Today, at WWDC20, Apple unveiled a multitude of improvements coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. The new features will come with the release of iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and MacOS X Big Sur later this year and function across all of these devices. So you’ll find continuity in the way Messages, Maps, Siri and home screen widgets work and enhanced privacy and security features across the board. Here’s what to expect.
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Platform/bulletin board or publisher? That is the social media industry legal question at the heart of the recent dust-up between Twitter and President Trump. A desire by the Administration to reclassify social media companies as publishers responsible for content could represent an existential threat to the industry.
Read this entire story here at The Digital Riff at Digital Tech Consulting.
Wary of in-home repair in the age of COVID, consumers are opting more than ever to replace their quickly-aging appliances.
While isolation is a novel and challenging concept for many folks during these strange times, isolation from external sound is considered nirvana by music aficionados. Also, donning a pair of cans or buds and turning the music up to 11 can provide a temporary turn-on, tune-in, drop-out emotional escape for those stuck in a sheltered-in-place household where everyone is getting on each other’s nerves.
Read the rest of this review round-up of noise canceling true wireless buds here at Sound & Vision.
I wrote a whole series of reviews and how-tos on antivirus software for U.S. News 360 Reviews. Here is the list of reports.
How Does Antivirus Software Work?
Cheapest Antivirus Software of 2020
Cheapest Antivirus Software for Mac 2020
AVG Antivirus Review and Prices
ESET Antivirus Review and Prices
F-Secure Antivirus Review and Prices
Intego Antivirus Review and Prices
Kaspersky Antivirus Review and Prices
McAfee Antivirus Review and Prices
Norton Antivirus Review and Prices
Sophos Antivirus Review and Prices
Technology rollouts are often messy. Multiple vendors propose competing (and often incompatible) variations in the hope of capturing the golden ticket to new market dominance. Entrenched interests campaign, lobby against or even legally threaten their eventual replacement. Technology misunderstanding or misrepresentation, plus chicken/egg content vs. hardware imbalance, often stall consumer adoption. Copycats flood the market creating an unsustainable market over-saturation. The bubble eventually bursts, leaving a trail of destruction of few winners and many losers.
You know… the usual.
Read the rest of this post here at Digital Tech Technology’s The Weekly Riff.http://www.dtcreports.com/weeklyriff/2020/06/01/5gs-historically-bizarre-rollout/
Samsung believes that sheltering-in-place does not necessarily mean sheltering indoors. Today, the company started selling its new Terrace TVs, 55- 65- and 75-inch QLED 4K HDR models that are IP55 water- and dust-resistant, making them suitable for outdoor use.
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Odds are, over the last two months or so, you’ve Zoomed, Skyped, FaceTimed, Webexed, Housepartied or Hangout-ed—likely more times than your combined lifetime total of video chatting. And when you aren’t video chatting, you’re watching someone else video chatting on newscasts, charity events, and daytime or late-night talk shows.
Read the rest of this post here at Digital Tech Consulting’s The Weekly Riff.
The words “cheap” and iPhone” rarely appear in the same sentence, but that’s the best way to describe its new $399 Apple iPhone SE. Like the first generation iPhone SE (which starting shipping in March 2016 for $399), the new iPhone SE is built on an older, smaller model — the 4.7-inch iPhone 8 (which debuted in September 2017) — but souped up with a much better processor and wireless connectivity.
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Hearing loss is a slow process. But when you realize that you are turning on the closed captioning a bit more frequently so you can follow the dialog and struggling to hear conversation over the dinner table, it is time to consider getting a hearing aid, like the discreet barely-there Eargo Neo HiFi.
Read the rest of this review here at Techlicious.
