Month: May 2020
The Google Pixel 3A and 3A XL are up to $160 off at several retailers
Google’s midrange Pixel 3A and Pixel 3A XL are more affordable than ever today. Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo have discounted the 3A with 64GB of storage to $279 ($120 off). The larger Pixel 3A XL is seeing an even bigger $160 price cut at those stores, which brings…
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IBM confirms layoffs are happening, but won’t provide details
IBM confirmed reports from over night that it is conducting layoffs, but wouldn’t provide details related to location, departments or number of employees involved. The company framed it in terms of replacing people with more needed skills as it tries to regroup under new CEO Arvind Krishna. “IBM’s work in…
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Windows 10 basics: how to customize your display
If you’ve just bought a new laptop, one of the first things you’re probably going to want to do is personalize how it looks. Windows has plenty of options for customizing what you see when you open up your device. You can choose a lock screen, use a photo or…
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Samsara secures major funding amid Covid-19 concerns
Fleet management company Samsara has raised $400 million from its latest round of fundraising to see its valuation now stand at $5.4 billion. The news was revealed at a company town hall event, where Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas also discussed the recent300 layoffs that represent 18 per cent of the…
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Apple’s handling of Siri snippets back in the frame after letter of complaint to EU privacy regulators
Apple is facing fresh questions from its lead data protection regulator in Europe following a public complaint by a former contractor who revealed last year that workers doing quality grading for Siri were routinely overhearing sensitive user data. Earlier this week the former Apple contractor, Thomas le Bonniec, sent a…
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Unproven strategies lead the race for a COVID-19 vaccine
Last week, President Trump stood in the Rose Garden and told the assembled press corps that hundreds of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine would be available by the end of 2020, just seven months away. “It’s called Operation Warp Speed. That means big, and it means fast,” Trump…
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