USA Today: Tech
- What happens to your Facebook and Twitter accounts after you die?
Wednesday - 12/11/2019 - 06:50 AMYou should think about the social media afterlife, an expert says. Here's how to memorialize or close the Facebook account of someone who has died.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple Card holiday promotion: Get an iPhone interest-free with 6% cash back
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 03:25 PMApple Card owners will be able to finance the purchase of an iPhone with zero interest and 6% cash back, Apple revealed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Windows 7, Ford Flex, Yahoo Groups are among products vanishing in 2020
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 08:15 AMWindows 7, Ford Flex, Yahoo Groups, PlayStation Vue, and Medicare Supplement Plan F are among goods and services to perish or greatly diminish in 2020
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Holiday shopping: Nine tech gifts for every budget
Saturday - 12/07/2019 - 06:00 AMLooking for gadget gift ideas for the holidays? Here are nine assorted tech gifts at various price ranges that'll fit the bill.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A more realistic Bitmoji? Snapchat is working on a tool called Cameo that uses deepfake technology
Sunday - 12/08/2019 - 06:30 PMThe new deepfake technology would further differentiate Snapchat from its rivals Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tech gifts for the non-techie on your holiday shopping list
Saturday - 12/07/2019 - 07:00 AMWhat kind of tech gift do you get that person on your list who is, shall we say, tech-averse? Tech columnist Marc Saltzman has some advice.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FTC makes it official: Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users with data collection
Friday - 12/06/2019 - 06:04 PMThe FTC formally claimed political ad marketing firm Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users over its collection of personal data.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Use Airbnb, Uber or Lyft? Beware. There can be a dark side to sharing with strangers
Friday - 12/06/2019 - 06:45 AMWe trust strangers to help us do basically everything in our lives. Meanwhile, Uber, Lyft and Airbnb horror stories keep cropping up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Craigslist: There's finally a mobile app for that on iOS and Android
Thursday - 12/05/2019 - 09:52 AMOnline classified ad website Craigslist, founded in 1995, has finally gotten an app. Official apps landed in the Google Play and App Store this week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - American Airlines just made it easier to check in for international flights
Wednesday - 12/04/2019 - 03:09 PMTravelers who scan their passports via American's mobile app won't have to have someone at the airport check it.
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- The best deals you can get today during Amazon's 12 Days of Deals
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 04:30 PMThis Tuesday, you can snag incredible deals at Amazon like the Kindle Paperwhite, Sonos speakers, robot vacuums, and more.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UrSafe app automatically calls 911, livestreams emergencies to your family
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 12:41 AMUrSafe launches on iOS and Android, and it was created to protect you in almost any assault situation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google celebrates the beloved Mexican card game Lotería with an interactive Doodle
Monday - 12/09/2019 - 09:46 AMOn Monday, Google updated its homepage to feature a Doodle inspired by the beloved Latino card game Lotería, which means lottery in Spanish.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Your data has been sold to websites like MyLife and WhitePages. Here's how to remove it
Monday - 12/09/2019 - 11:04 AMStates sell your data to brokers who get them to websites like WhitePages, MyLife and others. They in turn re-sell them to you, without permission.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Readers: Streaming data caps are unfair
Saturday - 12/07/2019 - 09:29 AMIf there was more competition amongst providers, data caps would go away, says the editor of CordCuttersNews.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Worried about Uber's safety report on sexual assaults? How to stay safe when riding Uber and Lyft
Friday - 12/06/2019 - 11:22 PMUber says there were more than 3,000 allegations of sexual assault last year.
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So how do you stay safe on Uber and Lyft? Here are some tips. - Best Buy kicking off '12 Days of Deals' Monday with themed sales through Dec. 20
Friday - 12/06/2019 - 05:43 AMBest Buy's "12 Days of Deals" features new doorbusters from Dec. 9-20 with the season's guaranteed lowest prices on Apple, Microsoft, Google and more.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Uber safety review reports more than 3,000 allegations of sexual assault last year
Thursday - 12/05/2019 - 08:21 PMScrutiny of Uber and Lyft is intensifying as a growing number of passengers and drivers come forward to claim they were sexually assaulted.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robocalls on the rise: Americans get 18 spam calls per month, report says
Wednesday - 12/04/2019 - 08:03 PMThe United States is the eighth-most-spammed nation in the world, according to a new report, and saw a 35% increase in robocalls this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is your smart TV too wise? The FBI warns your screen is watching you
Wednesday - 12/04/2019 - 04:15 PMThe smart TV brings streaming to the living room, but manufacturers sell your viewing data to third parties. You can opt-out, though.
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- Behind the scenes @Spokeo
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 12:14 PMPeople search engine company has rooms devoted to Star Wars, Mad Men and Games of Thrones
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reselling your personal data pays off for Spokeo
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 08:49 AMSpokeo uses less heated language than rivals to encourage people to pay to see real estate histories, phone numbers and court records.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2020: A look back at the decade in tech from Alexa to Xbox
Tuesday - 12/10/2019 - 09:03 AMAlexa and the iPad made it, while 3DTV and VR did not. We look back at the tech that came and went and what stuck around during the past decade.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When a happy birthday wish on Facebook turns into a request for donations
Monday - 12/09/2019 - 09:50 AMWhether through Facebook birthday fundraising or appeals to tip more on a tablet, a cultural shift through technology is tugging on our guilt strings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - These tech gifts will work for those non-techie types on your shopping list
Saturday - 12/07/2019 - 12:43 PMWhat kind of tech gift do you get that person on your list who is, shall we say, tech-averse? Here's some shopping ideas for the technophobe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It may not be HQ2 but AOC declares victory and trolls Amazon over New York expansion
Friday - 12/06/2019 - 10:53 PM"Won't you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway," even without $3 billion in tax breaks, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Will Apple kill off the Lightning charging port on its iPhones?
Friday - 12/06/2019 - 01:01 PMThe iPhone giant is reportedly planning to launch a high-end smartphone in 2021 without a charging cable port.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Facebook's crisis response tools get extended to WhatsApp
Thursday - 12/05/2019 - 10:16 AMEarlier this week, Facebook extended part of the platform's "Crisis Response" widget to messaging service WhatsApp.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spotify Wrapped is back: How to see your most-streamed music in 2019
Thursday - 12/05/2019 - 10:00 AMSpotify is unveiling its annual Wrapped tool that showcases your most-listened-to tracks of 2019 and the decade.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The best Black Friday-worthy TV deals you can get still get on Amazon
Wednesday - 12/04/2019 - 12:58 PMBlack Friday and Cyber Monday might be behind us, but Amazon is still offering amazing deals on Samsung, TCL, and Vizio TVs.
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