Month: February 2021
Amazon Echo Show 10 review: A rotating screen is a pricey novelty
Ever since the original Echo Show, smart displays have proven to be pretty useful around the house. They’re great for quickly looking up information, recipe instructions, video calls and more. But here’s the problem: They’re completely stationary. Yo… Source
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Amazon Echo Show 10 review: Alexa’s next move
Since its inception in 2015, Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant has always been a disembodied digital form trapped in a box of electronics. The original Echo was a cylinder, later models have had a spherical shape, and the Echo Show devices are effectively wedges with screens on the front. Alexa behaves…
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8 Great Chess Apps for Beginners and Grand Masters
Sharpen your chess skills—or learn the game from scratch—with these digital options. Source
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The Bitcoin blockchain is being used to shield some serious malware botnet
Security researchers have discovered that a botnet campaign is innovatively using the Bitcoin blockchain to prevent it from being taken down. While analyzing a long-running crypto-mining botnet campaign, Chad Seaman from Akamai discovered that its operators had camouflaged the IP address of its backup command and control (C&C) server on…
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Lectric’s Ebike Is Heavy but Foldable and Affordable
At $899, this folding electric bike’s tremendous value makes it easy to look past its faults. Source
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TikTok removed more than 300,000 videos for election misinformation
TikTok removed over 340,000 videos in the US for breaking the platform’s rules on election misinformation, manipulation, or disinformation, according to a Wednesday transparency report covering content from the second half of last year. A few months before the 2020 presidential election, TikTok announced that it would pair with fact-checking…
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