Technology

  Watching fireworks on television is nothing like watching them in real life. Televised fireworks aren’t very attractive compared with the experience of watching them live, with dull colors and muted explosions. Best-case, they look flat and uninspiring. Worst-case, they can look like badly rendered CGI. A recent Wired UK …

  Internet connected home security cameras have become a big business with companies like Google’s Nest and Amazon’s Ring dominating the high-end market. However, there are also numerous smaller players like the budget-minded Wyze. This company attracted attention for its $20 security camera and other super-cheap smart home products. However, …

  CES 2020 is fast approaching, and manufacturers often like to have a few surprises in store. There’s a rumor that Intel will unveil a new laptop cooling method at the show, with cooling performance gains of 25-30 percent — though that may only be in comparison to existing fanless …

  If you’re a Facebook user wondering if your personal information has been leaked, the answer by this point is almost certainly “yes.” The latest privacy snafu in a long series of them involves about 267 million users. Comparitech and security researcher Bob Diachenko spotted a repository of Facebook user …

  Anyone running an older version of the Twitter app on Android might want to reconsider their update phobia. Twitter reports that a flaw in the app could have allowed an attacker to access accounts to see protected data and even post content as if they were the victim. The …

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with 194 billion downloads last year and more than $100 billion in consumer spending. People spend 90% …

  With its new Galaxy Tab S6, Samsung is aiming to compete with both Apple’s iPads and Microsoft’s Surface computers. Built like a high-end smartphone, this tablet is certainly versatile, but does it have what it takes to beat out these big competitors? Design and Specs The Galaxy Tab S6 …

  For years, Facebook’s only product was a website, but it has since expanded into hardware with Portal and Oculus. Facebook uses heavily modified versions of Android on both devices, and that makes it dependent on Google and the Android Open Source Project. The company is now reportedly looking to …

  Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy is wrapping up with the new film release, but trying to snag an early copy online might be even more risky than usual. Kaspersky Lab reports that The Rise of Skywalker has become the hottest new way to push malware on unsuspecting internet users. …

  For most of Android’s history, Google updated its developer dashboards like clockwork every 30 days or so. This data included the proportion of devices running each version of the OS. However, it stopped updating the dashboards about a year ago. The last update came in May during Google I/O, …