Last week, the phone manufacturer OnePlus was caught collecting an extensive amount of data on its Android smartphones. The company has now said that it will cease these practices in response to user feedback, and that future users will be explicitly presented with the option to opt out when they …

Conventional wisdom has long held that locking down your router with WPA2 encryption protocol would protect your data from snooping. That was true for a long time, but maybe not for much longer. A massive security disclosure details vulnerabilities in WPA2 that could let an attacker intercept all your precious …

The Raspberry Pi has been popular with hobbyists and enthusiasts ever since the first iteration was introduced in 2012. Back then, the CPU was an ARM11 single-core chip running at 700MHz. Today, the Raspberry Pi 3 offers a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU running at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, and a higher-clocked …

The blockchain has long been seen as a method to quicken (and cheapen) cross-border payments, and now that movement — which includes a number of startups making moves privately — just got its highest profile advocate after IBM announced its own solution focused on banks. The computing giant has teamed …

Last October, Facebook announced a number of tools and partnerships supporting local discovery and commerce on the app. Among them were the following: Booking and food ordering for Pages Social recommendations Local event discovery Last week, Facebook “officially launched” food ordering on Facebook. The platform is working with delivery aggregators …

Google has updated the Google My Business API to add some support for creating and editing Google Posts. Google Posts is a feature that allows people and businesses to create content directly on Google that can appear highly ranked in Google search results for their names. In version 4.0 of …

We don’t ordinarily think of Google when we think about competition in the digital marketing world, since it seems to reliably dominate most areas in which it does business. A recent segment discussing corporate monopolies on John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight“ hilariously referenced Bing as the dominant search engine with …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Posts can now be automated with new API supportOct 16, 2017 by Barry Schwartz Google My Business API version 4.0 adds new features, including the …

Sony has a history of failing to launch some of its smartphones in the US market, but it’s bringing a new Android-powered device to US-based consumers. It’s just not a phone. Sony’s latest product is the Xperia Touch, a portable projector with touch detection. You can jot down notes, play …

Photo: Twenty20 Turns out, there’s more to yoga than flattering pants and downward-facing dog. Beyond learning the poses, there are a host of other factors that can make or break your practice, from the proper gear to your mindset while you flow. To help you enjoy your yoga class even …