While audio technology has certainly advanced enough that it’s easy to find earbuds and headphones with wonderful sound quality, few of us enjoy always having something in or on our ears. Unfortunately, phone and laptop speakers haven’t advanced at the same rate. And even the smallest external speakers are a bit bulky to carry around everywhere. So it’s a good thing the HumBird Bone-Conducting Speaker provides amazing sound you can take with you anywhere....

In the coming month, the search giant will introduce age verification checks where users are asked to provide additional proof-of-age when attempting to watch mature content on YouTube or downloading content on Google Play. The move is to provide users with “age appropriate experiences,” Google government affairs and public policy senior manager Samantha Yorke explained in a blog post. “As part of this process some Australian users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content on YouTube or downloading content on Google Play....

On September 28, Guoli Ma, Sebastian Lekies, and Claudio Criscione, members of Google’s vulnerability management team, said in a blog post that the new program is designed to improve Tsunami’s security detection capabilities. The Tsunami Security Scanner, open sourced in July 2020, was originally an internal Google tool and has since been published and made available to the public. The scanner is designed to check large-scale enterprise networks for open ports and then to cross-check vulnerability exposure based on the initial reconnaissance results....

While the Pixel 6 Pro at time of release was only $100 cheaper ($899) than the $999.99 iPhone 13 Pro, you’re still spending big bucks on either device. To help you make the right buying decision, here are the key reasons why you would want to go with one Pro phone over the other. Specifications You should buy the Google Pixel 6 Pro if… 1. You want fun and experimental camera features The Google Pixel has always been known for its exceptional computational photography, and the 6 Pro’s camera is nothing less....

Google slipped a new message of excitement onto YouTube and I just had to look. The message, you see, was a new enticement for the upcoming Pixel 6, a phone that actually doesn’t look like most other expensive phones. Which is a good thing. In the way of most phone messaging, this little ad begins with thumping music. Because if you can’t thump your way to success, what kind of American are you?...

That’s very important. One low-level problem is that there are many security vulnerability databases, there’s no standard interchange format. If you want to aggregate information from multiple databases you must handle each one completely separately. That’s a real waste of time and energy. At the very least you must create parsers for each database format to merge their data. All this makes systematic tracking of dependencies and collaboration between vulnerability databases much harder than it should be....

The settlement still has to be approved by the US District Court for the Northern District of California, where the case was filed. In a blog post, Google said the settlement “allows both parties to move forward and avoids years of uncertain and distracting litigation.” The vast majority of US developers who earned revenue through Google Play will be eligible to receive money from the fund. Those who are eligible will be notified....

On Thursday, Grammarly unveiled GrammarlyGO, a generative AI feature that will use your own text to improve your writing. Also: How to use ChatGPT to help you write GrammarlyGO will account for unique characteristics such as voice, style and purpose to produce tailored suggestions and generate, rewrite, and personalize text. Much like on ChatGPT, users will be able to ask GrammarlyGO to rewrite their current text for tone, clarity, and length, generate text based on a prompt, and even brainstorm ideas for future projects....

That marks a 71% decrease in ’time to known exploitation’ or TTKE, according to security firm Rapid7’s new 2021 Vulnerability Intelligence Report. The main reason for the reduction in TTKE was a surge in widespread zero-day attacks, many of which were used by ransomware gangs, according to the company. As Rapid7 notes, 2021 was a grim year for defenders, which kicked off with the SolarWinds Orion supply chain attack, which was pinned on Russian state-sponsored hackers....

The emails – part of an attack that Proofpoint researchers said began in October but increased in November – generally contain information about COVID-19 testing and the new Omicron variant. Cybercriminals and threat actors have used concern about COVID-19 as a phishing lure since the pandemic began to cause headlines in January and February of 2020. But with this specific attack, cybercriminals are spoofing the login portals of schools like Vanderbilt University, the University of Central Missouri and more....

UPDATE: Blass’ locked Twitter account only allows his current followers to view his tweets and photos. From the looks of the photos, rumors and leaked dummy models of the S22 lineup were spot on. The S22 and S22 Plus both carry the familiar Samsung design, with a three-camera array on the back of the phone. All three phones have a holepunch cutout on the display for the front-facing camera. What’s most notable, to me at least, is that the S22 Ultra has the same design we’d come to expect from Samsung’s Note lineup....

Home Depot has built on Google Cloud since 2015. Like many other retailers, the company saw a spike in its digital channels due to the pandemic, as well as changes in the interactions between digital channels, customers, stores, and associates. All told, digital sales were up 86 percent in 2020. Late last year, Home Depot’s SVP of IT, Fahim Siddiqui, told ZDNet how the company responded to the pandemic. One key effort revolved around standing up curbside pickup quickly....

That’s because running in a real-world environment is phenomenally complex. The quick pace leaves scant room for robots to encounter, recover from, and adapt to challenges (e.g., slippery surfaces, physical obstacles, or uneven terrain). What’s more, the stresses of running push hardware to its torque and stress limits. MIT CSAIL PhD student Gabriel Margolis and Institute of AI and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) postdoc fellow Ge Yang recently told MIT News: What separates the latest MIT Mini Cheetah is how it copes....

One day, I was scouring the MacOS App Store (as I’m wont to do) and I came across a simple little app that looked to be pretty promising. That app is called Shortcut For Google Apps and it is exactly what the name implies – it’s a tiny app that gives you quick access to shortcuts for the following Google apps: SearchGoogle DriveGmailYouTubeCalendarDocsMapsPhotosSheetsTranslate Simply put, you open the app and click on the Google app you want to work with, and your default browser will open to that app....

Many colleges offer academic credit in exchange for completing a prior learning assessment (PLA), an evaluation of your non-academic skills and knowledge. Completing a PLA may help you save money and time on your degree. Read on for our guide on what to expect when converting prior learning experiences into college credit. We cover how much credit you can earn, which colleges give credit for work experience, and more....

Given I spend most of my time in a web browser, it’s important that I can optimize that tool to fit my needs perfectly. Suffice it to say, when I discovered a way to eke out a bit more real estate from MacOS Safari, I jumped at the chance and made it so. What I’m talking about is Safari’s Compact Layout. Now, I’m going to warn you that this layout isn’t for everyone, as it shifts the address bar to individual tabs, which can become a bit crowded for some....

Using SSH is as simple as: Or even just: Of course, you would exchange the IP address for the address (or domain) of the machine you need to access. SSH gets a bit less simple when you have numerous machines you access with different configurations (such as different usernames or SSH authentication keys). Imagine if you had 20 or so different servers you had to log into daily. Not only would you have to keep track of the IP addresses or domains of those servers, but you’d also have to remember what usernames or authentication keys were used....

On any given week, I’ll have 25-30 articles scheduled to be written on my calendar. Very often, I find myself having to go through that calendar to check if I’ve either covered a particular subject or when I wrote something. Also: How to create multiple Google Calendars (and why you should) There are two routes I could take for locating those topics: Scroll through each week, looking for the topic....

Smart Thermostat Google Nest claims that it pays for itself in under two years. Let’s unpack how. Smart thermostats work by learning your habits and patterns of behavior (like when you’re home versus when you’re not) and then remembering those preferences to regulate your home’s temperature. Let’s say you normally wake up at 6 a.m., and at that time, you’d like the house to be at 72 degrees. You leave the house for work at 8 a....

Texts, emails, financial, medical. Then on top of that, smartphones can be used to track our movements and what we do online. It’s vital to keep them secured. But what do you do if someone has figured out a way into your iPhone? How do you even know if someone has found a way into your iPhone? Yeah, scary, isn’t it. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been assisting someone in this exact position....