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March 5, 2021

Google Chrome update cycles are about to get even shorter

Google is moving Chrome to a more frequent release schedule. The company announced on Thursday it will push future milestone releases that add new features every four weeks. Those updates come about every six weeks at the moment. Google said you can…

March 5, 2021

Valve halts development on ‘Artifact,’ makes it free for everyone

Valve is halting the development of its Dota 2-inspired digital card game. In a blog titled “The Future of Artifact,” the studio said the game’s 2.0 rework hasn’t attracted enough of an audience to justify further work and investment. But that’s not…

March 5, 2021

Senators ask the FCC to change the definition of high-speed broadband

A group of four senators is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to change its definition of high-speed broadband in order to significantly increase base speeds.
Under the current FCC policy, created in 2015, 25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up is the…

March 5, 2021

Plex’s free streaming service is now available in the Apple TV app

After a short beta period, Plex’s Apple TV app integration is now live, the company told Engadget. The feature allows you to use the Apple TV app or Siri to play content that’s available through Plex’s free streaming service, with the added bonus tha…

March 5, 2021

iOS 14.5 won’t actually let you change a default music service

It turns out that Apple’s iOS 14.5 update won’t actually let you change your default music service that you use with Siri. Beta users had originally noticed that it appeared as if early versions of the update might allow you to change the default ser…

March 5, 2021

LinkedIn stops collecting tracking data ahead of iOS 14 changes

LinkedIn will stop collecting IDFA data on iOS. The move comes ahead of a policy change Apple will implement with the release of iOS 14.5 later this year that will require developers to ask someone’s permission before they use that data to track them…

March 5, 2021

Google is policing itself on privacy because it knows it has to

Most people have known for years that technology giants like Facebook and Google make a ton of money by knowing exactly what people do online and selling that knowledge to advertisers. The advertisers, in turn, get better and better at serving people…

March 5, 2021

HBO Max’s ‘Made for Love’ stars a woman with a surveillance chip in her head

HBO Max has released a teaser for a series called Made for Love, which might give you a good reason to avoid getting too close to tech billionaires. Cristin Milioti plays Hazel Green, a woman who escapes an oppressive, decade-long marriage by fleeing…

March 5, 2021

Alphabet is reportedly working on a wearable that can pick out voices in a crowd

Alphabet’s moonshot factory is reportedly developing a wearable device that could augment your hearing. According to a report from Insider, the company’s X lab is working on a project codenamed Wolverine. Since 2018, the team has produced multiple pr…