Month: December 2022
Aqara delays Matter transition until January
The update will make over 40 of Aqara’s existing Zigbee devices Matter compatible and was originally scheduled to roll out sometime in December 2022. While the short delay may be disappointing, it may not be a bad thing — our own early review of the Matter smart home network saw…
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The Morning After: Biometric devices with military data were being sold on eBay
German researchers who purchased biometric capture devices on eBay found sensitive US military data stored on the machine’s memory cards. According to The New York Times, that included fingerprints, iris scans, even photographs, names and descriptions of the individuals, mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many individuals worked with the US…
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How to Set Up Your Kid’s ‘Smart’ Toy
Is it your child’s new best friend, or a surveillance nightmare waiting to happen? Here’s how to tell the difference. Source
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This new Game Boy-inspired 8-bit game console is the size of a matchbox
The Arduboy Mini is the latest Game Boy-inspired handheld game console from creator Kevin Bates, the man behind the original Arduino-based 8-bit Arduboy. Measuring in at around two quarters in length (as shown in Gizmodo’s early review), this tiny gaming handheld offers many of the same benefits as the larger…
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The iPad mini 7 is rumored to be on the way – but might not arrive until 2024
Audio player loading… What with the iPad mini 6 launching in September 2021, it would be reasonable to expect a follow-up appearing in September 2022 – but of course we haven’t seen any such tablet, and the rumor is that we might not get one until early in 2024. This…
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US military biometric capture devices loaded with data were sold on eBay
Old US military equipment being sold on eBay contained what appears to be biometric data from troops, known terrorists, and people who may have worked with American forces in Afghanistan and other countries in the Middle East, according to a report from The New York Times. The devices were purchased…
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