Author: Bilal

Last year, Apple href=”https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/apple-puts-third-party-screen-time-apps-on-notice/”> removed a number of screen time and parental control apps from its App Store, shortly after the company had released its own first-party screen time solution with the launch of iOS 12. At today’s antitrust hearing, Apple CEO Tim Cook was questioned about the move, given the anti-competitive implications. Shortly after Apple debuted its own Screen … Continue reading Apple CEO Tim Cook questioned over App Store’s removal of rival screen time apps in antitrust hearing Continue Reading →

Uber and Lyft argue their drivers are not employees, but some courts disagree. A federal judge has ordered the state of New York to quickly pay unemployment benefits to four Uber and Lyft drivers who have been waiting for the payments since March or April. The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which filed a lawsuit over … Continue reading Judge orders New York to pay unemployment to Uber and Lyft drivers Continue Reading →

Boot Hole provides a new way to install boot-level malware. But it’s hardly the only. GRUB2, one of the world’s most-widely used programs for booting up computers, has a vulnerability that can make it easier for attackers to run malicious firmware during startup, researchers said on Wednesday. This would affect millions or possibly hundreds of … Continue reading New flaw neuters Secure Boot, but there’s no reason to panic. Here’s why Continue Reading →

“This is a Wright Brothers moment, but on another planet.”      NASA is about ready to send its largest and most capable rover to Mars. With a mass of 1.025 metric tons, the Perseverance rover is about 14 percent more bulky than its predecessor, Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012. Because the two rovers … Continue reading NASA set to launch its most complex, ambitious rover yet to Mars Continue Reading →

AMD’s on-schedule projects underscore Intel’s continuing failures to deliver. During AMD’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Lisa Su said that all of the company’s upcoming 2020 product launches are still on schedule—meaning Zen 3 desktop CPUs, RDNA 2 “Big Navi” GPUs, and console hardware for the PS5 and Xbox Series X. This is great news for consumers but … Continue reading AMD: No delays for PS5, Xbox Series X, Zen 3 CPUs, and RDNA 2 GPUs Continue Reading →

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights how reacting to diseases may not be good enough. Viruses like Ebola and the original SARS have highlighted the risks that emerging diseases pose to our modern, highly connected society. While the standard approach of isolating the infected and limiting the spread of the disease worked in those cases, it works … Continue reading Could we go on the offensive against emerging diseases? Continue Reading →

Nonprofits and lawmakers that got donations urge FCC to kill merger conditions. Nonprofits and local politicians are lining up to support a Charter Communications petition that would let the ISP impose data caps on broadband users and seek interconnection payments from large online-video providers. Charter filed the petition with the Federal Communications Commission last month, asking the … Continue reading Charter’s donations to charities and lawmakers may help it impose data caps Continue Reading →

Ancient communities of bacteria jump to life with a fresh meal. You know those videos where people open (or even eat?) military rations from World War II? It’s shocking to see just how well-preserved these “foods” can be after all those decades. In a way, Yuki Morono and his team of researchers at the Japan Agency for … Continue reading Bacteria live despite burial in seafloor mud for 100 million years Continue Reading →

It was already one of the best values around at its full $200. One of our favorite CPUs is available at an excellent price right now. Amazon is selling the Ryzen 5 3600 for $155. That’s the all-time low for this processor, which launched at $199 and was sitting around $170 in June. The price is trending downwards so … Continue reading AMD’s fantastic 6-core Ryzen 5 3600 plummets to $155 Continue Reading →

You no longer need to be in the same room to launch a Spotify Group Session with your buddies. The original version of Spotify’s Group Session feature, which lets you listen to your Spotify queue with your friends, came with a head-scratching restriction: Everyone in the group had to be in the same physical location. Well, … Continue reading Spotify’s Group Session feature now allows for remote listening with friends Continue Reading →