Month: September 2022
21 Early Labor Day Deals on Phones, Headphones, and Pizza Ovens
These discounts on Pixels, iPads, and Solo Stoves will sweeten the end of your summer. Source
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The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands
The Wall Street Journal reports T-Mobile’s engineering and network operations teams are experiencing waves of layoffs, which have included managers and executives, on top of thousands of jobs eliminated by restructuring after the company merged with Sprint in 2020. T-Mobile execs promised then that the merger was “all about creating…
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More than one billion TikTok users exposed to ‘one-click account hijacking’
Audio player loading… A high-severity vulnerability in the TikTok Android application could have allowed accounts to be hijacked “with a single click”, Microsoft has revealed. In a paper (opens in new tab) published to the Microsoft Security blog, the company reported that a chain of issues could have been abused…
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Sennheiser’s more-affordable soundbar is still a premium-sounding beast
Sennheiser’s debut soundbar, released in 2019, was a niche product for a couple of reasons. The first was the price. At $2,499.95, it rivaled the cost of many traditional surround sound systems comprised of AV receivers and multiple speakers. But perhaps more important was its size. I say this with…
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Microsoft Edge’s new sidebar banishes recipe stories, shows you email
Microsoft has added a new sidebar to its Edge browser with buttons that let you see information about a site, check your email, access Microsoft Office, and even strip the essential elements of a recipe out of an overly long post (via Windows Central). The new feature seems to build…
Read MoreThe next USB standard will double existing speeds even with an older cable
There’s a new, super-fast, version of USB 4 on the horizon and you won’t even have to buy a brand new cable to take advantage of it. The USB Promoter Group announced that the next-gen USB Version 2.0 standard is “pending release” and will double the bandwidth of existing USB…
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