Effortlessly cruise through the city with the GOTRAX GXL Electric Commuter Scooter. This personal vehicle comes with 8.5-inch pneumatic tires, making it ideal for overcoming city streets. In addition, the GXL has a powerful 250 watt motor, allowing it to reach a top speed of 15.5 MPH. Holding up to ...
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Best Buy cancels Samsung Galaxy Fold pre-orders – TechCrunch
Samsung is taking its time bringing the Galaxy Fold back to market. And frankly, that’s probably for the best. The Note debacle from a few years back was an important lesson about what happens when you rush a product back to market. That one resulted in a second recall — ...
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Housekeeping & Extra Crunch 20% event discount reminder Extra Crunch will not be publishing on Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. Publishing will resume as normal on Tuesday. Reminder: if you are an annual member of Extra Crunch, your membership includes a 20% discount on ...
Read More »Snapchat Reportedly Working on Letting Users Add Music to Posts
Competing with the likes of Instagram, photo-messaging app Snapchat is planning to let users add music to their posts on the platform, a media report claimed. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company is trying to secure broad rights to catalogues from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and ...
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Cybersecurity is in shambles: Who’s to blame? We are building our future on a creaking digital foundation. It’s time for that to change. “I have nothing to hide” was once the standard response to the occasional surveillance experience by way of cameras, border checks, or casual questioning by law enforcement. ...
Read More »Researcher exposes vulnerability in macOS Gatekeeper
Security researcher Filippo Cavallarin has publicized what he says is a way to bypass the Gatekeeper security functionality of macOS. The bypass remains unaddressed by Apple as of last week’s macOS 10.14.5 release. Sylvania HomeKit Light Strip Gatekeeper is a macOS security tool that verifies applications immediately after they are ...
Read More »Tim Cook shows off ‘Chronicles of San Francisco’ mural
Tim Cook took to Twitter this morning to showcase a new mural from the artist JR. Entitled “Chronicles of San Francisco,” the video mural is currently on display in San Francisco, and features unique integration with an accompanying iOS app. Sylvania HomeKit Light Strip As detailed by ABC 7 News, JR’s mural is a scrolling ...
Read More »Apple School Manager: How Apple should rebuild it
Apple School Manager is the cornerstone of Apple’s K–12 strategy. When Apple began to push the iPad in K–12, their tools were a little disjointed. They had the Volume Purchase Program, Device Enrollment Program, and Profile Manager built into macOS Server. About Making The Grade: Every Saturday, Bradley Chambers publishes a ...
Read More »China’s largest chipmaker is delisting from the Nasdaq
The U.S-China trade war is increasingly influencing tech. Huawei has suffered a turbulent past week with key suppliers pausing work with the company, and now China’s largest chipmaker is planning to delist from the New York Stock Exchange. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) announced in a filing published Friday that ...
Read More »Hackers are scanning for MySQL servers to deploy GandCrab ransomware
At least one Chinese hacking crew is currently scanning the internet for Windows servers that are running MySQL databases so they can infect these systems with the GandCrab ransomware. These attacks are somewhat unique, as cyber-security firms have not seen any threat actor until now that has attacked MySQL servers ...
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