For over a year, owners of a Samsung smart fridge have been unable to use their fridge’s pre-installed Google Calendar app, proving what we all suspected: the Internet of Things can quickly become an Internet of Broken Things. Apparently, the Samsung fridge depends on an old version of the Google API, and Samsung hasn’t yet pushed out necessary updates to all fridges. Before you go out and educate all your appliances, consider how smart they’ll be when their software is out of date next year.

The computer scientist on his new book "Digital Minimalism," why workplaces may go email-free, and why the tech backlash is about to go mainstream.

Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones

India’s largest bank has secured an unprotected server that allowed anyone to access financial information on millions of its customers, like bank balances and recent transactions. The server, hosted in a regional Mumbai-based data center, stored two months of data from SBI Quick, a text mess…

Expect the consequences to be fairly immediate: More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever. A small bump in one’s daily moods and life satisfaction. And, for the average Facebook user, an extra hour a day of downtime.

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed i…

Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible to law enforcement.

Being treated as lab rats for algorithms is not an option, says the German justice minister in a response to Mark Zuckerberg and explains how Facebook must be regulated.

Les câbles d'affichage cassés sur les modèles MacBook Pro fabriqués en 2016 ou plus tard nécessitent de remplacer totalement l’écran. Et cela ne satisfait pas du tout les clients Apple concernés.

Mark Zuckerberg vient de se lancer dans une grosse campagne de communication en publiant une tribune simultanément dans plusieurs très grands journaux dont Le Monde ou le Wall Street Journal. Elle est intitulée : "Je souhaite clarifier la manière dont...

En 2018, le budget de lobbying aux Etats-Unis de Google, Amazon et Facebook a augmenté de 13%. Depuis 2013, les montants ont évolué de 69% pour l'ensemble des géants de la tech, Microsoft et Apple compris.

Male impotence, substance abuse, right-wing politics, left-wing politics, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, mental health. Those are just a few of the advertising labels that Google’s adtech infrastructure routinely sticks to Internet users as it watches and tracks what they do online in…

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