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The data sent by the Ring app helps analytics and tracking companies form a unique picture of your device.

What you need to know

An investigation by EFF has revealed that the Ring doorbell app for Android is laden with third-party trackers.
The trackers reportedly send out sensitive information such as the customers’ names, sensor data, private IP addresses, and more.
Ring app has been found to deliver users’ personal information to four analytics and marketing companies – Facebook, MixPanel, AppsFlyer, and Branch.

An investigation carried out by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has revealed that the Ring app for Android is “packed” with third-party trackers, sending out a wide range of personally identifiable information (PII) to analytics and marketing companies.

The EFF investigation found that Ring for Android v3.21.1 sends users’ personal information to four analytics and marketing companies: Facebook, Branch, AppsFlyer, and MixPanel. Facebook receives alerts w… 閱讀全文 →

Important improvements

Skagen Falster 3

$295 at Amazon

Pros

Better performance + storage
New Snapdragon Wear 3100
New smart battery modes
Larger case size
Built-in speaker

Cons

Expensive

If you had your share of issues with the Falster 2, it’s more than likely that the Falster 3 will solve most — if not all — of them. It offers the same core features with better performance, a bigger case, a built-in speaker, and more.

Affordable predecessor

Skagen Falster 2

$149 at Amazon

Pros

Crisp, clear display
Onboard GPS
Google Pay
Heart-rate monitoring
Activity tracking

Cons

Mediocre battery life
Laggy Snapdragon Wear 2100
No built-in speaker

The Falster 2 succeeded in some key areas but failed in others. It’s a solid smartwatch, but performance often falls flat. It can handle activity tracking and other basic functions, but don’t expect much more.

While the Skagen Falster 2 had some high points, the lows are what stuck out to most users. The laggy pe… 閱讀全文 →

Right now, the best smartwatch for Android users is the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2. It’s optimized for Samsung phones but runs well on all Android devices and has all the smartwatch and fitness features you’d expect. It’s compact and lightweight but still offers good battery life. But if you’re not into that one, the good news is that there are so many other amazing options from Fossil to Garmin to Fitbit and more.

Best Overall — Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2

You don’t have to use a Samsung phone to enjoy the benefits of owning a Samsung smartwatch, and the Galaxy Watch Active 2 provides the most well-rounded wearables experience for Android users right now. It’s compact and lightweight but features an extremely sharp and vivid touch display that’s easy to navigate and fun to use thanks to the new capacitive bezel. The Tizen OS is smooth and battery-friendly, unlike Google’s own Wear OS, and while the app selection isn’t massive, the core tenets are there, like Spotify, Stra… 閱讀全文 →

All the info you need in one place.

If you keep an eye on your local news channels, news apps, Twitter, etc., you’ve probably heard a thing or two about something called the “Coronavirus.”

There are a lot of outlets reporting on the disease and mobs of people saying a bunch of different things about it, and with so much conversation happening, it can be difficult to focus in on the core facts and get a general understanding of what’s going on.

In this article, we’ve put together a list of resources we recommend checking out to learn all about Coronavirus, what it is, what preventative measures you can start employing, and much more.

Resources you should know

CDC

If you want an easy one-stop-shop to learn about Coronavirus, you can’t go wrong with the Center for Disease Control’s website. The Coronavirus page is broken up into four main sections, including:

2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Information
Symptoms and Diagnosis
Transmission
Prevention & Treatment

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Human beings are filthy, and as we use our phones anywhere and everywhere, we expose our phones to all that filth as well. And since you can’t give your phone a hot, soapy shower every day like you do yourself, you should build yourself a cleaning kit to keep the grime and nastiness under control before those germs migrate back from your phone to you and get you sick.

Clean screen on the go

ZEISS Mobile Screen Wipes (60ct Box)

Staff pick

If you tend to need your screen clean when you’re not home with your spritzer bottles, I absolutely adore these single-serve wipes. I keep a few of them in my bag for wiping my screen after it gets all sweaty and grimy when I’m out and about.

$11 at Amazon

Let there be light

PhoneSoap 3 UV Cell Phone Sanitizer

This phone-sized tanning bed uses UV lights to kill the surface bacteria on your phone in order to keep the germs on your phone from getting you sick. I also run car keys and my credit cards through here from time to time.

$80 at A… 閱讀全文 →

Make your Android app experience a good one.

Our phones are pocket-sized supercomputers with professional-grade cameras and battery for days, but without the apps to take advantage of it, what would be the point? There are millions upon millions of Android apps that transform our phones from shiny glass slabs into productivity powerhouses, and over the last year, these are the apps that have seized the day and made our lives easier, faster, and better.

Work smarter, not harder

Who needs a personal assistant when you have services like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa available wherever you go? These types of apps aim to help alleviate the stresses and pressures of your day-to-day life to make things easier. From automation to smart home products, and everything in between, these apps allow you to get work done with some help.

With you everywhere

Google Assistant

From Assistant Routines in Google Clock to the vast expansion of Assistant-compatible smart home devices, … 閱讀全文 →

The biggest NFL game of the year, Super Bowl 2020, takes place on February 2 which is less than a week away. Whether you are attending a party, planning to stay home, or will be traveling, one thing you may be wondering is how to watch the Super Bowl. Well, there are a lot of different ways, and a lot to know about the various ways.

It’s been a crazy season so far, and for once the New England Patriots won’t be playing in the big game. This year, we have the San Francisco 49ers playing against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Whether you care about football or not, there is a whole lot to enjoy about the Super Bowl. From the epic Super Bowl half-time performances to the amazing commercials that will debut, you are going to want to find a way to tune in and watch. Luckily, it doesn’t matter very much where in the world you are located, it’s pretty easy to find a way to tune in and watch the Super Bowl for free.

How to watch Super Bowl 2020 online with a VPN

A Virtual Private Network, or VP… 閱讀全文 →

The ability to move multiple tabs to a new window is being ported from Microsoft Edge to Google Chrome.

What you need to know

Microsoft isn’t only taking Google’s browser tech for its own.
The company is also contributing to the Chromium project.
A feature found in Microsoft Edge is being ported over to Chromium and Chrome.

While Microsoft may have thrown up its arms and submitted to Google’s dominance in the browser space by porting Edge to the Chromium engine last year, there are certainly no hard feelings between the two tech giants.

An exchange between a Microsoft and a Google engineer working on the Chromium project showcasing the collaborative spirit has been making waves in the Windows Insiders subreddit. In it, a Google’s Leonard Grey asks Justin Gallagher from Microsoft if he’d be so kind as to help port a feature found in Microsoft Edge to the Chromium project — and to Google’s own browser as a result. Gallagher graciously obliges, of course:

Leonard Grey (Google):… 閱讀全文 →

There’s no ETA for when the ban will be lifted.

What you need to know

The Chrome Web Store will no longer accept paid extensions.
Updates to paid extensions already published have also been blocked.
The change in policy is a temporary measure aimed at halting a tide of fraudulent transactions involving the extension marketplace.

While Google this week launched experiments that make its browser much harder to use, it’s also been dealing with others’ attempts to mess with Chrome. Over the weekend, Simeon Vincent, Extensions Developer Advocate at Google, told Chrome Web Store developers that the company was temporarily suspending all paid extensions.

This means that paid extensions will no longer be accepted into the Chrome Web Store, and those that have already been published will no longer receive updates.

Google explained the rather harsh change by referring to a recent uptick in fraudulent transactions involving the paid extensions. Vincent further clarified that this was not… 閱讀全文 →

The bottom bar only has three buttons now.

What you need to know

Google has redesigned its redesign for mobile Chrome.
The bottom bar in the Duet design now has only three buttons.
The home page has also been changed — and not in a good way.

Google is once again tinkering with the design of its browser on mobile devices. Dubbed ‘Duet,’ the design aims to provide a more convenient browsing experience in today’s world of 7-inch smartphones. The big change here is the company’s decision to move many of the browser’s tools and settings to the bottom of the screen, where they can more easily be reached via one-handed use.

However, Google wasn’t satisfied with its initial idea and moved the URL bar back to the top, leaving everything else below. Now, the company is fiddling around with the design again (via Android Police), seemingly because its engineers think five buttons on the bottom bar are two buttons too many; it was already struggling with figuring out how to cleanly incorp… 閱讀全文 →