Month: January 2022
Uber is the latest popular app to bail on the Apple Watch
Uber has quietly shut down its Apple Watch app, with the software now showing a message that instructs people to “please switch to the Uber mobile app.” The company is “no longer supporting the Apple Watch app,” according to the text, which ends with Uber apologizing for any inconvenience caused…
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SEC charges ‘decentralized’ Amazon Web Services competitor with scamming investors
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the would-be creator of a “decentralized” Amazon Web Services alternative with scamming investors out of millions. The SEC announced a complaint on Friday against Australian citizen Craig Sproule, the CEO of cryptocurrency startup Crowd Machine, which promised a global cloud computing network…
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Today I learned about the (no longer available) Shazam Chrome extension
Update January 10th, 3:44PM ET: Shortly after this article was published, the extension was made unavailable from the Chrome Web Store. At the moment, the apps page on Shazam’s website still advertises the extension, but the link to it leads to a 404 error. We’ve reached out to Apple (which…
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Razer no longer claims its Zephyr mask uses ‘N95-grade’ filters
Razer’s popular $100 Zephyr mask isn’t a replacement for PPE (because it isn’t PPE), but its announcement of the Zephyr Pro last week spurred a surge of claims that the company had overstated the masks’ protection. Razer responded by scrubbing every instance of “N95-grade” from the mask’s product page late…
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Apple Watch Series 8 may not have a body temperature sensor after all
If you were hoping for more exciting updates with the Apple Watch Series 8, you might have to start tempering expectations. While it was initially thought that the next-generation watch would have a body temperature sensor, it’s looking like that may not be the case after all. A body temperature…
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The FCC’s still in a stalemate a year into Biden’s presidency
After nearly a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, new pressure is mounting on the Senate to expeditiously confirm nominations for positions at two of the federal government’s top agencies with control over broadband and data privacy. In new statements issued on Monday, public interest groups Free Press Action and Fight…
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