Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of the world’s first publicly reported artificial-intelligence heists. The managing director of a British energy company,
Month: September 2019
Sonos has a new addition to its ecosystem for connecting in your existing stereo and AV equipment, and for adding sound out and AirPlay 2 capabilities to existing speaker setups connected via an amplifier. It’s the $399 Sonos Port, and it replaces one of the older existing devices in the Sonos lineup, the Sonos Connect,
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration The integration means users will be able to add their Instagram accounts
Amazon has been working on constantly improving its lineup of Fire TV and Fire TV Edition devices, in an effort to take on Apple, Google, and more importantly, Roku. The company has now announced a bunch of new Fire TV-branded products at IFA 2019, which are focused on improving the company’s market share in Europe,
Google and its industry allies are making a late bid to water down the first major data-privacy law in the US, seeking to carve out exemptions for digital advertising, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg and people familiar with the negotiations. A lobbyist for Google recently distributed new language to members of California’s state legislature
Twitter has disabled the ability to Tweet via SMS. This feature has been present since Twitter first launched, but a couple of high-profile hacks have led Twitter to disable it for the time being. The company IS planning to bring it back though. Using SIM Swapping to Hack Jack Dorsey In August, the account of
Clue, a popular app women use to track their periods, has risen to near the top of Apple’s Health and Fitness category. It could be downhill from here. Apple plans this month to incorporate some of Clue’s core functionality such as fertility and period prediction into its own Health app that comes pre-installed in every
Motorola One Zoom and Moto E6 Plus were launched at IFA 2019 on Thursday. The former is a mid-range offering with a quad rear camera setup that offers 3x optical zoom and 10x hybrid zoom, apart from a 48-megapixel primary camera sensor. The Moto E6 Plus on the other hand features a notch display as
News outlets reported in 2019 that the Kazakhstan government has taken extreme steps to surveil citizens in its country. In particular, the government has been using a tool called a root certificate to spy on the online activities of citizens. The misuse of root certificates isn’t only a problem in Kazakhstan, however. internet users around
Lenovo at its IFA 2019 event on Thursday launched four new Yoga laptops, apart from smart displays, tablets, and new ThinkBook models. The Yoga models launched were the Yoga C940, Yoga S740, Yoga C740, and the Yoga C640. While the first three are available in both 14-inch and 15-inch variants, the Yoga C640 is only
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple has been working on in-screen fingerprint readers. But that feature won’t be ready for the new iPhone that will be announced next week. It could be released in 2020, or maybe 2021 if Apple’s suppliers can’t meet deadlines. If you’ve played with the most recent smartphones from
Google Search can now help you find your next binge. The company this morning announced a new feature which will make personalized recommendations of what to watch, including both TV shows and movies, and point you to services where the content is available. The feature is an expansion of Google’s existing efforts in pointing web
Lenovo at IFA 2019 on Thursday launched a new Google Assistant-enabled Smart Display 7, the Smart Tab M8 tablet, and the Yoga Smart Tab tablet. The Smart Tab M8 and Yoga Smart Tab both run Android, while the Smart Display 7 is part of the company’s Smart Display series. The company detailed the price and
Asus has unveiled a lot of new products at the ongoing IFA 2019. The first product that caught our fancy was the Asus ROG Phone 2 Ultimate Edition which is a special edition of the Asus ROG Phone 2 and gets 1TB of storage and a special matte black paint job. At the same event,
The new Nintendo Switch Lite is now up for pre-orders in India on Mcube Games, a Mumbai-based video game retailer that offers deliveries across the country. The Switch Lite has been priced at Rs. 24,999, a hefty premium given it will retail for $200 (about Rs. 14,400) in the US. But considering Nintendo doesn’t have
Google is updating the Work Hours feature in Calendar to make it easier for users to manage their availability during working hours. Work Hours has been there for a while but Tuesday’s fresh update makes it slightly more usable. Until now, the feature had to be manually enabled. Google Calendar now turns it on by
Sonos has a new entry-level connected speaker that will give you all of its multi-room, high-quality sound – without the onboard microphones and smart assistants of the Sonos One. The microphone-free Sonos One SL retails for $179.99 ($20 less than the existing Sonos One) and comes with AirPlay 2, delivering good functional upgrades over the
An eight-month-old startup in India that wants to improve the user experience of credit card holders in the nation has received the backing of at least two major investors. Pune-based FPL Technologies said Thursday it has raised $4.5 million in its maiden financing round from Matrix Partners India, Sequoia Capital India, and others. In an
Acer on Wednesday unveiled new laptops, Chromebooks, and other devices ahead of the public opening of the IFA 2019 tech fair in Berlin. The newly introduced Acer devices include ConceptD Pro notebooks featuring Nvidia Quadro GPUs, 14-inch Swift 5 notebook, 14-inch Swift 3 notebook, Predator Triton 300 gaming notebook, and four new Chromebooks. All new
The European football season is in full swing and that means it’s time for new iterations of football video games. Before the more popular EA Sports arrives with FIFA 20 late September, its sole rival Konami is offering the next version of Pro Evolution Soccer — eFootball PES 2020, as it’s now officially called —
Vivo Z1x is set to become the Chinese smartphone company’s next phone in its Z-series lineup in India. The phone is set to launch in India on September 6 as a Flipkart exclusive. Ahead of its official launch, both Flipkart and Vivo have been teasing some of the key specifications and features of the upcoming
Logitech has delivered a new version of its popular MX Master mouse – the MX Master 3. This brand new iteration of the wireless mouse finally adds USB-C charging, which brings it in line with the charging standards used on most modern smartphones and computer accessories. Along with the MX Master 3, Logitech also debuted
Five months after its planned launch, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is finally here. Well, almost. After offering a broad September time frame a few months back, the electronics giant just announced that the foldable foldable phone will be arriving in its native South Korea on September 6. Customers in the U.S. will have to wait a
Once reputed the world over for making quality TVs, German brand Metz has since changed hands and is now a part of Chinese TV maker Skyworth. The company has been in India for a short while now, and has just launched its latest and most premium product in the country, the 55-inch Metz M55S9A OLED
Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to launch a cryptocurrency with its new project “Gram”. Little is known about Gram, but media reports say Russian-founded Telegram aims to create an accessible service that is easier to use than various cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
Facebook recently released a tool called Off-Facebook Activity. This tool gives you better controls over which apps and services can share your data with Facebook. If you want to stop your data from being spread from third-party services to Facebook, this tool can help. We’ll show you how to use the tool and what data
Google has updated its Gmail app for iOS devices with a new image blocking setting to prevent Gmail from automatically loading attached images. With the update, users can choose to be asked each time whether or not to display external images in an email. The new setting is meant to counteract the tracking services that
Honor on Wednesday unveiled its new Honor 20s and Honor Play 3 smartphones in China. The two phones will go on sale in China first, but there is no word on their international release. The Honor 20s joins the company’s Honor 20 lineup that was originally introduced in June this year. Honor Play 3, on
Apple’s Lightning connector has been around since 2012, becoming a staple in the Apple technology ecosystem. But while it is a well-recognized mainstay of the Apple brand, it’s really time for the company to retire the connector. From consumer cost to fragmentation in the Apple ecosystem, here are five reasons why Apple needs to get
PUBG Mobile Lite recently received a new content update that introduced new UI elements, bombing zones, emotes, and more to the battle royale game. Now, the developer is marking the update by introducing rewards for loyal PUBG Mobile Lite players. Following the v14.0 update, players who log in for the next 10 consecutive updates will