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Image: Blink Amazon has announced a bunch of new products, including new Echo hardware, new Ring home security cameras, and new Blink devices. Here’s everything Amazon announced at its fall event today. Blink, which is owned by Amazon, is known for relatively affordable home security products with long battery life and free video storage. However, […] More
Amazon Amazon’s WALL-E looking household robot, Astro, was announced a year ago and has been available exclusively by invitation since. The robot has functioned as a household handy helper, both monitoring your home security and also following you from room bringing Alexa’s assistance and items directly to you. Now, Astro is rolling out of your […] More
Trismegist san/Shutterstock Incognito mode is a great way to use the Chrome browser on Android without leaving any breadcrumbs behind for sites and services to track you. I use it regularly, and it rarely fails me. However, one thing that has always bothered me about the incognito mode is that if I leave an incognito […] More
Image: Getty/gilaxia Cyberattacks targeting vulnerabilities in internet browsers are on the rise – with Google Chrome increasingly in the hackers’ sights. According to analysis by cybersecurity researchers at WatchGuard, the second quarter of this year saw an overall 23% increase in malware attacks against browsers – Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer – compared with the […] More
Getty Images Microsoft’s strict compatibility requirements for Windows 11 mean that a significant number of PC owners will be unable to upgrade to Windows 11, even on relatively recent hardware. Meanwhile, the company has spread the message that installing Windows 11 on an unsupported PC means it won’t be entitled to receive updates in the […] More
Image: Getty Cyber criminals are exploring new ways of conducting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to make them harder to protect against and more effective at causing disruption. DDoS attacks are a relatively simple, but potent, form of cyberattack in which cyber criminals overload services with web traffic, slowing them down or taking them […] More
Image: perinjo / GETTY Ransomware hackers are experimenting with a new kind of attack that, instead of encrypting data, outright destroys it. The aim is to make it impossible for victims to retrieve their data if they don’t pay the ransom. Ransomware is one of the biggest cybersecurity issues facing the world today, and while […] More
Just look at this adorable tiny door. David Gewirtz/ZDNET A few months back, a PR representative from SwitchBot (a company that makes smart home devices), reached out to me. He wanted me to review their smart door lock. I told him no. I had just finished writing “The two smart devices I will never install […] More
