Month: August 2024
Inside the competition that named the Sony A95L the best TV of 2024
Mini LED TVs have a long way to go. That was my big takeaway from a weekend spent judging the 20th annual Value Electronics TV Shootout, in which the best OLED TVs from Sony, Samsung, and LG went head-to-head with their Mini LED counterparts. The Sony A95L OLED won the…
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11 Best Laptops and Tablets for Students for the 2024 School Year
Whatever your higher-ed goals, these campus-ready computers will help you crush them. Source
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The Morning After: Congress asks Zuckerberg why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Congress can’t get enough of the Meta boss. Nineteen members of Congress are now pressing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs on both Facebook and Instagram. It comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) used Meta’s ad library to find 450…
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GitHub rolls out new tool to fix code errors even before you see them
GitHub has announced the general availability of Copilot Autofix within its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) suite, designed to prevent new vulnerabilities from entering code before you even see them. The tool, announced by Chief Security Officer Mike Hanley in a blog post, will also tackle existing vulnerabilities in code, which…
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Fortnite is back on the iPhone — with a whole app store in tow
Fortnite is finally back on iOS, just over four years after Apple booted it from the iOS App Store — but it’s only available in the EU. The game is launching today on both a new iPhone version of the Epic Games Store and through AltStore PAL, another third-party app…
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Why Did Samsung Take Control of My Banking App? Inside Android’s ‘Clobbering’ Dilemma
A US judge is set to force Google to more widely open up Android phones to competing app stores. But as I found, app stores vying for supremacy could leave Android users confused and worried about security. Source
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