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According to HaveIBeenPwned.com, a website that tracks data breaches around the world, 11.5 billion online accounts have been affected by breaches since 2007. But which online accounts are people worried about the most?RouterNetwork surveyed 1,007 Americans and found that 54% were worried about their Facebook accounts, the highest percentage of any service. It’s followed by Instagram (43%), financial accounts (33%), Amazon (28%), and email (24%). Broken down by generation, it becomes clear that younger people worry more about their social media accounts than bank accounts or work accounts.The survey shows that 56% of millennials worry most about Facebook, and 45%…
Apple insulates us from most of the peculiarities of the cellular world’s text messaging system, SMS (Short Messaging Service), and the multimedia version, MMS. If everyone you text with uses an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, you see nice blue bubbles and it’s all handled within Apple’s iMessage system. Even if you’re using SMS or MMS—where messages appear in green—Apple still hides the complexity, packaging it within the Messages app on various platforms. But you might be perplexed in one specific case, as one reader was: they use group messaging without all Apple ecosystem participants and every reply comes…
Best Buy will restock the Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU, among other Nvidia graphics cards today, Friday, October 1, and if you follow our GPU restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider, you’ll get alerts when Nvidia graphics cards are in stock in the US. There are already lines for the RTX 3080 at Best Buy stores nationwide, according to our on-the-ground reporting, and we did an early survey in New York City: of the 75 people in line for the GPU, only two people aren’t resellers. That’s right, everyone else in line at this Best Buy is just waiting to resell the…
Black Friday 2021 is coming and with it will come a plethora of awesome Black Friday MacBook deals. Every year, we see some of the best Black Friday MacBook sales out there and this holiday shopping season is sure to be a big hit, too, even with ongoing supply shortages. Whether you’re hoping to score a cheap MacBook Air, a 13-inch MacBook Pro for school or work, or a high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro for video editing, this annual sales event is sure to offer up the lowest prices you’ll see all year. Almost every product from Apple — including iPhones, smartwatches,…
Apple Watch Black Friday deals are creeping up fast and it can be confusing to know where to begin. With so many different options out there even before you consider what retailers to shop at, what’s considered a good price, and what to even expect from the Black Friday Apple Watch deals, where do you begin? Fortunately, we’re on hand with all the best information on Black Friday Apple Watch sales so you know exactly what to look for. We’ve taken a look at last year’s Apple Watch Black Friday deals to help you predict what’s coming this year. We’ve…
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Oct 01, 2021, 3:34 AM We may earn a commission if you make a purchase from the links on this page. If you’re one of the people who found the Galaxy A52 5G mid-ranger a bit rich for your blood, we have some great news for you today. Originally priced at $500, Samsung’s current top contender for the title of best budget 5G phone out there is on sale for a cool hundred bucks less than that for an undoubtedly limited time only.We’re talking about a US-specific factory unlocked variant available in a single black color, and while this excellent…
What sort of announcements do you want to see from the event? (Picture: The Game Awards)Geoff Keighley’s yearly Game Awards event has a date and will return to being held in-person in Los Angeles. Last year’s The Game Awards event had to be done a little differently due to the pandemic. For this year’s showing, the event’s organisers seem dead set on going back to normal, with The Game Awards 2021 confirmed to be an in-person event. It will once again take place in early December, specifically Thursday December 9, and will be held at the Microsoft Theatre in Los…
Renowned actress Rosario Dawson (Daredevil, The Defenders, Sin City, Zombieland – Double Tap, The Mandalorian) has been confirmed to feature in Dying Light 2, the upcoming open world action RPG by Techland. Dawson, who already starred in other games like Syndicate, Lego Dimensions, Ratchet & Clank and Dishonored, will play a character named Lawan in the game. According to the actress, she’s a very tough character who’s looking to get revenge on those who wronged her in the past. It seems like the player’s choices will have an influence on Lawan, too, and whether she ends up as a deranged…
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari announced on Friday that the current ban on Twitter would be lifted, but only if the social media giant met certain conditions. The president disclosed this during his televised broadcast to Nigerians on the country’s 61st Independence Day anniversary. He acknowledged the fact that Twitter is used to disseminate information. Still, he warned about bad actors who misuse the platform to “organise, coordinate, and execute criminal activities, propagate fake news, and promote ethnic and religious sentiments.” Hence, the reason his government decided to suspend the social media platform’s operations in the country on June 5. He…