Author: Bilal

Meet LeakyPick, the low-cost audio spy detector for network-connected devices. As the popularity of Amazon Alexa and other voice assistants grows, so too does the number of ways those assistants both do and can intrude on users’ privacy. Examples include hacks that use lasers to surreptitiously unlock connected-doors and start cars, malicious assistant apps that eavesdrop and phish … Continue reading This device keeps Alexa and other voice assistants from snooping on you Continue Reading →

Robinhood just raised another $320 million from investors. Tesla’s stock reached an unprecedented intraday high of $1,760 on Monday, just as tens of thousands of new investors were pouring into the stock using the online brokerage Robinhood. Data from Robintrack shows that the number of Robinhood users holding Tesla shares soared from 408,000 at the start of … Continue reading Tesla’s stock soars as tens of thousands of Robinhood users buy it Continue Reading →

Dealmaster also has deals on Fitbit trackers, AMD Ryzen processors, and more. Today’s Dealmaster is headlined by a new low price for Razer’s Viper Ultimate wireless gaming mouse, which is currently down to $100 on Amazon as part of a wider one-day Gold Box sale on Razer gaming products. Normally, the Viper Ultimate retails closer to $130 online.   … Continue reading Our favorite wireless gaming mouse is down to a new lowest price today Continue Reading →

The store’s too big to cover in cameras, so shoppers can wheel them around instead. Amazon is working to expand its grocery business—not Whole Foods, which already has more than 500 store locations, but its Amazon-branded line of register-free stores. While it’s easy for a customer to carry a small bag of items around a … Continue reading Amazon supermarket will roll out fancy new smart cart when it opens Continue Reading →

The scene most likely shows the city on September 3 or 4, 1659 (or earlier), at 8am. The 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer is perhaps best known in the popular imagination for Girl with a Pearl Earring, which inspired both a 1999 novel and a 2003 film adaptation of said novel. But among art historians, Vermeer’s masterpiece is View of Delft, a cityscape … Continue reading New analysis prompts rethinking of date, time for Vermeer’s View of Delft Continue Reading →

CDC suggests rallies and other large in-person events are of the highest risk. As states reopen and people begin to ease back into public life, so too is the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it seems. Today, Friday, June 12, the CDC held its first COVID-19 press conference in just over three months. Though the … Continue reading After months of silence, CDC holds press briefing, issues new COVID advice Continue Reading →

See live pictures of OnePlus’ next smartphone.   OnePlus has shown off the design of its upcoming midrange smartphone, the OnePlus Nord. YouTuber Marques Brownlee interviewed OnePlus’ Global Director Carl Pei and showed off a few glimpses of the upcoming device. Like the rumors indicated, the front of the device features two selfie cameras in an oval-shaped cutout. … Continue reading OnePlus shows off its sub-$500 smartphone, the OnePlus Nord Continue Reading →

Wall Street darling Tesla  is holding on to its recent gains today on the back of a bullish analyst report, despite some weakness in tech shares. Tesla has seen its value skyrocket in recent quarters, rising from a 52-week low share price of $211 to $1,548.81 today. That figure, however, is low in the eyes of some. … Continue reading Tesla holds on to recent gains with bullish analyst target of $2,300 Continue Reading →

Microsoft and Kano teamed up to battle ChromeOS with a cheap Windows 10 tablet.    Last June, educational software and hardware vendor Kano announced an ambitious new project: a build-your-own computer kit based on x86 hardware and Windows 10. This replaces similar products Kano has offered for years, based on the Raspberry Pi. The finished product, designed in partnership with … Continue reading It’s modular, it’s cheap, it runs Windows—it’s the $300 Kano tablet PC Continue Reading →

NVMe SSDs, APIs, and texture slicing help make up the “Velocity Architecture.”     The bulk of the speed increase, as Microsoft has said before, comes from the system’s use of NVMe SSD memory, rather than the much slower-spinning hard drives of past consoles. That gives the system “2.4 GB/s of raw I/O throughput,” Microsoft says, … Continue reading Microsoft details how Xbox Series X will load 4.8GB/s from memory Continue Reading →