Enlarge / Danish racing driver Tom Kristensen leads another pair of Audi RS e-tron GTs through the corkscrew corner at Laguna Seca. (credit: Audi) Call it platform sharing, call it badge engineering, call it what you like—car companies have collaborated with each other to make cars for much of the automobile’s history. Sometimes these link-ups…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Google announced today that its Health Connect app is now available in beta on the Play Store. Health Connect is designed to centralize access to health and fitness data from various eligible apps. Today, more than 10 health and fitness apps are launching integrations with Health Connect, including MyFitnessPal, Oura and Peloton. The app syncs…
Google has paid out $70,000 to a security researcher for privately reporting an “accidental” security bug that allowed anyone to unlock Google Pixel phones without knowing its passcode. The lock screen bypass bug, tracked as CVE-2022-20465, is described as a local escalation of privilege bug because it allows someone, with the device in their hand,…
A new lawsuit is taking on Apple’s data collection practices in the wake of a recent report by independent researchers who found Apple was continuing to track consumers in its mobile apps, even when they had explicitly configured their iPhone privacy settings to turn tracking off. In a proposed class action lawsuit, plaintiff Elliot Libman…
What goes up must come down” is a cliche that is also a bastardization of Newton’s third law. It’s also a good reminder that when it looks like the business market has changed fundamentally, we’re often really just seeing a temporary aberration. This idiom rings true when we consider the cycle of tech valuations (up…
We’ve rounded up the best deals of the day on Nov. 14 — here are our top picks: BEST STREAMING DEAL: Four months of Amazon Music Unlimited — free with select purchases at Best Buy (save $39.96) BEST TECH DEAL: Sony 55-inch BRAVIA XR A80J Series OLED 4K UHD Smart Google TV — $999.99 $1,899.99 (save…
Microsoft has announced a new feature coming to its Microsoft Teams desktop client that will help users maintain clarity in the age of endless instant messages. The company hopes to roll out the ability to delete chat threads in the video conferencing software by the end of the year, claiming December 2022 is the target…
It was anything but a typical, quiet Sunday for Turkish citizens yesterday. Six people died and over 80 suffered injures following a bomb attack that rocked a busy pedestrian area of central Istanbul. Occurring at around 4pm local time, no one claimed responsibility for the blast just yet. The strikes didn’t end offline, though, as…
All of Azure DevOps REST APIs are now getting granular Personal Access Tokens (PAT). The goal of the change, which was met with glee in the cybersecurity community, is to minimize the potential damage of a leaked PAT credential. Announcing the news via an Azure DevOps blogpost, product manager Barry Wolfson said that prior to…
China’s leader Xi Jinping shakes hands with US President Joe Biden at their meeting on Monday during the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Biden of the US and Chairman Xi of China met for more than three hours on Monday morning. The two leaders opposed the use of nuclear…