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Google’s New Nest Hub Is the Perfect Alarm Clock

Most of us have long since replaced a standalone alarm clock with a phone, but the new Google Nest Hub is the first smart display that justifies its placement on your nightstand. Its new sleep-tracking capabilities are impressive, and it finally offers an easy sleep-tracking solution for those of us who hate wearing a fitness…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Andrew Liszewski

Intel Somehow Squeezes More Performance Out of Its 11th-Gen Desktop Processors, but I’m Not Sure It Should Have

Just when you think Intel couldn’t do anything else with its desktop processors on that old, 14nm node, it manages to do something else. I thought the company hit a limit with its previous generation, although the gains it does make gen-over-gen aren’t the most impressive. Between Intel’s long, fraught saga getting its architecture down…

Reviews Joanna Nelius

Google Maps Is Adding Indoor Live View and 100+ Other Features

It’s hard to imagine a time when people still relied on paper maps and printed directions, but we’ve come a long way. To celebrate, Google today announced that more than 100 AI-powered updates are coming to Google Maps in 2021. Yes, that’s right: 100. The biggest new addition to Google Maps is support for indoor…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

T-Mobile Will Make Google Messages Its Default Messaging App for Android

T-Mobile customers with Android devices will be using Google’s Messages as their primary messaging app. The companies announced today an expanded partnership that will see Google’s app become the default on all Android devices. T-Mobile said that Messages would allow users to communicate over wifi and data, use reactions, see read receipts, and send higher…

Internet Catie Keck

Dangerous Android App Pretends to Be a System Update to Steal Your Data

Beware a newly discovered malicious app that pretends to update your phone but, in reality, is just a giant spyware application that can steal pretty much all your data while also monitoring your movements and online search history. Simply called System Update, the Android app was discovered by researchers with mobile security firm Zimperium, who…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Peloton’s Latest Moves Hint at a Possible Smartwatch

Peloton’s had a lot of ups and downs over the past year, but it recently snapped up an interesting mix of smaller tech companies. This latest round of acquisitions seems to hint that the company could be mulling its own wearable device—or at the very least, adding some interesting AI-powered features to its existing products.…

Gadgets Victoria Song

There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated]

Have you noticed a strange army of Amazon employees on Twitter recently, claiming that Amazon doesn’t engage in union-busting and disputing stories that workers sometimes have to piss in bottles? Many Twitter users are wondering whether the people are even real. And while there’s some evidence these people could be real, at least one of…

Tech News Matt Novak

Big Tech Takes First Steps to Bring Workers Back to the Office

Although the covid-19 pandemic is still raging worldwide, big tech companies appear to be heartened by the recent developments over the last few months and are taking the first steps to bring their workers back to the office. This week, Uber and Facebook announced timelines for a small percentage of their workforce to return to…

Tech News Jody Serrano

Linktree Raises $45 Million for Its ‘Link in Bio’ Social Commerce Service

“Link in bio.” If you, like me, are constantly doomscrolling online, you’ve probably come across the phrase before. Between the endless conveyer belt of new social media platforms and the fact that most limit users to just one URL in their bio, it’s led to a growing demand for landing pages to house all those…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Turns Out This Sophisticated Hacking Campaign Was Actually the Work of ‘Western Government Operatives’

A sophisticated hacking campaign that was previously witnessed targeting security flaws in Android, Windows and iOS devices is actually the work of “Western government operatives” conducting a “counterterrorism operation,” according to a new report from MIT Technology Review. The campaign in question, which has garnered more and more attention from media outlets over the last…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

You Seriously Need to Update Your iPhone Right Now

Apple users are already pretty quick when it comes to downloading new OS updates, but anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch need to be even more proactive about installing iOS 14.4.2 and watch OS 7.3.3 as quickly as possible to address an active security threat. Unlike larger software updates, which might bring some…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Boldly Following Every Other Tech Company, Slack Is Cloning Clubhouse Now

Slack—following in the grand old tradition of companies like Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter—is planning on cloning buzzy app Clubhouse’s voice chatroom functionality. Slack, which builds a chat room product primarily used by businesses, already allows users to place audio calls to one another. Per Protocol, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said in a recent Clubhouse session…

Tech News Tom McKay

The Magic of Mac OS X, 20 Years Later

I’m not usually one to wax rhapsodic about an operating system, but let’s go back 20 years to just before the launch of Mac OS X and talk about what came before and everything that came after. Twenty years is a rare and important milestone for a piece of software. After all, most software rarely…

Tech News John Biggs

Hulu’s Android TV App Finally Bumps Up to 1080p From 720p on Some Devices

Some versions of the Hulu app for Android TV will now have higher resolution for video streaming, and thank god for that. As spotted by Redditors this week and reported by 9to5Google, the max resolution available on the “App & Device Info” page in Hulu’s Android TV app has jumped from 720p to 1080p. Gizmodo…

Internet Catie Keck

A Rugged Apple Watch Might Be in the Cards

Last year, Apple broke with tradition and offered not one, but two Apple Watches—the Series 6 and the cheaper SE. Now, a Bloomberg report is suggesting Apple is mulling adding another rugged variant to appeal to outdoor athletes and hikers. The news comes from Mark Gurman, a noted Apple prognosticator with a good track record.…

Tech News Victoria Song

How to Get the Best Possible Audio Quality From Your Streaming Services

If you’re seriously passionate about your music’s audio fidelity, then maybe streaming services aren’t your go-to. But you can actually get pretty high-quality sound from a few of the services on the market—there’s quite a lot of variation to consider based on the platform you use and whether you’re paying or not. While we’re not going…

Gadgets David Nield

Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 780G Brings Flagship Features to Mid-Range Phones

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chip is clearly the company’s flagship CPU, powering everything from Samsung’s Galaxy S21 line to a bunch of gaming phones and whole lot more. Now Qualcomm is announcing the new Snapdragon 780G chip, which promises to bring flagship performance to mid-range handsets. The Snapdragon 780G is the successor to last year’s 765G and 768G chips, which…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Playdate Teases a New Feature, but There’s Still No Release Date

Companies like Apple and Google have struggled to get new products out the door because of the pandemic, so it makes sense that smaller ones would be in the same boat. And while we still don’t know when the long-teased Playdate handheld will be available for preorder, Panic has a fun new feature for developers…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Controversial Arizona Bill That Would’ve Changed App Stores Mysteriously Goes Poof in the Night

On Wednesday, the Arizona State Senate was supposed to vote on Arizona HB2005, a controversial bill that would’ve dramatically changed how both Apple and Google’s app stores work. But per a Verge report, the vote never happened. Despite being listed on the senate’s agenda, the bill was skipped without an explanation. Since the bill was…

Tech News Victoria Song

GameStop Decided Now Is a Good Time to Start Selling Graphics Cards

Given the state of the current GPU market and, well, the PC hardware market as a whole, it would be an interesting business decision for any company to start selling components. But this is 2021, and all logic be damned; GameStop is going to start selling graphic cards. According to PCMag, GameStop CEO George Sherman…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Google’s New Nest Hub Is the Perfect Alarm Clock

Intel Somehow Squeezes More Performance Out of Its 11th-Gen Desktop Processors, but I’m Not Sure It Should Have

Google Maps Is Adding Indoor Live View and 100+ Other Features

T-Mobile Will Make Google Messages Its Default Messaging App for Android

Dangerous Android App Pretends to Be a System Update to Steal Your Data

Peloton’s Latest Moves Hint at a Possible Smartwatch

There’s Something Fishy About Amazon’s Anti-Union Twitter Army [Updated]

Big Tech Takes First Steps to Bring Workers Back to the Office

Linktree Raises $45 Million for Its ‘Link in Bio’ Social Commerce Service

Turns Out This Sophisticated Hacking Campaign Was Actually the Work of ‘Western Government Operatives’

You Seriously Need to Update Your iPhone Right Now

Boldly Following Every Other Tech Company, Slack Is Cloning Clubhouse Now

The Magic of Mac OS X, 20 Years Later

Hulu’s Android TV App Finally Bumps Up to 1080p From 720p on Some Devices

A Rugged Apple Watch Might Be in the Cards

How to Get the Best Possible Audio Quality From Your Streaming Services

Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon 780G Brings Flagship Features to Mid-Range Phones

Playdate Teases a New Feature, but There’s Still No Release Date

Controversial Arizona Bill That Would’ve Changed App Stores Mysteriously Goes Poof in the Night

GameStop Decided Now Is a Good Time to Start Selling Graphics Cards

Meta Smart Glasses Can Now Track All the Food You Put Into Your Mouth

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