Google has unveiled a range of tools focused on “digital wellbeing”, designed to help people disconnect from their phones. “Our team has heard so many stories from people trying to find the right balance with technology,” said Sameer Samat, vice-president, product management, adding that although people find their devices useful, they would prefer to spend some of the time spent staring at a screen “on better things”. The focus on digital wellbeing comes at a time when technology companies are being scrutinised for the habit-forming design practices that encourage people to spend more time on their devices, such as infinite scrolling, notifications and other behavioural “nudges”. The latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android P, has an “app dashboard” to help people better understand their own tech usage. It shows how much time you spend using specific apps each day, how many times you unlock your phone … [Read more...] about Google touts ‘digital wellbeing’ tools to help users disengage from phones
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9 Ways to Sync Firefox and Chrome: Bookmarks, Passwords, and More
Advertisement Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome? We say both!These top two browsers come with awesome features, extensions, and hacks. It’s easy to switch between them seamlessly if you keep your data in sync across them. Let’s explore nine ways to do that and make Chrome and Firefox work in harmony.1. Use a Common Password ManagerMany popular password managers come with a Chrome extension as well as a Firefox add-on. LastPass, 1Password, Keeper, Bitwarden, Dashlane, and Roboform are a few of your best options.For any password manager you pick, install the corresponding Chrome and Firefox extensions. After you do that, filling forms and passwords in both browsers is painless. All you need to remember is the master password. And there’s zero effort involved in syncing your data!If you don’t want to install the extensions, you can still use the service’s web portal to access your passwords anytime. You can even import your passwords from Chrome and Firefox … [Read more...] about 9 Ways to Sync Firefox and Chrome: Bookmarks, Passwords, and More
Unit 26165’s trail of blunders: How Putin’s elite globe-trotting hacking squad left a trail of clues including a selfie at the Olympics, a pile of beer cans and a TAXI RECEIPT from their spy base to airport
Western intelligence yesterday revealed the trail of clues that bungling Russian spies known as Unit 26165 left in their wake as they waged a war of disinformation across the globe. Kremlin agents working for the GRU targeted FIFA, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Organisation for the Prevention of the use of Chemical Weapons as it investigated both the Salisbury novichok attack in the UK as well as the Douma chemical weapons attack in Syria, the international investigation of the downing of MH17 and a US company providing nuclear power to Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin's elite squad even created the fake 'hacktivist' group Fancy Bears to disseminate misleading statements designed to exonerate Russia of doping allegations and instead level them at the US. But it was yesterday revealed that the spies left a trail of clues including blunder after blunder during their international campaign. These extraordinary errors included: The cyber unit's 'burner' mobile … [Read more...] about Unit 26165’s trail of blunders: How Putin’s elite globe-trotting hacking squad left a trail of clues including a selfie at the Olympics, a pile of beer cans and a TAXI RECEIPT from their spy base to airport
Uber’s API Now Lets Other Apps Add A “Ride Request Button”, But Not Competitors Too
Uber’s latest growth strategy is to colonize the mobile app landscape with its new Ride Request Button. Launching today, iOS and Android app developers can more easily plug in an SDK with a few lines of code to add a Ride Request Button to their apps that deep-links into Uber’s app. In exchange for the literal traffic, Uber will pay US developers $5 for each first-time rider they refer. Previously, developers had to hassle with building custom deep-linked integrations. One catch is that Uber’s policy bans developers from also integrating hooks into any other competing car service, like Lyft. Examples of custom Uber API integrations in Zomato and Transit App (from left). Now with the Ride Request Button, developers can more easily integrate the Uber API Uber wants developers to add “the button next to every address or ‘intent to ride’” in their app. A restaurant app could put a Request Ride button next to the addresses of eateries it … [Read more...] about Uber’s API Now Lets Other Apps Add A “Ride Request Button”, But Not Competitors Too
Want high-end flight sim pedals? Put $500 in a Polish bank account and contact Slaw
Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen have a lot to answer for. Besides the money I’ve paid for the games themselves, I’ve sunk what can only be considered a truly embarrassing amount of cash into peripherals—things like the $450 Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog and the $350 Oculus Rift DK2. Still, something was missing from my space flight setup. While both eyes and both hands had something to do, my feet remained unoccupied. I had two whole unused appendages that could be employed to make my spaceships do more things at once. Clearly this had to change, and there was only one solution—rudder pedals were my next step. Further ReadingI’m not crazy (but I did buy a $450 HOTAS Warthog joystick) But which pedals? There’s a smorgasbord of joystick choices that run the price gamut from cheap to ludicrous, but rudder pedals didn’t appear to cover the same range. The "high end" options all look like variations on the same sad plastic theme. I … [Read more...] about Want high-end flight sim pedals? Put $500 in a Polish bank account and contact Slaw