That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You’re Watching on TV At first glance, the gaming apps — with names like “Pool 3D,” “Beer Pong: Trickshot” and “Real Bowling Strike 10 Pin” — seem innocuous. One called “Honey Quest” features Jumbo, an animated bear. Yet...
A New Phone Comes Out. Yours Slows Down. A Conspiracy? No. It happens every year: Apple releases new iPhones, and then hordes of people groan about their older iPhones slowing to a crawl. Just look at the recent data. Between September and early November — when Apple...
Apple: Sure, we banned VPN iOS apps in China, but, um, er, art! Apple has told the US government it cooperated with China’s demands to block VPN services so it could get other concessions from the Middle Kingdom on human rights. The Cupertino watchmaker said in...
Someone is hacking NATO soldiers’ phones in Eastern Europe NATO soldiers deployed to eastern Europe are scrambling to defend against smartphone hacks. The Wall Street Journal is reporting a new string of phone and account hacks launched against deployed US troops,...
What’s the Most Secure Way to Lock Your Smartphone? Smartphone owners today have a plethora of ways to lock and unlock their phones: face scans, finger presses, PIN codes, location detection, and so on. Are some of these options more secure than others? And...
