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Firms paying refunds to buyers who write five-star reviews on Amazon, consumer group says
Apple often overestimates the cost of repairs to its products and threatens third-party shops who are willing to fix them for a fraction of the price.
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Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform
Analyst Gartner, best known for crunching device marketshare data; charting technology hype cycles; and churning out predictive listicles of emergent capabilities at software’s cutting edge has now put businesses on watch that as well as dabbling in the usual crop of nascent technologies orga…
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Lost faith in Facebook and Instagram after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here’s a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good.
THREAD: I'm looking at a Huawei P20 from China, let see what can I found
The era where we were in control of the data on our own computers has been replaced with devices containing sensors we cannot control, storing data we cannot access, in operating systems we cannot monitor, in environments where our rights are rendered meaningless. Soon the default will shift from us interacting directly with our devices to interacting with devices we have no control over and no knowledge that we are generating data. Below we outline 10 ways in which this exploitation and manipulation is already happening.
On the same day the company announced it had purged domestic sources of disinformation, it said it had blocked two companies, one of them with Russian government clients.
Facebook Inc. said intimate information, including search results, recent locations and hometowns, were stolen from 14 million users by attackers in a major hack of the social network disclosed two weeks ago.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to answer a list of questions from a bipartisan group of six senators.
The company knew about a privacy glitch and kept quiet. That has to stop.
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