An anonymous reader quotes Motherboard: In response to Amazon packages being stolen from people’s doorsteps, police departments around the country have set up sting operations that use fake packages bugged with GPS trackers to find and arrest people who steal packages. Internal emails and documents obtained by Motherboard via a public records request show how…

Given how many adults will go out of their way to avoid spending any extended amount of time in the kitchen, it’s pretty amazing how much children love playing in their miniature versions. Especially since they tend to be pretty simple: usually they’re little more than different sized boxes made out of MDF to represent…

schwit1 writes: Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we’re buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services that help companies guard against credit-card and other forms of fraud, according to the Wall Street Journal. More than 16,000 signals are analyzed by a service called Sift, which generates a “Sift score” ranging…

The Disney Plus show, starring Pedro Pascal, is getting its showcase at Star Wars Celebration Chicago. …read more Source:: CNet

The self-described Tesla rival is back after going radio silent awhile, and it’s ready to debut its first car. …read more Source:: CNet

The two are fighting over licensing fees, but the outcome could affect how fast your next iPhone downloads data. …read more Source:: CNet

Where else are you going to for Marvel, Star Wars, Frozen and The Simpsons? …read more Source:: CNet

Is it hard to give up on Apple’s seductive ecosystem? Not according to this Microsoft store, which even suggested Redmond will come out with new phones. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A “limited” number of users of Microsoft’s webmail services — which include Hotmail, Outlook.com, and MSN — “had their accounts compromised, TechCrunch reports. “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access,” said a Microsoft spokesperson in an email. According to an…

Hanging up on robocalls with Call Screen is still incredibly satisfying! …read more Source:: CNet