July 24, 2020 Garmin services go offline following suspected ransomware attack Garmin is experiencing a widespread outage affecting its website, apps, Connect data-syncing platform and other services, the company has announced on Twitter. The issue…
July 24, 2020 How to Block a Song You Hate on Alexa Excerpt from my pandemic diary, day 132: “The kids asked Alexa to play ‘Roar’ 53 times today. I can feel my sanity slipping. I…
July 24, 2020 The Morning After: Xbox Series X games showcase The Xbox game showcase yesterday delivered on its promise of nothing but game announcements. Finally, less teraflop chat. It was Microsoft’s chance to sell console…
July 24, 2020 Amazon cuts Samsung’s Galaxy S20+ 5G price back to $950 for today only Samsung’s Galaxy S20+ 5G is one of the best flagship phones you can get, but the $1,200 price tag makes it a big “nope”…
July 24, 2020 New York Times Casually Drops Another Story About How Aliens Are Probably Real The New York Times published a story Thursday night about the likelihood that aliens have visited Earth. The main takeaway? Aliens could be real…
July 24, 2020 LG Display is doubling down on OLED TVs A huge wall of OLED displays from LG’s booth at CES 2018. | Image: LG Electronics USA LG Display has started mass-production at its…
July 24, 2020 Microsoft’s Surface Duo looks like it’s ready to launch Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft has spent the past few weeks teasing the Surface Duo on Twitter, and it now…
July 24, 2020 The antitrust tech antitrust hearing is shaping up to be one for the ages This newsletter was sent out on Thursday afternoon before it was reported that the hearing would likely be delayed so lawmakers can attend Rep….
July 24, 2020 Garmin hit by massive outage after possible ransomware attack Garmin Fenix smartwatch and Garmin Connect app. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Garmin fitness devices have been left disconnected for nearly…
July 24, 2020 NASA will deploy a huge stratospheric balloon to study newborn stars NASA plans to send an 8.4 foot telescope into the upper stratosphere aboard a “football stadium” sized balloon. ASTHROS (astrophysics stratospheric telescope for high…