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32-Minute Cleveland-Chicago Hyperloop Run Is Feasible, Study Says

The 300-plus mile trip between Cleveland and Chicago could take as little as 32 minutes by Hyperloop, according to a US$1.2 million feasibility study released earlier this week ...

Providers Game System to Boost Broadband Speeds

Measuring Broadband America, a 10-year-old FCC program to ensure that Internet service providers deliver on their connection speed promises to consumers, has become unreliable ...

Facebook Won’t Let US, UK, Australia Get Toe in Backdoor

Facebook on Monday rejected a request from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia for a "backdoor" in its end-to-end encrypted messenger apps to help law enforcement agencies combat crime and terrorism ...

Twitter Sets Up Privacy Center but Moves to Skirt GDPR

Twitter on Monday announced its formation of a new Privacy Center to give users more clarity on what it does to protect the information people share ...

EU Digital Czar to Probe Facebook’s and Google’s Data Wrangling

The European Union has launched a probe into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use and monetize data for advertising purposes ...

Early Reviews Suggest Google Stadia Needs More Time in the Oven

Google on Tuesday raised the curtain on its Stadia streaming gaming platform, and the early reviews are mixed at best ...

Apple to Conduct 3 Medical Studies Using Research App

Apple is getting into the medical research field with its recent announcement of three studies to be conducted through its Research app ...

‘Nightingale Project’ to Turn Over Millions of Medical Records to Google

A venture between Google and Ascension, one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States, will give the tech giant access to the sensitive medical information of as many as 50 million patients in 21 states ...

New YouTube Terms of Service Create Stir

Google has published changes to YouTube's Terms of Service Agreement that have stoked fears among some users. The new terms take effect Dec. 10 ...

Researchers Use Lasers to Hack Smart Speakers

University researchers have discovered a way to issue unauthorized commands to digital assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, Facebook Portal and Siri via laser beams ...

Adobe Max Event Highlights New iPad, iPhone Tools

New products for the iPad and iPhone headlined Monday's opening keynote presentation at Adobe Max, the company's annual developers conference held in Los Angeles ...

Active Noise Cancellation a Big Draw in New Apple AirPods

Active Noise Cancellation is just one of the hot new features in the latest generation of Apple's AirPods ...

Nvidia’s New Shield TV Models Add Dolby Vision, Atmos

Nvidia on Monday introduced two new versions of its Android TV-based Shield streaming product. Shield TV (US$149) and Shield TV Pro ($199) are replacements for the last generation of Shield video streamers, which Nvidia introduced in 2017. ...

GoPro Max 360 Wins Reviewers’ Plaudits

GoPro has begun taking preorders for its US$500 360-degree camera, the Max 360, and reviewers have begun to weigh in on the latest entry in the action camera company's line ...

Smart Speaker Apps Caught Snooping Around Homes

Flaws in Amazon and Google smart speakers can expose users to eavesdropping and voice phishing, security researchers reported Sunday ...

Google Rolls Out Pixel 4 Phone, Pixelbook, Nest WiFi and Pixel Buds

A new flagship smartphone, a slick refresh of Pixelbook Go, some home gadget improvements and a revamp of its wireless earbuds highlighted Google's annual hardware event held Tuesday in New York City ...

Safari’s Safe Browsing Option Raises Privacy Concerns

An option in Apple's Safari browser that's supposed to protect Web surfers from malicious sites has raised privacy concerns in some quarters ...

Apple Touts Games, Music, TV in macOS Catalina

New versions of operating systems are usually about slick interfaces and improved performance, but that's not what Apple was flogging about macOS Catalina upon its release Monday ...

Sonos Launches Rent-a-Speaker Pilot Program

Subscription models have taken hold in everything from software to smartphones, and now Sonos is testing the idea in the premium wireless speaker market ...

Xiaomi Unveils Mi 9 Pro 5G and Wraparound-Screen Mi MIX Alpha

Xiaomi on Tuesday introduced a refresh of the Mi 9 Pro with support for 5G and a groundbreaking smartphone with a wraparound display ...

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