Apple’s AirTags are meant to help you effortlessly find your keys or track your luggage. But the same features that make them easy to deploy and inconspicuous in your daily life have also allowed them to be abused as a sinister tracking tool that domestic abusers and criminals can use to stalk their targets. Over … Read more
iOS 17 brings several new major features to the iPhone, like StandBy mode, interactive widgets, full-screen contact posters for phone calls and the Journal app. And while most of these features are welcome additions and changes, if you’re like me, you might not love every new offering. This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make … Read more
Tesla’s fix for its Autopilot recall of more than 2 million vehicles is being called “insufficient” by Consumer Reports, following preliminary tests. Kelly Funkhouser, the nonprofit organization’s associate director of vehicle technology, tells TechCrunch she discovered it’s still possible to cover the cabin camera while using Autopilot, meaning drivers can neutralize one of the two … Read more
Max Buondonno/ZDNET If you’re a Google Pixel owner, you now have access to a tool that lets you self-diagnose what might be wrong with your phone. By dialing * # * # 7287 # * # * , you’ll immediately enter your phone’s “Pixel Diagnostics” mode. There’s an option at the top to run a … Read more
Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles, nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the US to date, to fix a flawed system designed to make sure drivers are paying attention when they use Autopilot. Rather than physically recalling vehicles, documents posted today by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) … Read more
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A few months ago, I downgraded my internet, going from a 900Mbps plan to a 200Mbps one. Now, I find that websites can sometimes take a painfully long time to load, that HD YouTube videos have to stop and buffer when I jump around in them, and that video calls can be annoyingly choppy. In … Read more
David Gewirtz/ZDNET Of all the computer gear I own, my AirPods Pro have been the least portable. No, that’s not a typo. Let me explain. I loved my first set of AirPods Pro, even after I dropped them into a cup of coffee. They’ve continued working for more than a year since then. I recently … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Facing an exodus of advertisers over concerns of antisemitism on his social media site X, billionaire Elon Musk has gone to great lengths to align himself with Israel — 7,000 miles, in fact. That’s the approximate distance Musk traveled Monday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin … Read more
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Illinois jury ruled this week that several major egg producers conspired to limit the U.S.’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a lawsuit first filed 12 years ago. Several large food manufacturing companies including Kraft Foods Global, Inc. and The Kellogg Company alleged in the lawsuit originally filed … Read more
Saturday’s demonstrators targeted South Korean auto giant Hyundai. In addition to criticizing the company’s reliance on coal-powered steel plants, which a report from climate groups linked to 506 pollution-related premature deaths in 2021, they also denounced the company’s reported labor practices. Last December, a Reuters investigation found undocumented children working in the automaker’s supply chain … Read more