Month: September 2020
Amazon takes down a five-star fraud in the UK
Amazon’s top reviewers in the UK appear to have engaged in fraud, leaving thousands of five-star ratings in exchange for money or free products. The company took down 20,000 product reviews following an investigation by the Financial Times. Justin Fryer, the number one Amazon reviewer in the UK, left a…
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White House issues ‘SPD-5’ cybersecurity policy for space
The Trump administration’s latest Space Policy Directive, SPD-5, details policies the government believes the country’s public and private space agencies should adopt to protect their systems from hacking threats. Some of the best practices the docum… Source
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There won’t be an Essential Phone 2 but ex-employees may make a spiritual successor Essential Phone
Former staff of Essential, which made the fan-favorite Essential Phone, have gathered under a new company called OSOM Products that was founded by prior Essential R&D head Jason Keats. Essential shut down in early February 2020 over both controversy following founder Andy Rubin and lukewarm Essential Phone sales. As first…
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This suspected Apple Watch prototype is disguised as a tiny iPod
Is this an actual prototype Apple Watch in one of those covert “security cases” that companies sometimes use when they’re testing gadgets in broad daylight? We can’t say. Either way, this tiny iPod is perversely adorable — and quite the in-joke if it’s real. Prototype Apple Watch (Original) with matching…
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How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Firefox, and more
You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. They begin playing as soon as you load a page or (if they’re more deviously implemented) when you start scrolling through a page. Automatic video play is a feature…
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NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless
Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in market… Source
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