful feature, and is handy if you want to quickly type out a tweet to accompany your latest clip. But it's nice to also have the option to share it directly from the console itself, for those times when you might not have your phone to hand. Thankfully, Microsoft's... |
| Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet Posted: 31 Mar 2022 01:26 AM PDT  A Twitter user from the UK named Joseph Kelly has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service for posting a "grossly offensive" tweet about Captain Sir Tom Moore, a British Army officer who raised money for the NHS during the pandemic. Moore became a national figure in the UK after walking 100 laps around his garden before his 100th birthday. He was later knighted by the Queen. The day after his death, Kelly, 36, tweeted "the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn." Kelly was found guilty in February last year and faced possible jail time. His case brought attention to an often-criticized piece of UK legislation that allows social media users to be prosecuted for sending "grossly offensive" messages. As r... |
| Disney Streaming’s new CTO is a former Google exec who worked on the tech behind YouTube Posted: 30 Mar 2022 06:35 PM PDT  Direct-to-customer streaming is now a focus for Disney, and today it took another step in organizing that business by announcing a new CTO for the Disney Streaming business unit that includes Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Star Plus. Jeremy Doig is a tech industry veteran with several decades of experience including stints with the BBC and Microsoft, and who has worked for Google for the last 18 years. Variety reports that Doig will take over for Joe Inzerillo, who helped build Disney Plus and joined SiriusXM earlier this year. According to a press release announcing the hire, while there he worked on compression tech for audio and video and streaming protocols that are... |
| TweetDeck might become a paid Twitter Blue feature Posted: 30 Mar 2022 06:06 PM PDT  It's starting to look like the upcoming version of TweetDeck, the power-user-focused version of the Twitter app, won't be free. Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong has discovered a work-in-progress sign-up page for the app, which boasts that it's a "powerful, real-time tool for people who live on Twitter" and offers an ad-free experience. While the page doesn't explicitly say you'll have to pay Twitter to access TweetDeck, companies don't usually advertise "helps you avoid the thing that makes us money" as a feature of free products (even if, like the current version of TweetDeck, it is). And wouldn't you know it, Twitter's already got a paid subscription service that it's trying to sell to its power users. |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2022 04:13 PM PDT  I just threw my Wyze home security cameras in the trash. I'm done with this company. I just learned that for the past three years, Wyze has been fully aware of a vulnerability in its home security cameras that could have let hackers look into your home over the internet — but chose to sweep it under the rug. And the security firm that found the vulnerability largely let them do it. Instead of patching it, instead of recalling it, instead of just, you know, saying something so I could stop pointing these cameras at my kids, Wyze simply decided to discontinue the WyzeCam v1 this January without a full explanation. But on Tuesday, security research firm Bitdefender finally shed light on why Wyze stopped selling it: because... |
| Apple will allow Dutch dating apps to use other payment options within existing apps Posted: 30 Mar 2022 03:16 PM PDT  To help bring an end to wrangling with Dutch regulators that stretched over the last several months, today, Apple published a new version of its App Store rules that allow local dating apps to take payments through third-party processors. Until now, its proposals to comply with a December ruling mandating the change had not satisfied the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and earned Apple 50 million euros worth of fines. Apple previously announced that it would allow dating apps to use alternative payment systems, but it imposed various conditions on how they could do so. Developers would have to submit a separate app binary for the Dutch App Store, and would have to choose between using its in-app payment system or a... |
| Apple and Meta shared data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement officials Posted: 30 Mar 2022 02:59 PM PDT  Apple and Meta handed over user data to hackers who faked emergency data request orders typically sent by law enforcement, according to a report by Bloomberg. The slip-up happened in mid-2021, with both companies falling for the phony requests and providing information about users' IP addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses. Law enforcement officials often request data from social platforms in connection with criminal investigations, allowing them to obtain information about the owner of a specific online account. While these requests require a subpoena or search warrant signed by a judge, emergency data requests don't — and are intended for cases that involve life-threatening situations. Fake emergency data requests are becoming... |
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