Your power company can turn up your thermostat remotely — if you let it
Texas’s power grid is unpleasantly surprising its users again. After last winter’s storm disabled parts of…
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Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone
Enlarge (credit: Apple) SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n” (quotation marks not included), iPhones and iPads lose the ability to…
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Scientists might have spotted tectonic activity inside Venus
The team used observations made by the Magellan probe, which orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994…
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How to import Magento 2 product images and swatches
Lack of decent product content is what prevents ecommerce businesses from booming. The years of industry…
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Dollars, deals and the importance of nondilutive capital
Today, on Juneteenth, we recognize the efforts this nation still needs to put toward addressing structural…
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This Week in Apps: Spotify debuts a Clubhouse rival, Facebook tests Audio Rooms in US, Amazon cuts Appstore commissions
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news,…
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People keep finding late loved ones on Google Maps
For years, Google Maps has offered Street View, which stitches together panoramic camera images to recreate…
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Extra Crunch roundup: influencer marketing 101, spotting future unicorns, Apple AirTags teardown
With the right message, even a small startup can connect with established and emerging stars on…
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NASA inches closer to printing artificial organs in space
In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant. But instead…
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Big Tech has a battle ahead over antitrust regulation — and it’s going to get messy
For several years now, Congress and regulatory agencies have warned that they could, in the future,…
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Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown
Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline…
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Delivery service Gopuff acquires rideOS for $115 million
On-demand goods, food and alcohol delivery service Gopuff has acquired fleet management platform rideOS for $115…
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Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) calling the malware, gets installed when victims download and execute what they…
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to create a new agency to deal with data privacy
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is introducing a revamped version of her Data Protection Act, which would…
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Bias isn’t the only problem with credit scores—and no, AI can’t help
But in the biggest ever study of real-world mortgage data, economists Laura Blattner at Stanford University…
