You may trust Chegg with your textbooks or tutoring, but regulators aren’t quite so confident. The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint accusing education tech provider Chegg of “careless” security practices that compromised personal data since 2017. Among the violations, the company reportedly exposed sensitive info for roughly 40 million customers in 2018 after…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Aside from the usual VR games, one great reason to own a Meta Quest 2 is the virtual reality exercise potential. There are a number of great games and apps that allow you to improve your fitness by making working out fun. There’s nothing quite like gamifying your exercise to make it more enjoyable. These…
There’s a lot going on over at Twitter thanks to its new owner, but let me say right now that we here at Droid Life don’t plan to report on every piece of news that comes out of there. There are enough outlets posting about every crap that Elon Musk takes, and frankly, I couldn’t…
EA has signed a three-game deal with Marvel, beginning with its previously-announced Iron Man project. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reported today that the FIFA publisher had inked a deal for a further two titles featuring Marvel characters. There’s no word yet on which other Marvel faces might star in these games, which EA studio…
The Uncharted series made the jump to PC earlier this month with Naughty Dog’s Legacy of Thieves collection. And, where there are PC games, modders are never far behind, ready to put their skills into action. One such modder is Raq (whose name you may recognise from our Tomb Raider Anniversary piece). They have created…
The iPhone 15 Pro models may feature solid-state volume and power buttons, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The Taptic Engine in the iPhone 6S – the first iPhone model to feature the component. In a tweet, Kuo explained that the volume and power buttons on next year’s two high-end iPhone models may adopt a…
Select Apple Stores in the United States have suspended the sale of the first-generation Apple Pencil until stock improves for the USB-C to Lightning Adapter, which is needed to charge the pencil with the new entry-level iPad, MacRumors has learned. The 10th-generation iPad is only compatible with the first-generation Apple Pencil, which is equipped with…
Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter and instated himself as CEO, just hours before a court-ordered deadline to buy the business expired, according to multiple reports. In a reference to Twitter’s logo, billionaire Musk tweeted “the bird is freed,” after reportedly firing several top executives, including the chief executive, Parag Agrawal….
TuSimple may have defrauded investors by failing to disclose its ties to a Chinese firm. | Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Autonomous trucking company TuSimple is under investigation for its ties to a Chinese company, The Wall Street Journal reports. The FBI and SEC are said to be looking into whether the…
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying satellites for the US Air Force ahead of a launch scheduled for June 24th, 2019, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images On November 1st, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch into space for the first time since 2019. The giant…