The European Union has been battling for a common charging port and charger for all smartphones for quite some time now. While Apple was quick to adopt USB Type-C for MacBooks, it has no intention in ditching the old Lightning port and replacing it with USB Type C.
Xiaomi has removed a feature from its flagship smartphone just three days after its launch in the latest case to show the difficulty in navigating China's data and privacy regulatory landscape. The antitheft feature allows users to find their phone even if the SIM card is taken out, but the feature has not received approval from regulators and does not comply with relevant rules.
An adolescent sea monster, Marvel's god of mischief and Cruella de Vil helped Disney’s flagship streaming service attract 12.4 million new subscribers between April and June, ending the quarter with 116 million subscribers worldwide. Analysts had been hoping for 112 million to 115 million, but the company”s stock price rose more than 5 percent in afterhours trading.
Substack has been successfully poaching reporters from outlets like The New York Times and BuzzFeed News to start their own publications on its platform, raising questions about how the company plans to navigate threats to press freedom as it grows internationally. The company says writers retain total editorial independence, but the company collects a 10% flat fee from each paid subscription.
Netflix is starting to block residential IP addresses as well as commercial IPs as VPN providers have taken to using residential addresses in order to fool Netflix into thinking there's no illicit access taking place. However, many people are now seeing “missing content” messages even when accessing the service in their own homes.
According to an internal company document, Amazon plans to monitor how its employees use their keyboards and mice to prevent customer data leaks, leaning toward licensing tools from a company called BehavioSec. The company claims it uses "behavioral biometrics" to generate a profile of how someone types and uses their computer, then utilizes that profile to verify that a hacker or imposter hasn't compromised an employee's device.
Apple previewed a number of updates to beef up child safety features on its devices, including a new technology that can scan the photos on users’ devices in order to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM), prompting immediate pushback from security and privacy experts who say the update amounts to Apple walking back its commitment to putting user privacy above all else.
Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4 has a feature that can calculate body fat percentage and muscle mass, joining Amazon, which has a body fat Percentage feature in its Halo Band, generally a better way to assess health than weight, but it”s often calculated using a metric called the body mass index which is crude and inaccurate.
