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<!–> FireflyLight/Getty Images Would you pay a buck to Tweet? X, formerly known as Twitter, is testing a new subscription plan called “Not A Bot.” Under this new plan, any new user must verify their phone number and pay $1 per year to access key features, such as Tweeting, retweeting, liking, bookmarking, and creating lists. […] More
June Wan/ZDNET After years of mulling over this decision, the FCC has unanimously approved allowing very low-power devices to operate in the 6GHz band. This includes AR and VR headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3, which stand to benefit from faster data transfers and less interference. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and […] More
<!–> Tetra Images/Getty Images “I have nothing to hide” was once a typical response to surveillance programs utilizing cameras, border checks, and questioning by law enforcement. Special Feature But now, the sheer volume of devices and technology-based “innovations” used to track us has changed the conversation. Every piece of technology in our lives – from […] More
Jack Wallen/ZDNET I often work with anywhere from 10 to 30 tabs open in my browser. I also use multiple browsers, so I can often have multiple tabs open in multiple browsers. I also use tab management features that allow me to create tab groups and sometimes I’ll forget about a tab group which means […] More
<!–> Monster DDoS attacks hit Google Cloud and other major internet services. Google Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The Google Cloud was […] More
<!–> da-kuk/Getty Images Last week, OpenAI (the folks who brought you the wildly disruptive ChatGPT) announced that the AI chatbot will no longer be limited to data from before September 2021 (or in the case of GPT-4, from before January 2022). In fact, it will be able to browse the web and provide insights into […] More
<!–> Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The wait is finally over. For those MacOS users who’ve adopted Vivaldi as their desktop web browser of choice, the mobile version of the browser is now available. But why does this matter? Flexibility. Also: The best secure browsers for privacy in 2023 Part of the problem with Safari is that […] More
<!–> Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Back in 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump’s hand-picked Chair Ajit Pai, a former Verizon in-house lawyer, dumped net neutrality. Now the FCC is back up to its full five-member quorum and current FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the FCC will restore net neutrality. Net neutrality […] More
