Category: Internet

Amazon Echo Show now scans barcodes for your grocery list

Post author By Randall
Post date February 1, 2020
Categories In Amazon, echo show, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Internet, Tech

[ad_1] According to VentureBeat, the feature is available for Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 8 smart speakers with displays. To start the process, just say “Alexa, scan this to my shopping list,” and instructions will show up, asking you to align the product barcode with its digital counterpart on the screen. It worked well […]

The Morning After: Fox, Roku and Super Bowl LIV

Post author By Randall
Post date February 1, 2020
Categories In av, business, Entertainment, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Internet, Tech, themorningafter, Transportation

[ad_1] And DIY music making.The Engadget Podcast: Why Clearview AI’s facial recognition is a privacy nightmare This week, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into how ClearView works, and what unchecked access to powerful facial recognition means for the future of privacy. (It’s good for cops, not so much everybody else!) Also, managing editor Terrence O’Brien joins […]

Vine successor Byte will share all its ad revenue to lure early creators

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In byte, byte partner program, gear, Internet, Mobile, Social Media, social network, social networking, Tech

[ad_1] The money for the pool will come from ads, but Byte stressed that you won’t see pre-rolls, mid-feed ads or retargeting. The pilot phase of the program will funnel all of the ad revenue to Partner Program members, although that’s clearly going to change once the effort launches in earnest. Don’t expect to start […]

Lyft expands free voter rides to all US primaries

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In Election, election2020, elections, gear, Internet, Lyft, lyftup, Politics, primary, ridesharing, services, Tech, Transportation, vote

[ad_1] The company is promising more details on plans to improve voter access and “other forms of civic engagement” later in the year. This is partly a promotional vehicle, of course Along with other LyftUp projects like Disaster Response and Grocery Access, it’s as much about polishing Lyft’s image as it is caring for people […]

Phishing scams leveled up, and we didn’t

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In bad password, badpassword, business, data breach, Facebook, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, hacks, infosec, Internet, jamal khashoggi, jeff bezos, Mobile, opinion, phishing, phishing scams, proofpoint, ransomware, Security, services, Tech, whatsapp, wordpress

[ad_1] In case you missed it, on January 22nd The Guardian reported, “Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone ‘hacked’ in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.” According to the now-contested report by FTI Consulting cited by The […]

Draft bill could penalize companies for using end-to-end encryption

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In bill, communications decency act, earn it act, gear, government, Internet, legislation, lindsey graham, Privacy, section 230, Tech

[ad_1] The draft does ask the commission to consider issues like privacy and security when establishing the practices. However, the 15-person commission would be led by the Attorney General, and current AG William Barr has been a vocal opponent of end-to-end encryption. As the draft law would let Barr modify the rules without a consensus, […]

Google open-sources the tools needed to make 2FA security keys

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In fido, fido2, gear, Google, Internet, Mobile, nordic, open source, opensk, personal computing, personalcomputing, Security, security key, services, Tech

[ad_1] The initiative, called OpenSK, uses Rust-based firmware to essentially turn Nordic chip dongles into a FIDO U2F and FIDO2-compliant security key. Google has also published a source code for users to 3D print a physical case for the dongle, so their security keys look and can be used like standard keys. In a blog […]

Facebook and Google are fighting coronavirus misinformation

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In business, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Facebook, fact-checking, false, gear, Google, google search, Instagram, Internet, medicine, misinformation, Public Health, Security, services, sos alert, Tech

[ad_1] Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers are reviewing content related to the virus, now deemed a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. When the fact-checkers rate something as false, Facebook will limit its spread and send a notification to people who have shared or are attempting to share that content. Facebook is also removing content […]

Apple engineers propose a way to make using two-factor texts easier

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In 2fa, Apple, gear, Google, Internet, ios, Mobile, one-time passcode, otp, phishing, Scam, Security, sms, standard, Tech, two-factor authentication

[ad_1] The proposal has two main objectives. The first is to come up with a way for OTP messages to be associated with a URL: this can be done easily enough by including the login URL within the message itself. The second is to standardize the format of two-factor authentication (2FA) and OTP messages so […]

What happens if the internet’s most important law disappears?

Post author By Randall
Post date January 31, 2020
Categories In censorship, communications decency act, corynne mcsherry, gear, Internet, jeff kosseff, kate devlin, Politics, s230, Tech, us

[ad_1] Both Republicans and Democrats are suggesting that the protections this clause offers are too broad to be sustainable. The current administration already weakened it, carving out exceptions for adult content under the auspices of FOSTA/SESTA. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has either misspoken or misrepresented the law to encourage its removal. And senior representatives have […]