2021-01-16 05:59:28 www.zdnet.com Head over to Settings > Battery, and then into Battery Health and Apple gives you a lot of information about your iPhone's battery.But there's one number that Apple doesn't give you -- how many times your…
2021-01-15 21:56:16 www.zdnet.com Image: ZDNet BugTraq, one of the cybersecurity industry's first mailing lists dedicated to publicly disclosing security flaws, announced today it was shutting down at the end of the month, on January 31, 2021. The site played…
2021-01-15 16:38:34 www.zdnet.com Google said today that it caught other Chromium-based browsers piggybacking on its infrastructure and abusing the Chrome Sync service to store their users' data, bookmarks, and browsing history on Google's servers, without approval. The discovery was…
2021-01-15 07:01:00 www.zdnet.com I'm a fan of ruggedized Android smartphones. Many can do things and go places that my iPhone can't. And the new Doogee S96 Pro has a super useful feature that no flagship smartphone has -- built-in…
2021-01-15 11:58:02 www.zdnet.com Credit: Microsoft Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Product Marketing for Azure, Developer Tools and Servers Julia White is joining the SAP Executive Board and leaving Microsoft. SAP announced White's hire on January 15. White has been…
2021-01-15 09:54:00 www.zdnet.com It's an interesting time for social media, to say the least. In the past week, Twitter and Facebook have lost one of their most fruitful attractions by banning President Donald J. Trump and numerous accounts on…
2021-01-15 08:17:01 www.zdnet.com Desktop Metal Desktop Metal has acquired EnvisionTEC with the aim of disrupting the additive manufacturing market on a global scale. Announced on Friday, the purchase has been agreed for $300 million, made through a combination of…
2021-01-15 07:01:13 www.zdnet.com I'm a fan of ruggedized Android smartphones. Many can do things and go places that my iPhone can't. And the new Doogee S96Pro has a super useful feature that no flagship smartphone has -- built-in IR…
2021-01-14 23:45:28 www.zdnet.com Melbourne, Australia - May 23, 2016: Close-up view of Google Play Store on Android smartphone and Apple's App Store on iPhone. Both stores allow users to download app, music, movies and TV shows. / Getty Images…
2021-01-14 11:14:57 www.zdnet.com Image: Cisco // Composition: ZDNet Networking equipment vendor Cisco said yesterday it was not going to release firmware updates to fix 74 vulnerabilities that had been reported in its line of RV routers, which had reached…
2021-01-14 18:06:55 www.zdnet.com I like the idea that users can take back control of their data in a variety of ways, and I really like the fact that my web search results are not being used to direct ultra-targeted…
2021-01-14 11:22:00 www.zdnet.com Samsung During a virtual event on Thursday Samsung announced the Galaxy S21 lineup , Galaxy Buds Pro wireless earbuds and Tile-like trackers called Galaxy SmartTag . One of the headlining features of the Galaxy S21 Ultra,…
2021-01-14 13:25:00 www.zdnet.com All those yesterday promises of a brighter future, now empty shells collecting dust. Every shiny new gadget will inevitably end up gathering dust in a drawer, its life force sapped by the obsolescence of its chips and…
2021-01-14 11:50:00 www.zdnet.com For the past year I've been carrying out an experiment. I've been charging my iPhone in what I believe to be the most optimal way to maximize battery life.I'm a heavy iPhone user. The thing barely…
2021-01-14 10:00:00 www.zdnet.com Samsung has launched its trio of Galaxy S21 devices that covers price points ranging from $799.99 for the Galaxy S21 to $999.99 for the Galaxy S21 Plus and $1,199.99 for the premium Galaxy S21 Ultra with…
2021-01-14 08:32:34 www.zdnet.com Image: Markus Spiske Apple has removed a controversial feature from the macOS operating system that allowed 53 of Apple's own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPN apps installed by users for their protection.Known…
2021-01-14 06:00:00 www.zdnet.com Image: Group-IB A newly uncovered Russian-based cybercrime operation has helped classified ads scammers steal more than $6.5 million from buyers across the US, Europe, and former Soviet states. In a report published today, cyber-security firm Group-IB…
2021-01-13 23:33:57 www.zdnet.com There is a word for this: Patchy. Image: Telstra Telstra said on Thursday it was able to provide 5G coverage to half of the Australian population where they live. The company added it planned to hit…
2021-01-13 18:44:56 www.zdnet.com Google has introduced Guest Mode to Google Assistant to give users the chance to ensure their interactions with their Google smart speakers or displays, including Nest Audio and Nest Hub Max, are not saved to their…
2021-01-13 13:48:03 www.zdnet.com Image: Rodion Kutsaev An Iranian cyber-espionage group known as Charming Kitten (APT35 or Phosphorus) has used the recent winter holiday break to attack targets from all over the world using a very sophisticated spear-phishing campaign that involved not…
2021-01-13 09:27:40 www.zdnet.com Is privacy a good area to mock Facebook? Perhaps.When a rival does something heinous, ignorant or just inevitably cynical, it's tempting to (try to) take advantage. more Technically Incorrect So when Facebook announced last week that…
2021-01-13 08:15:00 www.zdnet.com Apple on Wednesday announced the latest phase of its $100 million initiative to tackle systemic racism and promote racial equality. Apple is among the handful of technology giants that have pledged to hire more Black workers…
2021-01-13 07:09:57 www.zdnet.com Google is rolling out new a troubleshooting tool for Google Meet that gives users better visibility into why their local setup may be delivering a poor audio or video experience. The new tool includes a system load…
2021-01-12 17:13:00 www.zdnet.com (Image: Maxpixel) We know how some hackers passed away their time during the lockdown: By running Bitcoin-related hacks and potentially netting "nearly $3.78 billion" in 2020, according to a report from Atlas VPN. The losses are…
2021-01-12 22:32:05 www.zdnet.com Image: Nvidia Nvidia has unveiled its mass market GPU play, the $330 GeForce RTX 3060, at CES on Tuesday.The company said its 60-class chips are its most popular, with the GTX 1060 topping Steam popularity charts…
2021-01-12 19:00:29 www.zdnet.com Image: Acer Acer has announced refreshes to its Aspire laptops at CES 2021, with this year's iterations to be equipped with AMD Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors. Announcing two new laptops for the Aspire line that…
2021-01-12 19:25:28 www.zdnet.com Image: AMD AMD has rolled out the mobile version of its Ryzen 5000 series processors, mostly based on its Zen 3 architecture, at CES on Tuesday. The mobile line contains the H series for higher performance…
2021-01-12 09:53:19 www.zdnet.com Image: Bundo Kim For more than five years, macOS users have been the targets of a sneaky malware operation that used a clever trick to avoid detection and hijacked the hardware resources of infected users to…
2021-01-12 12:00:00 www.zdnet.com Last month, Grafana Labs became the first open source provider to enter a joint development and go to market deal with AWS. But the company is still moving very much ahead with its own cloud offering…
2021-01-12 12:00:04 www.zdnet.com At CES 2021, Lenovo has unveiled a slew of laptops that utilise AMD's next-generation mobile Ryzen processors, including three new gaming laptops from its Legion gaming product line and two ThinkBook laptops. The gaming laptops -- the…
2021-01-12 10:44:13 www.zdnet.com Image: Mimecast, Romain Morel Mimecast, a company that makes cloud email management software, disclosed a security incident today, alerting customers that "a sophisticated threat actor" has obtained one of its digital certificates and abused it to…
2021-01-12 08:43:51 www.zdnet.com Credit: TechRepublic Five years ago, Microsoft still was not running some of its major services on its own Azure cloud. Since then, the company has made a concerted effort to change this situation and it's closing…
2021-01-11 13:00:05 www.zdnet.com Image: Belkin As impressive as it can be to hear companies announce products every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there's always a question of whether or not the products being announced will…